General description
Stockholm School of Economics
The Stockholm School of Economics, SSE is a private university with very little dependence on government support (about 20 percent of total revenue per annum) that trains young and mid-career women and men for leading positions in both the private and public sectors. About 2,000 students are registered in programs at various levels (the Executive Education Programs excluded). SSE research programs rank among the best in the world in areas such as Health Economics, Finance, Business Law and Economics, to name but a few.
SSE was founded in 1909 on the initiative of Swedish business leaders, and the School has maintained close ties with the business community ever since.
SSE has international presence in Riga and St. Petersburg/Moscow and is represented in other ways in Tokyo and Helsinki.
SSE operates an extensive Student Exchange Program with 60 of the world's most renowned business schools as our partner universities.
SSE collaborates with several leading institutions of higher education around the world. In 1999, SSE became the first Swedish university to be fully accredited by EQUIS (The European Quality Improvement System). SSE is the Swedish member institution of CEMS (The Community of European Management Schools) and the only Nordic representative in ICEDR (International Consortium for Executive Development Research), a society comprising the 25 foremost business schools (Harvard University, MIT, Wharton, among others) of business and 40 of the leading corporations (ABB, Deutsche Bank, Unilever, Ericsson to mention a few) in the world.

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Stockholm School of Economics
Kelly Ragan
Department of Economics
Stockholm School of Economics
113 83 Stockholm
Sweden
phone: +46-8-736 9220
mail
www.hhs.se

 

General Description
Stockholm University

Stockholm University offers one of the best environments in Europe for research and higher education in economics. Former students are employed as economists in a wide range of fields, such as national and international organizations, governments, business and finance. The economics departments at Stockholm University – the Department of Economics, the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) and the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) are ranked no. 22 in Europe and no. 2 in Sweden (no. 84 in the world) in the Tilburg University list of the top 100 economics departments.

The department today consists of 30 researchers and teachers with a doctoral degree; 11 full professors, 1 visiting professor, 8 associate professors/senior lecturers and 10 assistant professors or post-docs. There are about 60 active graduate students, 40 of whom have started their thesis work.

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Stockholm University
Prof. Sten Nyberg
Department of Economics
Stockholm University
113 83 Stockholm
Sweden
phone: +46-8-16 33 05
fax: +46-8-31 32 07
mail
www.ne.su.se