Strategies for Sustainability in Artistic Practices

The course runs at 25% study pace, evenings during the fall semester 2025 with gatherings approximately one time per week via Zoom or on site at SKH, Valhallavägen 189. Gatherings may be combined with study social activities.

The teaching methods are workshops, lectures, seminars, independent and group work.

General entry requirements for studies at first cycle, with the exception of general entry requirements in Swedish and English 6.

Specific entry requirements:

45 credits in artistic subject or the equivalent.

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).

You apply to the course in two steps

1. Apply to the course via universityadmissions.se.
Last day for application: 15 April 2025.
Please note! Choose “Autumn 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: 25 April 2025. NB! SKH:s date is an earlier date then the general date communicated on universityadmission.se.

2. Submit your worksample via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Documents/Provide educational documents (according to instructions below). 
Last day to submit worksamples: 15 April 2025.

Important dates for your application 

- Last day for applications: 15 April 2025.
Please note! Choose “Autumn 2025” if you search for the course at universityadmissions.se.

- Last day to submit supporting documentation for entry requirements: 25 April 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: 25 April 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 1: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 10 July 2025. 

- Last day to reply to possible course offer: 18 July 2025.  

- Admission results 2: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 24 July 2025. 

* 19 June is deadline for submitting your final grades for you who are currently studying the last term of your Upper Secondary Education in Sweden.
5 July is deadline for submitting your final grades for you who are currently studying the last term of your Upper Secondary Education in another country or IB-education.
5 July is deadline for you who need to submit proficiency test in English or Swedish.

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.

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. 

• A letter of application with supporting documentation explaining why you want to take the course and describing your qualifications for the course by answering the following questions. Maximum 1 A4 (about 4000 characters including spaces). Please use pdf.
  • How does the theme of the course relate to your own artistic activities and experiences?
  • What are your expectations of the course, what do you hope to learn and develop?
  • List and describe three artistic qualifications (from studies or professional life) that are relevant to this particular course and upload evidence of these qualifications. You can provide documentation from employers or others with whom you have worked, programs, reviews or similar. It is important that the certificates state what you have done and to what extent.

If there are more qualified applicants than places on an independent course, an alternative selection is made based on artistic grounds. If a selection needs to be made, it is done on the basis of submitted application documents based on SKH's criteria at first cycle level.

1. the applicant's ability to solve given tasks, problems or issues.

2. the applicant's creative ability.

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.

Tuition fee for the course is 99 750 SEK.

Read more about tuition fees and scholarships.