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BTHBLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WELCOME TO BTH DEAR STUDENT ABOUT BTH Congratulations on your study place at Blekinge Institute of Technology. I’m Blekinge Institute of Technology, BTH, has a distinctive focus on applied IT and innovation honoured that you have chosen BTH for your education. I hope you will find your for sustainable growth. time here rewarding both for your studies and for your personal well-being. This brochure contains practical information that will be useful to you. BTH offers quality education and training in creative BTH is also deemed to be the best in Sweden and modern surroundings, together with an attractive and in third place within Europe for sustainable environment strategically located by the Baltic Sea. development, according to a report from the This makes BTH one of the top universities among Alliance for Global Sustainability. all Swedish higher education institutions in terms of the number of applications received each year from international students. Anders Hederstierna Vice-Chancellor INTERNATIONAL ENVIROMENT Among the 7 200 registered students at BTH, there are currently more than 600 international students. Most of these students apply for our Master’s programmes offered in English. The students, to- gether with the staff, represent around 70 different countries. BTH works proactively with internationalisation at home (IaH), by developing study programmes with an international focus, by co-operating with impor- tant bodies in the surrounding region (companies, municipalities, etc) and by organising social activities to enhance our multicultural environment. RESEARCH The research at BTH is conducted at two faculties within the fields of engineering, IT, spatial planning, industrial economics, design and health sciences. In 1999, BTH was granted the right to award doctoral degrees in engineering. Today we run doctoral level study programmes in “IT with applications” and “Planning and Management”. BTH IN THE RANKING LISTS BTH is among the world’s most outstanding higher education institutions within software engineering and sustainable development. In systems and software engineering, BTH is ranked sixth in the world and first within the EU, according to the Journal of Systems and Software. Production: Communications Office, Blekinge Institute of Technology. Photos: BTH, Marika Ottosson, Rasmus Lindh, Rickard Cullefors and JRJ flyg och specialfoto. The data in this brochure is based on information available in January 2017. Changes may occur. USEFUL INFORMATION Here are some things you need to look into and think about before you arrive in Sweden and at BTH. On www.bth.se/eng/applying-for-studies/you will example, if you have been awarded a 50% scholarship, TheNotification of Selection Results received on you must contact the department responsible find information about tuition fees, right of residence and you only need to pay half of the tuition fee . Once the University admissions is a valid letter of acceptance for your study programme in order to keep your national registration. We also recommend that you visit tuition fee for the first semester are paid, you can apply and must be submitted with the residence permit study place. Some programmes have different the website of the Swedish Migration Board for more for your residence permit through the Swedish Migration application. deadlines, so make sure you find out what applies and updated information. Board. to your programme. If you arrive too late, you NOTE! If you are required to pay tuition fee, you need may be denied entry to start your studies. You will TUITION FEES RIGHT OF RESIDENCE to pay the entire fee for the first semester in advance find contact information in your welcome letter Students with citizenship in a country outside the EU/EEA citizens are exempted application and tution in order to obtain a residence permit. BTH is required published on the programme website. EU/EEA and Switzerland will be required to pay fee. They have the right of residence in Sweden, which to notify the Swedish Migration Board when the pay- application and tuition fees. The application fee is SEK includes that they may study without a residence per- ment has arrived in order for them to be able to grant LETTER OF ADMISSION FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS 900 (Swedish kronor). The tuition fee for studying at mit However, these students must register with the students their residence permits. All exchange students receive a Letter of Admis- BTH for the academic year 2016/2017 is SEK 100 000 Swedish Migration Board no later than three months sion from Blekinge Institute of Technology. This (Swedish kronor) including 60 credits or SEK after entering the country. The application form is Make sure that you apply for a residence permit im- document is a valid letter of acceptance and 50 000 per semester including 30 credits. available at the Swedish Migration Board. If you have mediately after receiving the Notification of Selection must be submitted with the residence permit any questions, they can be answered by the Swedish Results. The application form is available from the application. If you are required to pay tuition fee, the first Migration Board. Remember to bring the European Swedish Migration Board. If you have any questions payments should be made in advance. The deadline Health Insurance Card. regarding your residence permit application, these can for the payment for autumn 2016 is stated on your only be answered by the Swedish Migration Board or personalised tuition fee page at BTH together with Students that are citizens of countries outside the EU/ the Embassy where you submitted your application. other important payment information. If you have EEA and plan to study in Sweden for longer than three been granted a scholarship, the amount awarded will months must apply for a residence permit at the If this application process is delayed and you do not be deducted from your tuition fee accordingly. For Swedish embassy or consulate in their home country. manage to arrive at BTH within the deadline for arrival, Swedish Migration Board: www.migrationsverket.se University admissions: www.universityadmissions.se STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH CARE IN SWEDEN BTH offers quite extensive health insurance and If you get ill you should visit a health care centre national regulations give many international students (Vårdcentral), close to where you live. Call and speak access to Swedish health care. However, it is your to the Health Care Advice Service, phone: 1177. In case responsibility as a student to make sure that you are of a serious accident or a sudden serious illness, you covered by adequate health insurance or entitled to must call the emergency telephone number: 112. More Swedish health care during your time in Sweden and at information is available on http://www.1177.se/Blekinge/ BTH. Below follows a brief summary of the existing Other-languages/Engelska. insurance coverage together with the terms for access to the Swedish health care system. All students at BTH have access to the Student Health Service at BTH (nurse, counsellor). If you have any Depending on a student’s residence permit, admission issues or problems in connection to your studies or or citizenship, there are different categories of student your health, you are welcome to contact the Student health insurance at BTH. Below you find a description of Health Service. The staff at the Student Health Service each category: works under a duty of confidentiality. You can always see our nurse for consultation and she can advise how 1. Exchange students (students accepted to an to make an appointment. Find more information at the exchange programme at BTH) are covered by a Student Portal under Student health service. collective health insurance financed by BTH. The terms for the insurance are available from Kammar- Nurse kollegiet. Email: [email protected] Phone: 0455-38 50 79 2. EU/EEA citizens are entitled to access public medical services if they are registered at the social insurance Counsellor (meetings by appointment only) office in their home countries. All persons registered Email: [email protected] at the social insurance office will be issued a European Phone: 0455-38 50 77 Health Insurance Card (EHIC). In order to receive medical attention in Sweden, EU/EEA citizens need to bring this card with them. STUDYING WITH DISABILITIES If you have a disability and want to study at BTH you 3. Students staying at BTH for 12 months or more, and can receive educational support in different ways in having a valid residence permit to prove this, are enti- the teaching and examination. Please contact Ingalill tled to the national registration at the Swedish Johansson, who is the coordinator for students with Tax Agency. This registration requires all new students disabilities. For more information at the Student Portal to visit the Swedish Tax Agency as soon as they arrive in under Studying with disabilities. Sweden, in order to receive a Swedish personal identity number. With national registration, international stu- Email: [email protected] dents have access to health care in Sweden at the same cost as Swedish citizens. 4. Students staying in Sweden for less than 12 months will be covered by a collective health insurance financed by BTH. The terms for the insurance are available from Kammarkollegiet. Kammarkollegiet: www.kammarkollegiet.se Study in Sweden: www.studyinsweden.se Swedish Tax Agency: www.skatteverket.se If you have not applied for housing before your COST OF LIVING account. These students must have a VISA/Master- STUDENT ACCOMMODATION arrival, you may have to stay a considerable time in Please note that when applying for a residence permit, card/ Travel Card from their home countries and/or Finding the most suitable place to live can sometimes a hostel before you can get a student room. For you must prove to the Swedish Migration Board that have the possibility to use the internet transaction take a while, so you should give yourself plenty of time hotel facilities in Karlskrona, please see the website you are able to support yourself during the period for services through their home bank accounts in order to make all the necessary arrangements before leaving .