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. 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 Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
- Department of Zoology
Chemistry
- Chemistry Section
- 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 (In Swedish)
- 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 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 (In Swedish)
Centres and institutes within the Faculty of Science
- ALBANOVA with House of Science and Nordita
- Bergius Botanic Garden
- Stockholm Resilience Centre
- Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre
Faculty of Humanities
Departments within the Faculty of Humanities
- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
- Department of Baltic Languages, Finnish and German
- Department of English
- Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies
- Department of French, Italian and Classical Languages (from 1 August 2013 part of Department of Romance Studies and Classics)
- 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
- Department of Musicology and Performance Studies
- Department of Oriental Languages
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Romance Studies and Classics
- Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (In Swedish)
- Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (In Swedish) (from 1 August 2013 part of Department of Romance Studies and Classics)
- Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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 Interpreting and Translation Studies
Faculty of Law
Departments within the Faculty of Law
Faculty of Social Sciences
Departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences
- Department of Advertising and Public Relations (In Swedish) (merges with School of Business from 1 August 2013)
- 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 Science (CeSAM) (In Swedish)
- 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)
Last updated:
October 4, 2013
Source: Vice-Chancellor's Office/Jenny Gardbrant