Chalmers University of Technology is a highly ranked university of technology, at which research and teaching are conducted on a broad front within technology, natural science and architecture. There are a total of 10 600 students at Chalmers. The University has a Teaching and research staff (expressed as full time positions) as follows; 158 professors who hold a chair, an additional 66 Professors without a chair, 46 Adjunct Professors, 246 Associate Professors/lectures, 81 Assistant Professors, 623 Doctoral student positions, and 303 other teaching and research staff members. Chalmers offers 44 different full International Master's programmes, and a number of minor Master’s programmes, which are taught in English. In addition Chalmers has research programmes that can be conducted in English leading to a Licentiate and a PhD degree. Chalmers has become strong within several areas of science, and some of the research leads its field internationally. Chalmers was founded in 1829 as a result of a donation from the director of the Swedish East India Company, William Chalmers.