Malmö University College

Malmö University College
Malmö högskola
Established	1998
Type	Public
Rector	Stefan Bengtsson
Admin. staff	1,394 total (including non-scientific)
Students	11,815 (FTE, 2008)[1]
Doctoral students	200
Location	Malmö, Scania, Sweden
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.mah.se/english

Malmö University College (Swedish: Malmö högskola) is a university college (högskola, separate from the Swedish definition of "university") located in Malmö, Sweden.^[2] Malmö University College was founded in 1998, and it is Sweden’s ninth largest undergraduate-graduate level academic institution (this level includes both universities, university colleges and specialized training colleges, e.g. acting schools).^{[citation needed]}

Located in the centre of Malmö at Universitetsholmen, the university college has played a central role in the transformation of Malmö from an industrial to a university town.^[3] A large part of the campus was constructed on grounds which, up to the mid-1980s, belonged to the Kockums shipyard, which had been a key element of naval-industrial Malmö.

The building Orkanen contains the library.

Malmö University College has four school and faculty areas, all of which are multi-disciplinary.

It has about 23,900 students.

Quality of education

In 2007, by government initiative, the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education employed an international expert committee to find and award the top five highest quality education areas among all universities and colleges in Sweden. The Dental School at Malmö University College was awarded one of these distinctions ("Centre of Excellence in Higher Education"). The other awards went to Linköping University (Medicine and Control Theory/Vehicle Engineering), Royal Institute of Technology (Vehicle Engineering), and Umeå University (History). Malmö University College is thus the only högskola in southern Sweden that has a centre of excellence in higher education.^[4]

The chancellor's office.

Research Centres

Malmö university has six research centres.

• Biofilms - Research Center for Biointerfaces
• Centre for Work Life Studies
• Centre for Professional Studies (CPS)
• Institute for Studies of the history of Malmö
• Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare
• MEDEA Collaborative Media Initiative

References

1. ^ Swedish Higher Education Authority (Högskoleverket) - statistics for 2009 (Swedish), page 118
2. ^ Swedish National Agency for Higher Education: List of higher education institutions, accessed 2010-07-24
3. ^ Malmö en värsting på kris och förnyelse, Sydsvenskan 2009-04-11 (Swedish)
4. ^ Swedish National Agency for Higher Education - Awarded Centres of Excellent Quality in Higher Education 2007

External links

• Malmö University College - Official site - Information on education, research and international interaction.

Coordinates: 55°36′28″N 12°59′47″E / 55.60778°N 12.99639°E / 55.60778; 12.99639