Low Soo Peng Sweden University

1. PhD education at Swedish
Universities

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 year 18 650
– After lic 21 400
– 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 year 18 750
– After 30% up to 22 750
– After 60% up to 24 250
• 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 year 18 300
– 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 year 16 500
– Second year 17 500
– Third year 18 700
– Fourth year 20 700
• 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 year 17 000-22 000
– After 80p +1000
– After 120p +1000
• Research profiles
– Algorithms and Data Structures
– Software Development Environments
– Artificial Intelligence
– Embedded Systems Design