If you do not meet the formal admission requirements for a course but claim you have the equivalent skills, you may apply for exemption from eligibility requirements. The provisions on exceptions to admission requirements are found in the Higher Education Ordinance, Chap. 7 Sect. 3.
Note! The application must have been received by the university no later than two weeks before the course you are applying for starts.
Excemption
At Kristianstad University, admission requirements are sometimes attached to courses within a degree programme. The specific admission requirements for your participation in a particular course or semester within a degree programme are stated in the course syllabus of the course concerned. The admission regulations are aimed at ensuring that you, as a student, have the knowledge prerequisites for benefitting from the further education.
Equivalent skills
If you do not meet the formal admission requirements, you could, in some special cases, still be considered as fulfilling the qualification requirements and thereby the knowledge prerequisites for benefitting from the course, if you can prove that you have the corresponding knowledge acquired either through education at another higher-education institution, professional experience or other relevant circumstances.
Assessment of the application
A holistic assessment is applied to the merits and circumstances that could be regarded as compensatory to the deficiency in qualifications. Proceeding from the premise that the admission requirements are entirely necessary for benefitting from the course, a restrictive approach is applied when assessing whether to grant an exemption.