Malmö University College

Malmö University College
Malmö högskola
Established 1998
Type Public
Rector Stefan Bengtsson
Admin. staff 1,394 total (including non-scientific)
Students 11,815 (FTE, 2008)[1]
Doctoral students 200
Location Malmö, Scania, Sweden
Campus Urban
Website http://www.mah.se/english
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Malmö University College (Swedish: Malmö högskola) is a university college (högskola, separate from the Swedish definition of "university") located in Malmö, Sweden.[2] Malmö University College was founded in 1998, and it is Sweden’s ninth largest undergraduate-graduate level academic institution.

Located in the centre of Malmö at Universitetsholmen, the university college has played a central role in the transformation of Malmö from an industrial to a university town.[3] A large part of the campus was constructed on grounds which, up to the mid-1980s, belonged to the Kockums shipyard, which had been a key element of naval-industrial Malmö.

Malmö University College has four school and faculty areas, all of which are multi-disciplinary.

It has about 23,900 students.

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Quality of education

In 2007, by government initiative, the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education employed an international expert committee to find and award the top five highest quality education areas among all universities and colleges in Sweden. The Dental School at Malmö University College was awarded one of these distinctions ("Centre of Excellence in Higher Education"). The other awards went to Linköping University (Medicine and Control Theory/Vehicle Engineering), Royal Institute of Technology (Vehicle Engineering), and Umeå University (History). Malmö University College is thus the only högskola in southern Sweden that has a centre of excellence in higher education.[4]

Research Centres

Malmö university has six research centres.

References

  1. ^ Swedish Higher Education Authority (Högskoleverket) - statistics for 2009 (Swedish), page 118
  2. ^ Swedish National Agency for Higher Education: List of higher education institutions, accessed 2010-07-24
  3. ^ Malmö en värsting på kris och förnyelse, Sydsvenskan 2009-04-11 (Swedish)
  4. ^ Swedish National Agency for Higher Education - Awarded Centres of Excellent Quality in Higher Education 2007

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