University of Tartu

- The largest and most comprehensive university in Estonia and one of the most respectable centres of education and research in Central and Eastern Europe - The oldest university in Estonia: founded in 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden - Belongs to the top 1.2% of world's best universities by ranking (321th in the QS World University Rankings 2018 and within the 301–350 range in the THE World University Rankings 2018); - Placed 5th in the QS University Rankings: Emerging Europe and Central Asia (QS University Rankings: EECA); - 4 faculties - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty Science and Technology; - 27 bachelor's and master's programmes in English and more than 30 international PhD programmes; - 13,000 students (including 1800 international students from 105 countries); - Belongs to the top 1% of the world's most-cited universities and research institutions in the fields of Clinical Medicine, Chemistry, Environment/Ecology, Plant and Animal Science, Geosciences, Social Sciences (general), Biology and Biochemistry and Engineering (ISI Web of Science); - Nobel Prize in 1909 (Wilhelm Ostwald, founder of Physical Chemistry);