Interested in studying Swedish? Several options are listed below and you can find more information about them here.

University courses in Sweden: Several universities in Sweden offer Swedish language courses or programmes for all levels, full-time or part-time for international students. 

Adult education and summer courses: A wide range of Swedish courses is available through adult education associations, of varying content, length and intensity. Some schools will offer courses with starting dates throughout the year, while others may focus on summer programmes.The most established adult education associations offering courses in Swedish are:

• Folkuniversitetet
• Medborgarskolan (information in Swedish only)

Learning Swedish online: You can also learn Swedish online from anywhere in the world.

Many private organisations also offer paid distance learning courses, including:

• Folkuniversitetet
• International Swedish University Programmes
• Swedish Online

A good starting point is Lingu@net World Wide. Lingu@net is a search engine for language learning resources and offers an extensive directory of resources searchable based on a variety of criteria.

The following resources can also be useful:

• Safir: an interactive course.
• Loecsen: pronunciation of common Swedish phrases.
• Swedish Flashcards: practice with words, sentences and texts.
• Språkbanken: a collection of links to dictionaries and concordances of Swedish literature, maintained by the University of Gothenburg.
• LEXIN: a contextual dictionary that translates between Swedish and 18 other languages.
• Folkets lexikon: an English-Swedish dictionary released under a Creative Commons license and open for user contributions.
• Tyda.se: a dictionary between English and Swedish including recorded pronunciations.
• Granska: a free language-learning environment for writers of Swedish that provides grammar-checking of Swedish texts.
• Interglot: a multilingual dictionary that translates between six languages, including Swedish, and provides verb conjugation help.

If you are planning to study in Sweden, the web site Studyinsweden.se is your one-stop information centre for higher education studies in Sweden. It provides international students wishing to study in Sweden with a convenient and comprehensive information resource.

If you will be studying in Sweden for more than three months and you are not an EU/EEA citizen, you need a residence permit.  Read more on the links below or visit the Swedish Migration Agency's website.