List of universities in Sweden

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This list of Swedish universities and university colleges is based on the Higher Education Ordinance of 1993 (as amended until January 2006). All higher education in Sweden is publicly funded, but the listing also include the officially recognized independent higher education institutions that operate under contract with the Swedish Ministry of Education, Research and Culture. Independent programme providers are not included.

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[edit] University or University College?

Main article: Education in Sweden#University

University colleges or högskola conduct important research, but their main operations are within education. This includes the awarding of the Swedish version of the Bachelor's and Master's degrees, as well as the corresponding professional degrees.

Upon application to the Government and following recommendation by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, a university college may, however, be vested with a particular academic discipline (vetenskapsområde). This includes increased state funding for research (fakultetsanslag) as well as the right to offer postgraduate programmes in the specific field, including the awarding of PhD degrees.

University qualities are not defined in law or ordinance, but have traditionally included the existence of at least four faculties, considerable undergraduate education as well as an important research activity and quaternary education. Lately, this has changed, as three university colleges were given the name of university in 1999 together with a fourth college in 2005.

[edit] Universities

In order of precedence, based on their creation as universities. The year they received status as university is shown in brackets. However all universities, except those in Uppsala and Lund, were founded as university colleges.

Independent Institutions

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences was formed during the Higher Education Reform of 1977, thus meriting a more prominent position amongst its peers. However, because it sorts under the Ministry of Agriculture, it is traditionally placed last in the list. As independent institutions are not mentioned in the Higher Education Ordinance, they take no particular place in the university order of precedence. It is worth mentioning that the order of precedence does not correspond to academic ranking of the institutions, to which both Chalmers University of Technology and the Stockholm School of Economics bear excellent testimony.

[edit] University Colleges Awarding PhD degrees

Lacking an official order of presedence, University Colleges are given in alphabetical order.

[edit] University Colleges Awarding Bachelor's and Master's degrees

Lacking an official order of presedence, University Colleges are given in alphabetical order.

University West is relocating all its activities to Trollhättan. The process will be concluded by 2008.

[edit] Academies of the Arts

The Academies of the Arts are university colleges awarding undergraduate degrees, but conduct research and development in the arts. Lacking an official order of presedence, the Academies are given in alphabetical order.

The universities of Karlstad, Luleå and Örebro and the university college of Malmö have their own Music Academies. Five academies of great public recognition but without legal status of their own are found at Göteborg University, where the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts is in charge of the Valand School of Fine Arts, the School of Design and Crafts, the School of Theatre and Opera, the School of Music and Musicology and the School of Photography and Film. Certain other universities and university colleges also offer individual courses and/or programmes within the Arts sector.

[edit] Medical Schools and University Hospitals

Medical schools are found at six universities. Medical schools are often organized in the same faculties as nursing schools, physiotherapy and other health related professional training programmes.

Örebro University has no faculty of medicine of its own, but Örebro University Hospital is in the process of building a research and education structure.

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