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39-540: From 1956 to 1963 Glistrup was an associate professor in tax law at the University of Copenhagen , and after leaving the university he became the owner of one of Denmark's leading law firms. On national television in 1971 on the last day for sending in tax returns, he praised tax fraudsters as the "freedom fighters of our time," and he displayed his own tax card with a tax rate of zero. His television appearance triggered mass outrage, and Finance Minister Poul Møller made

78-465: A Biotechnology Centre. By 1999, the student population had grown to exceed 35,000, resulting in the university appointing additional professors and other personnel. In 2003, the revised Danish university law removed faculty, staff and students from the university decision process, creating a top-down control structure that has been described as absolute monarchy, since leaders are granted extensive powers while being appointed exclusively by higher levels in

117-492: A chair of theology, with the drawing up of a new University Charter. The resulting Charter was issued in 1539. Between 1675 and 1788, the university introduced the concept of degree examinations. An examination for theology was added in 1675, followed by law in 1736. By 1788, all faculties required an examination before they would issue a degree. In 1807, the British Bombardment of Copenhagen destroyed most of

156-497: A complaint to Danmarks Radio , stating that they should rather have presented factual information on filling out tax returns. The government proceeded to have police and tax authorities begin an investigation into Glistrup's finances. On 22 August 1972, Glistrup founded the Progress Party, and in the landslide election of 1973 the party gained 28 seats of 179, making it the second-largest in parliament. Glistrup described

195-534: A cooperation agreement with the Danish Royal School of Library and Information Science in 2009. The university hosts the annual Aging Research and Drug Discovery conference in cooperation with Columbia University . Over the course of its history, a sizeable number of University of Copenhagen alumni have become notable in their fields, both academic, and in the wider world. List of Danish Prime Ministers The Prime Minister of Denmark

234-730: A tenure track carrier system. It operates about fifty master's programmes taught in English, and has arranged about 150 exchange agreements with other institutions and 800 Erasmus agreements. Each year there are about 1,700 incoming exchange students, 2,000 outbound exchange students and 4,000 international degree-seeking students. About 3,000 PhD students study there each year. Most university students stay in privately owned dormitories ( kollegier in Danish) or apartments in Copenhagen . There are five dormitories that are partially administered by

273-420: Is Mette Frederiksen representing the social democratic party Social Democrats . Mette Frederiksen took office on 27 June 2019, taking over the position from Lars Løkke Rasmussen , representing the liberal party Venstre . Frederiksen is also the second female prime minister in the history of the country, after fellow socialist party colleague Helle Thorning-Schmidt who served from 2011 to 2015. This

312-453: Is organized into six faculties and about 100 departments and research centres. The university employs about 5,600 academic staff and 4,400 technical and administrative staff. The six faculties are: The total number of enrolled students is about 40,000, including about 23,000 undergraduate students and 17,000 graduate students. The university has an international graduate talent programme which provides grants for international Ph.D., students and

351-687: Is the head of government of the Kingdom of Denmark and leader of the Cabinet . The Prime Minister is formally appointed by the Monarch, who is head of state . The first four heads of government were titled premierminister ( lit.   ' prime minister ' ), between 1855 and 1920 the title was Konseilspræsident ( lit.   ' council president ' ). Since 1920, the title has been Danish : statsminister ( lit.   ' Minister of State ' ). Denmark's current prime minister

390-522: Is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala University . The University of Copenhagen consists of six different faculties , with teaching taking place in its four distinct campuses, all situated in Copenhagen. The university operates 36 different departments and 122 separate research centres in Copenhagen, as well as a number of museums and botanical gardens in and outside

429-781: The Capital Region (three in Copenhagen and one in Frederiksberg ): The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the Faculty of Science also use the Taastrup Campus , which is located in Taastrup on the western outskirts of Copenhagen. The Faculty of Science also has facilities in Helsingør , Hørsholm and Nødebo . The university is governed by a board consisting of 11 members: 6 members recruited outside

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468-584: The Panum Institute . The new university statute instituted in 1970 involved democratisation of the management of the university. It was modified in 1973 and subsequently applied to all higher education institutions in Denmark. The democratisation was later reversed with the 2003 university reforms. Further change in the structure of the university from 1990 to 1993 made a Bachelor's degree programme mandatory in virtually all subjects. Also in 1993,

507-486: The Protestant Reformation , it received a new seal, showing king Christian III with crown , sceptre , and globus cruciger above a crowned coat of arms vertically divided between halved versions of the coat of arms of Denmark (to the viewer's left, dexter ) and the coat of arms of Norway (to the viever's right, sinister ). The text is The 1537 seal is very similar to the current seal, which

546-627: The Carlsberg Foundation. The Housing Foundation Copenhagen is a separate commercial entity to the University of Copenhagen run by Chairman Erik Bisgaard Madsen and a board of directors. The Housing Foundation Copenhagen provides short-term housing exclusively for university international students ( sometimes Danish students), university staff and guest researchers. Their central office is based at South Campus. The Housing Foundation Copenhagen has received considerable criticism for

585-623: The Danish capital. The University of Copenhagen also owns and operates multiple research stations around Denmark, with two additional ones located in Greenland . Additionally, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the public hospitals of the Capital and Zealand Region of Denmark constitute the conglomerate Copenhagen University Hospital . As of October 2022, 10 Nobel laureates and 1 Turing Award laureate have been affiliated with

624-597: The Departments of Political Science and Sociology are now located in the same facilities at CSS and can pool resources more easily. In January 2007, the University of Copenhagen merged with the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Science. The two universities were converted into faculties under the University of Copenhagen, and were renamed as

663-443: The Faculty of Life Sciences and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. In January 2012, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the veterinary third of the Faculty of Life Sciences merged with the Faculty of Health Sciences forming the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences – and the other two thirds of the Faculty of Life Sciences were merged into the Faculty of Science. The university has four main campus areas that are located in

702-507: The University of Copenhagen as students, alumni or faculty. Alumni include one president of the United Nations General Assembly and at least 24 prime ministers of Denmark . The University of Copenhagen was founded on 1 June 1479 and is the oldest university in Denmark. In 1475, Christian I of Denmark received a papal bull from Pope Sixtus IV with permission to establish a university in Denmark. The bull

741-429: The University of Copenhagen was ranked first in Denmark and 84th in the world. In the 2021 QS World University Rankings list, the University of Copenhagen was ranked first in Denmark and 76th in the world. In the 2021 U.S. News & World Report 's Best Global Universities Rankings list, the University of Copenhagen was ranked first in Denmark and 34th in the world. The university cooperates with universities around

780-556: The University of Copenhagen was to be administered without royal interference, and it was not subject to the usual laws governing the Danish people . The University of Copenhagen was dissolved in about 1531 as a result of the spread of Protestantism. It was re-established in 1537 by King Christian III after the Lutheran Reformation . The king charged Johannes Bugenhagen , who came from Wittenberg to Copenhagen to take up

819-661: The best university in Denmark and best in Continental Europe , 4th in Europe (after Oxford , UCL and Cambridge ) and 27th in the world. The 2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked the University of Copenhagen as the best university in Denmark and Scandinavia, 7th in Europe and 30th in the world. In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2021,

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858-414: The different faculties. The deans appoint heads of 50 departments. There is no faculty senate and faculty is not involved in the appointment of rector, deans, or department heads. Hence the university has no faculty governance, although there are elected Academic Boards at faculty level who advise the deans. As of 2018 , the governing body manages an annual budget of about DKK 8.9 billion. The university

897-494: The exploitation of international students for business profits and poor living conditions, and most recently the refusal of shortening contracts for many international students affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The university's oldest known seal dates from a 1531 letter, it depicts Saint Peter with a key and a book. In a circle around him is the text When the university was re-established by Christian III in 1537 after

936-685: The faculties at the university were restructured. Starting in 1842, the University Faculty of Medicine and the Academy of Surgeons merged to form the Faculty of Medical Science , while in 1848 the Faculty of Law was reorganised and became the Faculty of Jurisprudence and Political Science . In 1850, the Faculty of Mathematics and Science was separated from the Faculty of Philosophy . In 1845 and 1862 Copenhagen co-hosted Nordic student meetings with Lund University . The first female student

975-645: The income tax as a remnant of the stagnant agrarian society of the past, and wanted the income tax removed over a period of seven years by gradually increasing the tax threshold. He had a unique sense of humour, the most famous example of which was his suggestion to replace the Ministry of Defence with an answering machine saying "We Surrender" in Russian . The investigation of Glistrup's economic conditions dragged on but resulted in 1983 in Glistrup being sentenced by

1014-476: The law departments broke off from the Faculty of Social Sciences to form a separate Faculty of Law . In 1994, the University of Copenhagen designated environmental studies , north–south relations, and biotechnology as areas of special priority according to its new long-term plan. Starting in 1996 and continuing to the present, the university planned new buildings, including for the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Humanities at Amager (Ørestaden), along with

1053-480: The organization. In 2005, the Center for Health and Society (Center for Sundhed og Samfund – CSS) opened in central Copenhagen, housing the Faculty of Social Sciences and Institute of Public Health, which until then had been located in various places throughout the city. In May 2006, the university announced further plans to leave many of its old buildings in the inner city of Copenhagen , an area that has been home to

1092-457: The prosecuting authority. After serving the sentence, Glistrup was reelected to parliament in 1987, but he did not manage to regain his political influence on the party from Pia Kjærsgaard , and he was expelled from the party in 1991. After this period, he made many racist and inflammatory remarks, such as "either one is a racist or else one is a traitor", and calling for all Muslims in Denmark to be interned in camps and sold to other countries. He

1131-405: The supreme court to three years in prison and a fine of DKK 1,000,000 and the parliament finding him unfit to be a member. The case against him was complicated and involved an extensive web of companies that only transferred money to each other. The prosecuting authority described this web of companies as fiction, to which Glistrup responded that the only fiction involved was the "fiction theory" of

1170-450: The university for more than 500 years. The purpose of this has been to gather the university's many departments and faculties on three larger campuses in order to create a bigger, more concentrated and modern student environment with better teaching facilities, as well as to save money on rent and maintenance of the old buildings. The concentration of facilities on larger campuses also allows for more inter-disciplinary cooperation; for example,

1209-406: The university form the majority of the board, 2 members are appointed by the scientific staff, 1 member is appointed by the administrative staff, and 2 members are appointed by the university students. The rector, the prorector and the director of the university are appointed by the university board. The rector in turn appoints directors of the different parts of the central administration and deans of

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1248-744: The university's buildings. By 1836, however, the new main building of the university was inaugurated amid extensive building that continued until the end of the century. The University Library (now a part of the Royal Library ), the Zoological Museum , the Geological Museum , the Botanic Garden with greenhouses , and the Technical College were also established during this period. Between 1842 and 1850,

1287-436: The university, and the task was his to employ various learned scholars at the new university and thereby establish its first four faculties : theology , law , medicine and philosophy . The royal decree made the University of Copenhagen enjoy royal patronage from its very beginning. Furthermore, the university was explicitly established as an autonomous institution, giving it a great degree of juridical freedom. As such,

1326-518: The university; however, only students who have passed at least two years of studies are considered for admission . These are normally referred to as the old dormitories , and they consist of: Regensen , Elers' Kollegium , Borchs Kollegium , Hassagers Kollegium , and Valkendorfs Kollegium . The University of Copenhagen also offers Carlsberg Foundation researcher apartments for a duration of 6 months to 3 years for visiting research and academic research staff who affiliated with research projects funded by

1365-615: The world. In January 2006, the University of Copenhagen entered into a partnership of ten top universities, along with the: Australian National University , ETH Zürich , National University of Singapore , Peking University , University of California , University of Cambridge , University of Oxford , University of Tokyo and Yale University . The partnership is referred to as the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU). The Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics at University of Copenhagen signed

1404-484: Was enrolled at the university in 1877. The university underwent explosive growth between 1960 and 1980. The number of students rose from around 6,000 in 1960 to about 26,000 in 1980, with a correspondingly large growth in the number of employees. Buildings built during this time period include the new Zoological Museum, the Hans Christian Ørsted and August Krogh Institutes, the campus centre on Amager Island , and

1443-420: Was issued on 19 June 1475 as a result of the visit to Rome by Christian I's wife, Dorothea of Brandenburg , Queen of Denmark . On 4 October 1478 Christian I of Denmark issued a royal decree by which he officially established the University of Copenhagen. In this decree, Christian I set down the rules and laws governing the university. The royal decree elected magistar Peder Albertsen as vice chancellor of

1482-408: Was made in 2000 and is shown at the top of this page. The text is different and the crowned shield shows the coat of arms of Denmark (as has been the case since 1820, when the heraldic reference to Norway was removed). The text is In addition to the university seal, each of the university's six faculties carry seals of their own. The 2021 CWTS Leiden Ranking ranked the University of Copenhagen as

1521-423: Was readmitted to the party in 1999 and in response the entire parliamentary group left in protest, and formed a new parliamentary group called Freedom 2000 . He died on 1 July 2008, aged 82. University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( Danish : Københavns Universitet , abbr. KU ) is a public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark . Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen

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