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Chalmers University of Technology

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Chalmers tekniska högskola
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Rector Jan-Eric Sundgren
School type Private
Founded 1829
Location Gothenburg, Sweden
Enrollment 10,500 grad.
1,000 post-grad.
Faculty 2,500
Budget 2,1 Billion SEK
Campus surroundings Urban

Chalmers University of Technology or Chalmers tekniska högskola is a university in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Table of contents
1 History
2 Schools
3 Students
4 Faculty
5 Campus
6 Societies and Traditions
7 Noted Chalmers alumni
8 Noted Chalmers faculty
9 See also
10 External links

History

Founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers, a director of the Swedish East India Company, and being run as a private institution until 1937, when the institute became a state owned university. In 1994 the school once again became a private institution, owned by a foundation.

Schools

Students

Approximately 40 per cent of Sweden's graduate engineers and architects were educated at Chalmers. Each year around 250 post graduate degrees are awarded as well as 850 graduate degrees. About 1 000 post graduate students attend programmes at the university and around 5 500 students are taking Master of Science engineering programmes and the Master of Architecture programme.

Around 2 700 are also attending Bachelor of Science engineering programmes, merchant marine and other undergraduate courses at the Chalmers Lindholmen University College affilliated to the university.

Faculty

Campus

In 1937 the school was moved out of the city center to the new Gibraltar Campus, named after the mansion which owned the grounds, where it now is located. The Lindholmen College Campus was created in the early 1990s and is located on the island of Hisingen.

Societies and Traditions

Noted Chalmers alumni

Noted Chalmers faculty

List of Presidents

1829-1852 Carl Palmstedt
1852-1881 Eduard von Schoultz
1881-1913 August Wijkander
1913-1933 Hugo Grauers
1934-1943 Sven Hultin
1943-1958 Gustav Hössjer
1958-1966 Lennart Rönnmark
1966-1974 Nils Gralén
1974-1989 Sven Olving
1989-1998 Anders Sjöberg
1998- Jan-Eric Sundgren

See also

External links