University of Neuchâtel

The University of Neuchâtel, known as UniNE, is a French-speaking public research university in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It superseded the Academy created in 1838, which awarded licentiate degrees in arts and sciences; the Grand Council decreed the closing of that academy in 1848, a new academy was established in 1866, and it was finally renamed in 1909. The university has four faculties and more than a dozen institutes, with the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, at about 2,000 students, the largest. It teaches in French and in English, enrols roughly 4,000 students including about 600 doctoral students, and since 2005 follows the Bologna Process three-tier degree system.