University of Bern

The University of Bern (, )<!--The English name is Bern--> is a university in the Swiss capital of Bern. It was founded in 1834. The university is regulated and financed by the Canton of Bern.

Reputation

The 2010 QS World University Rankings ranked the University of Bern as follows:

• 7th in Switzerland
• joint 162nd in the world

Its subject rankings were:

• 253rd in Natural Sciences
• 265th in Social Sciences

The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006 ranked the University of Bern as follows:

• 6th in Switzerland
• 57th–80th in Europe
• 151st–202nd in the world

Departments

At the moment, the University has an enrollment of roughly 13,000 students, studying in eight different faculties:

• Reformed denomination and Old Catholic denomination

The Philosophical-Historical Faculty is similar to the Arts & Sciences departments at American universities, with majors (Hauptfächer) in a variety of languages, history, linguistics, philosophy etc. The Philosophical-Scientific Faculty is restricted to the "hard" sciences, like chemistry or physics. The philosophic-Humanistic Faculty was founded 2005 and allows studies in Education, Sports and psychological studies. The department of Old Catholic Theology at the Faculty of Theology is the only place in the world to study theology in this kind of denomination.

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