List of universities in sweden

University	Established as a university	First establishment	Student population (FTE, 2009)[1]	Research grants (2009, in billionSEK)[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	--

[edit]Public university colleges

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	1973
Mälardalen University	1977
Blekinge Institute of Technology	1989
Kristianstad University	1977
Skövde University	1977
Gävle University	1977
Gotland University	1998

[edit]Private universities and högskolor

There are three private institutions of higher education with the right to give post graduate degrees, namely Chalmers University of Technologyin Gothenburg, Stockholm School of Economics and Jönköping University Foundation.^[3]

[edit]Rankings

[edit]THE-QS

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

Institution	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers tekniska högskola)	110	166	147	197	162	198	204
University of Gothenburg (Göteborgs universitet)	NR	190	NR	NR	NR	185	183
Karolinska Institutet (Karolinska Institute)	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	43
Lund University (Lunds universitet)	171	180	122	106	88	67	72
Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan)	122	196	172	192	173	174	150
Stockholm University (Stockholms universitet)	139	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	129
Uppsala University (Uppsala universitet)	140	180	111	71	63	75	62

[edit]ARWU

Ranking list according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities:

University	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Uppsala University	59	74	74	65	66	71	76
Lund University	93	92	92	90	97	97
University of Gothenburg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Stockholm University		97	97	84	86	86	88
Karolinska Institutet	39	46	46	48	53	51	50