Karolinska Institutet
medical university located in Stockholm, Sweden / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karolinska Institutet (in English Karolinska Institute), and before 1968, the Royal Caroline Institute is one of Europe's biggest medical universities.
Karolinska Institutet | |
Motto | To improve human health |
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Type | Medical University |
Established | 1810 |
President | Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson |
Students | 5,500 (FTE, 2008)[1] |
2,100 (2009)[2] | |
Location | , |
Campus | Urban |
Affiliations | LERU |
Website | http://www.ki.se/ |
It was started in 1810 on Kungsholmen island on the west side of Stockholm. It later moved to Solna, just outside Stockholm, and a second campus has been built in Flemingsberg/Huddinge, south of Stockholm.
A committee of the institute decides on the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The Karolinska University Hospital, in Solna and Huddinge, is the university's research and teaching hospital. It is one of Sweden's largest centres for training and research, with 30 percent of the medical training and 40 percent of the medical academic research. While most of the medical programs are taught in Swedish, most of the Ph.D. programs are taught in English.
The institute is a member of the League of European Research Universities. In the 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the institute is the best university for medicine and pharmacy in Europe, 8th in the world. It is listed as the best university in Sweden.[3]