Public Universities
The order of precedence is based on their year of establishment as a university. Only Uppsala University (est. 1477) and Lund University (est. 1666) were actually founded as universities, 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, 2009) |
Research grants (2009, in billion SEK) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uppsala University | 1477 | 1477 | 20,450 | 3.265 |
| Lund University | 1666 | 1425 | 28,554 | 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 | -- |
Read more about this topic: List Of Universities In Sweden
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