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Centre of Excellence in Higher Education Award Application 2009
Undergraduate Education at KTH School of Computer Science and Communication

In 2009 the undergraduate education at CSC applied for the award Excellence in Higher Education Award (HSVs utmärkelse för framstående utbildningsmiljö). This web page contains the application documents and links to further information that could be valuable for the international reviewers.

We got the award!

HSV gave us the award at a ceremony January 28, 2010.

Report from the evaluation group. The criteria for the award can be found in appendix 8 in the HSV report describing the whole quality system.

The KTH web had a short news item (in Swedish).

In March 23 2010 150 students and teachers celebrated the award with special cakes:

The application sent to HSV in April 2009

• Main application, base data and organization.
• Old version of the application from 2009-03-15 and the opinion on this version by our expert reviewer Lyle McGeoch.

Visit by the panel of experts

The panel of experts visited us October 20, 2009. The panel met three groups of six persons each during the afternoon in the Nada library. Here is more information about the visit and a list of participants from the school.

Links to further information

• General information about CSC
• Prizes and rewards at CSC
• Development plan for the undergraduate education at CSC 2009-2012, not yet formally accepted.
• Research at CSC
• Swedish Agency for Higher Education (HSV) subject assessment 2001 - Computer science.
• Swedish Agency for Higher Education (HSV) subject assessment 2002 - Mathematics.
• Ny Teknik article about the ranking of Swedish education programs 2007.
• ACM ICPC World finals in Stockholm 2009, world championship in programming.

Study programs with program objectives

• Computer Science and Engineering
• Media Technology
• Computer Science, Master program
• Media Technology, Master program
• Human-Computer Interaction, Master program
• Scientific Computing, Master program
• Media Management, Master program
• Computational and Systems Biology, Master program

Two Erasmus Mundus programmes started year 2010:

• Computer Simulations for Science and Engineering (COSSE)
• Systems Biology (euSYSBIO)

Official course plans for all courses at the school

Note that these lists contain third cycle (research level) courses as well as undergraduate courses.

• Computer science courses
• Numerical analysis courses
• Human-computer interaction courses
• Media technology courses
• Speech and music communication courses
• Other courses

Information to students at CSC

• Code of honor at CSC
• Organization of the education at CSC
• Courses taught in English at CSC
• Admission to courses at CSC

KTH general information

• Student web
• Study at KTH
• KTH home page

Reflections on the education, written by the teachers responsible for the education

• Ingrid Melinder: Long tradition of developing the education
• Stefan Arnborg: Varför läsa på data - flera sätt att bli internationell (Why study Computer Science and Engineering - several ways to become international, in Swedish)
• Olle Bälter: Inside Information on Williams College from the Outside, 2009.
• Olle Bälter: Inspiration till nytt pedagogiskt tänkande (Inspiration for new pedagogical thinking, in Swedish), 2009.
• Viggo Kann: Report from my visit at Amherst College August-December 2006, 2007.
• Viggo Kann: Målrelaterade betygskriterier kräver modifierad examination - examination efter betygskriterier i en algoritmkurs på KTH (in Swedish), HSVs kvalitetskonferens 2007, Umeå.
• Viggo Kann: Effektiv, formativ och målrelaterad sluttenta (Efficient, formative and criterion-referenced final exam, in Swedish) Utvecklingskonferensen 2008, KTH.
• Viggo Kann: Lärarbemanning för kvalitet (Teacher manning for quality, in Swedish) HSVs kvalitetskonferens 2009, Stockholm.
• Björn Hedin: Program integrating course: A tool for reflection and quality management, Utvecklingskonferensen 2009, LTH.