Exchange Student

The Swedish Defence University have exchange agreement with partner universities both in and outside the EU.

Students who study at the Swedish Defence University through a formal student exchange agreement between their home university and the Swedish Defence University are exchange students.

Exchange student at the Swedish Defence University

The duration of the exchange programme is typically one semester (30 ECTS). Autumn semester offers consist of undergraduate level courses and Spring semester offers consist of graduate level courses. Interested students at our partner universities need to follow the steps outlined by their own universities in order to be nominated by their home institution and apply to our exchange programme in Stockholm.

Application Process after Nomination

Once we have received the nominations from our partner universities, we will contact the nominated students by e-mail with further explanations.

When a student is accepted for our exchange programme, you will receive a Letter of Acceptance. Students outside of the EU/EEA are encouraged to contact the Swedish Migration Agency in order to start the application process for the VISA & residence permit.

Offered Courses

The following list is an example of courses previously offered. An updated list will be communicated to the partner university in due time for the application period. Please contact exchange@fhs.se for further information.

Autumn (Bachelor level)

• Political Power Grows From the Barrel of a Gun" - Military and State-building in East Asia 1839 to present day
• Security and Crisis in Relation to ’the Everyday’
• Liberalism and its Critics

Spring (Master level)

• Civil-Military Relations, reading course (7,5 credits)
  
• Proxy Wars, Interventions and Covert Operations (7.5 credits)
• Gender, Security and War (7.5 credits)
  
• War and Society (7,5 credits)
  
• When war comes to the city: Urban wars and urban warfare (7,5 credits)
  
• Masters Thesis, Political Science (15 credits)
  
• Political Psychology and Crisis Management (7,5 credis)
• Public Policy Analysis, reading course (7,5 credits)
• The Sit Room: Executing US Strategy( 7,5 credits)
• From Diplomacy to Deception: Influence through Strategic Narratives (7,5 credits)
• Environment, Risk and Security: Life in the Anthropocene (7,5 credits)
• Political communication: Information influence as a security problem, reading course (7,5 credits)
• Secret Intelligence (7,5 credits)
• Connectivity and Combat - War, the Media and the Contemporary Information Ecology (7,5 credits)
• NATO-Organization, Community, Actor (7,5 credits)
• Defence Strategies of the Nordic Countries (7,5 credits)
• The Russo – Ukraine war: multidisciplinary perspectives (7,5 credits)

New Student

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