Education in Stockholm

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Education in Stockholm goes back to 1583, when the small college

Collegium Regium Stockholmense was founded in by King John III in Stockholm
, Sweden.

History and institutions

Ten years after the opening of Collegium Regium Stockholmense it was shut down with most of its professors transferring to the revived

Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, or KTH) was founded in 1827 and is currently Scandinavia's largest higher education institute of technology with 13,000 students. Stockholm University was founded in 1878 as a small municipal/private venture, but received university status and part of the state university system in 1960. As of 2004 it has 35,000 students. It has taken over many of the institutions founded by the Academy of Sciences, such as the Observatory, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and the botanical garden Bergianska trädgården. The Stockholm School of Economics
, founded in 1909, is one of few private institutions of higher education in Sweden.

In the

Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut
(the University College of Music Education).

Metropolitan Stockholm
, to balance the many institutions located in the northern part of the region.

Other institutions

Other institutions of higher education in Stockholm include:

See also

References

  1. ^ "Karolinska mediko-kirurgiska institutet". Nordisk familjebok. 1910.