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Record for spring semester – 257,000 applicants
20 October 2020Application to spring semester’s higher education courses and programmes on Antagning.se and Universityadmissions.se closed at midnight on 15 October. Over 257,000 people applied – an increase with over 28,000 or twelve per cent compared to spring semester 2020, a record year.
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Record number of applicants to autumn semester university studies
17 April 2020At midnight on 15 April, just over 405,000 people had applied to autumn semester’s university courses and programmes – an increase of 13 per cent or nearly 47,000 applicants compared to autumn semester 2019. The autumn numbers – the highest since the coordinated admissions process was introduced – is an increase of just over 16,000 applicants compared to the previous record to autumn semester 2014.
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Over 407,000 applications to autumn semester university studies
16 April 2020At midnight on 15 April, the application period for courses and programmes to autumn semester 2020 closed on Antagning.se. The Swedish Council for Higher Education has (UHR) preliminarily reported 407,025 applications – 46,843 or 13 per cent more than last year’s 360,191 application.
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Increase of 13 per cent in accepted applicants to autumn semester master’s programmes
15 April 2020Selection results have been published for applicants to autumn semester’s master’s programmes. The number of accepted applicants increased with 13 per cent compared to autumn semester 2019. Nineteen of twenty-eight universities have admitted a greater number of applicants to these programmes.
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Record for spring semester admission
18 March 2020This spring’s courses and programmes attracted more applicants than any other spring semester. Up until the second selection, 266,640 persons had submitted an application – an increase of five per cent in comparison to one year ago. The number of accepted applicants was also a record – 173,459 after the second selection, ten per cent more than spring 2019.
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