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  2. Uppsala University (UU) (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation.

  3. What are the oldest Universities in Sweden? uniRank answers this question by publishing a list of 39 Swedish Universities sorted by year of foundation and meeting the following uniRank selection criteria: being chartered, licensed or accredited by the appropriate Swedish higher education-related organization.

  4. Only Uppsala University (est. 1477 [1]) and Lund University (est. 1666 [2]) were actually founded as universities, whereas all the other universities were raised from högskola (university college) status to the higher university status after they had been founded.

  5. Uppsala University is the oldest university in Sweden, founded in 1477. Initially, teaching at the University mainly consisted of lectures in philosophy, law and theology. The University suspended its activities in 1515 but restarted towards the end of the century, in 1593.

  6. Lund University (Swedish: Lunds universitet) is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania .

  7. The history of Uppsala University – a brief summary. Anyone wanting to start a university in Sweden in the 15th century needed written authorisation from the Pope, a papal bull. Archbishop Jakob Ulvsson took the initiative to apply and on 27 February 1477 Pope Sixtus IV gave his permission.

  8. Uppsala University, state-sponsored coeducational university at Uppsala, the oldest institution of higher learning in Sweden. It was founded in 1477 but closed in 1510 because of the religious disputes of the time. It was reopened in 1595 with faculties of theology and philosophy, and in 1624 King.