Södertörn University College (Swedish: Södertörns högskola, abbreviated as SH) is a public university college (högskola) located in Flemingsberg, which is located in Huddinge Municipality, and the larger area called Södertörn, in Stockholm County, Sweden. In 2009, it had 6,300 full-time-students. The campus area ("Universitetsområdet") in Flemingsberg hosts the main campus of SH, several departments of the Karolinska Institutet, and the School of Technology and health of the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). The Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge (formerly Huddinge Hospital), is also located there. Södertörn University College was established in 1996 by the Parliament of Sweden, because the number of students in the Stockholm area, particularly at Stockholm University, was deemed as too high. When the institution was founded, the prospect was to develop the högskola (university college) into a full university at a later point. Consequently, Södertörn högskola applied for full university status and the right to award doctoral degrees in 2002, and in an updated form again in 2006 together with an independent evaluation in its favour.