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The university is organised into eight academic faculties. Collaboration across faculty and subject boundaries is emphasised in the university's research and education strategies. All faculties takes advantage of this possibility and are active participants in a multitude of cross-disciplinary research and education activities within the framework of the university. The university closely cooperates with Chalmers University of Technology, a fact that further increases the total scope of the academic environment in Gothenburg.

The Artistic Faculty (Konstnärliga fakulteten) offers courses in the fields of design and crafts, film studies, photography, scene, music and fine arts.

The Faculty of Education (Utbildningsvetenskapliga fakulteten) is responsible for teacher training in various subjects.

The Faculty of Humanities (Humanistiska fakulteten) comprises the humanities, for instance cultural studies, history, literature, history of ideas, religion, archeology, modern languages, philosophy, linguistics, theory of science and Swedish language and literature.

The IT Faculty (IT fakulteten) offers programmes in applied information technology, computer science and engineering.

The Faculty of Natural Sciences (Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten) covers a number of science disciplines such as botany, cell and molecular biology, physics, earth sciences, chemistry, conservation, marine ecology, mathematics, environmental science, and zoology.

The Sahlgrenska Academy (Sahlgrenska Akademin) is the faculty of medicine at the University of Gothenburg. Research and education in medicine, odontology and health and care sciences.

The School of Business, Economics and Law (Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet) is a business school and a law school.

The Faculty of Social Sciences (Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten) offers courses in peace and development studies, public administration, journalism, psychology, social anthropology, social work, sociology, political science, and European studies.

Alumni

Sture Allén, computer linguist, former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy

Jens Allwood, linguist

Muhammad al-Yaqoubi, Syrian Islamic scholar

Dilruba Z. Ara, writer

Percy Barnevik, industry leader, former CEO of Asea Brown Boveri

Nick Bostrom, philosopher and futurist, and Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University

Malin Byström, operatic soprano

Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Prize laureate in Medicine, 2000

Magnus Carlsson, singer

Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher

Fredy Clue, artist and musician

Adam Cwejman (born 1985), politician

Östen Dahl, linguist (member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and Academia Europaea)

Åke Edwardson, author (used to teach journalism)

Jan Eliasson, diplomat and politician (former President of the United Nations General Assembly, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden)

Carl Henrik Fredriksson, literary critic, columnist, essayist, and translator

José González, singer

Hans Hagnell, politician

Gunnar D Hansson, author

Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), political economist and economic historian, professor at the Stockholm School of Economics

Heiða Björg Hilmisdóttir, Icelandic politician

Tore Janson, linguist.

Ann-Sofie Johansson, Creative Advisor and former Head of Design for H&M

Jonas Jonasson, author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

Bernhard Karlgren, sinologist

Nils Kock, developer of the Kock pouch surgical procedure

Juri Kurol, orthodontist

Erik Lönnroth, historian (Member of the Swedish Academy)

Lotta Lotass, writer and literary scholar (former Member of the Swedish Academy)

Cecilia Malmström, former European Commissioner

Aleksandra Mir, Swedish-American visual artist

Njuguna Ndungu, economist, Governor and chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Kenya

Leif Pagrotsky (born 1951), politician, economist, and diplomat

Bo Ralph, linguist (Member of the Swedish Academy)

Bo Rothstein, political scientist

Susanna Roxman, Anglophone poet and critic

Ferdinando Sardella (born 1960), scholar of the history of religions

Gudrun Slettengren-Fernholm, artist

Elisabeth Söderberg (née Weixlgärtner; 1912–1991), Austrian-born Swedish painter, textile artist, and art teacher

Anna Wåhlin, Antarctic researcher, oceanographer

Martin Wallström, actor

Maria Wetterstrand, politician (Green Party)

Agnes Wold, professor of clinical bacteriology

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