Education in Stockholm
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Education in Stockholm goes back to 1583, when the small college
, 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:
- Stockholm School of Economics
- Karolinska Institutet
- Royal College of Music
- Royal Institute of Art
- Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design
- MKFC Stockholm College
- Södertörn University
- Ersta Sköndal University College
- Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts
- University College of Opera
- Stockholm University College of Music Education
- School of Dance and Circus
- University College Stockholm
- Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
- Stockholm Institute of Education
See also
- Education in Sweden
- List of universities in Sweden
- Swedish Royal Academies
References
- ^ "Karolinska mediko-kirurgiska institutet". Nordisk familjebok. 1910.