Building capacity : diversification of the Swedish land surveying education
Borges, Klas Ernald & Leif Eidenstedt
The university education of surveyors in Sweden has a mixture of engineering, planning, law and economy. The surveying profession has successively broadened its domain into new areas, such as land management, property development and other land related areas. The volume of traditional engineering courses has diminished, though covering GIS. The Royal Institute of Technology was exclusive until the 19900s in providing a master programme in land surveying. A proliferation of other university programmes at master level and some bachelor programmes has diversified the education market. The Bologna process is transforming the national education programmes. International cooperation encourages exchange of individual students, and also the development of special MSc level programmes in Sweden, aiming at the international market. The mixture of international and Swedish students creates an international environment at campus. The Governmentts aim is to increase the exchange further more.
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