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) and Lund University (est. 1666) 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.

University	Established as a university	First establishment	Student population (FTE, 2013)	Research grants (2013, in billion SEK)
Uppsala University	1477	1477	18,347	4.112
Lund University	1666	1425	23,539	4.874
University of Gothenburg	1954	1891	21,121	3.446
Stockholm University	1960	1878	22,434	2.633
Karolinska Institutet	1965	1810	5,641	4.805
Umeå University	1965	1965	13,389	2.336
Royal Institute of Technology	1970	1827	10,544	2.836
Linköping University	1975	1969	15,252	1.892
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	1977	1775	3,515	2.083
Luleå University of Technology	1997	1971	6,509	0.857
Karlstad University	1999	1977	6,717	0.341
Örebro University	1999	1977	7,581	0.364
Mid Sweden University	2005	1993	5,946	0.371
Linnaeus University	2010	1977	11,663	0.435

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:

Högskola	Established (as högskola)
University of Borås	1977
Malmö University College	1998
Dalarna University College	1977
University College West	1990
Halmstad University	1983
Mälardalen University College	1977
Blekinge Institute of Technology	1989
Kristianstad University College	1977
University of Skövde	1977
Swedish National Defence College	2008
Stockholm University of the Arts	2014
Södertörn University	1996
Royal College of Music, Stockholm	1771
Royal Institute of Art	1735
University College of Arts, Crafts and Design	1844
Gävle University College	1977

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.

Rankings

THE-QS

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

Institution	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers tekniska högskola)	110	166	147	197	162	198	-	202	223	202
University of Gothenburg (Göteborgs universitet)	-	190	-	-	258	185	-	184	193	205
Linköping University (Linköpings universitet)	-	-	-	371	-	-	-	-	340	331
Lund University (Lunds universitet)	171	180	122	106	88	67	-	86	71	67
Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan)	122	196	172	192	173	174	-	180	142	118
Stockholm University (Stockholms universitet)	139	-	-	246	239	215	-	178	171	170
Uppsala University (Uppsala universitet)	140	180	111	71	63	75	-	83	81	79
Umeå University (Umeå universitet)	-	-	-	-	299	318	-	273	297	289

ARWU

Ranking list according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities:

University	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Uppsala University	59	74	74	65	66	71	76	66	67	73	73	60
Lund University	93	92	92	90	97	97	101	104	109	114	112	125
University of Gothenburg	156	201	190	206	228	242	257	212	203	196	195	163
Stockholm University	-	97	97	84	86	86	88	79	81	81	82	78
Karolinska Institute	39	46	46	48	53	51	50	42	44	42	44	47
Umeå University	-	248	252	253	256	256	252	249	247	274	289	298

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).

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

External links

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