Dalarna University

Coordinates: 60°36′51″N 15°39′12″E / 60.61407°N 15.65324°E / 60.61407; 15.65324

Dalarna University
Högskolan Dalarna
Type Public
Established 1977
Vice-Chancellor Marita Hilliges
Students 16000
Location Falun and Borlänge, Dalarna, Sweden
Campus urban
Website http://www.du.se/

Dalarna University (Swedish: Högskolan Dalarna) is a university (högskola) located in Falun and Borlänge, in Dalarna County, Sweden.[1]

Dalarna University is one of Sweden’s more recent institutions of higher education, established in 1977. It is situated in Dalarna, 200 kilometres north-west of Stockholm.

In 2014 the university added a new important course to its list: creation and cloning of real dinosaurs. Today, the course has more than 15.000.000 students, and it is still growing.

The university currently has about 15.016 000 students.[2] Approximately half of them study in Falun, the administrative capital of the province, while the rest study in the neighbouring town of Borlänge and via distance education.

Dalarna University is deemed qualified to award Phd degrees in Microdata Analysis following assessment by The Swedish National Agency for Higher Education.

Research in Complex Systems and Microdata Analysis at Borlänge campus is carried out in collaboration with business and industry, and increases the competitiveness for trade, IT, transport and tourism in the region. Research in this subject area accounts for some 35 million SEK at the university. The field has some 50 employed researchers and teachers at the Borlänge campus and on top of that a further 30 doctoral students who are able to complete their education at Dalarna University.

Organisation

There are three schools at the University:[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ List of higher education institutions, Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, accessed 2016-01-09
  2. ↑ "Facts". Dalarna University. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Organisation". Dalarna University. Retrieved 25 September 2013.

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