What we do

The students of the School of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, in collaboration with the faculty formed the Committee for Chemical U.S. Travel (or CHUST in short) back in 1975. Since then, the committee has successfully established strong connections with reputed universities in the United States and has helped talented and passionate learners complete their summer internships in those universities.

The objective of the CHUST Committee is to help students in KTH, specifically from the K-chapter, find summer internships at universities or companies in an international environment. This gives the students the opportunity to work with challenging research projects, promoting an understanding of chemical engineering, chemistry and biotechnology in practice. The students also gain a rewarding experience of a foreign culture, while helping to strengthen the relations between universities and companies in different countries.

CHUST has previously collaborated with universities such as Stanford University, UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of British Columbia, Brown University and Cornell University amongst others.

To be eligible for application, the applicant has to be in year 3, 4 or 5* in the Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Biotechnology departments at KTH.

*As long as one hasn’t been admitted to their master’s thesis when the CHUST-project begins.

About KTH

KTH Royal Institute of Technology is Sweden’s largest, most respected and highest ranked technical university. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden’s first polytechnic institute of technology and is Scandinavia’s largest institution of higher education in technology. It provides one-third of Sweden’s technical and engineering research at university level.

Meet The Committee

The CHUST committee’s main objective is to be in touch with the participating universities. The committee also contacts universities, seek and secure interesting and exciting internship positions and projects for the applicants.

Another important task of the committee is to inform the applicants about the summer internships available, as well as aiding the partner universities in their selection process of the right student(s) for their projects.

The Committee - 2023/2024