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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
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Enjoy your stay at Stockholm University!