Media inquiries
SSE’s press team supports journalists by providing information, connecting media with relevant experts, and assisting with inquiries related to research, news, and initiatives.
Here you will find key resources, including expert lists, press releases, images, media coverage, and guidelines for reporting and filming on campus.
Find an expert at SSE
Looking for expert commentary or research-based insights? Our faculty and researchers are available to contribute knowledge and analysis across a wide range of topics, including everything from economics, finance and business to innovation, sustainability, security, public policy, and related fields. Browse our expert lists to find the right contact for your story or inquiry.
Browse SSE experts by research area.
Reporting from our campus
The Stockholm School of Economics is a private institution with an active campus that welcomes students, staff, researchers, library visitors, and guests. While parts of the campus are open to the public, media and commercial actors who wish to report, broadcast, film, record audio or take photos on the premises must obtain advance permission from the communications team. After approval, visitors are asked to report to the Info Center to pick up a press pass.
Get in touch with the press team.
Press photos
Our press photos may be used free of charge by media for editorial coverage related to the Stockholm School of Economics. The photographer and the Stockholm School of Economics must always be credited as indicated with each image.
Images may not be manipulated or altered and may not be used for commercial purposes without prior permission. For portraits of our researchers or questions regarding usage, please contact our communications team.
Research Hub
Explore research at the Stockholm School of Economics through our publications portal. Here you can find articles, working papers, books, and other scholarly outputs produced by our faculty and researchers across a wide range of disciplines.
Explore research publications in the Research Hub.
Media coverage
Recent media coverage featuring SSE.
Key facts about SSE
Programs
SSE offers 11 degree programs, including an Executive MBA, all taught in English. In addition, SSE Executive Education offers open, customized, and online programs in English and Swedish.
Browse our educational programs.
SSE Initiatives
SSE believes that education and knowledge development are processes involving not only the mind, but also the body and the soul. That is why we have created three SSE Initiatives: Art, Sport, and Tech. The initiatives are co-created by the SSE community, with students at the core.
Read more about our initiatives.
FREE educational model
SSE has developed an educational model to nurture the values we deem essential to prepare new generations for a complex and uncertain future. We call it FREE, which stands for:
- Fact- and science-based approach
- Reflective and self-aware
- Empathetic and culturally literate
- Entrepreneurial and responsible
Funding
SSE is a private institution, with most of its funding coming from private sources such as foundations, alumni, corporate partners, and the Stockholm School of Economics Association. Only about one-fifth of revenue comes from the Swedish government.
Accreditations
SSE is one of Europe’s leading business schools and is accredited by EQUIS.
SSE Riga
SSE Riga is an independent sister school in Latvia, founded in 1994 with support from the Stockholm School of Economics, as well as the Swedish and Latvian governments. The goal was to contribute to the democratic and economic development of the Baltic countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Today, SSE Riga is the only affiliated school to SSE. It has its own Board of Directors and executive leadership and operates under a brand agreement.
History in brief
The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) was founded in 1909 by Swedish business leaders, including K.A. Wallenberg, Olof A. Söderberg and Joseph Nachmanson, to meet the educational needs of the era’s industrial expansion and thereby strengthen the country’s competitiveness. The first curriculum covered economics, commerce, political science and law over two years.
Initially situated at Brunkebergstorg in central Stockholm, the School relocated in 1926 to a new building at Sveavägen 65, designed by architect Ivar Tengbom, where the main building remains to this day. Three years later, the School founded its first institute, the Economic Research Institute, to conduct leading research within the fields of economics and commerce.
In 1968, SSE Executive Education—then known as IFL (Swedish Institute for Management)—was launched, offering leadership programs for professionals.
In the 1990s, SSE began to expand its international footprint, joining CEMS, the Global Alliance in Management Education, and securing accreditation by the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).
To foster entrepreneurship, the startup incubator SSE Business Lab was launched in 2001. It has since supported over 300 companies, including unicorns like Klarna, Voi and Legora.
In the mid-2000s, SSE adopted the internationally used Bachelor and Master program structure and launched the Bachelor program in Retail Management, a unique program entirely funded by the retail industry. Since 2020, all educational programs are taught in English, making SSE a truly international school.
In recent years, SSE and its partners have established five specialized research environments: the Swedish House of Finance, the Center for Retailing, the House of Innovation, the House of Governance and Public Policy, and the House of Sustainable Society, along with dozens of research centers and institutes. Other important milestones include the development of the educational mission FREE, the launch of the Art, Tech and Sport Initiatives, the expansion of the campus to Norrtullsgatan 2, and the start of F1RST, an effort to connect students from underrepresented backgrounds with leading universities.
