At Stockholm University there are 64 departments and centres within the areas of Humanities/Social Sciences and Science. The following list comprises all departments and centres arranged alphabetically according to faculty. Where possible links are given to the English version of the departmental website.

Science Academic Area

Mathematics-Physics Section

• Department of Astronomy
• Department of Mathematics and Science Education
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Meteorology
• Department of Physics
• Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science

Chemistry Section

• Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Department of Neurochemistry
• Department of Organic Chemistry
• Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry

Biology Section

• Department of Biology Education
• Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
• Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
• Department of Zoology

Section for Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry
• Department of Geological Sciences
• Department of Physical Geography

Field stations

• Askö Laboratory
• Tarfala
• Tovetorp (in swedish only)
• Navarino Environmental Observatory

Centers and institutes

• Bergius Botanical Garden
• Baltic Sea Centre
• Stockholm Resilience Centre

Humanities & Social Sciences Academic Area

Faculty of Humanities

• Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
• Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German (from January 01, 2015)
• Department of Baltic Languages, Finnish and German (see above)
• Department of English
• Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies
• Department of History
• Department of Art History (see Department of Culture and Aesthetics)
• Department of Culture and Aesthetics
• Department of Language Education
• Department of Linguistics
• Department of Literature and History of Ideas (see Department of Culture and Aesthetics)
• Department of Media Studies
• Department of Musicology and Performance Studies
• Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies
• Department of Philosophy
• Department of Romance Studies and Classics (In Swedish)
• Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German
• Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Centres and institutes within the Faculty of Humanities

• Centre for Fashion Studies
• Centre for Research on Bilingualism
• Centre for Teaching and Learning in the Humanities – CeHum
• Institute of Latin American Studies
• Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies

Faculty of Law

• Department of Law

Faculty of Social Sciences

• Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
• Department of Child and Youth Studies (including the Centre for the Studies of Children's Culture)
• Department of Criminology
• Department of Economic History
• Department of Economics
• Department of Education
• Department of Human Geography
• Department of Political Science
• Department of Psychology
• Stockholm Business School (from 13 March 2014)
• Department of Social Anthropology
• Department of Social Work
• Department of Sociology (including Demography Unit)
• Department of Special Education
• Department of Statistics

Centres and institutes within the Faculty of Social Sciences

•  Aging Research Center (ARC)
• Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS)
• Centre for Teaching & Learning in the Social Science (CeSAM) (In Swedish)
• Centre for University Teacher Education
• Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
• Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE)
• Stress Research Institute
• Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
• Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD)

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Stockholm University is one of the 100 highest ranked universities in the world and Sweden’s largest institution for higher education with top quality education and outstanding research in a wide variety of fields. 70 000 students are currently studying here and we offer 75 master’s programmes taught in English within science, the humanities, law and social sciences.

All international students, regardless of country of origin, can use the step-by-step guide to help you make your application for a course or study programme at Bachelor's or Master's level. If you are nominated by your home university to study as an exchange student at Stockholm University, you should instead follow the step-by-step guide for exchange students.
Application procedure

This section contains a step-by-step description of the application process for exchange students.

The application procedure for exchange students differs from that of non-exchange students. As an exchange student, you must be nominated by your home university. You will remain registered at your home university and apply through the International coordinators at your home university. Non-exchange students always apply through the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education’s central applications system at Universityadmissions.se.
 

Application process

1. Find out if there is an exchange agreement between the university you are currently attending and Stockholm University by consulting our exchange partner database or by contacting your home university.
See the section of this website entitled Partner universities. This page contains a full database of all exchange agreements.

2. Contact the International coordinator at your home university for further information about application procedures and admission requirements.

3. Browse our course catalogue to decide which courses you are interested in applying to. You will generally only be allowed to study in the area named in the exchange agreement. Choose your courses together with your department at your home university and your department at Stockholm University. Please find a list of the Departmental coordinators at Stockholm University.

4. After you have been nominated by your home university, the procedures differ depending on whether you are coming under a central university-wide agreement or a departmental agreement. You will get information on how to proceed from the International coordinator at your home university.

5. Once you have submitted your application form, you should not assume you have been accepted until you receive an official letter of acceptance from Stockholm University.

6. The choice of courses cannot always be guaranteed, although every effort will be made to give students the courses they have chosen. If in advance courses are cancelled or you do not meet the requirements, you will be contacted by your department at Stockholm University. The University cannot be held responsible for cancelled courses or students not being accepted onto courses due to classes being full or students not meeting the academic requirements.

University offices & staff

Postal address: Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden

Visitors: Universitetsvägen 10A

Switchboard: +46 (0)8 16 20 00

Registrar: registrator@su.se

Directions:

• Metro: Universitetet
• Roslagsbanan: Universitetet
• By bus: 40, 70, 540, 608 and 670
• By car: On right of Roslagsvägen, north of Roslagstull, northbound