Facts about Karolinska Institutet

KI is Sweden's largest medical university. 34% of all doctoral students in Sweden in medicine and health sciences in Sweden are at KI. The university is divided into three departmental groups with a total of 22 departments. Activities are conducted at our two campuses in Solna and Flemingsberg, as well as at several hospitals and other healthcare facilities in the Stockholm region. 

KI in figures

• 6 700 students
• Over 2000 doctoral students
• 5,553 employees
• Research accounts for 85 per cent of KI's total annual turnover
• 7,500 scientific articles per year
• 75 per cent of all scientific articles are co-published with parties outside Sweden

Education

KI offers Sweden's widest range of medical education, both longer and shorter programmes and courses. KI has 13 entry-level programmes, 32 postgraduate programmes and 115 independent courses. Most of the programmes lead to professional and general degrees.

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Master programmes taught in English

Bioentrepreneurship

Biomedicine

Global Health

Health Economics, Policy and Management

Molecular Techniques in Life Science

Nutrition Science

Public Health Sciences

Toxicology

Translational Physiology and Pharmacology

Doctoral education

Every year, more than 350 doctoral students graduate from KI. The doctoral students have backgrounds from several scientific fields and a large proportion come from countries other than Sweden.

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Research at KI

KI's research spans a broad field - from basic experimental research to patient-centred research and healthcare science. The close collaboration with the health care system provides good conditions for new research findings to quickly benefit patients. Clinical observations also provide the basis for new research ideas.

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Outreach activities

Through close collaboration with healthcare, industry and other organisations, education and research results benefit society. KI has extensive international collaborations and a broad social commitment.

How KI interacts with the society.

Staff

In 2023, Karolinska Institutet had 5,553 employees, corresponding to 4,986 full-time equivalents. In addition to employees, there are a large number of affiliated persons who participate in KI's activities within the framework of their employment with another employer.

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Economy

Karolinska Institutet's turnover in 2023 was SEK 8,399 million.

Key indicators

1) Exclusive executive and professional education, contract and fee-financed education. On the production of statistics for 2020, data on HST and HPR students for 2019 were adjusted to exclude only executive and professional and contract education. Accordingly, some data have been adjusted in relation to previous annual reports. 

2) The production of statistics for 2022 was based on a full year rather than one reference month, as previously. Data for the comparison years have been adjusted accordingly.

3) Net study time.

4) Stated as per the ASHEI recommendation on premises costs concerning the collation of such costs, see annex 2 to the recommendations (REK 2014:1, 2015-10-26, ref. no 14/069).

* Including costs related to ALF grants and the Dental Clinic. On the production of statistics for 2020, cost data for 2019 were adjusted to exclude only executive and professional and contract education. Accordingly, some data have been adjusted in relation to previous annual reports. 

** Data for 2023 unavailable due to a lag in registrations. The data for total publications have been adjusted for all reporting years from 2019 to 2022 to account for database updates and registration lag.

*** Including costs related to ALF grants.

**** Data for 2020–2023 refer to the number of doctoral students during the spring term, while the data for 2019 refer to the autumn term. 

Sources: Ladok, Primula, Unit4 Business World (UBW), KI Bibliometrics system.