University of Lausanne facts for kids

The University of Lausanne is a university in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. Today about 12,000 students and 2200 researchers study and work at the university. Approximately 1500 international students attend the university.

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The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne form a large campus near the lake Geneva.
The Palais de Rumine, one of the former buildings of the University of Lausanne
The Extranef building.
The Édouard Fleuret Library pavilion.
The Génopode building of the University of Lausanne hosts the Center for Integrative Genomics of the University of Lausanne and the central administration of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
The Anthropole building.
Unithèque building houses one of the two sites of the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne on the main campus of the UNIL
The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, on the campus of the University of Lausanne.
The Géopolis building: Faculty of Geosciences and Environment and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Bugnon 21, headquarters of the University Hospital of Lausanne and of the deanship of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine.
The Center for Immunology and Infection Lausanne (CIIL), UNIL-CHUV, in Épalinges (2007).