The University of Borås (UB), or Högskolan i Borås, is a Swedish

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in the city of

Borås Borås ( , , ) is a city (officially, a locality) and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 66,273 inhabitants in 2010. Geography Borås is located at the point of two crossing railways, among them th ...

. It was founded in 1977 and has around 18,300 students and 803 staff. The Swedish School of Library and Information Science and Swedish School of Textiles are part of the university.

Description

Faculties and location

The University of Borås is a modern university located in the centre of the city. UB has 18,300 students and 803 employees As of 1 January 2021 the university is organised within four faculties: Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business, Faculty of Caring Science, Work Life and Social Welfare, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT and Faculty of Police Work. The university offers courses and study programmes within the areas of: Library and Information Science (at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science), Business and Informatics, Fashion and Textile Studies, Behavioural and Education Sciences, Engineering and Health Sciences, Police Work. Research is organised in six areas: Business and IT, The Human Perspective in Care, Library and Information Science, Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery, Teacher Education and Education Work and Textiles and Fashion (design and general). The university is entitled to award

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s within three of these areas; Library and Information Science, Resource Recovery, The Human Perspective in Care and Textiles and Fashion (design and general). The University of Borås is a member of the

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History

The University of Borås was founded through the Swedish Higher Education reform of 1977. At that time, two educational programmes were already in place: The preschool seminar (based 1966) and the Librarian College (established 1972).

Timeline

*1866 Technical School of Weaving (''Väfskolan'') is founded *1936 Technical School of Weaving becomes the Textile Institute *1940 West Sweden's College of Nursing is formed *1966 The Preschool Teacher Seminary (Förskollärarseminariet) is founded in Borås *1970 University courses from Gothenburg University are relocated to Borås *1972 The Swedish School of Library and Information Science (''Bibliotekshögskolan'') is established in Borås *1977 University of Borås is founded. *1980 Business and IT courses begin *1982 The Textile Institute is nationalised and becomes The Swedish School of Textiles *1989 Engineering programme begins *1991 The municipal hand weaving training becomes a part of the university *1995 The university is authorised to confer one-year master's degrees *1996 Professorship in Library and Information Science is established *1999 The regional College of Nursing (''Vårdhögskolan'') becomes a school at the University of Borås *2000 First Professorial Inauguration *2004 The university's new library opens *2007 The university is authorised to provide master-level education *2010 The university is authorised to provide research-level education in Library and Information Science, Resource Recovery and Textiles and Fashion (design and general) *2011 The university is certified to ISO 14001 *2013 The Swedish School of Textiles moves to the new Textile Fashion Centre *2014 The first Conferment of Doctoral Degrees *2014 Reorganization consisting of a change from six departments (schools) to three faculties: Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business, Faculty of Caring Science, Work Life and Social Welfare and Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT *2015 The university has a full range of Master's programmes *2016 The university is authorised to provide research-level education in The Human Perspective in Care *2021 The university establishes the Faulty of Police Work

Faculties

*Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business *Faculty of Caring Science, Work Life and Social Welfare *Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT *Faculty of Police Work

Vice-Chancellor

*Ulf Dittmer 1977-1977 *Nils-Bertil Faxén 1977-1989 *Anders Fransson 1989-2001 *Said Irandoust 2001-2005 *Lena Nordholm 2006-2011 *Björn Brorström 2011-2018 *Mats Tinnsten 2019-

References

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