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Visual evidence from alumni event in the US!

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On the 5th of November 2011, around 70 alumni attended a special seminar on Swedish innovation in conjunction to the Exhibition; “Innovative Sweden”. We had the honor of having former Swedish Institute scholarship recipient, Dr. Anna Stenport as our moderator. The program offered two different perspectives on Swedish Innovation, with Christian Quarles Van Ufford, Vice President, Director Global Marketing Metro International, giving his take on why Metro has become a global success story.  Another angle on the Swedish innovative climate was presented by Cecilia Hertz, Founder & CEO of Umbilical Design.

With breaks for “fika” and rounding off with a plenty of time to mingle, all in all it was a success. We are planning our second alumni meeting in the US to take place in April at the Swedish Embassy “House of Sweden” in Washington DC.

Hopefully we will see you there!

Maureen Hoppers - Alumni

February 8, 2012

Challenge Yourself India 2011

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Happy 1st prize winners

The challenge that tested the skills, knowledge and motivation of Indian students was launched in October and attracted over 1900 talented contestants. Out of them 9 winners managed to reach the final and the grand prize ceremony that was held during Sweden Education Day at R.V College of Engineering in Bangalore the 2nd of December.

There was a great deal of excitement in the jam-packed seminar room when the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners were announced. Andreas Muranyi, Science & Technology Counsellor at the Swedish Embassy, handed out the prizes and besides Ipads, books and diploma the finalists received long applauses and cheering from the audience.

A festive celebration ceremony was later held at Vivanta by Taj for the first prize winners that got a full tuition fee waiver at 3 of Sweden’s leading universities.

Smarjeet Sharma from Birla Institute of Technology and Science was the happy winner of a full tuition fee waiver for the master’s program in Wireless Communication at Lund University. The fee waiver at Chalmers University for the master of Technology-Automotive Engineering went to Rakesh Sridhar from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and Vikas Chauhan from BITS Pilani won a place at the masters in Embedded Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Second place winners were Bharat Mohan from Vellore Institute of Technology, Peter Sam Raj from Indian Institute of Technology and Deepanker Parik, also from Vellore Institute of Technology.

3rd price winners

The third prices went to Vibhor Jain, Vellore Institute of Technology, Saideep Bollam
Vellore Institute of Technology and Shubham Dwivedi from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

A big congratulation to all the winners!

For more information about the challenge and a list of all the winners and participants visit www.challengeyourself.in

On our webpage Studyinsweden.se we are from time to time presenting challenges and competitions that grant scholarships at Swedish universities. Currently, there is a challenge online targeting Chinese students arranged by Chalmers University together with Volvo cars: Talentrace

So go ahead, challenge yourself!

Malin Hassler - Study

December 13, 2011

Study in Sweden is touring India

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One of our largest recruitment activities of this year will take place in India, more exactly in Bangalore and Chennai.

New for this year is our Swedish Education Day on the 2nd of December which we organize together with the Swedish Trade Council, the Embassy of Sweden and some of Sweden’s leading universities.

Mr. Donnie Lygonis, professor at KTH, hosts a seminar on how students and researches can start their creativity and commercialize their patents and ideas. Volvo India will be talking about the great job opportunities for Indian students that graduate from a Swedish university.

Moreover, the competition “Challenge Yourself India” will also announce which three students that have won the first price: a full tuition fee waiver for a 2 year master’s degree program at Lund University, Chalmers University of Technology and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Like last year we will also attend the QS Fair between the 4nd and 6th of December together with several Swedish top universities. The Swedish Agency for Higher Education Services will also be there to assist students with their application to Swedish universities on the spot.

Come and meet us at the following places:

Sweden Education Day, Bangalore

RV College of Engineering, Mysore Road, 11-3 pm.

Lunch will also be offered to visiting students

QS Fair, Bangalore

Vivanta by Taj, M G Road (formerly Taj Residency), December 4 at 2-5 pm, with a Swedish presentation at 3 pm.

QS Fair, Chennai

Sheraton Park Hotel & Towers, December 6 at 5-8 pm, with a Swedish presentation at 5 pm.

With us on tour are the following Swedish universities:

Uppsala University

University of Gothenburg

Chalmers University of Technology

Lund university

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Jönköping University

Karolinska Institutet

Halmstad University

Mälardalen University

University of Gävle

We will update the blog continuously from India. Hope to see you there!

Malin Hassler - Study

November 30, 2011

Decrease in international applicants to Swedish universities

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Since this is the first year that international students from outside of the EU/EEA area are required to pay tuition fees for programs held at Swedish universities, the number of international applicants has decreased dramatically. As expected, data from VHS (Swedish Agency for Higher Education Services) shows that the number of applicants to master’s programs decreased by 73 % compared to applications for autumn 2010. 25,094 applications were submitted for master’s programs of autumn semester 2011, compared to 91,788 for autumn 2010 (all statistics from VHS).

Lund University received the highest number of applicants for 2011.

Lund University was the most popular Swedish university — with the highest number of applicants both in total and as the first-hand choice university — followed by KTH, Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University. A detailed list of the number of applicants per university can be found here.

Although a decreased number of applicants do not necessarily translate to a decrease in admitted students, some Swedish universities will most likely have fewer non-EU students arriving to their campuses in 2011 compared to previous years. The same pattern, to a comparable or even larger extent, could be seen in Denmark and the Netherlands, who recently made a similar switch to tuition fees. However, competition for most programs is still high.

Because of the many positive effects an international climate has on the education and research conducted at the university level, this is of course an unwanted situation. On the positive side is that many Swedish universities have started recruiting qualified international students more actively and taken it upon themselves to work harder with ensuring quality and services for their students. Both on their own and in collaboration with the Study in Sweden team at the Swedish Institute. Hopefully the number of available scholarships will also continue to increase. It all comes down to a strong belief that Swedish higher education has a lot to offer the world, and that the world has a lot to offer to Swedish higher education.

It is truly a challenge for the Swedish universities, which I hope they will take on with passion.

*Update: If you want to find out more about the reasons for introducing tuition fees, please follow this link.

Karl Peterson — Study

February 3, 2011