This list of universities in Sweden is based on the Higher Education Ordinance of 1993 (as amended until January 2006). With few exceptions, all higher education in Sweden is publicly funded.
The Swedish higher education system differentiates between universitet and högskola (college or university college). The universities are research-oriented and may award bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees in all academic fields, whereas the högskolor usually are more focused on applied sciences, and only have limited rights granting doctor's degrees. Note, however, that some universites still call themselves högskola in Swedish, mainly older specialised institutions in engineering and medicine ( for instance Royal Institute of Technology is called "Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan"). Also, both proper universities and högskolor translate their official names to "university" in English, where in the later case "university college" would be more correct.
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The order of precedence is based on their year of establishment as a university. Only Uppsala University (est. 1477) and Lund University (est. 1666) were actually founded as universities, whereas all the other universities were raised from högskola (college) status to the higher university status after they had been founded.
A number of formerly Swedish universities are now located in other countries and are not included in this list, e.g. the University of Helsinki (1640, Finland), the University of Tartu (1632, Estonia), and the University of Greifswald (est. 1456, Germany, fief held by Sweden 1631–1806, Swedish 1806-1815).
| University | Established as a university | First establishment | Student population (FTE, 2009)[1] |
Research grants (2009, in billion SEK)[2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uppsala University | 1477 | 1477 | 20,450 | 3.265 |
| Lund University | 1666 | 1666 | 26,650 | 3.975 |
| University of Gothenburg | 1954 | 1891 | 24,900 | 2.999 |
| Stockholm University | 1960 | 1878 | 28,200 | 2.203 |
| Karolinska Institutet | 1965 | 1810 | 5,500 | 4.027 |
| Umeå University | 1965 | 1965 | 15,850 | 1.977 |
| Royal Institute of Technology | 1970 | 1827 | 11,950 | 2.033 |
| Linköping University | 1975 | 1969 | 17,200 | 1.516 |
| Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | 1977 | 1775 | 3,600 | 1.812 |
| Luleå University of Technology | 1997 | 1971 | 6,350 | 0.711 |
| Karlstad University | 1999 | 1977 | 7,750 | 0.303 |
| Örebro University | 1999 | 1977 | 8,600 | 0.342 |
| Mid Sweden University | 2005 | 1993 | 7,600 | 0.333 |
| Linnaeus University | 2010 | 1977 | 15,000 | -- |
A Högskola (university college) is an instutition of higher education, similar to a university but typically smaller. Unlike a full university, a högskola cannot award a doctoral degree (PhD) in all academic fields. The government may grant a högskola the right to award PhDs in a few specific fields. Most of them have agreement with other universities to conduct joint doctoral programs. Some of the public högskolor are:
| Högskola | Established (as högskola) |
|---|---|
| University of Borås | 1977 |
| Malmö University | 1998 |
| Dalarna University | 1977 |
| University West | 1990 |
| Halmstad University | 1983 |
| Mälardalen University | 1977 |
| Blekinge Institute of Technology | 1989 |
| Kristianstad University | 1977 |
| Skövde University | 1977 |
| Gävle University | 1977 |
| Gotland University | 1998 |
There are three private institutions of higher education with the right to give post graduate degrees, namely Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Stockholm School of Economics and Jönköping University Foundation.[3]
Ranking list according to the THE–QS World University Rankings:
| Institution | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers tekniska högskola) | 110 | 166 | 147 | 197 | 162 | 198 | 204 | - |
| University of Gothenburg (Göteborgs universitet) | - | 190 | - | - | - | 185 | 183 | - |
| Karolinska Institute (Karolinska Institutet) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | 32 |
| Lund University (Lunds universitet) | 171 | 180 | 122 | 106 | 88 | 67 | 72 | 80 |
| Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan) | 122 | 196 | 172 | 192 | 173 | 174 | 150 | 187 |
| Stockholm University (Stockholms universitet) | 139 | - | - | - | - | - | 129 | 131 |
| Uppsala University (Uppsala universitet) | 140 | 180 | 111 | 71 | 63 | 75 | 62 | 87 |
Ranking list according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities:
| University | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uppsala University | 59 | 74 | 74 | 65 | 66 | 71 | 76 | 66 | 67 |
| Lund University | 93 | 92 | 92 | 90 | 97 | 97 | - | - | - |
| University of Gothenburg | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Stockholm University | - | 97 | 97 | 84 | 86 | 86 | 88 | 79 | 81 |
| Karolinska Institute | 39 | 46 | 46 | 48 | 53 | 51 | 50 | 42 | 44 |
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