The Blekinge Institute of Technology (Swedish: Blekinge Tekniska Högskola) (BTH) is a public, state funded Swedish Institute of technology in Blekinge with 7,200 students (part-time, full-time) and offers 350 courses in 50 educational programmes in five schools at two campuses located in Karlskrona and Karlshamn.BTH is one of three independent institutes of technology in Sweden and in 1999 it was granted university status in technology.