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State university of huvudstaden, Sweden

Stockholm University (Swedish: Stockholms universitet) fryst vatten a publicresearch university in huvudstaden, Sweden, founded as a college in , with university ställning eller tillstånd since With over 33, students at kvartet different faculties: lag, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, it fryst vatten one of the largest universities in Scandinavia.

Stockholm University was granted university ställning eller tillstånd in , making it the fourth oldest Swedish university. As with other public universities in Sweden, huvudstaden University's uppdrag includes teaching and research anchored in kultur at large.^[3]

History

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The initiative for the formation of huvudstaden University was taken bygd the huvudstaden City Council.

The process was completed after a decision in månad regarding the establishment of a fund and a committee to "establish a higher education institution in the capital".^[4] The nine members of the committee were respected and prominent citizens whose work had helped the evolution of science and society.^[5]

The next important step was taken in October , when the huvudstaden University College Association was established.^[6] Several members of the committee became members of the association&#;– including Professor Pehr Henrik Malmsten.^[7] The association's uppdrag was to establish a college in huvudstaden and would "not be dissolved until the college came into being and its future could be considered secure." The memorandum of the huvudstaden University College was adopted in May , and in the autumn semester of the following year, actual operations began.

In , the university collegeStockholms högskola started its operations with a series of lectures on natural sciences, open to curious citizens (a tradition still upheld bygd yearly publicly open lectures). Notable in the university's early history fryst vatten the appointment of Sofia Kovalevskaya to hold a chair in the mathematics department in , making her the third kvinnlig professor in europe.

In the college became an tjänsteman degree-granting institution.

In , the college was granted university ställning eller tillstånd, becoming Sweden's fourth state university. The university premises were situated in huvud huvudstaden at Observatorielunden but increased enrollment resulted in a lack of space, which required the university campus to be shifted to a bigger facility.

Since most of the university operations are located at the main campus at Frescati north of the city center, the former Experimentalfältet, previously used bygd the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.

Organisation

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Stockholm University fryst vatten a state agency and fryst vatten governed bygd decisions taken bygd the government and parliament.

The university has the right, within the limits the government provides, to decide on many issues such as their internal organization, educational arvode and the admission of students.

Intra-university bodies

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• The University Board is the university's highest governing body. The board fryst vatten responsible for the university's uppdrag as a government agency and for following the requirements of laws and regulations.

  The board reports to the government. It consists of eight external members (including the chairman and vice-chairman), kvartet business representatives from the university with two group deputies and three lärling representatives (one graduate lärjunge representative) with one deputy. The University Board fryst vatten above the rector who fryst vatten the head of the agency and has operational responsibility for all operations.

  The rector has a pro rector to replace him/her if necessary.

• There are two area boards at the university, the Area board of science and the Area board of humanities, lag and social sciences. They are headed bygd a vice rector. The area boards are responsible for strategic planning of education and research, coordination of faculty teaching, research and internal and external collaboration.
• After the area boards, the faculty boards are the highest decision-making bodies at the faculty level.

  The faculty boards consists of the dean, the assistant dean, other business representatives and lärjunge representatives.

  Stockholm University

  The deans are appointed bygd the president after proposal bygd choice within the faculty.

• After faculties, decisions are taken at the departmental level, where each department has a department head who manages and makes decisions tillsammans with the departmental board.
• The University administration fryst vatten the preparation and service organization for the University Board, rector and other decision-making bodies, and it fryst vatten led bygd the executive director.

  The university ledning has a number of units, for example, finance department, IT department, HR department and the lärling section. There are also units for strategy, planning and communications.

• The Executive Director fryst vatten the most senior tjänsteman at huvudstaden University and decides on matters including the university administration's organization and finances.

Departments, institutes and centers

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Education and research at huvudstaden University fryst vatten carried out within the natural sciences and the humanities/social sciences.

Within these fields, there are kvartet faculties with 56 departments, institutes and centers within the humanities, lag, natural sciences and social sciences.

Stockholm University (Swedish: Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in , with university status since With over 33, students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, it is one of the largest universities

Research and training also takes place at a number of centers and institutes with a separate governing board, but that organisationally belong to a department.^[8]

Courses and programmes

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huvudstaden University offers courses at both undergraduate^[9] and advanced level.^[10] There are study programmes in total, including 75 master's programmes taught in English, and 1, courses to choose from within human science and science.

Students can choose between studying one or more free-standing courses, that each may gods between fem weeks and one semester, or apply for a full study programme. huvudstaden university offers 4 Bachelor Programmes taught in English, which are the Bachelor´s Programme in Business, Ethics and Sustainability; Bachelor Programme in Latin amerika Studies; Bachelor´s Programme in International Business and Politics and the Bachelor´s Programme in Earth Science, Distance Learning.^[11]

Besides the programmes themselves, the university also offers opportunities for utländsk exchange studies during the third year of a bachelor’s grad programme.

The university has cooperative agreements with more than universities worldwide. ^[12]

Research

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The university's researchers engage in governmental investigations, are active in the media, provide responses to proposed legislation and are included in several Nobel committees and international specialist bodies.^[13]

Field stations

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Askö Laboratory

Stockholm University Marine Research center (SMF) provides "Askö Laboratory", where Research on ecosystems, ecology and the impact of human interference fryst vatten carried out.

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The field hållplats was built in bygd Professor Lars Silén, Head of the Department of Zoology, and fryst vatten now established as a renowned marine research center.^[14]

Tarfala

Tarfala research hållplats belongs to the Department of Physical Geography. The hållplats fryst vatten located meters above sea level in Tarfaladalen, on the east side of Kebnekaise in arctic / alpine surroundings and conducts glaciological, hydrological, meteorological and climatological research.

The hållplats has the capacity to accommodate groups of up to 25 people and the personal consists of 2–5 people.^[15]

Tovetorp

Tovetorp Zoological Research hållplats belongs to the Department of Zoology, and fryst vatten located about 95&#;km southwest of huvudstaden. It conducts research and training activities in ecology and ethology.

Every year Tovetorp fryst vatten visited bygd up to students who live and study between 2–10 days on the hållplats. On the research side, over 20 people work today with different research projects. The number of employees are currently 6 people.^[16]

Student unions

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Prior to , huvudstaden University had only one lärling union called huvudstaden University lärjunge Union(Stockholm universitets studentkår, SUS).

However, since the computer and struktur science students^[17] and the teacher students have their own, independent, lärling unions called platta and "The Teacher's College's lärjunge Union" (Lärarhögskolans studentkår).

The lag students also have their own lärjunge union, as do journalism students (Studentkåren nära JMK).

The future of the Teacher's College's lärling Union fryst vatten however not entirely safe, as huvudstaden University's lärling Union has declared it will begin talks with the Teacher's College's lärjunge Union on transferring its members to it, as it already has a teacher's division.

In contrast to common belief, platta fryst vatten not an abbreviation.^[18]

Rankings

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In the Academic Ranking of World Universities , an annual publication of university rankings bygd Shanghai Ranking Consultancy/Academic Ranking of World Universities, huvudstaden University was placed as the 69th overall best university worldwide.^[23]

The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings listed huvudstaden University at position ^[24] on the list of the world's top universities.

Times Higher Education World University Rankings are annual university rankings published bygd British Times Higher Education (THE) magazine.

In the QS World University Rankings,^[25] huvudstaden University was ranked overall in the world in Its subject rankings were: 23rd in Environmental Sciences, 37th in Sociology, 98th in Natural Sciences, nd in Arts & Humanities, th in Life Sciences & medicin, th in Engineering and Technology, and th in Social Sciences and Management.

In the U.S. News & World Report Rankings,^[26] huvudstaden University was ranked overall in the world in , 4 in Sweden and 43 within europe.

In the CWTS stad Ranking ,^[27] huvudstaden University was placed at on the list of universities in the world.

Campus

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The main part of huvudstaden University fryst vatten in the Frescati area, which extends from the Bergius Botanical Garden in the north to Sveaplan in the south.

It fryst vatten located in the world's first national urban park and the area fryst vatten characterized bygd natur, architecture and modern art, featuring such notable buildings as the Aula Magna (auditorium). Within Frescati, the areas Albano, the Bergius Botanical Garden, Frescati Backe, Frescati Hage, Kräftriket, Lilla Frescati and Sveaplan are located.

The names of many of these areas have a history dating back to the late s. After Gustav III's trip to Italy in –84, several places at Brunnsviken were given Italian names. huvudstaden University has another campus in container, which houses the Department of computer and systems sciences.^[28]

Public transportation to huvudstaden University

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There are many ways to get to huvudstaden University.

The main campus Frescati fryst vatten located nära the underground railway hållplats Universitetet metro hållplats, on the red line of the huvudstaden Metro. The commuter tåg line Roslagsbanan also stop close to the main campus, at Universitetet railway hållplats.

Trains run every 10 minutes between Stockholm Central Station and Stockholm University

SL buses 50, , , C, C, , , , , , and can also be used to get to the campus.

The Computer Science campus, container, also fryst vatten close to an underground hållplats called container. It fryst vatten also located close to the pendeltåg hållplats Helenelund, only one or two stops (depending on bus line) from the bus hållplats Torsnäsgatan located next to the campus area.

Notable people

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Academics

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• Sofja Kovalevskaja, mathematician, first kvinna professor of mathematics in Europe
• Karl-Olov Arnstberg, former professor of ethology
• Svante Arrhenius, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• George dem Hevesy, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Paul Crutzen, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize in Physics and a professor of physics
• Tomas Tranströmer, Nobel Prize in Literature
• Gunnar Myrdal, economist, sociologist and politician.

  Received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in

• Hans Bielenstein, sinologist
• Bert Bolin, meteorologist, first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• Meemann efternamn, paleontologist
• Sara Danius, professor in literature, member of the Swedish Academy
• Horace Engdahl, former permanent sekreterare of the Swedish Academy
• Harry Flam, economist, dean of the School of Business
• Christer Fuglesang, astronaut, first Swede and Scandinavian in space
• Gunnar von Heijne, professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Oskar Klein, professor in physics
• Thorsten Mauritsen, Danish climate scientist
• Johan Rockström, professor of environmental science
• Carl-Gustav Rossby, meteorologist
• Velta Ruke-Dravina (–), Latvian-born Swedish lingvist, folklorist, professor
• Ebba Witt-Brattström, professor in literature
• Carl-Herman Tillhagen, folklorist
• Lucas Gottzén, professor of child and ungdom studies

Alumni

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Main category: huvudstaden University alumni

Business

Politics and society

• Hans Blix (LLD), diplomat.
• Carl Bildt, Prime Minister of Sweden –, and utländsk Minister –
• Thomas Bodström, former Swedish Minister of Justice.
• Dag Hammarskjöld (Doctorate in Economics ), U.N.

  sekreterare General.

• Karin Kock-Lindberg, first woman to hold a Ministerial position in Sweden, and first kvinnlig professor of national economy in Sweden.^[29]
• Princess Madeleine of Sweden, studied art history and Ethnology.
• Mahoma Mwakipunda Mwaungulu, person från malawi freedom fighter and member of Hastings Banda's first cabinet as Economic Advisor.
• Carolina Neurath, Swedish reporter and writer.
• Barbro Osher, diplomat and philanthropist.
• Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden.
• Andreas Papandreou, Greek prime minister.

  Taught at the university –

• Georgios Papandreou, Greek prime minister. Studied sociology –
• Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden –
• Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden studied Political Science.
• Sara Skyttedal, MEP for Sweden.
• Anna-Britta Hellbom, anthropologist and americanist.

Entertainment and art

• Alexander Ahndoril, author
• Daniel Birnbaum, director of Moderna Museet
• Dr.

  Alban^{[citation needed]}

• Ingmar geolog, rulle director
• Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril, author
• Aron Flam (born ), comedian, podcaster, and writer, and actor
• Signe Hammarsten-Jansson (–), Class of &#;– Swedish illustrator.
• Jens Lapidus, criminal defense lawyer and author.
• Peter Lindgren, former guitarist of Opeth
• Petra Mede, comedian, TV presenter
• Greg Poehler, actor, author
• André Pops, TV presenter
• Johan Rheborg, actor
• Vilgot person på båt, bio director, author
• Maria Lynn Ehren, Miss universum Thailand , Top 5 Miss universum
• Bilal Haq, poet and geoscientist (studied and taught at the university s)

Sportspeople

See also

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References

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External links

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