PhD education at Swedish Universities Jonas Neander

Requirements for admission At least 120 university points –Linked towards the research area Professional experience The capacity of the applicant

Awards Licentiate degree –2 years (80p) –40p has to be a paper PhD degree –4 years (160p) –80p thesis, 40-60p courses –It is the highest academic degree

Duties 20% work at the department –Teaching undergraduate students –Laboratory supervisor –Calculating exercise supervisor –Other duties

Personal Curriculum Timetable for the education –Courses to take –Preliminary dates for articles/dissertation chapters Obligations –by the PhD student and by the faculty board

PhD students More than active PhD students –20% from foreign countries PhD doing 50% of the research The median age for admission is 29 The median age for PhD is PhDs was awarded in year 2000

Chalmers Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month) –First year –After lic –After 80 % Research profiles –Real-time systems, Dependable computing, Dependable software systems –Parallel and distributed architectures, High-performance computer architectures –Digital communication, Security, Security in computer networks –Efficient algorithms for generation of Virtual Reality pictures.

Linköpings University Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month) –First year –After 30% up to –After 60% up to Research profiles –Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems –Databases and Information Technique –Human-Centered Systems –Information Systems and Management –Software and Systems

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month) –First year –After 30% –After 50% –After 80% Research profiles –Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory –Autonomous Systems –Studies of Artificial Neural Systems –Theoretical Computer Science

Örebro University Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month) –First year –Second year –Third year –Fourth year Research profiles –The Biologically Inspired Sensing and Control Lab –The Mobile Robotics Lab –The Intelligent Control Lab –The Learning Systems Lab

Lund University Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month) –First year –After 80p+1000 –After 120p+1000 Research profiles –Algorithms and Data Structures –Software Development Environments –Artificial Intelligence –Embedded Systems Design