Chalmers tekniska högskola

See also: CTH

Chalmers tekniska högskola ( CTH , in English Chalmers University off Technology , in French Polytechnic school Chalmers ) is a University engineers with Gothenburg in Sweden.

Founded in 1829 thanks to the gifts of William Chalmers, a commercial rich person of Gothenburg, his currency is Avancez .

Chalmers belongs to the triptych of major polytechnic schools “CTH-LTH-KTH”, abbreviation of the schools of engineers de Göteborg, Lund and Stockholm, and which forms the near total of the Swedish engineers.

In 2004-2005, it accommodates 10  600 students of which 1  000 doctorands. Approximately 1  600 professors or researchers work there. It forms about 40  % of the Swedish engineers.

It is the only higher establishment of Sweden to bear the name of a personality if one excludes the institutions carrying of the names of royal origins (like KTH or Karolinska Institut).

The school has a observatory specialized in millimetre-length Radioastronomie. This observatory is on the peninsula of Onsala, with a few tens of kilometers in the south of Gothenburg.

See too

Internal bonds

• the University of Gothenburg: Göteborgs universitet
• the Polytechnic school of Lund: Lunds Tekniska Högskola
• the royal technological Institute of Stockholm: Kungliga tekniska högskolan

External bond

• the official site of Chalmers in Swedish and English: www.chalmers.se

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