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   Sweden

   Country in Europe
2. Sweden is a Scandinavian nation of thousands of coastal islands, inland lakes, forests and mountains. Its principal cities, eastern capital Stockholm and southwestern Gothenburg and Malmö, are all on the sea. Stockholm is home to royal palaces, parkland and museums such as open-air Skansen. Its 13th-century old town, Gamla Stan, is set on islands joined by bridges and ferries.
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4. Capital: Stockholm
5. Dialing code: +46
6. Currency: Swedish krona
7. Population: 9.593 million (2013) World Bank
8. King: Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
9. Official language: Swedish
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11. 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 asuniversities, 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)[3]	Research grants (2013, in billion SEK)[4]
    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 cannot award a doctoral degree (PhD) in all academic fields. However, the Swedish government has granted the right to some högskola to award PhDs in several specific fields. Most of them also have agreement with other 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.^[5]

    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).^[6]

     

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