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About Linnaeus University

Linnaeus University – a creative and international knowledge environment promoting curiosity, creativity, companionship and utility.

Linnaeus University is located in Växjö and Kalmar and offers around 200 degree programmes and 1,500 single-subject courses. You can study different subjects within arts and humanities, health and life sciences, the social sciences, the natural sciences, technology, and business and economics. There are also a number of different contract educations, like the headmaster training and police education.

Research at Linnaeus University is of high quality, nationally as well as internationally, and covers a wide range of disciplines. Particularly prominent is the research carried out within our cutting-edge research environments – our Linnaeus University Centres. Within these centres, everything from ecology and evolution to discrimination and integration, postcolonialism, intermediality, bioscience, and big data is being studied.

With 2,200 employees and more than 40,000 students we strive to be a modern university, with Småland as our base and the world as our stage. To study and work at Linnaeus University means being part of an environment characterised by knowledge and development. Students acquire new knowledge and learn to have a critical approach and researchers make discoveries that can change our society. Employees talk of a work place with both challenges and opportunities and that Linnaeus University is a university where knowledge grows. Together we set knowledge in motion for a sustainable societal development.

Linnaeus University in numbers

  • 40,776 students
  • 15,128 full-year students
  • 2,163 employees
  • 150 professors
  • 306 doctoral students
  • 2 390 awarded exams at undergraduate level
  • 853 awarded exams at master’s level
  • 3 737 awarded exams in teacher education at undergraduate or master’s level
  • 482 incoming international students
  • 165 outgoing exchange students
  • 463 study fee-paying students
  • SEK 2,339 million in total revenues (distribution: SEK 1,607 million education, SEK 732 million research and postgraduate education)

The numbers are from 2024. 

Funded by the European Union, NextGenerationEU

The EU has established a temporary recovery instrument, NextGenerationEU. The investment will help repair the immediate economic and social damage caused by the covid-19 pandemic. It will also help build an EU that is more environmentally friendly, more digital and more resilient, and better adapted to current and future challenges. As part of Sweden’s recovery plan within NextGenerationEU, Linnaeus University has received SEK 31 million to increase the number of full-time equivalents.

Logo: Funded by the European Union, NextGenerationEU

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