LiU in 1 minute

Linköping University has 3,800 employees, 27,600 students and a turnover of 3,2 billion SEK (362 million Euros), divided equally between research and education.  Research and education is undertaken within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Institute of Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences and within Educational Sciences. 

Education and teaching

From a student population of 27,600, there are 5,000 students at advanced postgraduate level and 1,300 at PhD level. Through its 140 degree programmes, of which 35 of the Master’s programmes are in English, LiU is the leading provider of advanced professional degrees (for example Medicine and MSc in Engineering) in Sweden.  LiU also offers around 600 separate courses, both interdisciplinary and in traditional academic subjects such as languages, physics, mathematics, psychology, history and history of art. 

The students come from all over Sweden and are amongst the Swedish graduates with the fastest rate of establishment in the job market and have the highest average salary a year after graduating.

LiU also has an exchange agreement with 300 universities in 50 countries and annually around 1,500 foreign students choose to study at Linköping University.

Research and Development

At LiU research is undertaken in the areas of technology, computer science, medicine and health care, mathematics, natural sciences, educational science, the humanities and social and behavioural sciences as well as in wider interdisciplinary areas, Themes, such as Water and Environmental Studies and Gender Studies.

Research at LiU has developed through close collaborations with both the Swedish and international research communities as well as with the surrounding society.  The aim has been to establish research of high excellence whilst ensuring its relevance in society.

In a research budget of 1,7 billion SEK (192 million Euros) just under half is government funded.  The remainder is financed by research councils, foundations, EU, industry and other external sources.

Campus areas

Linköping University has campuses in Linköping (both Campus Valla and Campus HU) and in Norrköping,  and is located in a region with 500,000 inhabitants and 100,000 workplaces in wide spanning and varied industries.  Furthermore there are artistic degrees and courses in Vadstena and at Carl Malmsten Furniture Studies School in Stockholm.