Editing University of Basel

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{{Short description|Public university in Basel, Switzerland}}
{{Infobox university
| name = University of Basel
| native_name = Universität Basel
| image_name = University of Basel Logo.png
| image_size = 250px
| latin_name = Universitas Basiliensis<ref>{{Cite book |title=Actes du Jubilé de 1909 |date=1910 |publisher=Georg Keck & Cie |isbn=9781360078335 |publication-place=[[Geneva]], [[Switzerland]] |language=fr-CH }}</ref>
| students = 13,139<ref name=Facts>{{cite web |title=University of Basel, Facts & Figures |url=https://www.unibas.ch/en/University/About-University/Facts-Figures.html |website=University of Basel |access-date=15 March 2022}}</ref>
| academic_staff = 4,700<ref name=Facts />
| type = [[Public university|Public]]
| president = Andrea Schenker-Wicki<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unibas.ch/de/Universitaet/Leitung-Organisation/Rektorat/Die-Rektorin.html|title=Die Rektorin|website=www.unibas.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428012436/https://www.unibas.ch/de/Universitaet/Leitung-Organisation/Rektorat/Die-Rektorin.html|archive-date=28 April 2017}}</ref>
| city = Basel
| state = Basel-City
| country = Switzerland
| established = {{start date and age|1460|4|4|df=y}}
| affiliations = [[Utrecht Network]], [http://www.eucor-uni.org/en EUCOR]
| coor = {{coord|47|33|31|N|07|35|00|E|region:CH-BS_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
| colours = Mint, Red, [[Anthracite]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Colors|url=https://www.unibas.ch/en/University/Administration-Services/The-President-s-Office/Communications-Marketing/Web-Services/Web-Desk/Web-Corporate-Design/Online-Design-Manual/colors.html|access-date=24 May 2023|website=www.unibas.ch|language=en}}</ref><br />{{color box|#A5D7D2}} {{color box|#D20537}} {{color box|#2D373C}}
| website = {{URL|1=http://www.unibas.ch/en.html|2=unibas.ch}}
| budget = [[Swiss franc|CHF]] 768 million (2020)<ref name=Facts />
}}
[[File:11-11-24-basel-by-ralfr-035.jpg|thumb|The old main building of the University of Basel, which with its arcades in the middle takes up the lines of the first Italian university in [[University of Bologna|Bologna]].]]
The '''University of Basel''' ([[Latin language|Latin]]: ''Universitas Basiliensis''; German: ''Universität Basel'') is a [[public university|public]] [[research university]] in [[Basel]], Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the [[List of oldest universities in continuous operation|world's oldest universities]]. The university is traditionally counted among the leading institutions of higher learning in the country.<ref>{{cite web |last=Universities |first=Swiss |title=University of Basel |url=https://www.universitieshandbook.com/index.php?option=com_mtree&link_id=13&task=viewlink&Itemid=53 |access-date=7 April 2018 |website=Swiss Universities Handbook – Top Universities in Switzerland |archive-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021162642/http://www.universitieshandbook.com/index.php?option=com_mtree&link_id=13&task=viewlink&Itemid=53 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>

The associated [[Basel University Library]] is the largest and among the most important libraries in Switzerland. The university hosts the faculties of theology, law, medicine, [[humanities]] and [[social sciences]], science, [[psychology]], and [[business and economics]], as well as numerous cross-disciplinary subjects and institutes, such as the [[Biozentrum University of Basel|Biozentrum]] for biomedical research and the Institute for European Global Studies. In 2020, the university had 13,139 students and 378 professors. International students accounted for 27 percent of the student body.<ref name="unibas.ch">{{Cite web|url=https://www.unibas.ch/de/Universitaet/Portraet/Zahlen-Fakten/Studierendenstatistiken/Herbstsemester-2020.html|title = Herbstsemester 2020}}</ref>

In its over 500-year history, the university has been home to [[Erasmus of Rotterdam]], [[Paracelsus]], [[Daniel Bernoulli]], [[Leonhard Euler]], [[Jacob Burckhardt]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Tadeusz Reichstein]], [[Karl Jaspers]], [[Carl Gustav Jung]], [[Karl Barth]], and [[Jeanne Hersch]]. The institution is associated with ten [[Nobel Prize|Nobel laureates]] and two [[President of the Swiss Confederation|presidents of the Swiss Confederation]].<ref>
*{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/all/|title=All Nobel Prizes|website=www.nobelprize.org|access-date=10 February 2018}}
*{{Cite web|url=https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/bundespraesidium/bundespraesidenten-und-schweizer-geschichte/praesidenten-seit1848-liste.html|title=Bundespräsidenten|last=Bundesrat|first=Der|website=www.admin.ch|language=de|access-date=10 February 2018}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Johann von Venningen Bischof Basel.jpg|thumb|left|Inauguration ceremony of the University of Basel, 1460 (modern fantasy illustration redrawn from the Wurstisen-Chronik)]]

The University of Basel was founded in connection with the [[Council Of Basel|Council of Basel]].<ref name="Burghartz">{{Cite web |last=Burghartz |first=Susanna |title=1460–1560: Von der erfolgreichen Gründung zu internationaler Bedeutung |url=https://www.unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/Uni-Nova/Uni-Nova-114/Uni-Nova-114-Gruendung.html |access-date=22 October 2022 |website=www.unibas.ch |language=de |archive-date=22 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022080404/https://www.unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/Uni-Nova/Uni-Nova-114/Uni-Nova-114-Gruendung.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was during the years the catholic clergy resided in Basel, a temporary university was established between the years 1432 und 1448.<ref name="Burghartz" /> In May 1432 it was authorized for Simon de Valla from [[Venice]] to lecture on [[canon law]], in 1434 Jacques d'Attigny from France and was also permitted to lecture on canon law in Basel.<ref name="Staehelin" /> d'Attigny had before been lecturing canon law at the [[Sapienza University of Rome|University of Rome]].<ref name="Schwarz-2013">{{Cite book |last=Schwarz |first=Brigide |url=https://brill.com/display/book/9789004237209/B9789004237209-s012.xml |title=Die Universität des Basler Konzils |date=1 January 2013 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-23720-9 |pages=392–393 |language=en}}</ref> In 1437 Demetrius was called to lecture [[Greek language]].<ref name="Staehelin" /><ref name="Schwarz-2013" /> Also the function of a [[bedel]] is mentioned, but there was no mention of a [[Dean (education)|dean]] or a University order.<ref name="Staehelin">{{Cite journal |last=Staehelin |first=Ernst |title=Die Universität Basel in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart |url=https://www.e-periodica.ch/cntmng?pid=jus-002:1960:45::6 |journal=Archiv für das schweizerische Unterrichtswesen |pages=7–8 |via=[[E-Periodica]]}}</ref> The same year Pope [[Pope Eugene IV|Eugen IV]] attempted to move the council to [[Ferrara]], but many involved in Basel stayed and kept negotiating and in 1439 the council elected a [[Counter pope|counterpope]] in the figure of the [[Duke of Savoy]] [[Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy|Amadeus VIII]] who would become known as [[Felix V]].<ref name="Staehelin" /> Felix V then established a formal "University of the Clergy" (German:''Kurienuniversität)'' which was inaugurated in November 1440 with a [[Mass (liturgy)|mass]] in the {{III|Barfüsserkirche (Basel)|lt=Barfüsser Church|de}}.<ref name="Staehelin" /> In 1448, the [[List of German monarchs|German King]] [[Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor|Frederick III]] came to an agreement with Pope [[Pope Nicholas V|Nicholas V]], the successor of Eugen IV and ordered the city to remove the security of the councilors.<ref name="Staehelin" /> The university was then formally closed in July 1448 and the clergy moved on to [[Lausanne]].<ref name="Staehelin" /> After they left, the former lecturers urged for a regular university to be established.<ref name="Burghartz" /> The deed of foundation given in the form of a [[Papal bull]] by [[Pope Pius II]] on 12 November 1459 in [[Mantua]] and the official opening ceremony was held on 4 April 1460, the day of [[Ambrose|Saint Ambrose]] in the [[Basel Minster|Minster of Basel]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wallraff |first1=Martin |url=https://schwabe.ch/schatzkammern-der-universitaet-basel-978-3-7965-2674-9 |title=Schatzkammern der Universität |last2=Stöcklin-Kaldewey |first2=Sara |publisher=Schwabe Verlag |year=2010 |isbn=978-3-7965-2674-9 |pages=16}}</ref> Originally the University of Basel was decreed to have four faculties—arts, medicine, theology, and jurisprudence. From 1497, the [[Grand Council of Basel-Stadt|Grand Council of Basel]] discussed whether the University was to be closed and only in 1501, the year Basel joined the [[Old Swiss Confederacy|Swiss Confederation]], it was decided not to close the university.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Haegen |first=Pierre Louis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KcmAQAAIAAJ |title=Der frühe Basler Buchdruck: ökonomische, sozio-politische und informationssystematische Standortfaktoren und Rahmenbedingungen |date=2001 |publisher=Schwabe |isbn=978-3-7965-1090-8 |pages=144 |language=de}}</ref> The faculty of arts served until 1818 as the foundation for the other three academic subjects. In the eighteenth century as Basel became more commercial, the university, one of the centres of learning in the Renaissance, slipped into insignificance. Enrollment which had been over a thousand around 1600, dropped to sixty in 1785 with eighteen professors. The professors themselves were mostly sons of the elite.<ref name="Grossman">Grossman, Lionel, ''Basel in the age of Burckhardt '' (Chicago, 2000) p. 35, and note 20; p. 118</ref>

Over the course of centuries as many scholars came to the city, Basel became an early centre of book printing and humanism. Around the same time as the university itself, the [[Basel University Library]] was founded. Today it has over three million books and writings and is the largest library in Switzerland.

Located in what was once a politically volatile area, the university's fate often ebbed and flowed with regional political developments, including the Reformation, the Kantonstrennung (separation of the Canton of Basel City from Basel Land), and both World Wars. These factors affected student attendance, funding, university-government relations. In 1833 the Canton of Basel split in two with the Federal Diet requiring that the canton's assets, including the books at the university library, be divided—two-thirds going to the new half canton of [[Basel-Landschaft]]. The city, [[Basel-Stadt]], had to buy back this share and the university became so impoverished that it drastically reduced its course offerings. Students were expected to continue their education after two years or so at a German university.<ref name="Grossman" />

Student enrollment surged after the university shed its medieval curriculum (including the elimination of Latin as the official language of the course catalog in 1822) and began to add more faculties, especially those in the humanities and sciences. Liberal Arts became a faculty in 1818, from which the Philosophy and History and Natural History faculties were derived in 1937.<ref name="auto">Georg Kreis, "550 Years of the University of Basel: Permanence and Change" (Basel, 2010) p. 26</ref> The university subsequently established the Faculty of Science (1937), the Faculty of Business and Economics (1996), and the Faculty of Psychology (2003).<ref name="auto"/> During the 20th century, the university grew rapidly, from one thousand students in 1918 to eight thousand in 1994.<ref>Georg Kreis, "550 Years of the University of Basel: Permanence and Change" (Basel, 2010) p. 25</ref> The first woman who was admitted to the university, {{ill|Emilie Frey|de|Emilie Louise Frey}}, began her medical studies in 1890.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unigeschichte.unibas.ch/550-jahre-im-ueberblick/zeitstrahl/|title=550 Jahre Universität Basel|last=Fellmann|website=www.unigeschichte.unibas.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140411052307/http://www.unigeschichte.unibas.ch/550-jahre-im-ueberblick/zeitstrahl/|archive-date=11 April 2014}}</ref>

After the seizure of power in the year 1933 by the [[Nazis]] in Germany, numerous renowned German professors decided to emigrate to Basel and started to work at the University of Basel. Several Swiss scholars also returned, inter alia the Law Professor [[Arthur Baumgarten]] (1933), the Theologians [[Karl Barth]] (1935) and {{ill|Fritz Lieb|de}} (1937) and after World War II the Philosopher [[Karl Jaspers]] from [[Heidelberg University]] (1948), as well as the surgeon [[Rudolf Nissen]] (1952).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D10971.php|title=Universität Basel|last=Kreis|first=Georg|website=HLS-DHS-DSS.CH|language=de|access-date=10 February 2018}}</ref>

On 1 January 1996, the University of Basel became independent from the cantonal government and thus earned its right to self-government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unigeschichte.unibas.ch/550-jahre-im-ueberblick/juengste-geschichte-ab-1985/der-weg-zu-einem-neuen-universitaetsgesetz/neues-universitaetsgesetz.html|title=550 Jahre Universität Basel|last=Fellmann|website=www.unigeschichte.unibas.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328184514/https://unigeschichte.unibas.ch/550-jahre-im-ueberblick/juengste-geschichte-ab-1985/der-weg-zu-einem-neuen-universitaetsgesetz/neues-universitaetsgesetz.html|archive-date=28 March 2016}}</ref> In 2007, the Canton of Basel-Landschaft voted in favor to share the sponsorship of the university in parity with the Canton Basel-Stadt.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unigeschichte.unibas.ch/550-jahre-im-ueberblick/juengste-geschichte-ab-1985/bewaehrungsproben-und-entwicklungen/bewaehrungsproben.html|title=550 Jahre Universität Basel|last=Fellmann|website=www.unigeschichte.unibas.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925033706/http://www.unigeschichte.unibas.ch/550-jahre-im-ueberblick/juengste-geschichte-ab-1985/bewaehrungsproben-und-entwicklungen/bewaehrungsproben.html|archive-date=25 September 2013}}</ref>

=== Seal ===
Since 1460, the seal of the University showed a [[Woman of the Apocalypse|Virgin]] surrounded with sun rays standing a crescent moon as mentioned in the [[Revelation 12|Revelation]] of [[John the Baptist|John]].<ref name="Wallraff">Wallraff, Martin; Stöcklin-Kaldewey, Sara (2010).p.30</ref> Below the moon is the [[coat of arms of Basel]].<ref name="Wallraff" /> In her right hand, she holds a scepter, and on her left arm sits Jesus the child.<ref name="Wallraff" /> The religious motive is described to denote the religious bond the university counted with at the beginning of its existence.<ref name="Wallraff" /> The seal was also used after the [[reformation]] and used continuously until 1992.<ref name="Wallraff" />

==Reputation and rankings==
{{Infobox university rankings
| ARWU_W = 95 | ARWU_W_year = 2024 | ARWU_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/news/arwu/2024|website=www.shanghairanking.com|access-date=29 August 2024 |title=ShanghaiRanking-Univiersities }}</ref>
| QS_W = =124 | QS_W_year = 2024 | QS_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2024|title=QS World University Rankings 2024|date=19 June 2023|website=topuniversities.com|access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref>
| THE_W = =123| THE_W_year = 2024 | THE_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2024|title=World University Rankings|date=6 August 2023|website=timeshighereducation.com|access-date=26 August 2023}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|USNWR_W= =168| USNWR_W_year = 2024-25|USNWR_W_ref=<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/university-of-basel-502059| title = U.S. News Education: Best Global Universities 2024-25| access-date = 29 August 2024}}</ref>}}

Well-respected rankings attest to the University of Basel's international academic performance:

* [[Times Higher Education World University Ranking]] (THE) (2021): 92<ref name="timeshighereducation.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2021/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/locations/CH/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats|title = World University Rankings|date = 25 August 2020}}</ref>
* [[CWTS Leiden Ranking]] (2019): 53<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.universityrankings.ch/results/Leiden/2019?ranking=Leiden&year=2019&region=&q=&s=50|title = UniversityRankings.ch}}</ref>
* [[Academic Ranking of World Universities]] (ARWU) (2019): 87<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Basel.html|title=ARWU|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523190117/http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/University-of-Basel.html|archive-date=23 May 2015}}</ref>

==Organization==
===University administration===
Since 1 January 1996, the University of Basel has been independent. The University Law of 1995 stipulates that, "The University of Basel is an institution established under public law. It has its own legal personality and right to self-government."<ref>Kreis,p. 79.</ref> As the entity that formally receives the Performance Mandate (Leistungsauftrag) for the University from both supporting cantons, the University Council (Universitätsrat) is the supreme decision-making body of the university.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unibas.ch/de/Universitaet/Leitung-Organisation/Universitaetsrat/Aufgaben.html|title=Aufgaben|website=www.unibas.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128155253/https://www.unibas.ch/de/Universitaet/Leitung-Organisation/Universitaetsrat/Aufgaben.html|archive-date=28 November 2017}}</ref> The Council consists of eleven voting members and three non-voting members, including the President, the Executive Director, and the Secretary of the Council.
Beneath the University Council are the Senate (Regenz) and the President's Board. The 80-member Senate consists of the senior members of the President's Board, faculty deans, professors, lecturers and research assistants, assistants, students, and administrative and technical employees.
The President's Office is tasked with leading the overall university business. It consists of the President and her staff, a General Secretariat, an Administrative Directorate, the Communications and Marketing Office, and two respective Vice-Presidents for Research and Education.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unibas.ch/de/Universitaet/Leitung-Organisation/Rektorat.html|title=Rektorat}}</ref>

===Faculties and departments===
<gallery>
File:Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar der Universität Basel.jpg|Institute of Musicology
File:Biozentrum Pharmazentrum Stehle 2007 University of Basel.png|Biozentrum and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
File:Universitat Basel, Juristische Fakultat.jpg|Faculty of Law
File:Basel Bernoullianum 08-06-2008.jpg|Bernoullianum, Department of Environmental Sciences
File:Bürgerspital, Basel.jpg|University Hospital of Basel
</gallery>

The University of Basel currently houses seven faculties:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eduwo.ch/de/universitaet/unibas-universitaet-basel|title = Universität Basel &#124; UNIBAS &#124; eduwo.ch}}</ref>

* Theology<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pages.unibas.ch/theologie/|title=Theologische Fakultät|publisher=Pages.unibas.ch|access-date=2 October 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080710145124/http://pages.unibas.ch/theologie/|archive-date=10 July 2008}}</ref>
* Law<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ius.unibas.ch/|title=Juristische Fakultät Universität Basel|publisher=Ius.unibas.ch|access-date=2 October 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111016170030/http://www.ius.unibas.ch/|archive-date=16 October 2011}}</ref>
* Medicine<ref>{{cite web|url=http://medizin.unibas.ch/|title=Webseite der Medizinischen Fakultät Basel|publisher=Medizin.unibas.ch|access-date=2 October 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006170940/http://medizin.unibas.ch/|archive-date=6 October 2011}}</ref>
** [https://biomedizin.unibas.ch/home/ Department of Biomedicine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226154709/https://biomedizin.unibas.ch/home/ |date=26 February 2018 }} (a joint venture among the University of Basel, the University Hospital, and the University Children's Hospital)
** [https://dbe.unibas.ch/en/ Department of Biomedical Engineering]
** [https://dph.medizin.unibas.ch/ Department of Public Health]
** [https://dkf.unibas.ch/ Department of Clinical Research]
** [https://dsbg.unibas.ch/home/ Department of Sport, Exercise and Health] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303041225/https://dsbg.unibas.ch/home/ |date=3 March 2018 }}
* Humanities and Social Sciences (Phil I)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philhist.unibas.ch/|title=Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät|publisher=Philhist.unibas.ch|access-date=2 October 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007052816/http://philhist.unibas.ch/|archive-date=7 October 2011}}</ref>
** [https://daw.philhist.unibas.ch/home/ Department of Ancient Civilizations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209124649/https://daw.philhist.unibas.ch/home/ |date=9 December 2018 }}
** [https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/home/ Department of History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209124230/https://dg.philhist.unibas.ch/home/ |date=9 December 2018 }}
** [https://dgw.philhist.unibas.ch/home/ Department of Social Sciences]{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
** [https://dkmp.philhist.unibas.ch/home/ Department Arts, Media, Philosophy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044526/https://dkmp.philhist.unibas.ch/home/ |date=1 December 2017 }}
** [https://dslw.philhist.unibas.ch/nc/home/ Department of Languages and Literatures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201043714/https://dslw.philhist.unibas.ch/nc/home/ |date=1 December 2017 }}
** [https://dhlab.philhist.unibas.ch/en/home/ Digital Humanities Lab]
* Science (Phil II)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://philnat.unibas.ch/|title=Philosophisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät|publisher=Philnat.unibas.ch|date=29 July 2011|access-date=2 October 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925171511/http://philnat.unibas.ch/|archive-date=25 September 2011}}</ref>
** [[Biozentrum University of Basel|Biozentrum]]
** [https://dmi.unibas.ch/de/home/ Department of Mathematics and Computer Science]
** [https://www.physik.unibas.ch/en/ Department of Physics]
** [https://www.chemie.unibas.ch/index.php Department of Chemistry]
** [https://duw.unibas.ch/de/home/ Department of Environmental Sciences]
** [https://www.pharma.unibas.ch/de/home/ Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences]
* Business and Economics<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wwz.unibas.ch/|title=WWZ: Home|publisher=Wwz.unibas.ch|date=26 September 2011|access-date=2 October 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110908070111/http://wwz.unibas.ch/|archive-date=8 September 2011}}</ref>
* Psychology<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psycho.unibas.ch/|title=Fakultät für Psychologie|publisher=Psycho.unibas.ch|date=28 September 2011|access-date=2 October 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007185900/http://psycho.unibas.ch/|archive-date=7 October 2011}}</ref>

===Interdisciplinary institutions===
* Institute for European Global Studies<ref>{{cite web|url=https://europa.unibas.ch/en/home/|title=Europainstitut: Home|website=europa.unibas.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025211136/https://europa.unibas.ch/en/home/|archive-date=25 October 2017}}</ref>
* [https://ceps.unibas.ch/en/home/ Center for Philanthropy Studies (CEPS)]
* [https://ibmb.unibas.ch/home/ Institute for Biomedical Ethics (IBMB)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20171201044552/https://bildungswissenschaften.unibas.ch/nc/en/home/ Institute of Education]

===Associated institutes===
* [[Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute]] (Swiss TPH)[http://www.swisstph.ch]
* Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fmi.ch/|title=FMI – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research|last=FMI|website=www.fmi.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719075940/https://www.fmi.ch/|archive-date=19 July 2017}}</ref>
* Basel Institute on Governance [https://www.baselgovernance.org/about_biog] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624152823/https://www.baselgovernance.org/about_biog |date=24 June 2018 }}
* [http://szrnk.ch/ Swiss Centre for Rescue, Emergency and Disaster Medicine (SZRNK)]
* [http://www.swisspeace.ch/ Swisspeace]

==Notable alumni and faculty==
The University is counted among the country's leading institutions of higher learning and thus boasts a large number of politicians, scientists and thinkers as professors and alumni from all around the world alike:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://primenews.ch/articles/2018/11/die-universitaet-basel-braucht-wieder-eine-vision|title=Die Universität Basel braucht wieder eine Vision – Prime News}}</ref>

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File:Paracelsus.jpg|[[Paracelsus]], physician and alchemist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/012196/2010-09-27/|title = Paracelsus}}</ref>
File:Jakob Bernoulli.jpg|[[Jacob Bernoulli]], mathematician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/025845/2002-07-02/|title = Bernoulli, Jacob}}</ref>
File:Leonhard Euler 2.jpg|[[Leonhard Euler]], mathematician and physicist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/018751/2005-11-22/|title = Euler, Leonhard}}</ref>
File:Nietzsche1882 detail.jpg|[[Friedrich Nietzsche]], philosopher<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/011641/2018-01-24/|title = Nietzsche, Friedrich}}</ref>
File:Johann Friedrich Miescher. Photograph. Wellcome V0026860.jpg|[[Friedrich Miescher]], physician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/014550/2008-11-13/|title = Miescher, Friedrich}}</ref>
File:Karl Gustav Jung.png|[[Karl Gustav Jung]], physician and surgeon<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/014424/2006-08-24/|title = Jung, Karl Gustav}}</ref>
File:ETH-BIB-Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961)-Portrait-Portr 14163 (cropped).tif|[[Carl Gustav Jung]], psychiatrist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/014425/2014-10-02/|title = Jung, Carl Gustav}}</ref>
File:Karl Jaspers 1946.jpg|[[Karl Jaspers]], philosopher and psychiatrist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/041197/2008-01-29/|title = Jaspers, Karl}}</ref>
File:Thadeus Reichstein ETH-Bib Portr 10137.jpg|[[Tadeus Reichstein]], chemist and Nobel Prize laureate<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/014611/2010-08-20/|title = Reichstein, Tadeusz}}</ref>
File:Werner Arber at Biozentrum, University of Basel.jpg|[[Werner Arber]], microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/014274/2001-09-03/|title = Arber, Werner}}</ref>
File:Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard mg 4372 cropped.jpg|[[Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard]], biologist and Nobel Prize laureate<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/de/ueber-uns/wwwbiozentrumunibaschalumni/alumni-portraits/christiane-nuesslein-volhard/|title=Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - Biozentrum|access-date=2 May 2021|archive-date=3 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503063127/https://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/de/ueber-uns/wwwbiozentrumunibaschalumni/alumni-portraits/christiane-nuesslein-volhard/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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* [[Emil Abderhalden]] (1877–1950), Swiss biochemist and physiologist
* [[Bonifacius Amerbach]] (1495–1562) Swiss jurist
* [[Johann Konrad Ammann]] (1669–1724, Swiss physicist and educator of deaf children)
* [[Werner Arber]] (1929–), Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1978
* [[Johann Jakob Bachofen]] (1815–1887), Swiss antiquarian and jurist
* [[Karl Barth]] (1886–1968), Swiss Protestant theologian
* [[Caspar Bauhin]] (1560–1624), Swiss botanist
* [[Johann Bauhin]] (1541–1613), Swiss botanist
* [[Daniel Bernoulli]] (1700–1782), Swiss mathematician and physicist
* [[Jacob Bernoulli]] (1655–1705), prominent Swiss mathematician, after whom Bernoulli numbers are named
* [[Johann Bernoulli]] (1667–1748), Swiss mathematician
* [[Johann Georg Birnstiel]] (1858–1927), Swiss writer and clergyman
* [[James Montgomery Boice]] (1938–2000), American theologian and pastor
* [[Jacob Burckhardt]] (1818–1897), Swiss historian
* [[Meehyun Chung]] (1963–) South Korean theologian, professor of [[Yonsei University]]
* [[Jacques Dubochet]] (1942–), Swiss biophysicist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 2017
* [[Nikolaus Eglinger]] (1645–1711), Swiss physician
* [[Paul Erdman]] (1932–2007), American business and financial writer
* [[Leonhard Euler]] (1707–1783), mathematician and physicist
* [[Rudolf Eucken]] (1846–1926), philosopher, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1908 
* [[Till Förster]] (1955), Prof.em.Dr., anthropologist, founding director of the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel 
* [[Christoph Gerber]] professor at the Department of Physics, co-inventor of the atomic force microscope
* [[Fina Girard]] (2001–), Swiss politician and youth climate activist<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-20 |title=Fina Girard rückt für Beatrice Messerli nach |trans-title=Fina Girard replaces Beatrice Messerli |url=https://grosserrat.bs.ch/medien/news/web-mitteilungen/1400-fina-girard-rueckt-fuer-beatrice-messerli-nach-gab |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=[[Grand Council of Basel-Stadt]] |language=de}}</ref>
* [[Albert Gobat]] (1848–1914), Swiss politician, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 1902
* [[Arno David Gurewitsch]] (1902–1974), professor, [[Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center|Columbia‐Presbyterian Medical Center]], and personal physician to [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]
* [[Paul Herrling]], professor of Drug Discovery Science
* [[Jeanne Hersch]] (1910–2000), Swiss philosopher
* [[Robert Jacob (physician)]] (died 1588), English court physician to Elizabeth I and the Russian Czarina
* [[Karl Jaspers]] (1883–1969), German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher
* [[Karl Gustav Jung]] (1795–1864), German-Swiss physician and surgeon, Rector and professor of the University 
* [[Carl Gustav Jung]] (1875–1961), Swiss psychiatrist, and founder of Analytical Psychology
* [[Eberhard Jüngel]] (1934–2021), German Lutheran theologian
* [[Jack Dean Kingsbury]] (1931–), American New Testament theologian and professor at [[Union Presbyterian Seminary]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.csl.edu/support/endowments/endowed-chairs/dr-jack-dean-kingsbury-chair-new-testament-theology/|title=Dr. Jack Dean Kingsbury Chair of New Testament Theology|access-date=10 February 2019}}</ref>
* [[Michael Landmann]] (1913–1984), Swiss-Israeli philosopher
* [[Yeshayahu Leibowitz]] (1903–1994), Israeli public intellectual and polymath
* [[Friedrich Miescher]] (1844–1895), Swiss physician and biologist, first researcher to isolate [[nucleic acid]]
* [[Alice Miller (psychologist)|Alice Miller]] (1923–2010), Swiss psychologist and author
* [[David-François de Montmollin]] (1721–1803), Swiss colonist to Canada, Protestant minister, landowner
* [[Paul Hermann Müller]] (1899–1965), Swiss chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1948
* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] (1844–1900,) German philosopher, held Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel at the age of 24
* [[Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard]] (1942–), German biologist and biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1995
* [[Paracelsus]] (1493–1541), Swiss philosopher, physician, botanist and astrologer
* [[Tadeus Reichstein]] (1897–1996), Polish-Swiss chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1950
* [[John Rodgers (theologian)|John H. Rodgers Jr.]] (1930–2022), American systematic theologian and Anglican bishop
* [[Otto Stich]] (1927–2012), [[President of the Swiss Confederation]]
* [[Emmanuel Stupanus]] (1587–1664), Swiss physician
* [[William Theilheimer]] (1914–2005), German-American scientist
* [[Lilian Uchtenhagen]] (1928–2016), Swiss politician and economist
* [[Peter Werenfels]] (1627–1703), Swiss theologian
* [[Kurt Wüthrich]] (1938–), Swiss chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 2002
* [[Iona Yakir]] (1896–1937), Red Army commander
* [[Rolf Zinkernagel]] (1944–), Swiss physician, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1996
* [[Hans Zingg]] (M.D.) — Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Wyeth-Ayerst Chair in Women's Health at [[McGill University]]
* [[Mirjana Spoljaric Egger]] (1972–), Swiss [[diplomat]], the President of the [[International Committee of the Red Cross]] (ICRC)

==Student life==
The university hosts several formal institutions that are intended to serve the needs of its students. The Student Advice Center<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unibas.ch/en/Studies/Advice/Student-Advice-Center.html|title=Student Advice Center|website=www.unibas.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202054251/https://www.unibas.ch/en/Studies/Advice/Student-Advice-Center.html|archive-date=2 February 2017}}</ref> provides advice on academic degree programs and career opportunities. The Student Services provides information on applications, grants, mobility, exchanges, and disability services.<ref>{{cite web |title=Student Services |url=https://www.unibas.ch/en/University/Administration-Services/Vice-President-s-Office-for-Education/Student-Services.html |website=University of Basel |access-date=15 March 2022}}</ref>

===Student organizations===
There are also a variety of organizations that cater to international students, such as local chapters of Toastmasters and AIESEC, and associations that perform community services (Beraber, for instance, provides remedial lessons to immigrant youth). There is a foreign affairs association (Foraus), a Model United Nations team, and various choirs and orchestras.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unibas.ch/en/Studies/Student-Life/Student-Organizations.html|title=Student Organizations|website=www.unibas.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930102103/https://www.unibas.ch/en/Studies/Student-Life/Student-Organizations.html|archive-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> There are also various religious groups.<ref>{{cite web |title=Recognized Associations |url=https://www.unibas.ch/en/Studies/Student-Life/Student-Organizations/List-of-Recognized-Associations.html |website=University of Basel |access-date=15 March 2022}}</ref>

A number of other student groups exist out of formal venues. The most recognizable are the "Studentenverbindungen," traditional student associations dating from the 19th century that organize social events, share common uniforms, and often focus on particular hobbies, such as sword fighting. Such associations include the Akademische Turnerschaft Alemannia zu Basel, AKW Raurica, Helvetia Basel, Jurassia Basiliensis, Schwizerhüsli, A.V. Froburger, and Zofingia. Membership in many is restricted to men, though A.V. Froburger also accepts women.<ref>{{cite web |title=Akademische Verbindung Froburger |url=https://www.avfroburger.ch |website=Akademische Verbindung Froburger |access-date=15 March 2022}}</ref>

===University sports===
University Sports provides a gym, fitness classes, and sport and dance camps to students and employees of the university.<ref>{{cite web |title=University Sports |url=https://www.unibas.ch/en/University/Administration-Services/Vice-President-s-Office-for-People-and-Culture/Offers-Students-Employees-and-Alumni/University-Sports.html |website=University of Basel |access-date=15 March 2022}}</ref>

===Student union===
The Studentische Körperschaft der Universität Basel (skuba) speaks on behalf of the students and represents their needs and interests. It acts as an official student representative and has no political or religious affiliations.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.skuba.ch/ueber-uns|title=Über uns – Studentische Körperschaft der Universität Basel|website=www.skuba.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327082739/http://skuba.ch/ueber-uns/|archive-date=27 March 2017}}</ref>

==Alumni association==
The university has a general alumni association, AlumniBasel, as well as specific alumni associations for the Europainstitut, Medicine, Law, Business and Economics, Dentistry, and Nursing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unibas.ch/en/Zielgruppen/Alumni.html|title=Alumni|website=www.unibas.ch|access-date=28 November 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801052607/https://www.unibas.ch/en/Zielgruppen/Alumni.html|archive-date=1 August 2017}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Biozentrum University of Basel]]
* [[List of largest universities by enrollment in Switzerland]]
* [[List of medieval universities]]
* [[Basel University Library]]

==Notes and references==
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==Further reading==
* Bonjour, Edgar, ''Die Universität Basel von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart 1460–1960'' (Basel : Helbing und Lichtenhahn, 1971)

==External links==
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* [http://www.unibas.ch/en.html Official Website of the university]
* [http://www.unigeschichte.unibas.ch History website of the university]
* [http://www.swisstph.ch Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)] – an associated institute of the university – [[travel medicine|travel]] and [[tropical medicine]], international health, medical parasitology and the biology of infection, public health and epidemiology.
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717164359/http://www.universitieshandbook.com/index.php?option=com_mtree&link_id=13&task=viewlink&Itemid=53 Information about the university]}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081113043407/http://www.unibas.ch/index.cfm?E1B212B3F54D1488858813322260A339 Studierendenstatistik der Universität Basel]
* [http://www.paked.net/higher_education/international_universities/University%20of%20Basel.htm University Rankings – University of Basel (2008)]

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