Yesterday the University Chancellor Board and Statistics Sweden published a report on doctoral students and degrees at postgraduate level. Last year, 3700 people began to study for a PhD, which is 200 more than the year before. The increase is greatest in the research topics social sciences and humanities. But by far the largest area for doing a PhD in is still medicine and health sciences.
The gender distribution among doctoral students is even, 48 percent women and 52 percent men, but there are big differences between the various research disciplines.
Most new students was in 2012 at Lund University and the Karolinska Institute.
Read more at University Chancellor Board’s website (in Swedish):
