KI strengthens its position as an international university
STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, annually publishes an index measuring the internationalisation of Swedish higher education institutions. It has now given the maximum of five stars to Karolinska Institutet.
In recent years, Chalmers, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the Stockholm School of Economics and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have all received a top ranking from STINT. Now KI is joining this exclusive group. The results are based on data for 2021.
KI has been engaged in a great deal of international research for many years, so the main contributor to the new (fifth) star was an increase in student mobility, i.e. the share of students who study abroad or come to Sweden to study. The extensive international experience of the KI management also added to the outcome.
“International cooperation is and always has been an integral part of what we do, and one of our priorities in our Strategy 2030 document is for KI to be a global university,” says KI president Annika Östman Wernerson. “Internationalisation is not an end in itself – it’s an essential precondition of realising our vision.”
About STINT
STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, was set up by the Swedish Government in 1994 with the mission to internationalise Swedish higher education and research.