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This list of universities in Sweden is based on the Higher Education Ordinance of 1993 (as amended until January 2006). With few exceptions, all higher education in Sweden is publicly funded. The Swedish higher education system differentiates between universitet and högskola (university and university college respectively).
The University of Skövde (in Swedish: Högskolan i Skövde, HIS) is a state university in Skövde, Sweden. [3] The University of Skövde was granted university status in 1983 and is now an academic institution with general and specialised educational programmes in topics like Business, Health, Biomedicine and Computer game design.
PhaST – Pharmaceutical Studies Aptitude Test, used for most pharmaceutical study programmes. HAM-Nat – Hamburg test for natural sciences, used by two universities for medical studies and pharmaceutical studies. BaPsy-DGPs - Studieneignungstest Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, test for study programmes in psychology.
Admission in Sweden requires completion of secondary education, along with the proper specific qualifications (e.g. science in high school to study science in college). Prospective students are admitted based on their grade point average or SAT, although majors such as theatre and architecture may require some extra work.
The Swedish Council for Higher Education (Swedish: Universitets- och högskolerådet, UHR) is a Swedish government agency organized under the Ministry of Education and Research assigned to manage admissions to Swedish universities and university colleges, applications and development of the Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test, and evaluate foreign qualifications.
The Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT)(Swedish: högskoleprovet) is a standardised test used as one of the means to gain admission to higher education in Sweden.The test itself, which is administered by the Swedish Council for Higher Education, is divided into a mathematical part and a verbal part, which both respectively contain 4 subdivisions, in total 160 multiple-choice questions.
Education in Sweden is mandatory for children between ages 5/6 and 15/16 depending on when in the year they were born. The school year in Sweden runs from mid–late August to early/mid–June. The Christmas holiday from mid–December to early January divides the Swedish school year into two terms .
TISUS (Test i svenska för universitets- och högskolestudier, or Test in Swedish for University Studies) is an official exam of proficiency in the Swedish language for students applying to study at Swedish universities. The test consists of three components: reading, writing, and speaking.