List of universities in Sweden

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 (university and university college respectively). 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 universities 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 latter case "university college" would be more correct.

Public universities

The order of precedence is based on their year of establishment as a university. Only Uppsala University (est. 1477^[1]) and Lund University (est. 1666^[2]) were actually founded as universities, whereas all the other universities were raised from högskola (university college) status to the higher university status after they had been founded.

Two universities founded under Swedish rule, the University of Tartu from 1632 (now in Estonia) and the Royal Academy of Turku from 1640 (later established as University of Helsinki, now in Finland), as well as the University of Greifswald from 1456 (now in Germany but a fief held by Sweden 1631–1806, Swedish 1806-1815), are excluded from the list.

Public university colleges

A Högskola (= university college or college in English) is an institution of higher education, similar to a university but typically smaller. Unlike a full university, a högskola has limitations in awarding doctoral degrees (PhD). The Swedish government has granted the right to some högskola to award PhDs in some specific fields. Most of the 'högskola' have agreements with bigger universities to conduct joint doctoral programs. The public 'högskola' are:

Gotland University College (1998 - 2013) was a "högskola" that has now merged with Uppsala university, becoming the Gotland campus of Uppsala university.

Private universities and högskolor

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.^[5]

Rankings

THE-QS

Ranking list according to the THE–QS World University Rankings (with the highest ranked for that year marked in blue):

ARWU

Ranking list according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities:

In relation to their population size, Switzerland (first) and Sweden (second) are the two countries with the highest number of universities among the 100 best of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (2014-2015).^[6]

See also

• Education in Sweden
• Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, Swedish National Board of Student Aid
• Swedish Research Council
• Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test
• List of universities and colleges by country

Notes and references

External links

• Swedish National Agency for Higher Education
• Study in Sweden
• Programme and course portal for Swedish universities & colleges

Universities in Sweden Public Uppsala Lund Gothenburg Stockholm Umeå Linköping Karolinska Institutet Royal Institute of Technology Luleå Karlstad Linnaeus University Örebro Mid Sweden Swedish National Defence College Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Private Chalmers Stockholm School of Economics Jönköping