Ten years after the opening of Collegium Regium Stockholmense it was shut down with most of its professors transferring to the revived University of Uppsala.
[citation needed] Research and higher education in the sciences has an unbroken history since the 18th century, when an incomplete education in medicine was started under the auspices of the Collegium Medicorum (= Collegium medicum) [1] and various research institutions (such as the Stockholm Observatory) were founded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
[3] It has taken over many of the institutions founded by the Academy of Sciences, such as the Observatory, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and the botanical garden Bergianska trädgården.
The Stockholm School of Economics, founded in 1906, is one of few private institutions of higher education in Sweden.
In 2014 the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (the continuation of the school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, once attended by Greta Garbo), the University College of Opera (founded in 1968, but with older roots) and the School of Dance and Circus formed the Stockholm University of the Arts.