University of Lausanne
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Image:University of Lausanne.jpg The University of Lausanne (in French: Université de Lausanne) or UNIL in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. Today about 10,000 students and 2200 researchers study and work at the university. Approximately 1500 international students attend the university, which has a wide curriculum including exchange programs with several American universities.
The University of Lausanne is composed of 6 faculties (theology, law, arts, social and political science, economics and business administration, biology and medicine).
Together with the Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) the university forms a vast campus at the shores of Lake Geneva.
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Alumni
- Pascal Couchepin, Swiss Federal Councellor
- Bertrand Piccard, psychiatrist and balloonist
- Edmond Pidoux, Swiss poet and novelist
- Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands
- King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX) of Thailand
- Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, writer
- Benito Mussolini, Doctor Honoris Causa in 1937
- Mohammad Sa'ed, former Prime Minister of Iran
- Adel Nefzi, Ph.D in Organic Chemistry, Famous Lecturer at Univ. of California, San Diego
School of Lausanne
Neoclassical school of thought in economics founded at the University of Lausanne by two of its Professors: Léon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto. The "School of Lausanne" is associated with the development of general equilibrium theory as well as the marginalist revolution Marginalism.
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