KTH

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
Motto	Vetenskap och konst
Motto in English	Science and Art
Type	Public Research University
Established	1827
Budget	SEK 4.124 billion
Chairman	Börje Ekholm
President	Prof. Sigbritt Karlsson
Academic staff	500
Administrative staff	4,600
Students	14,500 (FTE, 2009)
Doctoral students	1,700
Location	, Sweden
Campus	Urban
Colors	Blue
Affiliations	CLUSTER, CESAER, EUA, TIME network et al., PEGASUS
Website	www.kth.se/en

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Swedish: Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden, specialized in Engineering and Technology, that ranks highest in northern mainland Europe in its academic fields. The current King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf is its High Protector.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology was in 1827 transformed into Sweden's first polytechnic by the King Charles XIV John of Sweden modeled after École Polytechnique, l´X, founded by Napoleon I in Paris, France in 1794. The King of Sweden at the time had prior to his crowning been Marshal of the French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte. He is known in Sweden as Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, the father of the current Swedish Royal dynasty.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology has since its founding served as one of Europe’s key centers of innovation and intellectual talent for almost two hundred years. It does so today as well, being the university of technology with the highest international ranking in northern Europe, (comprised by Sweden, Scandinavia, Baltics, Poland and Germany). In this area, only the Technical University of Munich is ranked higher.

The faculty of KTH Royal Institute of Technology faculty has been awarded by 4 of the Great Prizes in Engineering: 2 Nobel Prizes and 2 of the two Nobel prize equivalents in Mathematics: 1 Abel Prize and 1 Fields Medal.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is the academic driving force of the world's cell phone infrastructure development (4G/LTE) at its Kista Science City - the world's foremost telecommunications infrastructure research park, research home and Headquarters of the market leader Ericsson Group, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Tele2, IBM Nordic, Microsoft Sweden among others. Notable former students are Daniel Ek, co-founder and CEO of the world brand Spotify 2006, seventy years of Swedish KTH branded corporate history after Gustaf Larson, co-founder of another world brand, Volvo Corporation 1926, the latter with Stockholm-educated Assar Gabrielsson.