 thumb|200px|main building in winter thumb|200px|main courtyard in summer thumb|right|200px|kth "courtyard" ("borggÃ¥rden")  the royal institute of technology (, abbreviated kth) is a university in stockholm, sweden. kth was founded in 1827 as sweden's first polytechnic and is one of scandinavia's largest (the largest by certain definitions) institutions of higher education in technology. kth accounts for one-third of sweden's technical research and engineering education capacity at university level. kth offers programmes leading to a master of architecture, master of science in engineering, bachelor of science in engineering, bachelor of science, master of science, licentiate or doctoral degree. the university also offers a technical preparatory programme for non-scientists and further education.http://www.kth.se/en/studies/programmes/master/em/thrust/consortium/partner-universities-1.43040 there are a total of just over 14 000 full-year equivalent undergraduate students, more than 1700 active postgraduate students and 4600 full-time-equivalent employees.http://www.kth.se/en/om/fakta kth is one of the leading technical universities in europe "world top 100 university engineering faculties" international ranking, retrieved on 2007-05-24http://www.metro.se/2010/01/22/72428/
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