Blekinge Tekniska Högskola | |
| Type | Public Research University |
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| Established | 1989; 37 years ago (1989) |
| Chairperson | Peter Örn |
| Vice-Chancellor | Mats Viberg |
Academic staff | 276 (2017) |
Administrative staff | 174 (2017) |
| Students | 5,900 (2020) |
| Location | ,, 56°10′53″N15°35′26″E / 56.18139°N 15.59056°E /56.18139; 15.59056 |
| Campus | Urban, 2 campuses |
| Website | http://www.bth.se |
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| BTH is a member of EUA - European Universities Association | |
TheBlekinge Institute of Technology (BTH;Swedish:Blekinge Tekniska Högskola) is a public, state fundedSwedishinstitute of technology inBlekinge[1] with 5,900 students (part-time, full-time) and offers about 30 educational programmes[2] in 11 departments at two campuses located inKarlskrona andKarlshamn.
BTH was granted university status in engineering in 1999. Among the many programmes and courses taught in Swedish, BTH offers 12 Master's programmes in English.
The university focuses on ICTinformation technology andsustainable development; additionally also offers programmes in industrial economics, health sciences and spatial planning.
Blekinge Institute of Technology is located in theTelecom City[3] area and works with telecommunications and software companies includingTelenor,Ericsson AB and Wireless Independent Provider (WIP).
The university has two Campuses inBlekinge:
The Soft Center Campus in Ronneby existed from 1989 and was integrated in 2010 in the Campus Gräsvik, Karlskrona.
The university had been between 2006 and 2008 included in a strategic alliance withVäxjö University andUniversity of Kalmar under the common name of the Academy of the Southeast. The Board, however, decided February 15, 2008 not to join in the fusion the other two parties, which resulted in the founding ofLinnaeus University.
Blekinge Institute of Technology is a member of theEuropean University Association, the European Society of Engineering Education and the Association of Technical Universities in Scandinavia (NORDTEK).[citation needed]
The institute offers Bachelor, Master and PhD programmes oriented towards appliedInformatics. BTH has been ranked 6th in the world in Systems and Software Engineering research.[4] Admission to graduate programs is among the most competitive in Sweden due to having the highest number of international applicants.[5] The faculty of the School of Computing consists of 11 full professors and 50 PhD students, among those are high-profile researchers such as
AEuropean Master on Software Engineering program is given in collaboration withTechnical University of Madrid (Spain),University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) andFree University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy).[8]
The Institute uniquely offers two Masters programs[9] and a PhD program[10] inStrategic Sustainable Development (SSD), a scientifically robust and strategic framework to systematically contribute tosustainable development through trust-building, purposeful practices. The Blekinge Institute of Technology contributed significantly to the development ofStrategic Sustainable Development. Leading figures of the Scandinavian sustainability movement, such asKarl-Henrik Robèrt, teach and research at the institute. In cooperation withLund University theCentre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE) was established in 2004. Today CIRCLE is the largest national research Centre of Excellence by theSwedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems.[11]
The latest (2008) report from the Engineering Education for Sustainable Development Observatory (EESD-Observatory) ranked Blekinge Institute of Technology's programme onStrategic Sustainable Development as the best among Swedish technical universities and third among the 56 evaluated European universities, with a grade of 8.4 out of 10.[12]
Through a planning grant from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), BTH and NJU explored the possibilities for cooperation in the field of sustainable development.
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