University of Borås
Högskolan i Borås
UniversityBorås, SwedenFounded 197719,500 students (2025)
Overview
The University of Borås is a Swedish state university college on a city-centre campus in Borås, formed in the 1977 higher education reform from earlier textile, library, nursing and teacher training schools. It teaches through four faculties, including the Swedish School of Textiles and the Swedish School of Library and Information Science.
Facts
- Founded
- 1977 (textile education in Borås dates from 1866)
- Campus
- Borås
- Students
- About 19,500 registered; 6,579 full-year equivalents (2025)
- Employees
- 822 (2025)
- Programmes
- 64 programmes
Work at University of Borås
Hejobb collects vacancies from University of Borås and lists them alongside every other academic role in Sweden.
Sources
- Högskolan i siffror (official figures page, Swedish; data from the 2025 annual report)Högskolan i Borås · accessed 2026-09-05
- Historia (official history page, Swedish)Högskolan i Borås · accessed 2026-09-05
- About UBUniversity of Borås · accessed 2026-09-05
- University of BoråsWikipedia · accessed 2026-09-05
Last reviewed 2026-09-05
