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The University in Figures

  • Founded in 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (read more on UT history)
  • The first university to teach in Estonian since 1919
  • 9 faculties and 4 colleges
  • 70 bachelor, 80 master and 35 doctoral study programmes (apply now! )
  • 17,000 students (including over 800 international students)
  • More than 1,400 doctoral students and 101 doctoral defences in 2012 (more than a half of all Estonia's doctoral defences)
  • 3,800 employees, including 1,800 academic employees (190 professors)
  • Over 34,000 research publications (including 7,500 in the ISI Web of Science)
  • According to information on the ISI Web of Science, the University of Tartu belongs to the top 1% of the world's most-cited universities and research institutions in the fields of Clinical Medicine, Chemistry, Environment/Ecology, Plant and Animal Science, Geosciences, Social Sciences (general), Biology and Biochemistry and Engineering.
    A total of 20 UT scientist belong to the top 1% of most quoted scientists in the world (read more on UT Science in Numbers).
  • Nobel Prize in 1909 (Wilhelm Ostwald, founder of Physical Chemistry)
  • Budget volume of 145.9 million euros