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Congratulations to your choice of choosing SLU as you host university for your exchange period!

SLU has over 250 courses taught in English so there is a lot to choose from. You can find information about the courses in our course guide or in our web based course search system.
Who is an exchange student?

Exchange students are students who come from one of SLU’s partner universities. You can be an exchange student within the Erasmus programme, within the NOVA or ELLS network or coming from a university that has a bilateral agreement with SLU. To make sure that you fit into one of these categories, contact your international Office at your home university.

If you are interested in studying at SLU as an exchange student, begin by contacting the International Office/Study Abroad Office at your home university or department. To be able to be admitted to SLU as an exchange student your home university has to nominate you. In order to be admitted to a course you also have to fulfil the prerequisites.
Application

The deadlines for exchange students to apply to SLU are the 15th of October for the spring semester and the 15th of April for the fall semester or academic year.

Apply here through Moveon

Do not forget to enclose an official transcript of your academic record (an official document with all the courses you have taken on university level), in English and with ECTS credits (or information about credit system.

Admission for Bachelor’s, MSc & PhD programmes and for non-degree students.

English taught Bachelor’s programme

UMB has one bachelor’s programme for English speaking students: Development Studies. All applicants are required to meet NOKUT’s minimum requirements for admission to higher education in Norway. These requirements vary depending on the country in which you got your education. In addition, applicants need to document English language proficiency (more information below).

English taught Master of Science degree (MSc)

Applicants must normally have obtained a First Degree / Bachelor’s degree of at least 3 years duration, or its equivalent, including courses equalling 2 years of full-time studies in a subject relevant to that of the programme applied for. For programme-specific information, please select the relevant programme from our list of Study Options. At least 2nd Class, Upper Division or the equivalent is normally required to be included in the final selection for admission. In addition, applicants need to document English language proficiency (more information below).

Students applying for scholarships are requested to refer to the pages on scholarships.

PhD
- For further information, please see our PhD pages.

Non-degree students
Students on the Erasmus Programme:

Guest students are accepted at all levels of study for a period of up to one year. We would like to emphasise that acceptance as a guest/exchange student is for a maximum of one year only and does not constitute admission to a regular degree programme.

All applicants are required to meet NOKUT’s minimum requirements for admission to higher education in Norway. These requirements vary depending on the country in which you got your education. In addition, applicants need to document English language proficiency (more information below).

All applicants are further required to document proficiency in the English language
Applicants whose first language is not English are normally obliged to provide the results of either the TOEFL test with a score of 170 (500 paper-based test) or better, or the IELTS test with a score of 5.0 or better. Detailed country-specific information on English language requirements is available on NOKUT’s webpages.