1. PhD education at Swedish Universities Jonas Neander

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

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. PhD students More than 18 000 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 35 2166 PhDs was awarded in year 2000

7. Chalmers Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month) –First year18 650 –After lic21 400 –After 80 %22 150 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.

8. Linköpings University Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month) –First year18 750 –After 30% up to22 750 –After 60% up to24 250 Research profiles –Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems –Databases and Information Technique –Human-Centered Systems –Information Systems and Management –Software and Systems

9. Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month) –First year18 300 –After 30%19 000 –After 50%21 200 –After 80%22 300 Research profiles –Computational Vision and Active Perception Laboratory –Autonomous Systems –Studies of Artificial Neural Systems –Theoretical Computer Science

10. Örebro University Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month) –First year16 500 –Second year17 500 –Third year18 700 –Fourth year20 700 Research profiles –The Biologically Inspired Sensing and Control Lab –The Mobile Robotics Lab –The Intelligent Control Lab –The Learning Systems Lab

11. Lund University Salary as a PhD student (Skr/month) –First year17 000-22 000 –After 80p+1000 –After 120p+1000 Research profiles –Algorithms and Data Structures –Software Development Environments –Artificial Intelligence –Embedded Systems Design