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Reserved Seats

There has been a lot of suppositions around this topic.

Let’s put it like this: Sweden may put under-developed countries at its heart. It is their way of saying “We are helping” and they do actually help, since some students finish their education in Sweden, and then go back to their country and implement it there. They are “exporting” knowledge.

There might also be special groups, like they have in the USA for athletes.

But beyond this, the logic goes that there are no reserved seats per country or region at universities or departments. You are not competing with your co-nationals, but with the whole other international students. Therefore it makes no sense to collect application statuses from your co-nationals and compare. Not to mention, as I have written earlier you do not know if the internal rating (MR) goes on a points-scale (more is better) or on a top-scale (less is better).

The only “exception” to this is that, because the admission is divided between International (those who need a visa) and EU/EEA the places are divided in two. The reason behind the split is that the international students need to get admitted earlier in order to start their application for a visa. So the seats are reserved half for International (both nonEU and EU) and half for EU (both EU and just Swedes).

Last Modified on June 17, 2008 @ 10:35 am
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