The international technical university of Sweden In the academic year 2009/2010, KTH had approximately: exchange students registered on Master programs taught in English 1December KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Exchange students at KTH 2 Figures for 2009 December KTH Royal Institute of Technology

International Master Students 3December KTH Royal Institute of Technology Students with admission qualifications from the following countries: Figures for 2009

Partner universities all over the world 4 A small selection of the most important KTH partner universities: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland École Polytechnique, France TU München, Germany UPC, Spain NUS, National University of Singapore HKUST, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China University of Melbourne, Australia University of Tokyo, Japan Tsinghua University, China IIT Delhi, India University of Washington, USA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA December KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Erasmus Mundus – Top quality European Education Erasmus Mundus is an EU program supporting university cooperation at Master and doctoral levels. It aims to provide top-quality European education in terms of joint programs to attract the best students from all over the world. The programs are offered by a group of partner universities and include studies in at least two countries. Scholarships covering both tuition fees and living costs are available. 5December KTH Royal Institute of Technology

December KTH Royal Institute of Technology Erasmus Mundus – joint Master programs COSSE - Computer Simulations for Science and Engineering (KTH coordinator, Friedrich-Alexander Univ of Erlangen Nürnberg, TU Berlin, TU Delft) EMDC - European Master in Distributed Computing (KTH coordinator, UPC, Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon) euSYSBIO- Systems Biology (KTH coordinator, Aalto Univ, Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon)

December KTH Royal Institute of Technology Erasmus Mundus – joint Master programs THRUST - Turbomachinery Aeromechanic University Training (KTH coordinator, Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Duke Univ, Univ de Liège) SELECT - Environmental Pathways for Sustainable Energy Systems (KTH coordinator, Aalto Univ, Politecnico Torino, TU Eindhoven, UPC) NordSecMob – Security and Mobile Computing (Aalto Univ coordinator, Denmark Techn Univ, KTH, Norwegian Univ of Science and Techn, Univ of Tartu)

December KTH Royal Institute of Technology Erasmus Mundus – joint Master programs MERIT – Research on Information and Communication Technologies (UPC coordinator, Karlsruhe Inst of Techn, KTH, PoliTorino, Univ Catholique de Louvain) ME3- Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy (Ecole des Mines de Nantes coordinator, KTH, UPM Madrid, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Queen’s University of Belfast)

EuroSPIN - A PhD program in Neuroinformatics, including Computational Neuroscience (KTH coordinator, Albert Ludwig Univ of Freiburg, Univ of Edinburgh, National Center for Biological Sciences Bangalore) SETS - Joint Doctorate in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Strategies (Univ Comillas coordinator, Johns Hopkins, KTH, TU Delft, Univ Paris-Sud 11) EDIM - A PhD program in Industrial Management (KTH coordinator, Politecnico di Milano, UPM Madrid) Erasmus Mundus – joint PhD programs December KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Erasmus Mundus global scholarships Erasmus Mundus Action II is a scholarship program aimed at increasing opportunities for non-European students and researchers in the EU and vice versa Includes scholarships for study periods of 3 to 34 months KTH coordinates projects aimed at: -India -Central Asia KTH participates in projects aimed at: -Jordan, Lebanon and Syria -Brazil -China -India 10December KTH Royal Institute of Technology

High-level goals for internationalisation KTH goals for 2012: Increase the number of outgoing exchange students by 100%; Increase the number of European students in international Master programs by 100%; Increase the exchange of faculty/staff with foreign universities; Increase the rate of employability of graduates on international markets; Further develop cooperation with international elite universities; Increase activities within international externally funded projects. 11December KTH Royal Institute of Technology