The Faculty of Medicine in numbers

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 six programmes at basic level and thirteen programmes at advanced level. 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 3.4 billion, of which four fifths go to research and one fifth to education.

Financial contributions: SEK 1.5 billion in state budget funds (including ALF), SEK 2.0 billion come from other contributors.

The figures were updated in February 2026.