The University of Zurich (UZH, German: Universität Zürich) is a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with approximately 28,700 enrolled students. UZH was founded in 1833, from the merger of the existing colleges of theology, law, medicine that were founded 1525 with a new faculty of philosophy.
The university has seven schools: Philosophy, Human Medicine, Economic Sciences, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Theology and Veterinary Medicine; it offers the widest range of subjects and courses of any Swiss higher education institution.
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