This list of universities in Sweden is based on the Higher Education Ordinance of 1993 (as amended until January 2006). With few exceptions, all higher education in Sweden is publicly funded.
The Swedish higher education system differentiates between universitet and högskola (university or university college). The universities are research-oriented and may award bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees in all academic fields, whereas the högskolor usually are more focused on applied sciences, and only have limited rights granting doctor's degrees. Note, however, that some universites still call themselves högskola in Swedish, mainly older specialised institutions in engineering and medicine ( for instance Royal Institute of Technology is called "Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan"). Also, both proper universities and högskolor translate their official names to "university" in English, where in the latter case "university college" would be more correct.
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