Facts and Figures

Below you find facts and figures on SLU, based on SLU’s Annual Report for 2011 (only available in Swedish). You find additional information in the PowerPoint presentation (Swedish, 2012-04-18, 3,6 Mb), (English, 2012-05-11, 3 Mb). 

SLU had in 2011
2 920 full-time staff
4 102 full-time students
   742 research students

Education Undergraduate level (Bachelor’s programmes)

The table above shows the number of applicants and students admitted at undergraduate level at SLU. The number of applicants between programmes still varies considerably.

Animal-related programmes receive the highest number of applicants (in descending order: programmes in Animal Nursing, Veterinary Medicine, Ethology and Animal Welfare, and Agriculture with specialisation in Animals). They are followed by the Landscape Architecture Programme, the Forestry Programme and the Horticultural Management Programme. During the last three years, the Agriculture Programme with specialisation in Rural Development has become more popular than established specialisations in Food and Soil/Plants, which have empty seats.
 

Advanced level (Master’s programmes)

2010 was the last year of non-fee courses in Sweden for students coming from outside the EU/EEC area. The table above clearly shows the effects of the new fees. From 2011 the number of admitted students has decreased by more than 50 percent. Compared to before, a greater part of the students admitted still begin their studies.  

Research

SLU’s scientific publication has increased continuously since the mid 2000s. An analysis made of 2011’s publishing shows that ten research areas account for about half of all publications. Most papers are produced within the area of veterinary science followed by ecology and environmental science.

Scientific publication

Number of papers (diagram) and joint publication (table).

 
The table shows articles with at least one SLU address during 2001-2011. There is some lagging behind of registrations in Web of Science, why the figure for 2011 is an estimate on a sample taken in January 2012, adjusted upwards by 10%. 

Income from EU and other international funds

The major part (70 percent in 2011) of the EU grants comes from EU’s Framework Programmes (FP) for research and development..

Examples of other EU programmes funding SLU research projects in 2011 are the environment programme LIFE and INTERREG, a structural fund to promote European regional development. The 7th Framework Programme is the largest separate international financial source in 2011.

Research education

SLU has circa 700 active research students, more than half of them female. Over the last three years there has been a slight increase in the number of active research students, probably because of an increased admission from 2007 onwards. The stipulated time for a Doctor's degree is eight semesters. For a Doctor's degree at SLU the average time is 8.9 semesters. Regarding the individual character of the education and the risk for planned obstacles in research the result is acceptable. 

 
Environmental monitoring and assessment

SLU’s mission to conduct environmental monitoring and assessment gives the university a unique role among Swedish universities. The starting point is society’s needs, as expressed by Swedish Parliament in Sweden’s Environmental Quality Objectives, in international obligations and in the overall objective of a sustainable development. Nearness to research and the interaction it entails is an obvious motive for why environmental monitoring and assessment should be conducted at SLU.

For the years 2009–2011, SLU has received an additional contribution of SEK 40 million for 2009 and another SEK 5 million per annum for 2010 and 2011 for activities within environmental monitoring and assessment. Now most of this money has been cancelled, which means that some activities have to be terminated during 2012.

The research consortium Swedish LifeWatch was established in 2011, partly funded by The Swedish Research Council. The Swedish Species Information Centre leads the consortium, a collaboration between SLU, the universities of Gothenburg, Lund and Umeå, The Swedish Museum of Natural History and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Large parts of the Department of Aquatic Resources (former parts of the Swedish Board of Fisheries) was added to the field Environmental monitoring and assessment from July 1, 2011. 

Human resources

Full-time staff equivalents per tenure category 2007 – 2011

The table above shows that the most increasing categories between 2010 and 2011 are Assistant Professors, Postdoctoral Fellows, Doctoral Students and Laboratory staff (in particular Reserch Engineers). The increased number of Assistant Professors and the decreased number of Lecturers is the result of an intentional effort to raise the competence in the education staff.

Finances

Total income amounted to 2 963 million SEK in 2011 (2010: 2 788 million SEK). This is an increase of 111 million SEK compared to 2010. Operating costs amounted to 3 024 million SEK in 2011 (2010: 2 788 million SEK), an increase in costs of 236 million SEK (8 per cent).

Costs per operational area 2011

Faculties,
Key numbers 2011