Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FILFAK)

At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, we embrace innovative and interdisciplinary thinking. Here, education and research are offered across a wide array of diverse and exciting fields - from environment and society, through cognition and communication, to economics and behavioural sciences.

With a broad academic spectrum, the faculty brings together over 14,000 students. You may choose from as many as 36 different degree programmes and 400 single-subject courses. We offer programmes and courses in both established and pioneering, forward-thinking areas. Here, you can, for example, study to become a psychologist, business economist, social worker, urban planner, information systems analyst, or HR specialist. Alternatively, you may specialise in history, environment and climate, cognitive science, philosophy, global studies, migration, and communication. Those wishing to further develop within their profession and build upon their education will also find suitable opportunities here.

We take pride in the research conducted within the faculty’s disciplines. For many, Linköping University is synonymous with interdisciplinarity, where researchers from various fields are given the opportunity to meet and together create creative, boundary-crossing research. At the five departments affiliated with the faculty, research is conducted in areas such as working life, leadership, disabilities, mental health, child development, thematic research on environment, gender, children, technology and social change, historical studies, statistics and data analysis, behavioural economics, digitalisation, and much more.

A man wearing glasses and a blue shirt. Dean Ulf Melin. Photo: Magnus Johansson

The activities we pursue and develop are an important part of the vision we have adopted for 2030: to be a boundary-crossing, curious, and relevant faculty. We remain committed to transcending both knowledge and national boundaries in our education and research, and we see it as our task to further stimulate curiosity throughout our operations and to be a relevant actor in society.

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En närbild på en kvinna som bär en kofta.

Duty and gratitude behind academic diligence

A sense of gratitude towards parents for their sacrifices, and a desire to succeed and give something back. These are powerful drivers in studies of high-achieving young people with a migration background, according to a study from LiU.

En man med skalligt huvud och svart skjorta.

Space psychologist – no room for delay

He began studying for a master’s degree in engineering but dropped out. Then he enrolled on the psychology programme. Yet something still felt wrong. Now he is studying both at the same time and feels he has finally found his place.

En kvinna står i snön framför ett batterilager.

The battle for power – who has the right to our electricity?

Wind farms rising like the Eiffel Tower, data centres consuming as much power as entire regions and municipalities feeling like pawns in a global game. The large-scale investments  are creating conflict:  who has priority access to our electricity?

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