Studio practice and artistic process

General Entry Requirements:
for studies at the first cycle with the exception of Swedish 1-3 and English 6.

Specific Entry Requirements:
60 credits in choreography or dance or equivalent work experience in choreography or dance or related performative practices.

If you don’t fulfil the formal entry requirements for the programme you may apply for recognition of prior learning, in other words that the knowledge and competence you have acquired through other activities are assessed as the equivalent of the formal merits that are required. Submit your application for recognition of prior learning with your application for the programme.

You may also apply for an exemption/a waiver, that allows you to proceed to the selection process even though you don’t meet the general admission requirements. Submit your application for an exemption/a waiver together with your application.

Read more about how you can show that you meet the entry requirements (that you are eligible).

Start your application early! Don’t delay in submitting your application! You may run into trouble if you wait until the last day and your internet connection happens to be down, or you find that your files are in the wrong format. You will not be able to apply once the last date for applications has passed. Keep in mind that your application needs to be turned in by 23.59 (Swedish time).

1. Apply to the course via universityadmissions.se
Last day for application: 17 March 2025.
Please note! Choose “Summer 2025” if you search for the course at universityadmissions.se.

Please note that you need to submit supporting documents showing that you meet the entry requirements via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Documents/Provide educational documents.
Last day to submit supporting documentation: 17 March 2025. NB! SKH:s date is an earlier date then the general date communicated on universityadmission.se.

2. Submit your worksamples via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Documents/Provide educational documents (according to instructions below). 

Last day to submit worksamples: 17 March 2025.

Important dates for your application 

• Last day for applications: 17 March 2025.
  Please note! Choose “Summer 2025” if you search for the course at universityadmissions.se.
• Last day to submit supporting documentation for entry requirements: 17 March 2025. NB! Stockholms University of the Arts' date is an earlier date then the general date communicated on universityadmission.se, but some documents you can submit later.*
• Last day to pay the application fee or prove that you are not required to pay the fees: 24 March 2025 (read more under Application and tuition fees below). Submit passport/identification card on universityadmissions.se under My Pages/Documents/Provide identity documents.
• Admission results: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 25 April 2025. 

Instructions for work samples

You need to submit the following work samples via universityadmission.se in order to be part of the selection to this education. Use pdf-files. For some programmes the work samples can also be part of the entry requirements. Only files uploaded in the current admission round can be considered for selection. Submit via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Documents/Provide educational documents. Please note that you need to write in English. 

If you have used AI tools/AI techniques to produce or process video, image, audio or text in any of your artistic works or submitted work samples, we expect you to disclose and describe your use and production process. 

1. Text - presenting an artistic idea
   Upload a short text in English where you present an artistic idea that is the starting point for your work during the course. Maximum 1 A4-page and 4000 signs including spaces. Use pdf. 
2. A CV of your artistic work and experience
   Upload a CV in English, where you list your education, professional experience and other relevant experiences that you want to refer to. Use pdf.

Assessment is based on of submitted material. If there are more eligible applicants than places on the course, a selection is made by assessing the feasibility of the applicant's artistic idea, in relation to the course content.

If you are a citizen of Sweden, another EU or EEA country or or Switzerland you are not required to pay application or tuition fees. Some other groups are also exempt from the requirement to pay application and study fees.

If you are not a citizen of Sweden, another EU or EEA country or or Switzerland you are required to pay application and tuition fees. The level of the study fees depends on which course/programme they are for, and the level is set in order to cover the actual costs of the course/programme in question. SKH has some possibilities of offering scholarships that cover the study fees for programmes.

If you are required to pay an application fee, the Swedish Council for Higher Education needs to receive your payment by the last date for paying the application fee. The application fee is SEK 900. If you are required to pay the application fee and the Swedish Council for Higher Education has not received your payment by the last date for paying the tuition fee, they will not process your application. Read more here.

The tuition fee for the course is 51 000 SEK SEK.

Read more about tuition fees and scholarships.