📅 Academic calendar

The academic calendar is divided into two semesters: autumn semester and spring semester. Make sure to follow the academic calendar and your schedule. A semester is usually 20 weeks in total.

✔ Credits and full-time studies

Universities' courses and programmes are measured in credits (in Swedish: högskolepoäng (hp)). The credits indicate how long a course or programme is. 30 credits are full-time studies during one semester. Many programmes extend over three years, i.e. 180 credits, spread over six semesters of full-time studies. 1.5 university credits is 1 week of full-time studies or 40 hours. Courses in a programme may vary in length and credits.

📚 Literature

In your course's syllabus (which you can find on the course and programme website ) you find the literature you need to pass that particular course. The syllabus usually contains both "mandatory literature" and "recommended literature". Mandatory literature is the literature that you are expected to read and the exam will be based upon. Recommended literature is where you can find more information about the subject and therefore should read.

You can find most literature for your course at the KI University Library (KIB).

❕ Tips! Find groups, or pages, on Facebook for example to find second-hand literature or other external places where literature is sold a bit cheaper than buying new literature.