Lund University was founded in 1666 and inaugurated on 28 January 1668. It describes itself as a public authority that works on behalf of the Swedish Government. It has four campuses in southern Sweden, in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö and at Ljungbyhed, home of the Lund University School of Aviation. Erik Renström is Vice-Chancellor for the term from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2026.
The university has nine faculties plus interdisciplinary research institutes and centres. Its facts and figures page, giving rounded 2025 figures, lists 46,000 students (31,000 full-time equivalents), 2,700 research students and 8,500 employees, among them 720 professors. Revenue was SEK 11.2 billion in 2025, half of it direct government funding.