Mid Sweden University is a Swedish state university located in the region around the geographical center of Sweden, with two campuses in the cities of Östersund and Sundsvall. 

Organization

Mid Sweden University has two authorised areas of research (vetenskapsområden), organized under the Faculty of Science, Technology and Media (since 2001), and the Faculty of Human Sciences (since 2005) respectively. Education and research is also organized under the Faculty of Educational Sciences (lärarutbildningsnämnden).

The university was organized into eight departments, of which four are multi-campus departments:

• Faculty of Human Sciences:
  • Department of Humanities
  • Department of Social Sciences
  • Department of Social Work
  • Department of Health Sciences
• Faculty of Science, Technology and Media:
  • Department of Information Technology and Media
  • Department of Natural Sciences
  • Department of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics
• Faculty of Educational Sciences:
  • Department of Education

Education

The university has offered bachelor’s degree (kandidatexamen) and Swedish master’s degree (magisterexamen, one year) in a wide range of subjects since 1994, doctoral degree (doktorsexamen and licentiatexamen) since 2001, and International master’s degree (masterexamen, two years) according to the Bologna model since 2005. Mid Sweden University also offers professional degrees within Master of Science and Engineering (civilingenjörsexamen, similar to German Diploma engineer) since 2003,^[4] and as engineer, teacher, nurse, specialist nurse, social worker/welfare officer (socionom), journalist and, from 2008, Psychologist.

The university’s two main campuses have different focuses but with some overlap. The Sundsvall campus has a school of education and offers various courses in the humanities and arts. It also has a wide range of courses and degrees in the technical and natural sciences and journalism. The Östersund campus focuses on graduate degrees in tourism, health care, social work and public administration. Campus Östersund also has Sweden’s only ecotechnology programme. Besides the above, education and research within digital printing technology is located to the city of Örnsköldsvik.

The institution is also well known for a wide range of web-based distance education.

Number of students and employees

In school year 2009/2010, the university had 21,476 undergraduate students (including master students) with 4,000 of them based in Östersund, 4,000 in Sundsvall, 2,000 in Härnösand and the rest are learning on distance. The university has 235 doctoral students, about 800 teachers, of which 80 were employed professors, and totally more than 1000 employees.