Founded in 1559 by Jean Calvin, the University of Geneva (UNIGE) is dedicated to thinking, teaching, dialogue and research. With 16’500 students of more than 150 different nationalities, it is Switzerland’s second largest university.
UNIGE offers UNIGE offers more than 500 programmes (including 129 Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes, 80 doctoral programmes) and more than 300 continuing education programmes covering an extremely wide variety of fields: exact sciences, medicine, humanities, social sciences, law, etc. Its domains of excellence in research include life sciences (molecular biology, bio-informatics), physics of elementary particles, and astrophysics. UNIGE is also host and co-host to seven National Centres of Competence in Research: Frontiers in Genetics, MaNEP, PlanetS, SwissMap, Chemical Biology, Synaptic Bases of Mental Diseases and LIVES-Overcoming vulnerabilities in a life course perspective.
Just like the city of Geneva itself, the university enjoys a strong international reputation, both for the quality of its research (it ranks among the top institutions among the League of European Research Universities) and the excellence of its education. This acclaim has been won in part due to its strong ties to many national and international Geneva-based organizations, such as the World Health Organization, the International Telecommunications Union, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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I'm doing my year abroad here studying translation and overall the quality of teaching is very impressive, however they don't seem to be overly considerate of their students when it comes to term dates. For example, the Autumn term finished on 23rd December, meaning that a lot of people chose to stay in Switzerland rather than go home for Christmas as it was too far to travel so close to the big day. Then, they placed the exam period separate to the semester, so that students must fly back to Geneva for 10 days before having a month off before the start of spring term - making their year abroad incredibly expensive! For an institution with such a high number of international students, Unige is far from considerate.
By Imogen Sharpe (Jul, 2017) |
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Little number of interesting courses, very much focused on swiss system, english courses full of other international students who had a very hard time with english, living costs are really expensive and it is extremely hard to find a room in geneva.
By Jefri Tamba (May, 2018) |