This list of universities and colleges 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 listing includes the officially recognised independent higher education institutions that operate under contract with the Swedish Ministry of Education, Research and Culture. Independent programme providers are not included.

State universities

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. The term "university" is still not used in the name of some of the older specialised institutions in engeering and medicine, but they hold university status in the government lists.

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, Swedishfrom 1631–1815).

University	Established as a university	First establishment	Student population (FTE, 2008)[1]	Research grants (2007, in million SEK)[2]
Uppsala University	1477	1477	19,900	2,889
Lund University	1666	1666	24,600	3,403
University of Gothenburg	1954	1891	24,100	2,512
Stockholm University	1960	1878	22,400	1,844
Karolinska Institutet	1965	1810	5,500	3,243
Umeå University	1965	1965	15,600	1,626
Royal Institute of Technology	1970	1827	11,700	1,785
Linköping University	1975	1969	16,900	1,259
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	1977	1775	3,600	1,669
Luleå University of Technology	1997	1971	6,600	628
Karlstad University	1999	1977	7,600	279
Örebro University	1999	1977	8,300	271
Mid Sweden University	2005	1993	6,900	264
Linnaeus University	2010	1977	15,000	--

Independent institutions

There are three independent institutions of higher education with the right to award postgraduate degrees, namely Chalmers University of Technology, Stockholm School of Economics and Jönköping University Foundation. ^[3]

Chalmers University of Technology was founded in 1829 in Gothenburg.

Colleges

The translation into English by the Swedes is often "university college". University colleges (Swedish: högskola) have degree awarding powers at the first cycle (University diplomas and Bachelors' degrees) and the second cycle (One-year Masters' degrees). Further, they can apply to the Swedish National Agency of Higher Education for the entitlement to award two-year Masters' degrees and doctoral degrees in a domain containing one or more disciplines. ^[4]

Some former colleges have been raised to university status in the past by the Swedish government and are now listed above. In general, the older universities have a higher share of direct government research funding than the younger universities and the university colleges. Thus, the difference between universities and university colleges are not always substantial. From 2009, both the universities and the university colleges (including the three independent institutions above) are subject to performance based allocation of direct government research funding.

Some of the colleges listed here offer courses only in a certain academic discipline such as business or music, and hence do not cover the whole spectrum of academia.

Awarding doctoral degrees

Awarding Bachelor's and Master's degrees

Art Colleges

The art colleges are usually a relatively independent part of a university. They award undergraduate degrees, but also conduct research and development in the arts.

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 the University of Gothenburg, 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.

Medical schools and university hospitals

There are six medical schools in Sweden, each associated with a university and a university hospital. Often, their division (faculty) of the respective university also includes a nursing school, physiotherapy and/or 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 institute.

International rankings

[THE–QS World University Rankings

Ranking list according to the THE–QS World University Rankings:

Institution	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
University of Lund (Lunds Universitet)	171	180	122	106	88	67
University of Uppsala (Uppsala Universitet)	140	180	111	71	63	75
Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan)	122	196	172	192	173	174
University of Gothenburg (Göteborgs Universitet)	NR	190	NR	NR	NR	185
Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers Tekniska Högskola)	110	166	147	197	162	198
University of Stockholm (Stockholms Universitet)	139	dDdD|NR	NR	NR	NRdDd

See also

• Swedish National Board of Student Aid
• Swedish Research Council
• Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test
• Government agencies in Sweden

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