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Stockholm University Presentation

Ronald T. Nordqvist

Beauty on water

26/08/2011

Stockholm University

The vision for Stockholm University is that by 2015

the majority of our teaching and research

programmes will be nationally outstanding and

internationally prominent.

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Campus Frescati

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Organization

• 4 faculties - Humanities, Law, Sciences

and Social Sciences

• 74 departments and research centres

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Organisation

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Undergraduate Education

Student body statistics:

more than 50,000

• 64% women

36% men

• 38% under 25 years

of age

Number of graduates

2009: 4499

Students per subject area:

31% – Social Sciences

22% – Humanities

11% – Law

11% – Science

11% - Teacher Training

5% – Technology

2% – Health Care

1% – Medicine

6% – Others

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Postgraduate Studies

• Active postgraduate students: 1,800

• 64% women, 36% men

• Number of public PhD dissertations 2009: 236

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Personnel

Faculty and employees: more than 6,300

(excl. 1,800 part-time lecturers)

• Professors: 10% (27% women)

• Lecturers: 14% (48% women)

• Junior lecturers: 8% (66% women)

• Postdoctoral fellows: 3% (47% women)

• Part-time lecturers: 1%

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Nobel Laureates

Four researchers at Stockholm University have received the Nobel Prize in

Chemistry.

• Svante Arrhenius, 1903

• Hans von Euler-Chelpin, 1929

• George de Hevesy, 1943

• Paul Crutzen, 1995

• In 1974, Gunnar Myrdal received the Sveriges Riksbanks Prize in

Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

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• Circa 80 Master's Programmes in English

• 200 educational programmes and 1,900

individual courses

• All courses and programmes designed according

to the Bologna Process

• Tuition fees will be introduced 2011

Undergraduate studies

and Master’s programmes

Fifteen research areas, each nationally-leading and having a high

international status, have been specially chosen to profile the University

• The molecular biology of the genome

• Astrophysics and particle physics

• Biomembranes

• Climate and environment

• Quantitative biomodelling: molecules to populations

• Material chemistry and organic chemistry

• Bilingualism and second language acquisition

• Archaeology and history

• Cinema studies

• Philosophy and linguistics

• Commercial law, intellectual property and law and informatics

• Political economics

• Economic, health and social inequality

• Transnational anthropology

• Cognitive and social aspects of aging

Images of Sweden?

Myths about Sweden?

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Real people of Sweden!

?

Many things are the same…

…a party is a party…

…a student room is a student room.

A long, dark winter…

With many highlights!

Swedish summer 1

Swedish summer 2

26/08/2011 / Ronald T. Nordqvist, International Exchange Unit

Enjoy your stay at Stockholm University!