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Education
Teaching for society, through
excellence and innovation
Structure of education
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A great deal of options
• Architecture and 15 Master of Science in Engineering
• Master in Engineering and of Education, with three
possible specialisations
• 8 Bachelor of Science in Engineering
• 3 Bachelor programmes
• 51 Master’s programmes in English medium
• 4 Master’s programmes in Swedish medium
• 2 Higher Education Diploma programmes, Technical Preparatory
Term and Further Education
• 13 344 full year students, 30% of whom are women
• 10 940 full year performances
Figures for 2009
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A wide variety of programmes
35 programmes in Architecture,
Master of Science in Engineering
and Bachelor of Science in
Engineering…
• Architecture
• Biotechnology
• Chemical Science and
Engineering
• Civil Engineering and Urban
Management
• Computer Science
• Construction Engineering
• Design and Product Realisation
• Electrical Engineering
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Engineering Physics
Engineering and Economics
Energy and Environment
Electro Technology
Electronics and Computer Engineering
Information and Communication
Technology
Materials Design and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Media Technology
Medical Engineering
Microelectronics
Vehicle Engineering
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A wide variety of Master’s programmes
Over 50 programmes in…
• Architecture
• Biotechnology
• The Built Environment
• Chemical Science and
Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Industrial Management
• Information Technology
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Medical Engineering
• Physics
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A great place for postgraduates
Postgraduate students
• 1 533 postgraduate students
with a minimum of 50 %
activity; 29 % women
Degrees
• 222 doctoral degrees awarded;
27 % to women
• 128 licentiate degrees awarded;
34 % to women
Figures for 2009
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The international technical
university of Sweden
In the academic year
2008/2009, KTH had
approximately:
• 1 350 exchange students
• 4 300 registered on Master’s
programmes taught in English
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A lot of new faces every year
• 3 404 new students on the
Master of Architecture or
Science in Engineering,
Bachelor of Science in
Engineering, Bachelor of
Science and on Technical
Preparatory Courses; 30 %
are women
• 1 647 new students starting
Master’s programmes;
26 % are women
• 347 admitted to doctoral studies;
32 % are women
Figures for 2009
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Exchange students at KTH
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International Master’s Students
Students with admission qualifications from
the following countries:
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A considerable number of
degrees issued
• 955 Master of Architecture and Masters of Engineering,
29 % of whom are women
• 259 Bachelor’s of Engineering, 24 % of whom are women
• 776 Master degrees/Master of Science, 28 % of whom are women
• 222 doctoral degrees awarded, 27 % to women
• 128 licentiate degrees awarded; 34 % to women
Figures for 2009
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At the Scandinavian top
According to the Times Higher Education Rankings, KTH is…
• the top ranked technical university in Sweden
• the second-ranked technical university in Scandinavia,
after the Technical University of Denmark
• ranked in the top 200 universities globally
Figures for 2009
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Partner universities all over the world
A small selection of the most important KTH partner
universities:
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EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
INPG, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France
TU München, Germany
NUS, National University of Singapore
HKUST, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
University of Melbourne, Australia
University of Tokyo, Japan
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Erasmus Mundus – Top quality
European Education
Erasmus Mundus is an EU programme supporting university
cooperation at the master’s and doctoral levels.
It aims to provide top-quality European education in terms of joint
programmes, to attract the best students from all over the world.
The programmes are offered by a group of partner universities
and include studies in at least two countries. Scholarships covering
both tuition fees and living costs are available.
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Erasmus Mundus – Top quality
European Education
KTH coordinates five Erasmus Mundus
Master’s programmes and one Doctoral programme,
all starting in the autumn term of 2010. These are:
• Computer Simulations for Science and Engineering
• European Master’s in Distributed Computing
• Environmental Pathways for Sustainable Energy Systems
• Systems Biology
• Turbomachinery Aeromechanic University Training
•EuroSPIN (Doctoral programme)
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Erasmus Mundus – Top quality
European Education
KTH also participates in another seven Master’s programmes
and one Doctoral programme:
• Industrial Management
• Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy
• Materials and Sensors System for Environmental Technologies
• Nuclear Fusion Science and Engineering Physics
• Photonics
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Security and Mobile Computing
• Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Sustainable Energy
Technologies and Strategies (Doctoral programme)
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Part of top quality Global Education
• Erasmus Mundus Action II is a scholarship programme
aimed at increasing opportunities for non-European students and
researchers in the EU and vice versa
• Part of the Erasmus Mundus, scholarships grant up to
EUR 1000 a month, for 3 to 34 months
• KTH coordinates projects aimed at:
- India
• KTH participates in projects aimed at:
- Jordan, Lebanon and Syria
- Brazil
- China
- India
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Creating a European cluster
CLUSTER is a network consisting of twelve prominent
European technical universities. During the KTH chair period this
network has become a platform and a competence base aimed at:
• developing joint master’s programmes
• developing grant applications to different
EU institutions
• establishing contacts with the EU commission
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High-level goals for
internationalisation
KTH goals for 2012:
• Number of exchange students will double; from 338 to 675
• Number of European students in Master’s programmes will
increase from 250 to at least 450
• The exchange of teachers with foreign universities will increase
• Graduates will be attractive on international markets
• Cooperation with international elite universities will be
further developed
• KTH will be a leading partner within the European Institute
of Innovation and Technology
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Student projects
Improving society long
before graudation
Taking innovation abroad
Scholarship programmes coordinated by KTH:
•Minor Field Studies
- Field studies in a developing country
- Open for about 30 students every year
• Linneaus-Palme
- Exchange programme with universities in the developing
world, for teachers and undergraduates
• Tempus
- Cooperation with universities in former Soviet union,
Middle east, northern Africa and Balkan countries.
- Supporting development of higher education, functions within the
university administration etc.
• Erasmus
- Around 860 incoming and 130 outgoing students
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Field studies in a Kenyan slum
• Pilot study of how biogas could be implemented for cooking
• Took place in a slum area outside Kisumu
• The study mapped the current situation for distribution,
sale and use of fuel for cooking
Students Maria Udén and Anna Bondesson conducting their field study outside of Kisumu, Kenya.
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Evaluating Bolivia’s water
• A field study evaluating the water quality of an area in the
Bolivian Antiplano
• Collected geology samples, as well as water samples from about
80 wells
• Focused on arsenic and other trace metals
• Results can be used to design remediation measures or find
alternative clean water resources in the area
Students Hannes Wern and Fredrik Johnsson collecting water and geology samples at Lake Lago Poopo, Bolivia.
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A different approach to recruitment
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KTH on the inside
• A 2008 study showed that
potential students had difficulties
understanding the engineering
professions
• As a response, KTH on the Inside
was started – a recruitment
campaign displaying several
exciting student projects
• Students shared their projects
through blogs, pictures,
Facebook and YouTube-movies
• With over 100 000 viewers and
50 000 blog-readers, KTH on the
Inside was highly successful
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President of KTH Peter Gudmundson and
Vice President Eva Malmström Jonsson
awarding prizes to some of the students in
KTH on the Inside, 2009.
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Finding the key to MS
Multiple Sclerosis is a neurological
illness that causes severe
disability. The causes of MS are
unknown.
The Key to Multiple Sclerosis is
part of an international research
project, mapping out the proteins
of the human body. The students
were given the task of analysing
proteins in the blood of MS
patients originating from an
isolated region of Sardinia, in the
hope that this could provide clues
to the cause for this illness.
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Burcu Ayoglu, one of the students at KTH
involved in the Multiple Sklerosis project.
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IT in the developing world
Thanks to students from KTH,
inhabitants of northern Tanzania
now have access to internet and
cell phones.
The project ”IT to Tanzania”
used fiber optics to develop
communication solutions for
developing countries. The project
also developed applications for
use in health care in two districts
of northern Tanzania.
Henrik Carlsson, Lars Dovervik and Daniel
Alexus, students of Industrial Engineering
and Management
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Electrifying the wave
It looks like a normal surf board,
but is powered by an electric
engine, and gives the rider a
sense of hovering on the waves.
”Evolo – the green water vessel”
can travel up to 15 knots. An
attempt at creating the next
water toy, the project was carried
out by students from, among
other programmes, Vehicle
Engineering and Mechanical
Engineering.
Some of the students involved in creating
Evolo.
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