University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen
motto	Initium sapientiae timor domini
founding	1495 ( King's College ), 1593 ( Marischal College ), 1860 Union
Sponsorship	state
place	Aberdeen , UK
Pro-Chancellor	Very Reverend Professor Iain Torrance KCVO Kt FRSE
Students	13,900 (2009)
Employee	over 3,000 (2009)
Website	www.abdn.ac.uk

King's College

Elphinstone Hall

Marischal College

Newer additions to King's College

Inside King's College Quadrangle : View of King's College Chapel

The University of Aberdeen ( English University of Aberdeen , Latin Universitas Aberdonensis ) is a public university in Aberdeen , the third largest city in the British part of Scotland . It has around 14,000 students and offers over 550 Bachelor and 110 Master’s courses. HRH The Duchess of Rothesay is the Chancellor .

In THE World University Ranking, the university was ranked 129th and the most recent RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) rated 89% of research in Aberdeen as of international quality and 55% as world leaders or international excellence . Five Nobel Prize winners taught and researched at Aberdeen University.

Faculties

• College of Arts and Social Sciences
  • School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
  • School of Education
  • School of Language & Literature
  • School of Law
  • School of Social Science
  • University of Aberdeen Business School
• College of Life Sciences and Medicine
  • School of Biological Sciences
  • School of Medical Sciences
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Psychology
  • Graduate school
• College of Physical Sciences
  • School of Engineering and Physical Sciences
  • School of Geosciences
  • Graduate school

history

The university was founded in 1495, making it the third oldest (after St Andrews 1413 and Glasgow 1451) in Scotland and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom. King's College was founded in 1495 by the Bishop of Aberdeen William Elphinstone at the behest of King James IV . The university was founded shortly afterwards by a papal bull by Pope Alexander VI. approved. The original university building was near St Machar's Cathedral and was initially called St. Mary's College . After the Reformation, the college was converted into a Protestant school. However, the resistance to the new teaching turned out to be tough, so that without further ado , a new Protestant university, Marischal College , was founded by George Keith, 4th Earl Marischal , who was a follower of the Reformation teachings of Petrus Ramus . Possibly this new foundation also happened out of rivalry with Sir Alexander Fraser, who had also founded a college in nearby Fraserburgh . In the centuries to come, the relationship between the two colleges was marked by rivalry. Both colleges supported the Jacobite uprising in 1715 and therefore lost considerable influence and support after its suppression. The two colleges were finally united by law on September 15, 1860 by the Universities (Scotland) Act to form the University of Aberdeen. The year King's College was founded in 1495 as the official year of establishment . Today the university is one of the leading universities in Great Britain. According to the official research ranking of the British government, ten departments received the highest possible rating, and 19 the second highest rating. The Independent counts the University of Aberdeen among the leading universities in Great Britain in the fields of finance, law, medicine and tourism.

Personalities and alumni

• Thomas Reid (1710–1796), Scottish philosopher
• James Legge (1815-1897), British sinologist
• John James Richard Macleod (1876–1935), Scottish-Canadian physiologist and Nobel Prize winner (medicine 1923)
• Frederick Soddy (1877-1956), British chemist and Nobel Prize winner (chemistry 1921)
• John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr (1880–1971), Nobel Peace Prize 1949
• George Paget Thomson (1892–1975), Nobel Prize in Physics 1937
• Hans Walter Kosterlitz (1903–1996), German-British pharmacologist
• Margaret Jope (1913-2004), British biochemist
• Richard LM Synge (1914–1994), British chemist and Nobel Prize winner (chemistry 1952)
• Kenneth McKellar (1927-2010), Scottish singer
• Alistair Darling (* 1953), Chancellor of the Exchequer and Treasury Secretary under Gordon Brown
• Derek Rae (* 1967), Scottish television presenter
• Alex Kapranos (* 1972), British musician
• Joanne K. Rowling (* 1965), British writer
• Philipp Franz Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg (* 1973), German-Austrian farmer and forester, President of the Action Alliance Forum Nature (AFN)
• Anne, Princess Royal (* 1950), Princess Royal of the United Kingdom

Partner universities

Germany

• Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
• Christian Albrechts University Kiel
• Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
• Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• Georg-August-University Goettingen
• University of Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
• Stuttgart University of Technology
• Philipps University of Marburg
• University of Bonn
• RWTH Aachen
• University of Cologne
• University of Regensburg
• University of Konstanz

Canada

• Queen's University, Ontario
• University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• University of Calgary, Alberta
• University of Guelph, Ontario

United States of America

• Clemson University , SC
• Haverford College , PA
• University of Illinois , IL
• University of New Mexico , NM
• University of Oklahoma , OK
• University of Oregon , OR
• Rhodes College , TN
• St. Olaf College , MN
• University of Washington , Seattle, WA

See also

• List of universities in Scotland

Web links

Commons : University of Aberdeen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• University of Aberdeen Business School

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Latin : "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom"
2. ↑ https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/strategy-and-governance/prochancellor-118.php
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ http://www.abdn.ac.uk/central/univ.shtml
5. ↑ https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/strategy-and-governance/chancellor-117.php
6. ^ Nobel Prizes , University website, accessed April 27, 2015
7. ↑ Law text of the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858
8. ↑ http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Featured_institutions/Profile_display/p!epmikfF?mode=View&profileNo=1  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/table-top-universities-for-professions-813758.html
10. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-51105119
11. ↑ http://www.abdn.ac.uk/erasmus/outgoing-students/department-links/
12. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 57 ° 9 ′ 54 ″  N , 2 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  W.