The Teacher Education Begins in | 1842 |
Härnösand and Mid Sweden University have a long educational heritage, which goes as far back as 1842. In the beginning, the teacher education lasted for one year, but five years later, it was...
Before we became a university
Nautical Education Starts in | 1842 |
The same year as the teacher seminar, 1842, also started a navigation school in Härnösand. It was shut down as late as 1992.
The First Nursing Student Admitted in Härnösand/Sundsvall | 1849 |
The nursing education in the County council of Västernorrland had a modest beginning. In 1894, the County council decided to admit one nursing student to the hospital in Härnösand every six months,...
Teacher Student Receives a Warning for Baking | 1849 |
Teacher salaries seem to have been as hot a topic 150 years ago as it is today. An enterprising teacher was reprimanded for having baked bread on the side in order to supplement his salary as a...
120 Years of Nursing Education in Östersund | 1905 |
In September of 1905, the County council decided to start a course to educate nurses in Östersund. The issue had been brought up ten years earlier, but the education could not begin until the...
Students at the School of Social Studies – A New Addition to the Townscape of Östersund | 1971 |
In 1970, the Government authorities decided to expand the School of Social Studies in Sweden. In May of the following year, it was decided that a new School of Social Studies would be located in...
The Birth of the University College of Sundsvall | 1971 |
– It began with a crate of office materials. Former chemical engineer Göte Högbom clearly remembers the starting point for the University College of Sundsvall.
The University College of Östersund and the University College of Sundsvall/Härnösand are Founded | 1977 |
Through the reform of higher education in 1977, both the University College of Sundsvall/Härnösand and the University College of Östersund were founded, as well as ten other new university colleges...
Härnösand is growing fast | 1985 |
One of Campus Härnösand's most expansive periods is between 1985 and 1990. Both the engineering programs and the courses in the humanities are developed and the need for new premises is great.
Mid Sweden University - The Foundation for a new University | 1993 |
The discussions concerning a deeper collaboration between the University College of Sundsvall/Härnösand and the University College of Östersund picked up momentum in the autumn of 1990 and the...
The Nursing Colleges Become Part of Mid Sweden University | 1995 |
The integration process between the University College of Sundsvall/Härnösand and the University College of Östersund did not just involve those two university colleges, but also the nursing colleg...
Mid Sweden University took over the Northern Forest Institute in Bispgården | 1997 |
In 1997, Mid Sweden University took over the forest technician programme that had been held at the Northern Forest Institute since the end of the 19th century, with the Swedish University of...
ETOUR is Founded – With Record Support | 1997 |
In 1997, Mid Sweden University College started the first Scandinavian tourism research institute, ETOUR. Here, outgoing research at a high level is carried out – which will be of use for both socie...
Åkroken is Opened and Awarded | 1997 |
When the University College of Sundsvall/Härnösand was established in 1977, there was no unified solution for premises in Sundsvall. For twenty years, the activities were conducted in more or less...
Intense Debate as Mid Sweden University Grows | 1997 |
There is a hot debate in the daily newspapers. Should Mid Sweden University move to Frösö Strand or should it remain in town? “The University’s New Military Face” is one of the headlines in...
Application for Full University Status | 1998 |
From the moment it was founded, it was the ambition of Mid Sweden University to achieve full university status. In 1997, the first application was submitted to the government with the request to...
The Work Unit in Örnsköldsvik is Given Campus Status | 1999 |
During 1999-2007 Örnsköldsvik received the status of campus and Mid Sweden University was described as having four campuses. Aside from the nursing college activities, a work unit had existed in...
FSCN is Started by Myat Htun | 1999 |
Forest, forest, forest. In Mid Sweden University region, there are plenty of forests. Therefore, it is logical that the hub of forest industrial research, FSCN, is located here. The research centre...
Opening of the Combined Library in Härnösand | 1999 |
In 1999, the construction of the Combined Library, (Swedish: Sambiblioteket), was completed in Härnösand.
The Disciplinary Research Domain of Natural Science - Halfway to Full University Status | 2001 |
A complementary application for full university status was submitted to the government in December of 1999, after the measures suggested by the panel from the Swedish National Agency for Higher...
The Opening of a Centralized Campus in Östersund | 2002 |
The university’s premises on Rådhusgatan in Östersund were too small even in the 1980s, which led to the rental of additional premises in town and on Frösön. Staff and student longed for the...
Third Time Lucky! | 2003 |
Around the turn of the century, Mid Sweden University made some important investments in additional professors, doctoral students and doctoral studies. The third application for full university...