Sweden’s Academic Landscape: Higher Education and Research Explained 2025
Sweden’s Academic Landscape: Higher Education and Research Explained 2025 provides an overview of the Swedish higher education and research sector for an international audience. It also highlights key characteristics of the Swedish system and notes areas where Sweden differs from other countries.
The publication replaces and further develops the annual status report that the Swedish Higher Education Authority has published for many years. In contrast to the earlier reports, it takes a more structural and explanatory approach, using statistical data to provide context and illustrate important features.
The publication replaces and further develops the annual status report that the Swedish Higher Education Authority has published for many years. In contrast to the earlier reports, it takes a more structural and explanatory approach, using statistical data to provide context and illustrate important features.
Sweden’s Academic Landscape is intended for government authorities, higher education institutions, organisations, and networks in Sweden and abroad that have an interest in, or need to understand, how Swedish higher education and research are organised. It is also designed as a practical reference to support clear and consistent descriptions of the sector in English. An updated edition will be published every two years.
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We are currently experiencing high demand for Sweden’s Academic Landscape: Higher Education and Research Explained and are unable to accept any more orders of the printed version at this time. We hope to be able to accept more orders at a later stage and ask that you would be so kind to download the publication digitally for the time being.
The Authority’s last two annual status report can be downloaded here
This page was last updated 10 February 2026