University of Basel

Continente:: Europe
Country:: Switzerland
Address:: University of Basel, Petersplatz 1, P. O. Box 4001 Basel, Switzerland
Web Site:: www.unibas.ch

About University of Basel:

The University of Basel is located in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland’s oldest university and among the world's oldest surviving universities. The university is traditionally counted among the leading institutions of higher learning in the country. The associated Basel University Library is the largest and among the most important libraries in the whole of the country. 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 for biomedical research and the Institute for European Global Studies. In 2016, the University boasted 12,852 students and 377 professors. International students accounted for 24 percent of the student body. 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 nine Nobel prize winners and two Presidents of the Swiss Confederation.

World University Rankings

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
World University Rankings	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	135	151	154	150	168	164	170	181

By Fields

Field	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Agriculture	171	252	223	193	294	179	150	156	180	165	203	192	193	255	240	228	256
Engineering	238	242	-	-	-	-	249	248	-	301-350	351-400	351-400	451-500	-	-	-	-
Life Sciences	81	96	102	89	94	86	86	85	78	79	86	80	83	96	119	105	103
Medicine	111	103	128	113	106	96	101	101	101	103	110	120	107	132	134	120	114
Natural Sciences	137	152	132	200	203	216	214	215	240	267	273	301-350	301-350	301-350	401-450	301-350	301-350
Social Sciences	-	275	297	300	246	200	160	130	168	130	141	154	156	161	175	288	300

By Subjects

Subject	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Agricultural Sciences	-	294	-	-	-	-	351-400	351-400	351-400	401-450	-	451-500	401-450	-
Biology & Biochemistry	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	66	79	-	115	85	90
Chemistry	192	188	201	202	194	249	245	247	252	243	299	351-400	401-450	351-400
Chemical Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Civil Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	255	-	287
Clinical Medicine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	128	128	146	148	130	130
Computer Science	-	219	235	254	205	220	234	401-450	401-450	-	-	-	-	-
Economics & Business	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Electrical Engineering	280	-	-	-	-	-	401-450	401-450	401-450	451-500	-	-	-	-
Environment / Ecology	197	207	153	122	143	166	156	171	160	159	-	170	177	205
Geosciences	264	276	270	249	274	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Immunology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	40	64	-	78	76	67
Materials Science	209	243	232	261	279	-	301-350	301-350	301-350	301-350	451-500	451-500	451-500	451-500
Mathematics	-	-	-	-	-	300	306	301-350	351-400	301-350	351-400	-	-	451-500
Mechanical Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Microbiology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	84	93	-	-	-	137
Molecular Biology & Genetics	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	89	85	-	112	119	127
Neuroscience & Behavior	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	74	63	-	70	64	65
Pharmacology & Toxicolog	-	135	134	110	92	78	71	87	95	100	98	137	126	123
Physics	169	160	199	188	184	223	264	265	299	301-350	301-350	301-350	301-350	301-350
Plant & Animal Science	174	115	140	136	110	139	130	175	192	172	239	223	256	288
Psychiatry / Psychology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	103	88	-	118	131	121
Social Sciences, General	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	126	109	111	118	190	215
Space Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	285	-	-	-	-	-
Energy Science & Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Environmental Science & Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	266	-	286	297
Biomedical Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-