Selection process

This information only applies to applicants in the international admission round.
Applicants in the Swedish admission round can find information on the Swedish version of the programme pages.

If you apply and fulfil all of the programme requirements, you will continue on to the selection process. The selection varies, depending on what programme you have applied for. Tuition fee-paying students and non-paying students are admitted on the same grounds but in different selection groups.

Master’s Programme in Business and Management

  1. GMAT
  2. Higher academic credits (maximum 285)

Master’s Programme in Accounting and Financial Management

  1. GMAT 
  2. Higher academic credits (maximum 285)

Master’s Programme in International and European Law and Business

Students with a background in business studies are selected based on:

  1. GMAT 
  2. an overall appraisal of previous university studies

Students with a background in commercial law or legal science are selected based on an overall appraisal of previous university studies.

Master’s Programme in Entrepreneurship

​Students are selected based on an overall appraisal of previous university studies and a statement of purpose (1 page).

Master’s Programme in Sustainable Management

  1. GMAT
  2. Higher academic credits (maximum 285)

GMAT

GMAT is not mandatory, but students with a GMAT test score are given priority over ones without. Therefore, including a GMAT score will increase your chances of admittance.

In order for the GMAT test to be used in the selection process, you must:

  1. tell the Test Center to send the GMAT Official Score Report to Uppsala University - use the code for the Programme you apply to when asked for,
  2. upload the test results to University Admissions.

Note that it might take a couple of weeks for the test center to send verification of the Official Score Report to Uppsala University. The documents must be received by the University no later than the last day to submit supporting documents. So make sure you have foresight when you do the test.

The GMAT test result cannot be older than five years on the last day of application. 

If you apply to more than one of our Programmes, you only have to use the code for one of the Programmes when you send in the Score Report from the test centre.

GMAT codes for our Master's Programmes:

  • Master's Programme in Accounting and Financial Management
    3PH-0T-15
  • Master's Programme in Business and Management
    3PH-0T-61
  • Master's Programme in Entrepreneurship
    3PH-0T-22
  • Master's Programme in Sustainable Management
    3PH-0T-48

Higher academic credits

For credits to count they need to be completed no later than the last day of application.

Different education systems around the world count credits differently. As a basis, foreign degrees count as 180 credits (i.e. the normal length of a Swedish Bachelor’s degree). If a degree has taken more than three years to complete it will only count as more than 180 credits, if it meets one of the following requirements:

  • Swedish credits shown on universityadmissions.se
  • ECTS credits is shown on transcript
  • Transferred credits visible at universityadmissions.se

Students in their last year of study will be given 150 as the merit value.

International admissions statistics

What the lowest required scores have been varies between different semesters and between programmes. We have gathered information about the scores for the international admission round, on programme specific sites.

There is no information about the Master's Programme in Entrepreneurship or for applicants with a legal background to the Master's Programme in International and European Law and Business. The selection for these programmes is based on an overall appraisal of previous university studies. Therefor can no admissions statistics be presented.

Master's Programme in Business and Management

Master's Programme in Accounting and Financial Management

Master's Programme in Sustainable Management

Master's Programme in International and European Law and Business

Last modified: 2023-02-21