For an applicant to be admitted to a doctoral study programme, he or she must meet the general and specific entry requirements. For a full account of the entry requirements, refer to the admissions regulations as well as to the general syllabus for the subject.
A person meets the general entry requirements if he or she:
- has been awarded a qualification on the Master’s level,
- has satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240 credits (four years) of which at least 60 credits (one year) were awarded on the Master’s level, or
- has acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad.
A person with credits or qualifications from undergraduate programmes under the old Swedish higher education system corresponding to the entry requirements above will also be eligible. The university may permit an exemption from the entry requirements for an individual applicant, if there are special grounds.
Specific entry requirements
A person meets the specific entry requirements for the subject if he or she has received a passing grade in courses of at least 90 credits, including an independent project on the advanced course level, in a main field of study of relevance to the subject or specialisation in question. A person who has acquired substantially corresponding knowledge, in Sweden or abroad, also meets the specific entry requirements.
If, for instance, your medical training was completed some years back or you have a foreign qualification, you need to prove that you have acquired the corresponding knowledge in some other way. If that is the case, please attach documents that will facilitate an individual assessment of your skills. These may be reports and papers as well as individual projects and quality and development work undertaken during specialist training.