KTH rises again in QS rankings

“It's really great that we have reached this position and that the positive trend continues. It shows that our efforts to bring KTH on the map as a top-notch university have been successful,” says KTH President Peter Gudmundson.

Compared with the previous QS poll, KTH got higher scores ​​in the indicators that measure reputation: in terms of academic reputation and education/employability; research and education in the form of number of students per teacher and researcher; and the number of citations per faculty and researchers.

“KTH’s reputation in both research and education has thus been strengthened while KTH's research has had a greater impact,” says Per-Anders Östling, KTH rankings king expert. “Thanks to this result, KTH international competitiveness is strengthened.”

A slight decrease can be noted in terms of proportion of international faculty; likewise the percentage of international students has also gone down.

The effects of tuition fees are now clearly visible in the reporting (based on data from 2013). Nevertheless, the proportion of international students at KTH is still high at over 17 percent.

Östling says the rankings matter for several reasons.

“Among other things, the rankings have a big impact when it comes to recruitment of international students and researchers, alumni employability, opportunities for cooperation with other world-leading universities and multinational companies, as well as to compete in the international competition for external research funding and in investment in excellence,” Östling says. 

Jill Klackenberg