Language of instruction and publication in Sweden / Undervisningsspråk och publiceringsspråk i Sverige

Report, 2024

The Department of Communication and Learning in Science, Chalmers University of Technology, carries out regular updates on the languages used for teaching and scholarly publication in Sweden (with a focus on the use of English and Swedish).
The content of this report is based on statistics from the Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR) and SwePub (a division of the National Library of
Sweden's country-wide union catalogue). For details of the methodology, see Malmström, H. & Pecorari, D. (2022). Language choice and internationalisation: The roles of Swedish and English in research and higher education.
The data in this report were collected and verified in May of 2024; UHR's principles for reporting data have altered marginally compared with the previous report of 2022.

The focus of the present report is the development between 2019 and 2023 (the period since the most recent major investigation), but some earlier data are presented in order to enable comparisons over time. The choice of language of instruction (within both degree programs and individual courses/modules) and language of publication (for doctoral theses and research articles) is presented primarily through graphics, with a summary and concluding discussion. Data are presented for all subject areas collectively and, where available, broken down by subject area.