Karolinska tops university rankings: report
Published: 5 Apr 10 10:10 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/25906/20100405/
Large universities and specialist institutions come out on top in the latest ranking of Swedish institutions of higher education.
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For the last seven years, KI has also topped another ranking by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Southern Sweden (Sydsvenska industri- och handelskammaren).
Urank bases their assessment on official statistics and evaluates factors such as teacher competence, ratio of instructors to students and research and library facilities.
A new section of the 2009 ranking compared three different academic areas, which produced somewhat different results than the overall list.
Within health and medicine, the University of Lund comes out above University of Gothenburg and KI. Lund also fares best in the area of technology and natural sciences, followed by the University of Uppsala and Chalmers in Gothenburg.
Within humanities and social sciences, Handelshögskolan in Stockholm comes out on top, followed by Uppsala and Lund.
More and more importance is being attached to such rankings. A few weeks ago, the Swedish government put forth a proposal for an independent group to assess the various education programmes offered by Swedish higher education institutions and divide tax payments accordingly.
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Then the traditional 'Old* Unversities
Then the other Universities
With the small colleges that don't have full University status at the bottom
However it's worth looking at the detailed tables that rank a number of different study areas - universities are sometimes specialised in particular subjects.
Also rankings can only give a very generalised picture of which place is best
The whole ranking is
1 Karolinska institutet
2 Handelshögskolan i Stockholm
3 Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
4 Uppsala universitet
5 Lunds universitet
6 Chalmers tekniska högskola
7 Göteborgs universitet
8 Linköpings universitet
9 Kungl. Tekniska högskolan
10 Stockholms universitet
11 Umeå universitet
12 Luleå tekniska universitet
13 Högskolan i Borås
14 Södertörns högskola
15 Örebro universitet
16 Mittuniversitetet
17 Växjö universitet
18 Malmö högskola
19 Karlstads universitet
20 Mälardalens högskola
21 Högskolan i Jönköping
22 Högskolan Kristianstad
23 Högskolan Väst
24 Högskolan Dalarna
25 Högskolan i Kalmar
26 Högskolan i Halmstad
27 Blekinge tekniska högskola
28 Högskolan i Gävle
29 Högskolan i Skövde
30 Högskolan på Gotland
http://www.kth.se/aktuellt/1.54357?l=en_UK
Not easy to beat the world's top universities in that field in programming. Wonder how some of the others fared . . . .
So much for meaningless rankings. They should always be interpreted carefully.
"At least we know whose good in computer science: "
What a goon….
Thanks to Slovakia and Asia who donate some brains to Sverige. So some Swedish imbeciles will brag about their achievements…..
How can you be sure? Do you study or work at KTH or Karolinska?
You are a moron as your fellow @dsc
First of all, YES I have master's degree from KTH. But that isn't the point.
The point is: the retard buffoon @dsc is proudly bragging about (http://www.kth.se/aktuellt/1.54357?l=en_UK), and he didn't notice that the teamwork has one guy from Slovakia and the another is Asian.
That's why I commented on him.
Finally, you lumpen (@Luke35711) came out of the blue and ask me "How can you be sure? Do you study or work at KTH or Karolinska?" How on earth does your question make any sense in this context? Which side (or which hole) of the palnet you live?