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3 Swedish universities make top 100 list

Three Swedish universities, Karolinska Institute (KI) and Uppsala and Stockholm Universities, made the top 100 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled annually by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Published: 18 August 2010 15:48 CEST
3 Swedish universities make top 100 list
Karolinska Institute

The university deemed Stockholm’s Karolinska the best post-secondary institution in Sweden and rated it 42nd overall in its compilation of 500 universities, rising from 50th spot last year.

“KI’s position is stable,” Björn Forslöw, international analyst at Karolinska said in a statement. “The change in ranking is based on very small changes in the weighted criteria.”

Karolinska also tied for ninth with the University of Pittsburgh among schools in the fields of clinical medicine and pharmacy, the only non-US university in the list.

Both Uppsala and Stockholm Universities also improved from their 2009 rankings to 66th and 79th from 76th and 88th respectively.

Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley topped the list. The University of Cambridge was the best non-American institution at fifth.

Rankings are based criteria including the number of Nobel Prizes won by each institution, citations in scientific journals and publications in journals with high impact factor.

Eight other Swedish schools also made the list:

Lund University: 106th

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg: 203rd

Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, KTH), Stockholm: 231st

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, SLU), Ultuna, Uppsala: 237th

Umeå University: 250th

University of Gothenburg: 265th

Stockholm School of Economics (Handelshögskolan i Stockholm): 346th

Linköping University: 433rd

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ISLAM

Police probe opened after poster campaign against ‘Islamophobic’ lecturers at French university

The French government condemned on Monday a student protest campaign targeting two university professors accused of Islamophobia, saying it could put the lecturers in danger.

Published: 8 March 2021 13:35 CET
Police probe opened after poster campaign against 'Islamophobic' lecturers at French university
Illustration photo: Justin Tallis/AFP

Student groups plastered posters last week on the walls of a leading political science faculty in Grenoble that likened the professors to “fascists” and named them both in a campaign backed by the UNEF student union.

Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa said the posters and social media comments recalled the online harassment of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty last October, who was beheaded in public after being denounced online for offending Muslims.

“These are really odious acts after what happened with the decapitation of Samuel Paty who was smeared in the same way on social networks,” she said on the BFM news channel. “We can’t put up with this type of thing.”

“When something is viewed as racist or discriminatory, there’s a hierarchy where you can report these types of issues, which will speak to the professor and take action if anything is proven,” Schiappa said.

Sciences Po university, which runs the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Grenoble in eastern France, also condemned the campaign on Monday and has filed a criminal complaint.

An investigation has been opened into slander and property damage after the posters saying “Fascists in our lecture halls. Islamophobia kills” were found on the walls of the faculty.

One of the professors is in charge of a course called “Islam and Muslims in contemporary France” while the other is a lecturer in German who has taught at the faculty for 25 years.

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