Course selection for exchange students
As an exchange student, you must create an individual study plan after you have been admitted to KTH. The study plan should be approved by your home university before coming to KTH.
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As an exchange student, you must create an individual study plan (learning agreement) in preparation for your arrival at KTH. You should make your study plan after you are admitted to KTH. Your home university should approve your study plan, which consists of the courses you intend to take during your exchange. KTH’s schedules for the upcoming semesters are ready each year in early May and November. Having the schedules will help you avoid too many schedule conflicts when selecting courses.
If you are a double degree or dual master student, you have an individual or fixed study plan within a programme at KTH that needs to be approved by the responsible programme director. In that case, you will receive information on how to select courses upon admission.
Regulations regarding course selection
When selecting courses you must:
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Select courses of 30 ECTS credits per semester (corresponding to full-time studies at KTH). Swedish language courses and the course Swedish Society, Culture and Industry in Historical Perspective are credit-bearing and could be included the 30 ECTS you choose per semester, but you are also allowed to take them outside of your 30 ECTS maximum.
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There is a possibility to exceed 30 ECTS credits if it is needed for you to reach 30 ECTS credits.
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Choose the majority of the credits within the study area that you are selected within through your university's agreement with KTH.
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If you are applying for exchange studies within Architecture, you will have a set course package. Learn more on courses for architecture students .
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Meet the admission requirements for each course.
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Some courses are limited in the number of places offered. Even though most students will get a place in the course, there is no guarantee.
How to find relevant courses
Course descriptions are found in the course and programme directory reached through the links below. All course descriptions include admission requirements, information on ECTS credits, language of instruction, grading, etc.
Search for courses by name or code
How to select courses when admitted
After being accepted for exchange studies at KTH, you should make your course selection in which you select the courses you intend to take during the coming semester. KTH students usually take two courses per study period - one semester is divided into two periods with normally 15 credits per period, full-time studies is 30 credits per semester.
1. Check the schedule
The courses you have selected may have conflicting schedules. It is essential that the dates and hours for your exams do not collide. If the exams collide, you need to change one of the courses.
Some schedule conflicts might be manageable, but it depends on the courses and their mandatory parts. If you need detailed information on the course's structure, you may contact the course coordinator for further guidance. You can find contact information on the course pages .
You can search for schedules at via TimeEdit, KTH's schedule system . When you are using TimeEdit, choose the option search timetable without logging in.
The details for each course is published twice a year:
- 1 May, in preparation for the autumn semester.
- 1 November, in preparation for the spring semester.
2. List your selected courses in the online system (after admission)
After you have checked and decided about all courses you intend to take for your exchange studies, it is time to finalise your course selection. Please follow the steps below to do this.
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Please go to How to find relevant courses. Search for the courses you intend to take for the coming semester.
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Click on the course to find more information. In the big grey box, you will find the course's five-digit Application code. In the application you should add the name of the course, the course code and the application code.
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After you have saved the Application code, go to your application in Mobility-Online. Click on the link Complete Study Plan.
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Fill in all the course information, complete and click on the Create button.
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Repeat the steps above for all your selected courses.
When you have finished adding all the details for your courses, you have to confirm your choices by clicking the link Enter confirmation.
After this step, it is not possible for you to change your course choice anymore. Finally, please confirm the actions by clicking the Update button.
The exchange coordinators at KTH will contact you if you need to revise your course selection.
If you need to make any changes
If you need to make any changes to any of your course choices after you have confirmed your selection, you must contact KTH for support. Please send your email to exchangestudies@kth.se .
Signing of approved study plan/Learning Agreement
Your home university might require a signed Learning Agreement or study plan, either as a Digital Learning Agreement or as a PDF file. Signatures are usually made upon arrival at KTH, either before the semester starts or at the beginning of the semester. The template is provided by your home university. KTH has no deadline for these documents to be signed, but please check with your home university whether they have a deadline or not.
KTH cannot guarantee the course selection you make until the course admission is fully completed, as some courses have limited seats or specific entry requirements. If your Learning Agreement is signed by KTH before the course admission is done, please consider it a preliminary approval until the final course selection is visible to you in the system Ladok – available to you upon arrival to KTH, when you have activated your KTH account. If changes are needed, the exchange coordinators can always help you further.