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Facts about KTH

Facts and figures are based on the Annual Report 2024.

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EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)

Some educational programmes have been part-financed with funds attributable to the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). For more detailed information about RRF, we refer to the Government's recovery plan (Swedish, regeringen.se)

Educational activities

  • Master of Architecture and 17 Master of Science in Engineering programmes (five year programmes)
  • Master of Science in Engineering combined with Degree in Education
  • 7 Bachelor of Science in Engineering programmes
  • Degree of Master of Arts/Science in Secondary Education

  • Bridging Teacher Education Programme

  • Master’s programmes (one and two year)
  • Bachelor’s programmes and two-year university diplomas
  • Further education, technical preparatory programme
  • Third-cycle education

  • 15,200 full time students, of which 34 per cent are women and 66 per cent men (including fee-paying students)

  • 12,281 annual performance equivalents (including fee-paying students)
  • 1,551 active research students (at least 50 per cent activity), of which 36 per cent are women and 64 per cent men

Admissions

  • 3,056 new students on the first year of Master of Science in engineering, Master of architecture and Bachelor of Science in engineering programmes of which 32 per cent are women and 68 per cent men

  • 877 admitted to the technical preparatory programme, of which 31 per cent are women and 69 per cent men

  • 2,902 new students on one and two-year Master’s programmes, 36 per cent women and 64 per cent men, of whom

    • 1,155 students previously on Master of Science in engineering studies programmes and

    • 1,747 students studying on a one or two-year Master’s programme at KTH

  • 275 newly-admitted students to doctoral studies programmes, of which 36 per cent are women and 64 per cent men

Degrees

  • 111 Master of architecture, 58 per cent to women and 42 per cent to men

  • 1,206 Master of Science in engineering degrees, 34 per cent to women and 66 per cent to men

  • 309 Bachelor of Science in Engineering degrees, of which 24 per cent to women and 76 per cent to men

  • 1,863 Master/Master of Science (one and two-year) degrees, 35 per cent to women and 65 per cent to men

  • 225 Doctor degrees, 33 per cent to women and 67 per cent to men

  • 41 Licentiate degrees, 37 per cent to women and 63 per cent to men

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Research

Primary responsibility for five national strategic research areas

  • E-science
  • IT and mobile communication
  • Transport research
  • Production engineering
  • Molecular biosciences (Science for Life Laboratory)

Partner in another five areas.

Lead partner in five programme areas within the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)

  • EIT InnoEnergy
  • EIT Digital
  • EIT Health
  • EIT Raw Materials
  • EIT Urban Mobility

Financial situation

  • MSEK 6,884 in total turnover (of which MSEK 882 transfers)

Government grants (excluding transfers)

  • MSEK 1,438 First and second level (undergraduate) educational programmes
  • MSEK 1,506 research and third cycle education

External financing (excluding transfers)

  • MSEK 378 the Swedish Research Council
  • MSEK 359 EU
  • MSEK 302 Wallenberg Foundations
  • MSEK 211 Vinnova
  • MSEK 150 Swedish Energy Agency
  • MSEK 277 other government agencies
  • MSEK 427 other external financing including private funds

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Employees

The equivalent of 4,117 full time positions, of whom 1,743 are women and 2,374 are men, of whom

  • 368 professors, 84 women and 284 men (including visiting and adjunct professors)
  • 255 associate professors, 73 women and 182 men (including assistant professors)

Floor space

282,500 square meters