Linnaeus University Competitors

Karolinska Institutet is one of the world´s leading medical universities. Our mission is to contribute to the improvement of human health through research and education. Karolinska Institutet accounts for over 40 per cent of the medical academic research conducted in Sweden and offers the country´s broadest range of education in medicine and health sciences. Since 1901 the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has selected the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine. Karolinska Institutet was founded by King Karl XIII in 1810 as an "academy for the training of skilled army surgeons". Today, Karolinska Institutet is a modern medical university and one of the foremost in the world. With our close relationship to the clinical milieu, a well established infrastructure and a stable financial situation, Karolinska Institutet has excellent prerequisites for sustaining high quality research and education.

We train students to become experts in climate, Earth science, nature conservation and spatial analysis. Physical geographers and ecosystem analysts are specialists in the interaction between atmosphere, soil, water and life. Bachelor´s and Master´s programs offer opportunities to work with environmental and conservation issues in a global world in which the Earth´s resources need to be managed in a sustainable manner.

Uppsala University strives to bring new perspectives to the basic questions of science as well as knowledge contributing to sustainable development and human health. We offer 39 different master programmes covering over 60 different specialisations. In Uppsala you walk in the gardens of Linnaeus, follow in the footsteps of Nobel laureates, and at the same time meet today’s – and tomorrow’s – smartest teachers and researchers. Uppsala University. Quality, knowledge and creativity. Since 1477. Please address questions on official matters to registrator@uu.se