Stockholm University is situated in the middle of the first national city park in the world, and is characterised by natural beauty, unique architecture and contemporary art and sculpture. The university is located just ten minutes from the urban buzz of the city, with its people, music, fashion, architecture and culture.
With over 50,000 undergraduate and master’s students, 1,800 doctoral students and 6,000 employees, Stockholm University is one of the largest universities in Sweden and one of the biggest employers in the capital. The university has a long and glorious academic history. More than a hundred years ago Svante Arrhenius published his work on the greenhouse effect, and became Stockholm University’s first Nobel Prize winner in 1903. The University’s most recent Nobel Prize winner was also a meteorologist; Paul Crutzen won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for his research into how the ozone layer is broken down.
At Stockholm University’s Faculty of Science the bond between science and research is strong, and many of our institutions lie behind important discoveries and scientific breakthroughs that have won fame around the world. Students receive training in thinking critically, structurally and analytically. Moreover, students have access to the latest scientific findings under direct supervision. Taken together, this provides them with a real head start for their working lives.