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

In order to receive academic support such as additional examination time, taking the exam on a computer, sitting in a a smaller group, receiving note-taking support and so on, you need to have your separate application to NAIS approved. You do your application to NAIS after you have been established in our student record system Ladok and have a student account. Read the about the different available support and what documents you need to prepare here.

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!

You can see your “Admission Officer” in your application, please write that name. If you are unable to find it and is a student nominated to the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, then you can write any of the people working at the International Office at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology. We will be able to find your learning agreement in the system. Please use the person's phone number and the email international@ht.lu.se.

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 should only put the courses that you will study (not all courses you have applied to). In other words, the courses that are confirmed in SoleMove. If you have applied to courses in Swedish language (for example SVEE13, SVEE16 etc) that are set as Pre-selected, please add them as well.

Unfortunately, many banks in Sweden require you to have a Swedish personal identity number in order to open a bank account. If you are here on an exchange for one semester only, staying in Sweden less than six months, it will be difficult for you to open a bank account.

You can read more here: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/current-students/financial-matters/banking-sweden

You need to contact the bank of your choice and ask what they require for documentation. A tip is to go to a bank outside of Lund (Kävlinge, Lomma, Dalby, Staffanstorp and so on) as they might be more flexible.

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. 

There are several rooms for reflection and contemplation at Lund University, you can read code of conduct and where to find them here. Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL) have one room! SOL:A022.

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".

Log into Ladok