Qiaoying Zhang

University of Tartu

- The largest and most comprehensive university in Estonia and one of the top universities in Northern Europe - The oldest university in Estonia: founded in 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden - Belongs to the top 1.2% of world's best universities by ranking (300th in the QS World University Rankings 2022 and within the 250–300 range in the THE World University Rankings 2021) - 4 faculties - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Science and Technology - 30 bachelor's and master's programmes in English, 1 master's programme in Russian and international PhD programmes; - 14,000 students, 13% international students - Belongs to the top 1% of the world's most-cited universities and research institutions in the fields of Clinical Medicine, Chemistry, Environment/Ecology, Plant and Animal Science, Geosciences, Social Sciences (general), Biology and Biochemistry and Engineering (ISI Web of Science) - Nobel Prize in 1909 (Wilhelm Ostwald, founder of Physical Chemistry)