Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan

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	950
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, it ranks highest in northern mainland Europe in its academic fields. The current King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf is its High Protector.

The core of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology was the Laboratorium Mechanicum for research and teaching in mechanics, founded in in 1697 by Christopher Polhem after his extensive trips, studies and research abroad. This core was later called the Mechanical School prior to its 1827 transformation into The Technological Institute, Sweden's first institute of technology (polytechnic) by decision of the King Charles XIV John of Sweden, also Marshal of France, modeled after École Polytechnique which was founded by Napoleon Bonaparte in Paris, France in 1794. The Technological Institute changed its name to the present Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) in 1877 by decree of King Oscar II. The Laboratorium Mechanicum was itself in 1925 handed over from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology to the Swedish Museum of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is the highest ranked university of technology in northern mainland Europe, with the only two exceptions being the best technical universities of Germany and the Netherlands.

The main campus buildings at Valhallavägen in Östermalm, by architect Erik Lallerstedt, were completed in 1917. The bells of the clock-tower was completed at the 100 year anniversary of the transformation of the Mechanical School to The Technological Institute in 1927. The buildings and surroundings were decorated by prominent early 20th-century Swedish artists such as Carl Milles, Axel Törneman, Georg Pauli, Tore Strindberg and Ivar Johnsson. The older buildings on the campus were renovated heavily in 1994. While the original campus was large for its time, KTH very soon outgrew it, and the campus was expanded with new buildings. Today, KTH institutions and faculties are distributed across several campuses in , located in Flemingsberg, Haninge, Kista and Södertälje, beyond the ones in Östermalm.