Research and education
for a brighter tomorrow
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Sweden’s largest technical university
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4 000
staff (FTE)
17 500
students
313
professors
1 600
doctoral students
2 800
staff within research
1/3
women
2 100
international
100 000
alumni in 100 countries
19
international alumni associations
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Where do KTH’s Alumni work
5%
Consulting
9%
Information technology
7%
Program and project management
5%
Arts and
design
3%
Product management
15%
Business
development
21%
Engineering
5%
Research
Operations
10%
5%
Sales3%
Finance
7%
Education
5%
Other
KTH Flemingsberg KTH Solna
KTH Kista
KTH Campus
KTH Södertälje
2 km
KTH’s schools and departments
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Architecture and the Built Environment
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Industrial Engineering and Management
Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and
Health
Engineering Sciences
Architecture
Civil and Architectural Engineering
Philosophy and History Real Estate and
Construction Management Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering
Urban Planning and Environment
Computer Science Electrical Engineering Human Centered Technology Intelligent Systems
Energy Technology Industrial Economics and Management
Learning Machine Design Materials Science and Engineering
Production Engineering Sustainable Production Development
Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems
Chemistry
Chemical Engineering Engineering Pedagogics Fibre and Polymer Technology Gene Technology
Industrial Biotechnology Protein Science
Theoretical Chemistry and Biology
Applied Physics Engineering Mechanics Mathematics
Physics
International ranking
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3
in the Nordic region
30
in Europe
89
in the world
10
in the Nordic region
41
in THE Impact rankings
17
in Automation & Control
24
in Transport Science & Technology
26
in Mathematics
2020 2020
2021
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KTH’s four pillars
Equality
Internationalisation Sustainability
Digitalisation
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Meeting global challenges
The global sustainability goals are integrated in KTH’s education, research and collaboration.
Education at KTH
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A wonderful university one inch close to radical innovation
Anonymous
Studied from Aug/19 to Aug/21
KTH is an excellent place for studying engineering and technology. It's a place that promotes and encourage innovation in technology and support new ideas that can help to make the world a better place.
Firoza Akhter Bangladesh
I started my study at KTH university a few months ago.
Everything about courses and the method of teaching is really in a modern way of studying with a lot of
practical experiments. A lot of workshops with professional designers and companies as well.
Anonymous
Studied from May/18 to May/19
Everything about KTH and Stockholm is awesome. In particular, the teaching at KTH is interactive: seminars, workshops & presentations. The teachers and professors are super supportive. International environment.
Michael Samsu Koroma Sierra Leone
Studied from Aug/16 to Jun/18
KTH provided a background understanding and cutting- edge expertise in computers and the internet and made me good at attacking various problems in terms of
engineering.
Martin Sandberg
Director of Conversion - Spotify
The quality of the studies is high. The academic
environment is international and there is high connection between the university and the industry.
Anonymous
Studied from May/18 to May/19
Education for the future
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• Over 100 degree programmes from qualifying courses to lifelong learning
• Innovation and entrepreneurship
• Challenge driven education
• Gender equality and diversity
• Sustainability/global goals for sustainable development
• Education abroad
• Attractive degree
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Circa 30 programmes at first cycle and circa 60 master’s programmes within:
• Architecture and Built Environment
• Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health
• Energy and Environment
• Industrial Engineering and Management
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Engineering Sciences, Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering
• Engineering Physics and Applied and Computational Mathematics
• Design and Product Realisation, Engineering Materials Science
• Technology and Learning
• Open Entrance and Qualifying Educations
Education at first cycle and advanced level
Student exchange – most popular countries 2020
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Number of students who began student exchange during the year: the most popular countries KTH students travel to
Number of students who began student exchange during the year: the most popular countries exchange students originate from
0 20 40 60 80 100
Inbound woman Inbound men
Outbound women Outbound men
0 1 0
2 0 3 0
4 0 5 0
6 0 7 0
8 0 9 0
100
Number of fee paying students 2018-2020 per country of previous education
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China India
U.S.A.
Taiwan
Pakistan
Great Britain
Indonesia Iran
Colombia
Turkey
Canada
Hong Kong
Mexico 0
50 100 150 200 250
Jmf 17-18 Jmf 18-19 Jmf 19-20
Total number of students per previous education country
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China Sweden India Germany Italy Great Britain Spain Greece U.S.A Iceland Netherlands Unknown Taiwan Pakistan 0
50 100 150 200 250
Strategic partnerships with international universities
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University of Tokyo University of Illinois
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research at KTH
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Excellent research
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KTH’s research and education spans:
• Engineering Sciences
• Natural Science
• Architecture
• Industrial Economics
• Urban Planning
• History of Technology
• Philosophy
• Learning
Plattformar för tvärvetenskaplig forskning
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KT
H
TransportDigitalisation
Materials Energy
Life Science Technology Industrial
Transformation
Research centres
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• Interdisciplinary collaborations
• Collaborates with leading companies, other universities, the public sector and institutes
• More than fifty different centres at KTH
• Can include both pure and applied research
• A structured form of collaboration to focus on a specific problem area
• Allows long-term competence building and critical mass
• Meeting place between individuals to catalyse innovations
• Time perspective about 10 years before
implementation, "pre-competitive"
Live-In Lab
Research infrastructures
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Synergies and collaborations
• Meeting place for academia, industry and other societal organisations
• Open to external parties
• Laboratories and testbeds
Criteria for KTH research infrastructures:
• are strategic
• have long-term planning
• have continuous quality development
Life Science Technology Advance Light Microscope Laboratory
National Genomics Infrastructure NGI
Jonasson Centre of Medical Imaging
Nanofabrication Electrum Laboratory NanoLab Albanova
Materials
Hultgren Laboratory Odqvist Laboratory 2MiLab
ICT
Centre for High Performance Computing PDC
Sustainable Power Lab Visualization studio VIC The Language Bank for Speech
42%
24%
23%
11%
European Research Council Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions Future and Emerging Technologies Research Infrastructures
22%
3%
75%
Spreading excellence and widening participation Science with and for Society
Euratom
Other
€ 13,2.
8%
Excellent Science
€ 98,2 58%
Industrial Leadership
€ 27,8.
17%
Societal Challenges
€ 28,8 17%
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Horizon 2020 grants
83%
2%
1%
1%
12% 1%
Information and Communication Technologies Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials and Production Advanced materials
Biotechnology
Advanced manufacturing and processing Space
12%
9%
28%
38%
7%2% 4%
SC1 - Health SC2 - Food, bioeconomy SC3 - Energy SC4 - Transport
SC5 - Climate action, environment SC6 - Inclusive societies SC7 - Secure societies
Impact through collaboration
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Collaborations Industry
Academia Society
Personal mobility Adjunct professors
Industry-employed doctoral students Affiliated faculty
Innovation at KTH
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• KTH’s innovation support is internationally acknowledged
• Students, researchers and employees at KTH are given the opportunity to create benefits and impact with ideas and research
• The KTH Innovation Readiness Level model is used by hundreds of organisations around the world
• Every year, around 350 ideas start the journey from idea to innovation
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Re:newcell Capitainer Ellure Addressya
Examples of ideas that have
become innovations
National and international collaboration
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Collaboration for a better future
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• High quality research is benefiting society today and will do so in the future
• Collaboration is a key component in enabling research findings to be implemented in society
• Collaboration partners gain access to an advanced research infrastructure and laboratories
• Regular interaction with a large alumni network offers good opportunities for different forms of collaboration
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Strategic partnerships - moving society forward
People Industry
Knowledge
Society
Strategic partnerships
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Global companies
Public sector Leading research institutes
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University networks
European Institute of Innovation and Technology - EIT
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8 EIT Consortia, of which KTH is a member of 5:
EIT Digital: for a strong digital Europe
EIT Health: together for a healthy lifestyle in Europe
EIT InnoEnergy: pioneering changes within sustainable energy
EIT RawMaterials: making raw materials an important strength for Europe EIT Urban Mobility: smart, green and integrated transport
Other EIT:
EIT Climate KIC EIT Food
EIT Manufacturing
Financial information
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Field of activity 2020 (2019)
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Percentage distribution 2020 2019
First and second level studies 31,0 (30,8) Purchased courses 0,2 (0,2) Commissioned courses 0,1 (0,3)
Research and doctoral studies 65,9 (66,1) Contract research 2,8 (2,6)
Total msek 5,074 (4,962)
Sources of income 2020 (2019)
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Percentage distribution 2020 2019 Government grants for education first and
second level studies 24,0 (23,8) Government grants for research and doctoral
studies 26,4 (24,8)
Research councils 7,0 (7,1) Other government agencies 16,4 (16,3) Strategic foundations 3,8 (3,9)
EU 5,2 (5,8)
Private/other 17,2 (18,3)
Total msek 5,074 (4,962)
Research funding 2020 (2019)
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Percentage distribution 2020 2019
Government grants for research and doctoral studies 38,5 (36,1)
Vinnova 4,5 (5,0)
Research councils 10,2 (10,4)
Other government agencies 17,5 (17,6)
Strategic foundations 5,5 (5,7)
Swedish companies and organisations 14,8 (15,1)
EU 6,8 (7,5)
Other 2,2 (2,6)
Total msek 3,484 (3,405)
Costs 2020 2019
Staff 62,7 60,2
Premises 19,0 18,8
Other operating costs 13,9 16,7
Financial cost 0,0 0,1
Depreciation 4,4 4,2
Costs 2020 (2019)
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