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Rankings: The 14 best universities in Sweden for 2021/2022

Sweden has long held a reputation of being one of the most modern, advanced countries in Europe. With its unique blend of academic quality, a welcoming and open-minded society, and its remarkable quality of life, Sweden is among the most popular places for students who want to study abroad. No wonder that Sweden also regularly scores high in the Study.EU Country Ranking for International Students.

In the table below, you can see how universities in Sweden fare in different international rankings. Five of these institutions make it into the world’s top 100 almost every year: Karolinska Institute (a medical school), Uppsala University, Lund University, Stockholm University, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. For a small country like Sweden, that is a remarkable score. And it is proof that university students who pursue a Bachelor or Master degree in Sweden have made a great choice for their academic and professional careers.

Top ranked universities in Sweden

University QS Ranking 2020 THE Ranking 2020 ARWU Ranking 2019
Lund University 92 96 101
KTH Royal Institute of Technology 98 201 201
Uppsala University 116 102 62
Chalmers University of Technology 140 251 301
Stockholm University 191 175 73
University of Gothenburg 256 186 151
Linköping University 324 401 301
Umeå University 340 301 401
Luleå University of Technology – – 901
Örebro University – 351 801
Stockholm School of Economics – – 401
SLU – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences – 301 301
Karolinska Institutet – 41 38
Karlstad University – 801 –

Explained: How do the university rankings work?

The QS World University Rankings are among the most important, most-referenced rankings. The QS ranking relies heavily on its academic survey, asking thousands of academics worldwide about the reputation of universities.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (or the THE Rankings for short) compile a wide range of statistics. Equal weight is put on teaching quality, research excellence, and research impact through citations (meaning how often a university’s research is referenced elsewhere).

The Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (often just Shanghai Ranking, or ARWU) focuses on research output and quality, for example measured by the number of published and cited scientific papers and the number of staff or alumni winning the Nobel Prize or Fields Medal.

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Sweden is a popular country for international students: Its universities are among the best in the world, its people known to be friendly and welcoming, and students from the EU/EEA can study tuition-free. Swedish universities offer around 1,000 degree programmes taught entirely in English.

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Find the right study programme for yourself:

Bachelors degrees in Sweden
Masters degrees in Sweden
PhD programmes in Sweden

Relevant links

  • Studying abroad in Sweden: Basic information for international students
  • Study programmes in Sweden
  • Visit the website of the QS World University Rankings
  • Visit the website of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings
  • Visit the website of the Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities

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