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Top universities in Sweden

10 universities ranked

Sweden punches well above its weight in global higher education — five of its universities regularly land in the world's top 100 (Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala, Lund, Stockholm University, and KTH). Rankings below are from QS World University Rankings 2027, THE World University Rankings 2026, and ARWU (Shanghai) Rankings 2025.

#UniversityQS 2027THE 2026ARWU 2025Known For
1Karolinska InstitutetUnranked*5350Medicine & life sciences
2Lund University7195101Broad research university, law, engineering
3KTH Royal Institute of Technology8298201Engineering, tech, architecture
4Uppsala University8712893Sweden's oldest, broad sciences & humanities
5Stockholm University147–167201100Social sciences, law, natural sciences
6Chalmers University of Technology165–174201301Engineering, architecture, industrial management
7University of Gothenburg202–225201151Business, marine sciences, medicine
8Linköping University308–310201301Engineering, design, IT
9Umeå University401–438401401Forensic science, medicine, design
10SLU – Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesUnranked351401Agriculture, veterinary medicine, environment

Karolinska is excluded from QS's main table because it's a single-faculty medical institution, but it's consistently ranked as one of the world's top 50 universities for medicine on both THE and ARWU.

Note on acceptance rates: Most countries outside the US do not officially publish acceptance rates. Any percentage shown here is a third-party aggregator estimate (Yocket, Shiksha, Collegedunia and similar platforms), not official university data — treat it as a rough competitiveness signal, not a precise number.

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