Studying in Sweden

These pages provide information for those people who are looking to study in Sweden.

If you come from a country outside the EU and you are planning to study for longer than three months, you require a residence permit. You will find links to the left to pages with the rules covering residence permits for studying at a range of different schools and universities.

There is a special page with rules that apply to EU/EEA citizens.

New regulation on where to submit an application for residence permit

- 2010-05-11
In consultation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish Migration Board has decided on the locations to which applicants from certain countries, which do not have a Swedish mission abroad, may submit their applications. This decision also concerns people who wish to apply for a Swedish residence permit, but who are asylum seekers in a third country. The regulation will apply as of 21 May 2010.
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