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The Faculty of Medicine in numbers

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Employees & students: The Faculty of Medicine has approximately 2,000 employees and 3,000 full-year students spread across three campuses in Lund, Malmö and Helsingborg. Of the employees, approximately 350 are professors and lecturers, approximately 1,000 teachers, researchers and post docs, and approximately 1000 pHd students.

Education: The Faculty has eight programmes at basic level. At advanced level, there are two Master's programmes, seven Specialist Nursing Programmes and a Midwifery Programme. The Faculty also has a one-year Introductory Programme in Health Sciences as well as a range of freestanding courses in Medicine and Health. The Medical Programme and the Nursing Programme are the largest of our educational programmes.

The Faculty also has a Doctoral Programme with approximately 1,000 doctoral students and approximately 150 dissertations are held each year.

Research: The Faculty holds 500 research groups. Half of the Faculty's research activities are financed by state grants and state council grants, the remaining funding comes mainly from foundations.

The Faculty's turnover amounts to SEK 3.2 billion, of which four fifths go to research and one fifth to education.

Financial contributions: SEK 1.4 billion in state budget funds (including ALF), SEK 1.8 billion come from other contributors.

The figures were updated in February 2025.

Full Time Students: 3 000

Employees: 1804

PhD Students: 1 023

Research Groups: 523

Professors: 204

Visiting Professors: 4

Senior Lecturers: 156

Assistant Senior Lecturers: 4

Postdocs: 112

Other research staff: 436

Dissertations: 154

Campuses: 3

Bachelor´s level programmes: 8

Master´s level programmes: 2

National Research Infrastructures: 14

SFOs: 4

Turnover: SEK 3,4 billion (Research: 81%, education: 19%)

Government funding: SEK 1,4 billion

Other financial contributors: SEK 1,8 billion