University of Geneva

Since its foundation in 1559 the University of Geneva is one of Europe’s leading universities devoted to research, teaching and dialogue. Its desire to expand its collaboration with partner institutions and broaden its appeal to researchers and students from around the world has made the UNIGE a “globalised university”, a meeting place for academic disciplines and various cultures, and a forum for ideas. The University of Geneva has a student body of 13 300 students while more than one-third of all students come from abroad. A wide spectrum of academic courses in diverse fields of study, such as the exact and natural sciences, medicine, social sciences and the arts are offered by UNIGE.

International Cooperation

While the UNIGE intends to expand its inter-university offerings, its educational collaboration continues to be mainly a matter of exchanging or inviting professors, researchers and students, with the assistance of programmes such as Erasmus and the Student Exchange Network of the Coimbra Group, or in partnership with other institutions (more than 100 cooperation agreements, academic networks). The UNIGE already runs several master’s programmes with other Swiss universities (in Lausanne, Basel and Neuchâtel) and grants a joint MBA in collaboration with Georgetown University (Washington, DC). The University has built up a vast research network as well, thanks to which its scientists work closely with researchers from UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), ESO (European Organisation for Astronomical Research), ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA.


Academic structures
UNIGE offers more than 340 types of degrees and more than 200 Continuing Education programmes covering an extremely wide variety of fields. The University of Geneva is composed of seven faculties (Sciences, Medicine, Arts, Social Science and Economics, Law, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Theology) and the School of Translation and Interpretation. Additionally, there are several Interdisciplinary Centres (informatics, neurosciences and environment). Having completed its transition to the «Bologna System» in 2007, UNIGE is now part of the European Space of Higher Education.

Conditions of enrollment

We provide you with a link to a brochure entitled (Becoming a student, 2191.6 KB, in French), where you can overview all the conditions of enrollment.

Adresse postale
Relations  Internationales
Université de Genève
Bd du Pont-d’Arve 40
CH-1211 GENÈVE 4
+41 22 379 80 82
international@unige.ch

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