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Master’s students curious about Stockholm
Published Dec 13, 2011A windy Saturday during Advent, and Olga from Russia, Youbei Jin from China and a dozen other Master’s students trudged their way through the centre of Stockholm, from the Main Square to Sergel’s Square. The city walk is part of an introductory course for international Master’s students.
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Cooperation is growing between the Nordic universities
Published Dec 05, 2011The Nordic University Alliance Nordic Five Tech has so far started up five joint Master's programmes. The next step may be to open up the universities' postgraduate courses as well, this was discussed during a meeting between the Nordic Presidents at KTH. “KTH is involved in many collaborations, but this is one of the most important,” says KTH President Peter Gudmundson.
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"KTH was just what I was looking for"
Published Aug 23, 2011Housing and rent guarantee – excellent. But the most important thing for the Master's students – Dianne from Jamaica and Arun from India – was that KTH was able to offer the course they wanted to study. "This course was just what I was looking for," says Arun Arora who will be studying "Vehicle Engineering".
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“It is in China things are happening - not here”
Published May 25, 2011When the 20-year-old electrical student Andreas Lindgren stepped off the plane in Shanghai, he was greeted by a 40-degree, humid heat. He immediately felt at home. Today, four years on, he speaks fluent Chinese and wants to play a part in building China’s future.
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KTH more popular now than over the past ten years
Published Apr 26, 2011KTH’s educations are more popular now than they have been for over a decade. The number of applicants for the autumn courses is the highest since the years before the IT bubble burst in the late 1990s.
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A more personal attitude strengthens KTH
Published Apr 18, 2011Conveying a clear, accurate picture of KTH’s activities is becoming increasingly important as the competition for students and projects gets tougher. Therefore, the President has decided on a common communications strategy for KTH.
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Extra everything for paying students
Published Mar 25, 2011More than 1500 overseas students have paid the registration fee. A decent figure, Tina Murray believes, Head of International Relations, together with Vice-President Eva Malmström. Now, one needs to keep interest alive about KTH among the students. For example, by offering an attractive package of student housing, jobs and free healthcare.
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New technology for better healthcare in developing countries
Published Oct 29, 2010A group of students at KTH have now released a third version of the software Bytewalla. It may for example help nurses to communicate with hospitals despite the absence of internet access.
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Selfless work rewarded with a million from KTH
Published Sep 24, 2010He has been named one of the world's foremost thinkers and for 25 years he has striven to make all of the people in the world feel better and less sick. Hans Rosling - this year's winner of KTH's Major Prize.
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Steve Ballmer will soon be coming to KTH
Published Sep 23, 2010On 4 October, Microsoft's charismatic managing director Steve Ballmer will be coming to KTH. In a speech to the students, he will talk about and show examples of new services, products, business models and the latest collaborations.
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This is what non-European students cost
Published Sep 20, 2010“KTH can and should compare itself with the most distinguished international universities as regards quality and pricing. We are not interested in being a low-budget alternative”. This is what the President of KTH Peter Gudmundson has to say in connection with the new price tag which has now been approved for non-European students.
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KTH cooperates with Tokyo University
Published Aug 31, 2010Education and research in the future imposes new and harder demands on universities throughout the world. In order to meet these demands, the prestigious Tokyo University has created a forum, which provides the possibility of exchanging knowledge between different countries’ universities. Besides the initiator of the idea, KTH, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The University of California, Berkeley are among the participants.
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New career path, popular among the young
Published Apr 27, 2010Tenure track, KTH's new career system, has now been started. The 57 new research positions that have so far been created in the system are much sought after, and there have been around 10 people applying for each position in some cases.
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KTH tops the job and salary league
Published Mar 25, 2010Educations at KTH hold seven places in the top 10 list for best starting salaries for students. This information has come from the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise’s annual survey Högskolebarometer (University barometer).
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KTH student, this year’s leading top talent
Published Mar 16, 2010For the eighth year in a row, the talent network Nova 100 has elected the person they consider to be the country’s leading top talent. This year, she is called Claudia Olsson and will receive the award of Top Talent of the Year awarded by Nova 100 together with Accenture, Ericsson, KPMG, Orkla, Procter & Gamble and Scania.
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KTH beat MIT and Stanford
Published Feb 23, 2010KTH have finally succeeded in winning a world championship medal again following four-year losing streak. After gold in 2004, silver in 2005 and this year’s bronze, KTH now has a medal in each denomination. The prestigious US seat of learning team was beaten in this year’s programming world championship.
