Recognition of foreign qualifications - Swedish Council for Higher Education

Use the Qualifications Assessment Tool

This tool provides you with an immediate response indicating what your foreign qualifications are equivalent to in Sweden. You can download this response as a PDF and submit it together with your education documents when applying for a job or planning further studies.

Online application

Use our online application to apply for an evaluation and recognition of your qualifications.

• Have your supporting documentation ready and scanned in pdf-format.
• You do not need to have a Swedish personal identity number.
• The application is free of charge.

No Swedish personal identity number?

You can apply for recognition even if you do not have a Swedish personal identity number. You do need to be a citizen of an EU/EEA country or have a residence permit, work permit or valid LMA card.

ENIC-NARIC Sweden

UHR is Sweden’s ENIC-NARIC office. Consequently, our tasks include providing information about qualifications recognition and which organisation to approach if you wish to work in a regulated profession.