Guiding principles and visionGuiding principles• Scientific and Educational

Expertise• Internationalization• Regional Benefit

VisionMälardalen University is to be a modern, flexible university that focuses on programs which lead to employment and provide useful solutions at the cutting edge of research on the basis of unique global-local collaboration and academic excellence.

1977 Mälardalen University is founded

65 Study programs on basic and advanced level

12 International Master Degree Programs (MIMA)

750 Courses

1000 Employees

50 Full professors

13 000 Students

MDU in numbers

Prioritized areas in research and education

•Embedded Systems

•Innovation and Product Realization

•Environment, Energy and Resource

Optimization

•Sustainable Development and Working Life

•Didactics and Inter-Cultural Communication

•Health and Welfare

The co-production university

• The study programmes are developed and evaluated with representatives from trade, industry and the public sector.

• The students have practical elements in their education.

• MDU has an Idealab where students, teachers and staff get support to create their own companies

• MDU works closely with the regional Technology Parks

• Regional benefit is one of the guiding principle when it comes to research.

• The Campus cities and MDU cooperate within the areas of education, welfare and the future´s labor.

A researching university that has…

• about 200 doctoral students

• about 50 full professors

• a large proportion of external research funding

• some ten research teams in technology of internationally recognized quality

• close, extensive co-operation with trade and industry and the public sector

Environmentally certified university• Environmentally certified since 1999

• Work environmentally certified since 2006

• The University promotes sustainable development in:

• In 2010, the first university in Sweden to receive the grade A for its internal quality systems

– community and enterprise relations – education and research

– day-to-day work

The international university• Mälardalen International Master Academy (MIMA)

• 1000 international students come to MDH each year, of which 40 procent come from the partner universities of MDU

• Teacher and student exchanges over the world, through approx. 300 agreements

• Coordinator of 3 Erasmus Mundus programmes

• International collaborate research projects and an increasing number of EU-projects.

To be a student at Mälardalen University

• Creative study environment

• Library at both campuses

• Special support services for students with disabilities

• The Student Union

• Guaranteed accomodation

• Free travel between the campuses