Mittuniversitetet | |
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| Type | State university |
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| Established | 1 July 1993; 31 years ago (1993-07-01) |
| Vice-Chancellor | Anders Fällström [sv] |
| Location | , |
| Colours | Yellow and blue[1] |
| Nickname | MIUN |
| Affiliations | UArctic |
| Website | www |
Mid Sweden University (Swedish:Mittuniversitetet) is aSwedish state university located in the region around thegeographical center of Sweden. It has two campuses: one inÖstersund and one inSundsvall. The University was founded in 1993 as the result of a merger. A third campus inHärnösand was active from founding to the summer of 2016, but has since closed.
Created on 1 July 1993, the institution was originally called Mid Sweden University College (Mitthögskolan) and was the result of a merger between the University College ofSundsvall/Härnösand (Högskolan i Sundsvall/Härnösand) and the University College ofÖstersund (Högskolan i Östersund).[2] The two university colleges had been founded in 1977, with roots in the School of social work that started in 1971 in the city of Östersund, and in theFolk high school teachers' seminary and the nautical training/naval school that were launched in 1842 in the city of Härnösand. On 1 July 1995, theSundsvall/Örnsköldsvik andÖstersund Colleges of Health Sciences (Vårdhögskolor) were also incorporated.[3]
In 2001 Mid Sweden University was awarded university status in thenatural sciences area of research includingIT, and was thus entitled to issue doctoral degrees. Employees that were carrying outdoctoral studies before then were enrolled at other universities, where they had their main supervisor, but were also locally supervised at Mid Sweden University College. Effective 1 January 2005, thegovernment of Sweden granted the institution the right to call itself a university and the school's name changed to Mid Sweden University (Mittuniversitetet).
Mid Sweden University has two authorised areas of research (vetenskapsområden), organized under theFaculty of Science, Technology and Media (since 2001), and the Faculty of Human Sciences (since 2005), respectively. Education and research is also organized under the Faculty of Educational Sciences (lärarutbildningsnämnden).
The university was organized into eight departments, of which four are multi-campus departments:[needs update]
The university has offeredbachelor's degree (kandidatexamen) and Swedish master's degree (magisterexamen, one year) in a wide range of subjects since 1994,doctoral degree (doktorsexamen andlicentiatexamen) since 2001, and International master's degree (masterexamen, two years) according to theBologna model since 2005. Mid Sweden University also offers professional degrees withinMaster of Science and Engineering (civilingenjörsexamen, similar to German Diploma engineer) since 2003,[4] and as engineer, teacher, nurse, specialist nurse,social worker/welfare officer (socionom), journalist and, from 2008,Psychologist.
The university's two main campuses have different focuses but with some overlap. The Sundsvall campus has a school of education and offers various courses in the humanities and arts. It also has a wide range of courses and degrees in the technical and natural sciences and journalism. The Östersund campus focuses on graduate degrees in tourism, health care, social work and public administration. Campus Östersund also has Sweden's onlyecotechnology programme. Besides the above, education and research within digital printing technology is located in the city of Örnsköldsvik.
The institution is also well known for a wide range of web-baseddistance education.
Mittuniversitetet is an active member of theUniversity of the Arctic.[5] UArctic is an international cooperative network based in the Circumpolar Arctic region, consisting of more than 200 universities, colleges, and other organizations with an interest in promoting education and research in the Arctic region.[6]
The university also participates in UArctic's mobility program north2north. The aim of that program is to enable students of member institutions to study in different parts of the North.[7]
In school year 2009/2010, the university had 21,476 undergraduate students (including master students) with 4,000 of them based in Östersund, 4,000 in Sundsvall, 2,000 in Härnösand and the rest in distance-learning programs. The university has 235 doctoral students, about 800 teachers, of which 80 were employed professors, and in all more than 1,000 employees.
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Here is a list of people who have received attention from national media, and have studied either at Mid Sweden University, or one of the colleges that later formed Mid Sweden University.
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