How to apply

In order to apply for a SVEE course you should include it in your online application. Talk to your LU-coordinator if you have questions about how to do it.

If you wish to apply to a SVEE course you must include it in the same request to your coordinator as with your other courses. A full-time semester normally consists of 30 Swedish credits (=30 ECTS) to which a SUSA-course may be added. You must consult your Lund coordinator if you may take more or less credits.

If you wish that the credits that you get for these courses be recognised by your home university then you must ask the coordinator at your home university about this in good time.

Students admitted through agreements with the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) must contact their coordinator if they wish to apply to Swedish Levels 1 or 2, since alternative Swedish course codes (EXTA24 to 25) are offered for LTH incoming exchange students. LTH students with some previous knowledge of Swedish are welcome to apply for a higher level and participate in a placement test together with SVEE, according to information below.

If you have previous knowledge of Swedish:

• You are a complete (or almost complete) beginner when it comes to Swedish? Apply for SVEE11 (or EXTA24 for LTH students).
• You estimate your current knowledge of Swedish to approximately level A1 on the CEFR/GERS-scale? Apply for SVEE12 (or EXTA25 for LTH students).
• You estimate your current knowledge of Swedish to approximately level A2on the CEFR/GERS-scale? Apply for SVEE13.

• You estimate your current knowledge of Swedish to somewhere between A2 and B1on the CEFR/GERS-scale? Apply for SVEE14. 

  A placement test for levels 2,3 and 4 will be arranged on campus, on 25 August at 16.00 (Central European time), in room H104, Sölvegatan 13 in Lund.
   

• You have completed level B1on the CEFR/GERS-scale with a successful result? Apply for SVEE15. 
  In case you decide to apply for level 5, you will need to do a special placement test ONLINE in advance. If you apply for level 5 and do not have a grade of pass from level 4 at LU, please contact gunilla.ek_wernersol.luse as soon as possible for information on the special level test online.
  Note that a placement test for level 5 might show that you are at a higher or lower level than expected. There is a good chance to move you to the level that suits you best.

Exemptions (no placement test needed): 

• If you follow the SUSA12 course in the beginning of your stay, that course will serve as placement test and you do not have to participate in the placement test mentioned above.
• If you already passed the previous level of SVEE or EXTA compared to the one you apply for now, you do not have to participate in the placement test either.