All citizens of countries not in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland, who study at a Swedish university and who do not have any other kind of residence permit in Sweden other than a residence permit for studies, will need to pay application and tuition fees.
Formal exchange students and doctoral students are exempted from tuition fees, as well as the application fee. Students who are registered for a course or programme at a Swedish university at the time they submit their application are not required to pay an application fee.
We receive applications from thousands of applicants every semester. It takes time to review all the submitted documents and determine if an applicant meets the entry requirements. If you've submitted your application and documents on time - and have provided everything required - your application will be reviewed and your status updated. We review applications right up to admissions selection in April.
If you submitted your application or documents after the deadline, there's no guarantee your application will be reviewed.
Being qualified does not mean you've been offered a place in the course/programme.
The admission process is a two-step process:
Students are assessed for whether they meet the general and specific entry requirements for the course/programmes they've applied to.
A selection takes place to determine which qualified applicants will be offered admission.
Qualified tells you if you made it through step 1
A status of "Qualified" tells the applicant that they meet the requirements for the programme. This does not mean that the applicant has been offered a place; all eligible applicants continue on to step 2, the selection step of the process.
More about selection
There are often more students that have applied for a course or programme than the number of places available. During selection, students are ranked according to their previous academic results and other factors determined by the university. It's after selection that students are either offered a place, placed on reserve (waiting list), or not offered a place. This information will be provided on the Notification of Selection results.
International students have two different admissions rounds they can apply to for the autumn semester:
the First admission round with an application deadline in January
the Second admission round with an application deadline in April.
There are also two admission rounds for the spring semester.
The entire catalogue of courses and programmes for international students is available in the First admission round. Some universities place courses and programmes in both admission rounds. Many international courses and programmes are not available in the second round.
It's also important to note that the admissions results for the Second round are published in July, much later than the results for the First round. This means that students who require a residence permit for studies in Sweden - non-EU/EEA citizens - will most likely not have enough time to have their residence permit application processed and approved before the start of the semester. We do not recommend that you apply for the Second round if you're not a citizen of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland.
Remember that all of these admission rounds have different deadlines and decision dates. You can click on 'Show more' in the search results and then follow the link to the course description on the university's homepage to find out which admission round the course can be found in, and what dates apply.
We have information regarding important dates for the different admission rounds right here on Universityadmissions.se. Read more at Key dates and deadlines.
If you applied in the First round
If you applied to the First round, you're not required to reply to your admissions offer here on Universityadmissions.se. However, please note that the university that you've been accepted to may require you to reply to them. Be sure to follow any instructions given to you by your university.
We hope that you'll choose to study in Sweden! However, if you decide not to accept the place you've been offered, please be sure to decline it here on Universityadmissions.se. In that way, you let the university know you won't be attending and free up the place for someone on the waiting list.
You can change the ranking of your courses and programmes up until the application deadline.
If it's after the application deadline, you cannot change your ranking.
However, you can delete courses and programmes up until the first selection. This process takes places a few days before the admissions results are published. The lower ranked courses and programmes will then move up the ranking. Your application will still be considered to be timely.
You can also reapply for the lower ranked course/programme after the admissions results have been published on Universityadmissions.se. There are a few things to keep in mind:
Please note that you may only reapply for courses that were deleted because of ranking and NOT because you weren't qualified.
If you reapply for a lower ranked course or programme, you may be competing for a limited number of places and there's no guarantee that you will be offered one.
