University of Tartu

The University of Tartu:

• the largest and most comprehensive university in Estonia and one of the most respectable centres of education and research in Central and Eastern Europe;
• belongs to the top 1.2% of world's best universities (QS World University Rankings 2018, 314th)
• UT is placed 3rd in the QS University Rankings: Emerging Europe and Central Asia (QS University Rankings: EECA);
• founded in 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden;
• 4 faculties - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty Science and Technology; 
• 23 bachelor's and master's programmes in English and more than 30 international PhD programmes;
• 13,400 students (including 1500 international students from 90 countries);
• 3,500 employees, including 1,744 academic employees, including 173 professors
• member of the ISEP network, the AEN and Erasmus+ offering its students exchange opportunities;
• famous for its research-based education;
• over 34,000 research publications (including 7,500 in the ISI Web of Science);
• 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 (ISI Web of Science);
• a total of 20 UT scientist belong to the top 1% of most-cited scientists in the world;
• Nobel Prize in 1909 (Wilhelm Ostwald, founder of Physical Chemistry);
• budget volume of 121,2 million euros.