Financial plan

The Faculty Board is permitted to admit only those applicants to postgraduate studies who gain postdoctoral studentships or who are awarded study grants. The Faculty Board is, however, permitted to admit applicants who have some other form of financial assistance for their studies if the Faculty Board judges that this financial assistance can be ensured for the whole period of the postgraduate studies and that the applicant can devote enough time to his/her studies to complete the study programme.

(Extract from the Swedish Code of Statutes, SFS 1998:80)

Plan for financing studies

A financial assistance plan for all 4 years must be submitted together with the application for admission to research studies, regardless of whether the source of financing is the Faculty or external grants, and whether the studies are to be pursued full-time or part-time.

The financial assistance plan must state how the research studies are to be financed up to the doctoral degree. Postgraduate students usually receives a study grant for the first two years and is appointed to a postggraduate studentship for the final two years. For a postgraduate student with external financial assistance it is not unusual for them to hold a postgraduate studentship for all 4 years. Clinicians normally pursue their postgraduate studies simultaneously with their work in clinical practice.

Full-time graduate studies

Students admitted to full-time postgraduate studies must be awarded a study grant or appointed to a postgraduate studentship at the time of admission; those who are awarded a study grant must be given a postgraduate studentship at the latest when 2 years remain before obtaining theis doctoral degree. This is stated in the Higher Education Ordinance and applies to doctoral candidates admitted to postgraduate studies after April 1, 1998. There are special transitional regulations for doctoral candidates registered prior to this date.