Departments
At Stockholm University there are approximately seventy departments and centres within the Faculties of Humanities, Law, Sciences and Social Sciences.
The following list comprises all departments and centres arranged alphabetically according to faculty. Where possible links are given to the English version of the departmental website. If a website exists in Swedish but not in English this is indicated by the initials (SE). Some departments have several websites, and in such cases each section of the department name contains a link to the relevant web page.
Departments/Sections within the Faculty of Science
Biology
Department of Biology Education
Department of Botany
Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology
Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics
Department of Systems Ecology
Wenner-Gren Institute
Department of Zoology
Chemistry
Chemistry Section (SE)
Department of Analytical Chemistry
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Department of Neurochemistry
Department of Organic Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences Section (SE)
Department of Applied Environmental Science (ITM)
Department of Geological Sciences
Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology
Mathematics and Physics
Department of Astronomy
Department of Education in Arts and Professions (SE)
Department of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Science Education
Department of Meteorology
Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science
Department of Physics
Field stations and laboratories
Askö Laboratory
Tarfala Research Station
Tovetorp (SE)
Centres and institutes within the Faculty of Science
ALBANOVA with House of Science and Nordita
Bergius Botanic Garden
Stockholm Center for Marine Research
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities website (SE)
Departments within the Faculty of Humanities
Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
Department of Baltic Languages, Finnish and German
Department of Education in Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English
Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies
Department of French, Italian and Classical Languages
Department of History
Department of Art History
Department of Language Education
Department of Linguistics
Department of Literature and History of Ideas
Department of Media Studies (SE)
Department of Musicology and Performance Studies
Department of Oriental Languages
Department of Philosophy
Department of Scandinavian Languages
Department of Slavic Languages (SE)
Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (SE)
Centres and institutes within the Faculty of Humanities
Centre for Teaching and Learning in the Humanities – CeHum
Centre for Fashion Studies
Centre for Research on Bilingualism
Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies
Faculty of Law
Departments within the Faculty of Law
Department of Law
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences website
Departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Advertising and Public Relations (SE)
Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
Department of Child and Youth Studies (including the Centre for the Studies of Children's Culture)
Department of Criminology
Department of Economic History
Department of Economics
Department of Education (including the Institute of International Education)
Department of Human Geography
Department of Political Science
Department of Psychology
School of Business
Department of Social Anthropology
Department of Social Work
Department of Sociology (including Demography Unit)
Department of Special Education
Department of Statistics
Centres and institutes within the Faculty of Social Sciences
Aging Research Center (ARC)
Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS)
Centre for Teaching & Learning in the Social Sciences (SE)
Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE)
Stress Research Institute
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD)
Cross-disciplinary centres and institutes
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Web editor:
Paul Parker
Last updated:
April 25, 2012
Source: Communications Office

