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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 scheduling conflicts when selecting courses.

If you are a double degree or dual master’s 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: 

  • Select courses of 30 ECTS credits per semester (corresponding to full-time studies at KTH). Courses in Swedish language and society may be excluded from the 30 ECTS credit maximum.

  • 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.

  • Choose the majority of the credits within the study area that you are nominated within through your university's agreement with KTH.

  • Meet the admission requirements for each course.

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 and grading. 

Search for courses by name or code

Understanding course codes and descriptions

The first letter of the course code, for example BB2520, indicates the school responsible for the course. The first digit in the course code, BB2520, represents the level of the course.

  • “1” indicates that the course is given at bachelor's (basic) level.
  • “2” means master's (advanced) level.
  • Course codes starting with the digit “3” are PhD-courses and not available for exchange students. 

You should also choose “Courses for programme students” in the drop-down list when searching in the course and programme directory.

On each course page, you will find information such as course location, prerequisites, language of instruction, number of places (if a course has limited places), contact details for responsible people, and more. Please note, if a course has limited places, we can not guarantee admission for the course.

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.

Information for admitted double degree and dual master's students

If you are an admitted double degree or dual master's student, this information will not apply to you. You will hand a study plan to an exchange coordinator at KTH. You will receive information regarding this separately.

1. Check the schedule

The courses you have selected may have conflicting schedules, but please ensure they don't collide too much. It is essential that the dates and hours for your exams do not collide.

You can search for schedules at KTH’s website. 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.

Search schedules

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.

  1. Please go to How to find relevant courses. Search for the courses you intend to take for the coming semester.

  2. Click on the course to find more information. In the big grey box, you will find the course's five-digit Application code.

  3. After you have saved the Application code, go to your application in Mobility-Online. Click on the link Complete Study Plan.

  4. Fill in all the course information, complete and click on the Create button.

  5. Repeat the steps above for all your selected courses.

When you have finished adding the application code to all 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

If your home university requires signatures on Learning Agreements and/or other documents, KTH can help you with signing upon request. The signings are usually done upon arrival, before the semester starts or at the beginning of the semester, either as a Digital Learning Agreement or as a PDF file. 

Your home university provides templates. For KTH, there is no specific deadline for signing these documents - but please check with your home university if they have a deadline.