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Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English as the Karolinska Institute, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline Institute) is one of Europe's largest medical universities. It was founded in 1810 and is located in Solna, just outside Stockholm.

A committee of the institute appoints the laureates for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska University Hospital is associated with the university as a teaching hospital. Together they form an academic health science centre. It is one of Sweden's largest centres for training and research, accounting for 30 percent of the medical training and 40 percent of the medical academic research conducted nationwide. While most of the medical programs are taught in Swedish, the bulk of the Ph.D. projects are conducted in English.

The institute is a member of the League of European Research Universities. According to the 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the institute is ranked as the 51st best research university in the world, 11th in Europe and 1st in Sweden. It is ranked 18th in the world in the field of Life and Agricultural Sciences and 9th in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy.