Top Universities in Sweden

30 universities in Sweden with a measured position, 20 of them ranked worldwide.

#UniversityCityWorld rankCitations
1 Lulea University of Technology #0 1,437,830
2 Örebro University #0 1,101,749
3 Malmö University College #0 484,249
4 Mid-Sweden University #0 435,407
5 Mälardalen University #0 390,486
6 University College of Borås #0 335,228
7 University College of Gävle #0 236,824
8 Dalarna University College #0 201,911
9 Södertörn University College #0 169,230
10 Nordic School of Public Health #0 165,100
11 University College of Trollhättan/Uddevalla #0 149,292
12 LUND University Lund #72 (2026) 23,014,908
13 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm #78 (2026) 8,968,181
14 Uppsala University Uppsala #93 (2026) 18,751,676
15 Stockholm University Stockholm #147 (2026) 12,863,751
16 Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg #165 (2026) 5,800,819
17 Göteborg University #202 (2026) 13,049,504
18 School of Design and Crafts #202 (2026) 13,049,504
19 Linköping University #310 (2026) 6,470,568
20 Umea University Umea #401 (2026) 7,720,293
21 Karolinska Institute Stockholm not ranked 33,690,732
22 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences not ranked 5,454,455
23 Stockholm School of Economics not ranked 557,427
24 Karlstad University Karlstad not ranked 472,382
25 Halmstad University College not ranked 262,177
26 Blekinge Institute of Technology not ranked 257,320
27 University College of Skövde not ranked 207,075
28 University College of Kristianstad not ranked 174,306
29 World Maritime University not ranked 30,819
30 University College of Arts, Crafts and Design not ranked 2,311

What the two columns mean

World rank is the university's QS World University Rankings position. Citations are the number of times work published by the university has been cited, as recorded in OpenAlex; it is the measure used to order universities that QS does not rank at all.

The two do not always agree. A large research university can out-cite a smaller one that sits above it in QS, because QS weighs reputation surveys and staff ratios as well as research.

Rankings in other countries

USA 981 ranked Japan 337 ranked India 306 ranked China 283 ranked South Korea 170 ranked Brazil 164 ranked Iran 160 ranked Indonesia 143 ranked Mexico 134 ranked France 108 ranked Poland 106 ranked Germany 103 ranked