Editing Umeå University (section)

==Academic profile==

===Admissions===
Prospective Swedish students make their applications to all Swedish universities at the ''Swedish Council for Higher Education'' website Antagning.se and international students use its counterpart in English, Universityadmissions.se. Information specific to non EU/EEA students (applications, [[Tuition payments|tuition fees]] and [[scholarship]]s<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.universityadmissions.se/en/All-you-need-to-know1/Frequently-asked-questions/Fees-and-scholarships/ |title=Fees and scholarships |website=Universityadmissions.se |access-date=2016-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220130252/https://www.universityadmissions.se/en/All-you-need-to-know1/Frequently-asked-questions/Fees-and-scholarships/ |archive-date=2014-12-20 }}</ref>) can be found at Studyinsweden.se.

===Libraries===
[[Umeå University Library]] (a.k.a. ''UmUB'') was established at the time of Umeå University's foundation in 1965, but has origins in from ''the Scientific Library in Umeå'' established in 1950 at Umeå City Library.<ref name=histlib>{{cite web|url=http://www.ub.umu.se/en/about |title=About the Library &#124; Umeå University Library |website=Ub.umu.se |date=1969-03-03 |access-date=2016-02-06}}</ref> Its main building dates from 1968, but has since been extended and rebuilt, most recently in 2006. There are subsidiary libraries at the [[Norrland's University Hospital]] and the [[Umeå Arts Campus]].

===Research===
Umeå University has research departments and education in a broad range of academic disciplines, with more than thirty university departments conducting most teaching and research. Since the 1990s there are also several [[Umeå University#Research centers|research centers]], mostly local but some in partnership with other Swedish universities, such as the neighbouring [[Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences]] and [[Luleå University of Technology]].

The university is home to more than 2,000 researchers and teachers, many of them with international background. Important research areas include ageing and population studies, infections, and forest research.
* '''Ageing and population studies''' have access to the new and unique ''Linnaeus database'', which covers the entire Swedish population between 1960 and 2009. It links information from four existing databases, enabling researchers to find new connections between health, lifestyle and aging. The ''Demographic Data Base'' also gives access to extensive databases with [[population statistics]] from old Swedish [[Parish register|parish records]], dating back to the 18th century, and from 2012 a ''Department of [[Biobank]] Research'', providing data management for research in large biological sample collections collected since the 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biobank.umu.se/biobank/ |title=Welcome to the Department of Biobank Research - Department of Biobank Research - Umeå University, Sweden |website=Biobank.umu.se |date=2015-10-20 |access-date=2016-02-06}}</ref>
* '''The infection biology research''' focuses on [[microorganism]]s like bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, and their molecular infection mechanisms – microbial pathogenesis and virulence. ''Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR)'', offer a qualified environment for the development of new strategies against infectious diseases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umu.se/sok/english/news-and-press-releases/newsdetail/infection-research-receives-continued-linnaeus-centre-funding-with-45-million-sek-during-the-second-five-year-period.cid236939 |title=Infection research receives continued Linnaeus Centre funding with 45 million SEK during the second five-year period - Search Facilities - Umeå University, Sweden |website=Umu.se |date=2014-06-17 |access-date=2016-02-06}}</ref> The centre also hosts ''[[Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden|The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS)]]'', which is the Swedish's node in the ''Nordic [[EMBL]] Partnership for [[Molecular Medicine]]''.
* '''The forest research''' includes plant and forest biotechnology within the ''Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC)'' – a collaborative effort between the ''Department of Plant Physiology'' at Umeå University and the ''Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology'' at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and one of the strongest research environments for basic plant research in Europe,<ref>{{cite web|author=Eva-Maria Diehl |url=http://www.upsc.se/about-upsc/news/4381-umea-plant-science-centre-receives-top-review-among-the-worlds-best.html |title=Umeå Plant Science Centre receives top review – "among the world's best" - Umeå Plant Science Centre |website=Upsc.se |date=2013-04-29 |access-date=2016-02-06}}</ref> known for its research relating to the genome of the [[Populus]] tree<ref name="pnas.org"/> and the [[Norway Spruce]]. The mapping of the spruce [[genome]], in collaboration with the Swedish ''SciLifeLab'', was the first complete sequencing of a [[gymnosperm]] and notable because it is seven times the size of the human genome, with some 20 billion base pairs.<ref name="nature.com"/>

===Research centers===
Research centers at Umeå University<ref>[http://www.umu.se/english/about-umu/organisation/research-centres Research Centres at Umeå University website]</ref> listed in alphabetical order:
*Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University (Arcum)
*Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics (CMTF)
*Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR)
*Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE)
*Center for Regional Science at Umeå University (Cerum) 
*Centre for Teaching and Learning (UPL) 
*[[Climate Impacts Research Centre]] (CIRC)
*Demographic Data Base (DDB)
*Digital Social Research Unit (DIGSUM)
*European CBRNE Centre
*High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) 
*[[HUMlab|Humlab]] 
*[[Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden]] (MIMS)
*Swedish Center for Digital Innovation (SCDI)
*Transportation Research (Trum) 
*Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI) 
*Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)
*[[Umeå Centre for Global Health Research]] (CGH)
*Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR)
*Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine (UCMM) 
*Umeå Marine Sciences Center (UMF) 
*Umeå Mathematics Education Research Centre (UMERC)
*Umeå Plant Science Center (UPSC)
*Várdduo - Centre for Sámi Research

===Publishing===
Practically all research papers produced by the university's researchers and students are to be found in the DiVA (Digital Scientific Archive) database, founded in 2000 (see link below).

===Rankings===
{{Infobox university rankings
| ARWU_W = 601–700 | ARWU_W_year = 2023 | ARWU_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2023|title=ARWU World University Rankings 2023|website=www.shanghairanking.com|access-date=26 August 2022}}</ref>
| QS_W = =465 | 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 = 401–500| THE_W_year = 2024 | THE_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2024/world-ranking|title=World University Rankings|date=6 August 2023|website=timeshighereducation.com|access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref>
|USNWR_W= =366| USNWR_W_year = 2023|USNWR_W_ref=<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/sweden| title = U.S. News Education: Best Global Universities 2022-23| access-date = 23 November 2023}}</ref>}}

In the latest (2012) [[Academic Ranking of World Universities]], the university was ranked between places 201–300 of all universities in the world<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2012.html|title=ARWU World University Rankings 2012|website=Shanghairanking.com|access-date=2016-02-06|archive-date=2013-04-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425145648/http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2012.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and at the same time by the [[QS World University Rankings]] the university was ranked 297th in the world (overall).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.topuniversities.com/node/9130/ranking-details/world-university-rankings/2012|title=QS World University Rankings 2012 (overall)|website=Topuniversities.com|access-date=2016-02-06}}</ref> In the latest (2012/2013) [[Times Higher Education#University Rankings|Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012/2013]] Umeå University was ranked between 251 and 275 out of all global universities.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking/range/251-275|title=Times Higher Education World University Rankings|website=Timeshighereducation.co.uk|date=13 April 2015|access-date=2016-02-06}}</ref>

In 2012, the university was ranked 23rd in the world of higher education institutions under the age of 50 years by the British magazine [[Times Higher Education|''Times Higher Education (THE'')]].<ref>{{cite news|title=THE 100 Under 50 university rankings: results|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=419908&c=1|newspaper=Times Higher Education|date=31 May 2012}}</ref> In 2013 the university was ranked 1st of Sweden in the International Student Barometer on international student satisfaction by the International Graduate Insight Group.<ref>{{cite news|title=Umeå University ranked 1st in International Student Satisfaction: results|url=http://www.umu.se/english/education/satisfied-students|date=22 February 2013|website=Umu.se|access-date=2016-02-06}}</ref> In 2014, the university was ranked 400th in the world for information and Computing Sciences Ranking.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.urapcenter.org/2014/infor.php?q=MS02MDA=#|title=URAP - University Ranking by Academic Performance|website=www.urapcenter.org|access-date=2017-12-07}}</ref> At the same time in 2014, the university was ranked between places 101–150 in the world for Life and Agriculture Sciences.<ref name="shanghairanking.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/World-University-Rankings/Umea-University.html|title=Umea University {{!}} Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2017 {{!}} Shanghai Ranking - 2017|website=www.shanghairanking.com|access-date=2017-12-07}}</ref> and between places 151–200 in the world for Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy.<ref name="shanghairanking.com"/>

=== International collaboration ===
The university is an active member of the [[University of the Arctic]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://www.uarctic.org/members/member-profiles/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=UArctic |language=en-US}}</ref> UArctic is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of more than 200 universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arctic region.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.uarctic.org/about-us/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=UArctic - University of the Arctic |language=en-US}}</ref>

The university also participates in UArctic's mobility program north2north. The aim of that program is to enable students of member institutions to study in different parts of the North.<ref>{{Cite web |title=north2north |url=https://www.uarctic.org/activities/north2north/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=UArctic - University of the Arctic |language=en-US}}</ref>