Credit transfers
Have you studied a course at another higher education institution that you feel is equivalent to what you are studying here? Or have you studied courses abroad and want them included on your degree certificate? If so, you can apply to have the credits transferred.
If you have completed a course or courses at a different higher education institution in Sweden and want them included on your degree certificate, they do not need to be transferred here, they are included anyway.
However, if you have studied a course or courses that you feel are equivalent to some on the programme you are studying, you should apply to have the credits transferred. This is so that you don’t need to study something for which you already have the equivalent skills or knowledge.
If you have studied one or more courses abroad and want these included on your degree certificate, they must first have the credits transferred and registered in Ladok.
Transferring credits means that a particular course, or skills or knowledge acquired through working, may be included as part of another course or programme. Chapter 6 of the Swedish Higher Education Ordinance has provisions about credit transfer at all levels of higher education. Paragraph 7 of this chapter includes credit transfers from prior learning. This means that you can apply for credits based on your accumulated skills and knowledge, regardless of how you have acquired them or whether you have formal documentation of them or not. Please contact a study guidance counsellor if you would like more information about credits for prior learning.
Apply for a credit transfer:
Are you going to study abroad?
You can apply for a Learning Agreement prior to studying abroad. See the below form:
Do you already have an approved Learning Agreement? If you want to make changes to it, please complete the form below:
Have you studied abroad?
After you have studied abroad, you should apply to have the credits transferred. You can do this electronically via Student-Ladok.
Click here
External link. to apply and follow the instructions carefully, step by step.
If you have a Learning Agreement, please append it to your application as a PDF file.
If you can no longer access Student-Ladok, you can activate your account using an eduID. Read more about how to do that via this link External link.. If this does not work, you can use the form below which you print out and fill in.
The completed form and attachments can be sent to info@sh.se or to Södertörns högskola, Examen, 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden.
Student-Ladok has a section for "Foreign merits", where you can import merits/qualifications into Ladok as a certificate with your courses (via the Emrex service). The number of countries and higher education institutions included in the service is currently limited.
Read more about Emrex External link..
Countries and higher education institutions in Emrex
Sweden, all higher education institutions
Norway, all higher education institutions
Finland, all higher education institutions
Holland, all higher education institutions
Croatia, all higher education institutions
Poland, many higher education institutions
Germany, some higher education institutions
Italy, some higher education institutions
Have you studied at another Swedish higher education institution?
E-applications for credit transfers can be submitted via Student-Ladok.
Click here
External link, opens in new window. to apply. Follow the instructions carefully, step by step.
If you can no longer access Student-Ladok, you can activate your account using an eduID. Read more about how to do that via this link External link.. If this does not work, you can use the form below which you print out and fill in.
The completed form and attachments can be sent to info@sh.se or to Södertörns högskola, Examen, 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden.
Information about applying for credit transfers for prior learning, and what is classed as prior learning, is available in this document.
E-applications for credit transfers can be submitted via Student-Ladok.
Click here External link, opens in new window. to apply. Follow the instructions carefully, step by step.
If you can no longer access Student-Ladok, you can activate your account using an eduID. Read more about how to do that via this link External link.. If this does not work, you can use the form below which you print out and fill in.
The completed form and attachments (including a description of your professional experience) can be sent to info@sh.se or to Södertörns högskola, Examen, 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden.