The Karolinska Institute is a public institution that was founded in 1810 as a school for army surgeons. It is located in Sweden, with the Solna campus just outside the Stockholm city center and the Huddinge Campus to the south. The school offers degrees solely in the medical and health sciences. Around one-fifth of the Karolinska Institute student body is international. Students from European Union and European Economic Area countries as well as Switzerland do not pay tuition; all other students do. Some university housing is available, and tuition-paying students are guaranteed accommodations.
The institute offers programs in a variety of medical and health fields, including dentistry, optometry and nursing, to name a few. Its academic calendar is semester-based. The primary language of instruction at the school is Swedish, but several degree programs, known as global bachelor's and global master's programs, are offered in English. Some of the English-taught master's offerings are programs in bioentrepreneurship, global health and public health sciences. The institution offers a three-day intensive Swedish language class to all new international students. Research is prevalent at the Karolinska Institute and covers nine main focus areas, which include cancer and hematology, epidemiology and public health sciences, and neuroscience. More than 40 percent of the academic medical research conducted in Sweden occurs at the school. Since 1901, a committee of 50 Karolinska Institute professors has selected the recipients of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
The Karolinska Institute, based in Stockholm, Sweden, is among the world’s leading medical universities. Its vision is to contribute to the improvement of human health via research and teaching. The institution, which has around 6,000 students, is located close to the Karolinska University Hospital. The Karolinska Institute’s research spans the whole field of medicine, from basic experimental research to patient-oriented and nursing research. The institution is the single largest conductor of academic medical research in Sweden. The Karolinska Institute was founded by King Karl XIII in 1810 as an academy for the training of surgeons, after one in three soldiers wounded in a war against Russia died in field hospitals. In 1861, the institution was granted the right to confer degrees and gained a status equal to that of a university. In 1895, Alfred Nobel's will bequeathed the Karolinska Institute the right to select the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Since then, five Karolinska Institute researchers have won a Nobel Prize in that category. In 1997, the institution was granted full university status. The institution has two campuses: KI Campus Solna and KI Campus Huddinge, located in the northwest and south of Stockholm respectively. Both campuses are a 10-15 minute walk or train ride from the centre of the city. As well as bachelor’s and master degrees, the Karolinska Institute also offers doctoral degrees. To gain a PhD, students must develop an advanced general knowledge of medical science and scientific methodology, as well as cutting edge scientific skills in the research field they choose to explore in their thesis.