Credit transfer

Credit transfer in first- and second-cycle studies

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As a student, you are entitled to apply for transfer of credits from previous studies. This applies to studies completed both in Sweden and abroad, including exchange studies.

Criteria

For your application to be reviewed at the Faculty of Science, you must be admitted to and currently studying at the faculty. The rules governing credit transfer are to be found in Chapter 6, Sections 6–8 of the Higher Education Ordinance.

Application

Your application consists of a form together with documents/qualifications. Remember to apply in good time for your credit transfer. The processing of your application may take up to eight weeks.

Please note that you need to be admitted to the bachelor's or master's programme in order to have a credit transfer made.

Form

You apply for credit transfer via a this fill-out form:

Application for credit transfer (pdf, 261 kB, opens in new window) Download Application for credit transfer (pdf, 261 kB, opens in new window). 

Documents/qualifications

You must attach certified documents/qualifications to your application.

• For a completed course: course certificate and course syllabus, including required reading list.
• For an incomplete course: certificate of enrolment and course syllabus, including required reading list.

Special procedures for the documentation/qualifications apply to transfer of credits from exchange studies.
Read more about credit transfer for exchange studies at the Faculty of Science website.

Contact Persons

Below you can find information on whom to contact for credit transfer at your department. You may wish to complete the form together with the contact person, who is also the person to whom you hand in your application when it is complete.

Physics Department

• hand in your application to Anastasiia Anastasis, studentadministration@fysik.lu.se
• Questions, contact bachelor@fysik.lu.se or master@fysik.lu.se

Other Departments

• Medical Radiation Physics: Director of studies Katarina Sjögreen Gleisner, msf_studierektor_GU@med.lu.se
• Math Department: read more about this process on the Math department web page.

Decision

If you are granted a credit transfer, it will be entered into Ladok.

If your application is rejected, you may appeal against the decision to the Higher Education Appeals Board, pursuant to Chapter 12 Section 2 of the Higher Education Ordinance. However, your appeal must be sent to Lund University and within three weeks from the day when you received the decision.

You must include the following in your appeal:

• which decision you are appealing, for example by providing the decision’s registration number
• the changes to the decision that you are requesting and the circumstances that support your request.

Send your appeal to:
Lund University
Box 117
221 00 Lund

Processing of your personal data

Documents concerning credit transfer are registered. In the handling of your application, your personal data will be processed in accordance with current legislation.