PhD education at Swedish Universities

Requirements for admission

• At least 120 university points– Linked towards the research area

• Professional experience

• The capacity of the applicant

Awards

• Licentiate degree– 2 years (80p)– 40p has to be a paper

• PhD degree– 4 years (160p)– 80p thesis, 40-60p courses– It is the highest academic degree

Duties

• 20% work at the department

– Teaching undergraduate students

– Laboratory supervisor

– Calculating exercise supervisor

– Other duties

Personal Curriculum

• Timetable for the education– Courses to take

– Preliminary dates for articles/dissertation chapters

• Obligations– by the PhD student and by the faculty board

PhD students

• More than 18 000 active PhD students– 20% from foreign countries

• PhD doing 50% of the research

• The median age for admission is 29

• The median age for PhD is 35

• 2166 PhDs was awarded in year 2000

Chalmers• Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month)

– First year 18 650– After lic 21 400– After 80 % 22 150

• Research profiles– Real-time systems, Dependable computing, Dependable

software systems– Parallel and distributed architectures, High-performance

computer architectures– Digital communication, Security, Security in computer networks– Efficient algorithms for generation of Virtual Reality pictures.

Linköpings University

• Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month)– First year 18 750– After 30% up to 22 750– After 60% up to 24 250

• Research profiles– Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer

Systems– Databases and Information Technique– Human-Centered Systems– Information Systems and Management– Software and Systems

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan

• Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month)– First year 18 300– After 30% 19 000– After 50% 21 200– After 80% 22 300

• Research profiles– Computational Vision and Active Perception

Laboratory– Autonomous Systems– Studies of Artificial Neural Systems– Theoretical Computer Science

Örebro University

• Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month)– First year 16 500– Second year 17 500– Third year 18 700– Fourth year 20 700

• Research profiles– The Biologically Inspired Sensing and Control Lab– The Mobile Robotics Lab– The Intelligent Control Lab– The Learning Systems Lab

Lund University

• Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month)– First year 17 000-22 000– After 80p +1000– After 120p +1000

• Research profiles– Algorithms and Data Structures– Software Development Environments– Artificial Intelligence– Embedded Systems Design