[3] With more than 24,000 students and about 1,600 employees (academic and administrative), Malmö University is the ninth largest institute of learning in Sweden.

[4] Education at Malmö University focuses on, among other things, migration, international relations, political science, sustainability, urban studies, and new media and technology.

It often includes elements of internship and project work in close cooperation with external partners.

[5] A large part of the campus was constructed on grounds which, up to the mid-1980s, belonged to the Kockums shipyard, which had been a key element of naval-industrial Malmö.

The Faculty of Odontology at Malmö University was awarded one of these distinctions ("Centre of Excellence in Higher Education").