Organization
The University is composed of eight faculties:
- Faculty of Sciences
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, including Business (HEC Geneva)
- Faculty of Law (Geneva Law School)
- Faculty of Protestant Theology
- Faculty of Psychology and Education
- School of Translation and Interpretation
The university has also developed a continuing education programme.
The university has a partnership with the nearby Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the Bossey Ecumenical Institute, and students at the university may take courses at these institutes.
Inter-faculty centers:
- Art-Law Centre
- Institute for Reformation History (the Reformation)
- Computer Science Department (computer science)
- University Centre for Study of Energy Problems (energy policy)
- The European Institute of the University of Geneva (European studies, European integration)
- Interfaculty Center of Gerontology (gerontology)
- Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (affective science)
- Center for Environmental Studies
- Geneva Finance Research Institute
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