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Umeå University

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Public university in Umeå, Sweden

Umeå University (Swedish: Umeå universitet; Ume Sami: Ubmejen universitiähta; Meänkieli: Uumaja ynivärsiteetti); is a public research university located in Umeå, in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders. As of 2015, Umeå University has over 36,000 registered students (approximately 16,000 full-time students), including those at the postgraduate and doctoral level.2 It is part of Ministry of Education and Research.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1965Founded1

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Umeå University Campus pond-2012-06-06
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Umeå University (Swedish: Umeå universitet; Ume Sami: Ubmejen universitiähta; Meänkieli: Uumaja ynivärsiteetti); is a public research university located in Umeå, in the mid-northern region of Sweden. The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders.2

Corporate structure

Umeå University sits at the top of its group. 4 entities, 1 country on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Umeå University Umeå
    • Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå Subsidiary · Sweden
    • Umeå Plant Science Centre Subsidiary · Umeå, Sweden
    • Umeå School of Architecture Subsidiary · Umeå Municipality, Sweden

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Leadership

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Research

Umeå University has research departments and education in a broad range of academic disciplines, with more than thirty university departments conducting most teaching and research. Since the 1990s there are also several research centers, mostly local but some in partnership with other Swedish universities, such as the neighbouring Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Luleå University of Technology.

The university is home to more than 2,000 researchers and teachers, many of them with international background. Important research areas include ageing and population studies, infections, and forest research.

Ageing and population studies have access to the new and unique Linnaeus database, which covers the entire Swedish population between 1960 and 2009. It links information from four existing databases, enabling researchers to find new connections between health, lifestyle and aging. The Demographic Data Base also gives access to extensive databases with population statistics from old Swedish parish records, dating back to the 18th century, and from 2012 a Department of Biobank Research, providing data management for research in large biological sample collections collected since the 1990.

The infection biology research focuses on microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, and their molecular infection mechanisms – microbial pathogenesis and virulence. Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), offer a qualified environment for the development of new strategies against infectious diseases. The centre also hosts The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), which is the Swedish's node in the Nordic EMBL Partnership for Molecular Medicine.

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The forest research includes plant and forest biotechnology within the Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC) – a collaborative effort between the Department of Plant Physiology at Umeå University and the Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and one of the strongest research environments for basic plant research in Europe, known for its research relating to the genome of the Populus tree and the Norway Spruce. The mapping of the spruce genome, in collaboration with the Swedish SciLifeLab, was the first complete sequencing of a gymnosperm and notable because it is seven times the size of the human genome, with some 20 billion base pairs.

Research centers

Research centers at Umeå University listed in alphabetical order:

Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University (Arcum)

Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics (CMTF)

Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR)

Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE)

Center for Regional Science at Umeå University (Cerum)

Centre for Teaching and Learning (UPL)

Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC)

Demographic Data Base (DDB)

Digital Social Research Unit (DIGSUM)

European CBRNE Centre

High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N)

Humlab

Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS)

Swedish Center for Digital Innovation (SCDI)

Transportation Research (Trum)

Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)

Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)

Umeå Centre for Global Health Research (CGH)

Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR)

Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine (UCMM)

Umeå Marine Sciences Center (UMF)

Umeå Mathematics Education Research Centre (UMERC)

Umeå Plant Science Center (UPSC)

Várdduo - Centre for Sámi Research

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

  • Ministry of Education and Research

Subsidiaries

  • Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå
  • Umeå Plant Science Centre
  • Umeå School of Architecture

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Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded Umeå teacher's school1

Timeline

  1. 1965Founded Founded1

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