Qualifying Education in Swedish, 30 credits

Spring 2024, Full-time, Linköping

Qualifying Education in Swedish, 30 credits

Autumn 2024, Full-time, Linköping

Will open for late application 15 July 2024

Qualifying Education in Swedish, 30 credits

Spring 2025, Full-time, Linköping

This course is in the second application round, intended for Nordic and EU/EEA citizens or long-term residents.

This course is part of a selection of courses with the aim to make students eligible and prepare them for university studies with Swedish as the language of instruction. To take this course you need to already know Swedish at the A2 level (CEFR). It finishes at the B2 level. 

Each course is applied for separately, and you choose what courses you apply for based on your previous knowledge of Swedish. 

This course is intended to be studied in conjunction with:

Intensive Introductory Course in Swedish (requires A1 level Swedish according to the CEFR-scale when you start).

Qualifying Course in Swedish: academic and professional language (requires B2 level Swedish according to the CEFR-scale when you start).

Suggestion on how to apply:

Apply for Intensive Introductory Course in Swedish and Qualifying Course in Swedish for your first semester of studies. While you are studying your first semester, you apply for Qualifying Course in Swedish: academic and professional language. 

The Intensive introductory course in Swedish starts at the beginning of August, autumn semester, or in the beginning of January, spring semester.

If you apply for theIntensive Introductory Course in Swedish and the Qualifying Course in Swedish the same semester, you need to pass the Intensive Introductory Course to continue to the Qualifying Course in Swedish.

It is an intensive full-time course. During the first semester students should acquire a basic knowledge of Swedish and develop their language proficiency as well as gaining familiarity with Swedish society and the Swedish educational system. They should acquire a rapidly progressing knowledge of essential basic grammar as well as a functional and relevant vocabulary.

When you have completed the second semester of the Qualifying Course in Swedish, you will fulfill the general requirements in Swedish and Civics for University Studies in Sweden.

Application procedure