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Chalmers University of Technology ( sv, Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in
Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...
that conducts research and education in technology and natural sciences at a high international level. The university has approximately 3100 employees and 10,000 students, and offers education in engineering, science, shipping, architecture and other management areas. Chalmers is coordinating the Graphene Flagship, the European Union's biggest research initiative to bring graphene innovation out of the lab and into commercial applications, and leading the development of a Swedish quantum computer.


History

The university was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers, a director of the Swedish East India Company. He donated part of his fortune for the establishment of an "industrial school". Chalmers is one of only three universities in Sweden which are named after a person, the other two being Karolinska Institutet and Linnaeus University.


Departments

Beginning 1 May 2017, Chalmers has 13 departments. * Architecture and Civil Engineering * Biology and Biological Engineering * Chemistry and Chemical Engineering * Communication and Learning in Science * Computer Science and Engineering * Electrical Engineering * Industrial and Materials Science * Mathematical Sciences * Mechanics and Maritime Sciences * Microtechnology and Nanoscience * Physics * Space, Earth and Environment * Technology Management and Economics Furthermore, Chalmers is home to six Areas of Advance and six national competence centers in key fields such as materials, mathematical modelling, environmental science, and vehicle safety.


Research infrastructure

Chalmers University of Technology's research infrastructure includes everything from advanced real or virtual labs to large databases, computer capacity for large-scale calculations and research facilities. * Chalmers AI Research Centre, CHAIR * Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, C3SE * Chalmers Mass Spectrometry Infrastructure, CMSI * Chalmers Power Central * Chalmers Materials Analysis Laboratory * Chalmers Simulator Centre * Chemical Imaging Infrastructure * Facility for Computational Systems Biology * HSB Living Lab * Nanofabrication Laboratory * Onsala Space Observatory * Revere – Chalmers Resource for Vehicle Research * The National laboratory in terahertz characterisation
SAFER
- Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre at Chalmers


Rankings and reputation

Since 2012, Chalmers has achieved the highest reputation for Swedish Universities by the Kantar Sifo's Reputation Index. According to the survey, Chalmers is the most well-known university in Sweden regarded as a successful and competitive high-class institution with a large contribution to society and credibility in media. In 2018, a benchmarking report from MIT ranked Chalmers top 10 in the world of engineering education. Additionally, based on the U-Multirank rankings, the European Commission recognized Chalmers as one of Europe's top universities in 2019, while in 2022, Chalmers received the highest number of ‘A’ (very good) scores on the institutional level for Sweden. Furthermore, in 2020, the World University Research Rankings placed Chalmers 12th in the world based on the evaluation of three key research aspects, namely research multi-disciplinarity, research impact, and research cooperativeness, while the QS World University Rankings, placed Chalmers 81st in the world in graduate employability. Additionally, in 2021, the
Academic Ranking of World Universities The ''Academic Ranking of World Universities'' (''ARWU''), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, is one of the annual publications of world university rankings. The league table was originally compiled and issued by Shanghai Jiao Tong University ...
, placed Chalmers 51–75 in the world in the field of electrical & electronic engineering, the QS World University Rankings, placed Chalmers 79th in the world in the field of engineering & technology, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, ranked Chalmers 68th in the world for engineering & technology and the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking placed Chalmers 84th in the world for engineering. In the 2011 International Professional Ranking of Higher Education Institutions, which is established on the basis of the number of alumni holding a post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) or equivalent in one of the Fortune Global 500 companies, Chalmers ranked 38th in the world, ranking 1st in Sweden and 15th in Europe.


Ties and partnerships

Chalmers is a member of the IDEA League network, a strategic alliance between five leading European universities of science and technology. The scope of the network is to provide the environment for students, researchers and staff to share knowledge, experience and resources. Additionally, Chalmers is a member of the Nordic Five Tech network, a strategic alliance of the five leading technical universities in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The Nordic Five Tech universities are amongst the top international technical universities with the goal of creating synergies within education, research and innovation. Moreover, Chalmers is a partner of the UNITECH International, an organization consisting of distinguished technical universities and multinational companies across Europe. UNITECH helps bridge the gap between the industrial and academic world offering exchange programs consisting of studies as well as an integrated internship at one of the corporate partners. Chalmers has also established formal agreements with three leading materials science centers: University of California, Santa Barbara,
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and
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. Within the framework of the agreements, a yearly bilateral workshop is organized, and exchange of researchers is supported. The University has general exchange agreements with many European and U.S. universities and maintains a special exchange program agreement with National Chiao Tung University (
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) in Taiwan where the exchange students from the two universities maintain offices for, among other things, helping local students with applying and preparing for an exchange year as well as acting as representatives. Furthermore, Chalmers has strong partnerships with major industries mostly in the Gothenburg region such as Ericsson, Volvo,
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and AstraZeneca.


Students

Approximately 40% of Sweden's graduate engineers and architects are educated at Chalmers. Each year, around 250 postgraduate degrees are awarded as well as 850 graduate degrees. About 1,000 post-graduate students attend programmes at the university, and many students are taking Master of Science engineering programmes and the Master of Architecture programme. Since 2007, all master's programmes are taught in English for both national and international students. This was a result of the adaptation to the Bologna process that started in 2004 at Chalmers (as the first technical university in Sweden). Currently, about 10% of all students at Chalmers come from countries outside Sweden to enrol in a master's or PhD program. Around 2,700 students also attend Bachelor of Science engineering programmes, merchant marine and other undergraduate courses at Campus Lindholmen. Chalmers also shares some students with Gothenburg University in the joint IT University project. The
IT University IT University is a joint department between Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. This joint venture offers a great scope for cooperation between researchers with different areas of expertise and academic s ...
focuses exclusively on information technology and offers bachelor's and master's programmes with degrees issued from either Chalmers or Gothenburg University, depending on the programme. Chalmers confers honorary doctoral degrees to people outside the university who have shown great merit in their research or in society.


Organization

Chalmers is an
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with 100 shares à 1,000 SEK, all of which are owned by the Chalmers University of Technology Foundation, a private foundation, which appoints the university board and the president. The foundation has its members appointed by the Swedish government (4 to 8 seats), the departments appoint one member, the
student union A students' union, also known by many other names, is a student organization present in many colleges, universities, and high schools. In higher education, the students' union is often accorded its own building on the campus, dedicated to social, ...
appoints one member and the president automatically gains one chair.Statues of Chalmers University of Technology Foundation, paragraph 5
. Chalmers University of Technology. Retrieved on 9 August 2011.
Each department is led by a department head, usually a member of the faculty of that department. The faculty senate represents members of the faculty when decisions are taken.


Campuses

In 1937, the school moved from the city centre to the new Gibraltar Campus, named after the mansion which owned the grounds, where it is now located. The Lindholmen College Campus was created in the early 1990s and is located on the island
Hisingen Hisingen () is the fifth-largest island of Sweden (after Gotland, Öland, Södertörn and Orust), with an area of . It is a river island, formed by the split of the Göta Älv at Bohus, and is defined to the east and south by the main arm of tha ...
. Campus Johanneberg and Campus Lindholmen, as they are now called, are connected by bus lines.


Student societies and traditions

Traditions include the graduation ceremony and
the Cortège The Cortège ( sv, Cortègen), or The Chalmers Cortège (Swedish: ''Chalmerscortègen'') is an annual carnival parade held on Walpurgis Night (30 April) by students of the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. The Cortège consists of ...
procession, an annual public event. * Chalmers Students' Union * Chalmers Aerospace Club – founded in 1981. In
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frequently also referred to as ''Chalmers rymdgrupp'' (roughly ''Chalmers Space Group''). Members of CAC led the ESA funded CACTEX (Chalmers Aerospace Club Thermal EXperiment) project where the thermal conductivity of alcohol at zero gravity was investigated using a
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. * Chalmers Alternative Sports – Student association organizing trips and other activities working to promote alternative sports. Every year the Chalmers Wake arranges a pond wakeboard contest in the fountain outside the architecture building at Chalmers. * Chalmersbaletten *
Chalmers Ballong Corps Chalmers Ballong Corps (CBC) is a students' hot-air ballooning club at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. (The word ''Ballong'' is Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern ...
* Chalmers Baroque Ensemble * Chalmers Business Society (CBS) *
CETAC Chalmers Engineering Trainee Appointment Committee (CETAC) is a student group located at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. The sole purpose of the organisation is to bring American companies and Swedish students together. Ea ...
* Chalmers Choir *ETA -
E-sektionens Teletekniska Avdelning
Founded in 1935, it's a student-run amateur radio society that also engages in hobby electronics. * Chalmers Film and Photography Committee (CFFC) * Chalmersspexet – Amateur theater group which has produced new plays since 1948 * Chalmers International Reception Committee (CIRC) * XP – Committee that is responsible for the experimental workshop, a workshop open for students * Chalmers Program Committee – PU * Chalmers Students for Sustainability (CSS) – promoting sustainable development among the students and runs projects, campaigns and lectures * Föreningen Chalmers Skeppsbyggare,
Chalmers Naval Architecture Students' Society The Chalmers Naval Architecture Students' Society (also known as the Föreningen Chalmers Skeppsbyggare or FCS ) is a naval architecture graduate students group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. The Society was found in 1887 following t ...
(FCS) * Chalmers Sailing Society * RANG – Chalmers Indian Association * Caster – Developing and operating a Driver in the Loop (DIL) simulator, which is used in various courses and projects


Notable alumni

* Christopher Ahlberg,
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and entrepreneur, Spotfire and Recorded Future founder * Rune Andersson, Swedish Industrialist, owner of Mellby GÃ¥rd AB and billionaire *
Abbas Anvari Abbas Anvari is an Iranian Professor in Physics. He has a Ph.D. in physics from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He served as the chancellor of Sharif University of Technology Sharif University of Technology (SUT; fa, دانشگاه ...
, former chancellor of Sharif University of Technology * Linn Berggren, artist and former member of Ace of Base * Gustaf Dalén, Nobel Prize in Physics * Sigfrid Edström, director ASEA, president IOC * Claes-Göran Granqvist, physicist *
Margit Hall Margit Dagmar Hall (19 July 1901, St Petersburg — 30 May 1937, Bispgården) was a Swedish architect. She was the first woman to take the architect examination at Chalmers Technical Institute in Gothenburg and the first woman in Sweden to gradu ...
, first female architect in Sweden * Harald Hammarström, linguist *
Krister Holmberg Krister Holmberg, born 1946, is a Swedish chemist. Holmberg took a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1974. He then worked in industry for many years and he was R&D Director of Berol Nobel i ...
, professor of Surface Chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology. * Mats Hillert, metallurgist * Ivar Jacobson,
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* Erik Johansson, photographic surrealistFAQ & Biography
, Retrieved 16 Oct. 2014
* Jan Johansson, jazz musician *
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, former CEO Volvo *
Olav Kallenberg Olav Kallenberg (born 1939) is a probability theorist known for his work on exchangeable stochastic processes and for his graduate-level textbooks and monographs. Kallenberg is a professor of mathematics at Auburn University in Alabama in the US ...
, probability theorist *
Marianne Kärrholm Ebba Marianne Kärrholm née Hellsten (1921–2018) was a Swedish chemical engineer and educator. Conducting research from 1945 at the Swedish Textile Research Institute at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, she collaborated with te ...
, chemical engineer and Chalmers professor *
Hjalmar Kumlien Knut Hjalmar Kumlien (17 March 1837 – 12 October 1897) was a Swedish architect. Biography Kumlien was born in the parish of Härlunda in Västergötland, Sweden. He was the son of Ludvig Kumlien and Petronella Johanna Rhodin. Kumlien graduated ...
, architect * Abraham Langlet, chemist *
Martin Lorentzon Sven Hans Martin Lorentzon (; born 1 April 1969) is a Swedish entrepreneur and co-founder of Tradedoubler and Spotify. From 2013 to 2018 he was on the board of Telia Company. Since April 2019 he has been an expert on Sweden's immigrants' integr ...
, Spotify and TradeDoubler founder *
Ingemar Lundström Ingemar Lundström, born 9 May 1941 in Skellefteå, Sweden, is a Swedish professor of applied physics at Linköping University. Professor Lundström received his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1967 at Chalmers University of Technology and his ...
, physicist, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics *
Carl Magnusson Carl Gustav Magnusson (born March 8, 1940) is an industrial designer, inventor, design juror and lecturer. Life and career Carl Gustav Magnusson was born in Malmö, Sweden and grew up in Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. H ...
, industrial designer and inventor * Semir Mahjoub, businessman and entrepreneur * Peter Nordin,
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and entrepreneur *
Åke Öberg Per "Åke" Öberg, born 1937 in Härnösand, is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Linköping University, Sweden. Öberg received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1964 from Chalmers University of Technology and his Ph.D. in Biomedical En ...
, biomedical scientist * Leif Östling, CEO Scania AB * PewDiePie (Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg), YouTuber (no degree) * Carl Abraham Pihl, engineer and director of first Norwegian railroad ( Hovedbanen) *
Richard Soderberg Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Frankish language, Old Frankish and is a Compound (linguistics), compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' an ...
, businessman, inventor and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Hans Stråberg, former President and CEO of Electrolux * Ludvig Strigeus,
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and entrepreneur *
Per HÃ¥kan Sundell Per HÃ¥kan Sundell (born 1968, Sweden) is a programmer and computer scientist with roots in the scene and early computer enthusiasts of the eighties, when he was known as PHS of CCS (Computerbrains Cracking Service). Biography HÃ¥kan currently ho ...
,
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and entrepreneur *
Jan Wäreby Jan Wäreby (born 1956) in Karlskoga, Sweden, is the current Head of Group Function Sales and Senior Vice President at Ericsson. Career Jan Wäreby began his career at Ericsson in 1980 and worked in the transmission unit. He was assigned to the C ...
, businessman *
Gert Wingårdh Gert Wingårdh (born 1951) is a Swedish architect whose company, Wingårdh arkitektkontor, maintains an international practice.''Gert Wingårdh; Thirty Years of Architecture'', Mikael Nanfeldt (ed.) (Birkhäuser Publishers for Architecture, 2008 ...
, architect *
Vera Sandberg Vera Helfrid Victoria Sandberg (born 23 May 1895 at ''Hångers gård'' (English language, Eng:Hångers farm) in Ljungby; died 24 December 1979 in Stockholm) was a Swedish engineer. In 1917, she became Sweden's first female engineer. Biography V ...
, engineer * Anna von Hausswolff, musician *
Anita Schjøll Brede Anita Schjøll Brede (born 198*) is a Norwegian entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Iris.AI. Early life She grew up in Bærum, Norway. Education She received her Bachelor in Theatre and Communication studies. She also studied a master's degree ...
, entrepreneur


Presidents

Although the official Swedish title for the head is "rektor", the university now uses "President" as the English translation.


See also

*
Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship, CSE, is both an educational platform encompassing a Master’s Program and a pre-incubator. The Master's Program started 1997 and is a collaboration between Chalmers University of Technology and University of Go ...
*
IT University of Göteborg IT University is a joint department between Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. This joint venture offers a great scope for cooperation between researchers with different areas of expertise and academic s ...
* List of universities in Sweden *
Marie RÃ¥dbo Elsa Marie RÃ¥dbo, born 19 June 1946 in Stockholm, is a Swedish astronomer. In 1973, she started working as an astronomer at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg and is currently employed at the University of Gothenburg. She has p ...
, astronomer * The International Science Festival in Gothenburg * University of Gothenburg (Göteborg University)


References


External links


Chalmers University of Technology
– official site
Chalmers Student Union

Chalmers Alumni Association
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