Affiliation : State University    Date of establishment : 1477    Tel : 0046184712252    Email : info@lingfil.uu.se    More : ppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Sweden and all of the Nordic countries, founded in 1477.[4] However not the first one, as Academy of Lund opened already in 1425.[5][6] It ranks among the world's 100 best universities in several high-profile international rankings.[7] The university uses "Gratiae veritas naturae" as its motto and embraces natural sciences.Uppsala belongs to the Coimbra Group of European universities and to the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities.[3] The university has nine faculties distributed over three "disciplinary domains". It has about 44,000 registered students and 2,300 doctoral students.[1] It has a teaching staff of roughly 1,800 (part-time and full-time) out of a total of 6,900 employees.[1]