Units
Admissions and Graduation
The unit is responsible for admissions to undergraduate and advanced level education, as well as eligibility for admission to doctoral education. Additionally, the unit provides administrative support to the dissertation committee and issues degrees at undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral level.
Head of Unit
Johanna Gasslander (acting head of unit)
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Members and contact details of the unit for Admissions and Graduation
Educational Legal support and exam services
The unit provides operational support in matters relating to education law and study administration, systematic work environment efforts for students, and targeted educational support. The unit also coordinates the study administration networks and all examinations in KI's examination halls.
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Members and contact details of the unit for Educational Legal support and exam services
Executive and Professional Education Unit
The Unit for Executive and Professional Education is tasked with acting as a broker for professional education programmes, where KI’s departments serve as knowledge guarantors. The unit supports departments in their work with professional education and assists with educational administration and marketing.
The professional education aims to increase patient benefit, enhance healthcare safety, and efficiently utilise existing resources. Furthermore, it seeks to improve integration between healthcare, research, and education. Read more about the Executive and Professional Education Unit's work.
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Members and contact details of the Executive and Professional Education Unit
Faculty Unit for Education
The unit prepares and specifies the faculty's strategic and university-wide issues in the field of education. The Faculty Office coordinates quality assurance work at all levels of education and is responsible for university-wide educational planning and follow-up. The unit provides operational support to KI's departments and programme committees in their work to develop the content and structure of education, as well as providing support in regulations and processes.
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Members and contact details of the Faculty Unit for Education
Education Office for Study Programmes in Medicine and Biomedicine
The unit provides support for the medical programme and the biomedicine programme, both to the programme management and to the students regarding their studies. The unit also coordinates and prepares matters for the programme boards and parts of their sub-organisations, as well as managing tasks such as the part of the medical programme’s selection process that is based on exams and interviews.
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Student Recruitment and Alumni Relations
The unit has overall responsibility for recruiting students to KI’s study programmes, both nationally and internationally, as well as promoting the programmes. The unit is also responsible for general student guidance and career counseling for students, doctoral candidates, postdocs, and researchers at KI. Additionally, the unit runs KI’s alumni activities.
- Student and career guidance: The student and career guidance services cater to prospective students through counseling sessions, email, phone, high school visits, and recruitment fairs. The unit is also responsible for managing KI student ambassadors.
- Alumni relations: KI Alumni is a professional and social network for anyone who wants to stay connected with Karolinska Institutet. The goal is to establish and maintain a mutually beneficial relationship with student and staff alumni through news, events, and valuable services.
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Members and contact details of the unit for Student Recruitment and Alumni Relations
Student Wellbeing Centre
The mission of Student Wellbeing Centre is to provide health-promoting and preventative care for students experiencing study-related issues. Student Wellbeing Centre complements regular health care and offers interventions at individual, group, and organisational level to students and staff at Karolinska Institutet. Learn more about Student Wellbeing Centre's work.
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Study Administration Unit
The unit is responsible for educational administrative support systems such as Ladok, TimeEdit, Fubas and ISP.
Head of Unit
Mathias Pettersson (temporary Head of Unit)
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Members and contact details of the Study Administration Unit