FAQ
Many answers can be found in the Canvas course Incoming exchange students at Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology.
Lund University is decentralised. If you are nominated for an exchange through a faculty agreement, then it is the International Office at the faculty who processes your application. If you are nominated through a university-wide agreement, it is the central International Office that process your application. You can see your admission officer in your application after you have submitted it and it has moved one step further in the system. The admission officer is the person you can contact for questions concerning your courses and a good starting point for other questions.
The International Offices also have contact emails, for the Faculties of Humanities and Theology it is internationalhtse
You can also contact International Desk: studentreceptionluse
You will receive a welcome email a few days before the application period opens with instructions on how to proceed and what to expect.
The course admission process usually takes a long time and is dependent on several persons. You will be contacted (usually through email) when it is time for you to check your schedule and course admittance in SoleMove. You can log into SoleMove and check yourself whenever after you have submitted your application. Most of your courses will be set as "Waiting Action", this is normal.
It depends on your nationality. All students from countries outside the EU/EEA need to have a residence permit to study in Sweden if they are planning on staying for more than three months. Citizens of EU/EEA does not need to apply for residence permit.
You can read more here: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/student-life/before-you-arrive/residence-permits
Your eligibility for courses are assessed by our academic advisors and cases of a native language speaker taking courses in that language is decided case by case. Put the course in your study plan!
SoleMove is the application system for exchange students and the status “Confirmed” means that you have been admitted to the course, you have a spot. At this point you as a student have not accepted the spot on the course.
Before you arrive in Lund and the semester begins your information and confirmed courses will be transferred to the Swedish national student system Ladok. In order to accept your spot on the course you need to log into Ladok and register on the course. You also need to attend the obligatory introduction meeting (usually the first lecture). The registration period generally opens a week before the course begins/the new semester. Some courses are very popular and students are registered based on attendance of obligatory introduction meeting only.
If you do not register and do not attend the mandatory introduction meeting you may lose your place on the course as your spot will be given to a reserve in the waiting list.
You only have access to the course's canvaspage after you are registered on the course in Ladok (there are a few exceptions, including SUSA). Additionally, the canvaspage needs to be published by the teacher. Most teachers do this sometime the week before the start of the semester. The registration period is also the week before the semester begins/the course begins.
We expect you to create and download a verifiable digital copy of your transcript by yourself via Ladok and share it with your home university. You can find detailed instructions under "My study period is about to end".