Master’s Programme Dance Education

The programme is given half time over four years to enable you to work with educational and artistic projects while you study. The programme includes online studies and intensive weeks at SKH. There are usually two intensive weeks per semester. Between these intensive weeks you continue working with independent tasks online, and with your student peers.

The programme prepares students for continued research on doctoral level. Therefore, we pay great attention to how research can be understood within the artistic subject of choreography with a focus on dance education. To adopt an experimental, research-based approach, you practice both reflection and critical thinking in an open, dialogue-oriented classroom. This is done by starting from and developing your professional practice, trying different methods and theories, critically examining both processes and results. You have courses, each with a specific perspective, where you read research-based literature, communicate your own work and write your own conclusions.

Structure of the programme

• During the first academic year, you study different methods and theories of choreography from a decolonizing perspective and try these in practice, as well as focusing on dance didactic issues.
• During the second academic year, one theme is documentation and screen dance. An introductory work on the degree project begins.
• During the third school year, you will work with community dance outside traditional stage rooms. The year also includes an elective course of your choosing, which gives you room to deepen your special focus.
• During the fourth academic year, you complete your degree project.
• You also study two cross-disciplinary method courses in artistic research together with SKH's master's students in choreography, dance, acting and film.

General entry requirements for studies at the second cycle (a bachelor's degree)

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Specific entry requirements:

• English 5 and 6.
• Degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts or other relevant Degree of Bachelor of Arts or the equivalent.
• Professional work experience as a dance teacher, choreographer or dancer.
• A grade of Pass in qualification test showing experience in and ability to develop pedagogical work within an artistic context.
• A grade of Pass in qualification test showing artistic, pedagogical and reflective ability.

If you don’t fulfil the formal entry requirements for the programme you may apply for recognition of prior learning, in other words that the knowledge and competence you have acquired through other activities are assessed as the equivalent of the formal merits that are required. Submit your application for recognition of prior learning with your application for the programme.

You may also apply for an exemption/a waiver, that allows you to proceed to the selection process even though you don’t meet the general admission requirements. Submit your application for an exemption/a waiver together with your application.

Read more about how you can show that you meet the entry requirements.

Start your application early

Don’t delay in submitting your application! You may run into trouble if you wait until the last day and your internet connection happens to be down, or you find that your files are in the wrong format. You will not be able to apply once the last date for applications has passed. Keep in mind that your application has to be turned in by 23:59 (Swedish time).

You apply to the programme in two steps

1. Apply to the programme via universityadmissions.se.
Last day for application: 15 January 2025.
Please note! Choose “Autumn 2025” if you search for the course at universityadmissions.se.

Please note that you need to submit supporting documents showing that you meet the entry requirements via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Upload documents. 
Last day to submit supporting documentation: 3 February 2025.

2. Submit your work samples via universityadmissions.se.
Submit work samples via universityadmissions.se under My pages/Documents/Upload documents.
Last day to submit work sample to be part of the selection: 15 January 2025.

Instructions for work samples

You need to submit the following work samples via universityadmissions.se in order to prove eligibility and participate in the selection for this programme. Only files uploaded in the current admission round can be considered for selection. All submitted texts must be in English. Please name the document/file with your name and content, for example: Family name_First name_Artistic professional qualifications. The use of AI tools/AI techniques is not allowed when creating your work samples or texts, you must write everything on your own.

Description of development project you have completed

​Upload a text, maximum three A4 pages (approximately 1500 words, pdf), that describes one or two development projects you have completed, in which context the project was developed and which target group it was aimed at. Explain and critically reflect regarding the educational and artistic ideas that formed the basis of the work. Once you have described this, contextualise and compare the project with an existing dance practice and name some of its creators – both historical and contemporary. You do this by describing and analysing the dance techniques and choreographic idioms used in your project(s). Also describe the theoretical and philosophical perspectives used in the project(s), for example from disciplines in artistic research, humanities and social sciences, such as dance studies, feminist studies, critical theory, queer studies, black studies, posthumanism, new materialism.

Artistic professional qualifications

List and describe three artistic professional qualifications as a dance teacher, choreographer or dancer and upload supporting documents of these qualifications. You can provide certificates from employers or others with whom you have worked, programmes, reviews or similar. It is important that the certificates state what you have done and to what extent. Use pdf.

Description of project idea you would like to develop

​Upload a text, 1–2 A4 pages (approximately 500–1000 words, pdf), where you describe a project idea in the field of dance education that you would be interested in researching or developing. The text must also state how you think the idea can be implemented and in what context you consider it to be a relevant area of development. Reflect on the artistic, social and ethical aspects of the project: Who are you interested in creating your project for? Do you want to work with young people, amateurs, elderly people or other specific groups? How do you imagine the project being shown? Are there any ethical issues that you need to prepare and plan for? How is your project in dialogue with contemporary choreographic expressions?

Important dates for your application 

• Last day for application: 15 January 2025.
  Please note! Choose “Autumn 2025” if you search for the programme at universityadmissions.se.
• Last day to submit supporting documentation for entry requirements: 3 February 2025.
  NB! SKH's date is an earlier date then the general date communicated on universityadmission.se. But, some documents you can submit later.*
• Last day to pay the application fee or prove that you are not required to pay the fees: 3 February 2025 (read more under Application and tuition fees below). Submit passport/identification card on universityadmissions.se My pages/Documents/Upload documents.
• Admission results: Published on My pages on universityadmissions.se 27 March 2025.
• Last day to reply to possible programme offer: 9 April 2025.

* 5 July 2025 is deadline for you who need to submit proficiency test in English.
Deadline for Diploma of Bachelor’s Degree and transcript of records for you who are currently studying the last term of your Bachelor’s Programme, is by the start of the programme.

Here you will find detailed information about the admission process.

If there are more eligible applicants than places on the programme, a selection is made.

Here you will find detailed information about the admission process.

If you are a Swedish citizen or a citizen of another EU or EEA country you are not required to pay application or tuition fees. Some other groups are also exempt from the requirement to pay application and study fees.

If you are not a Swedish citizen or a citizen of another EU or EEA country you are required to pay application and tuition fees. The level of the study fees depends on which course/programme they are for, and the level is set in order to cover the actual costs of the course/programme in question. SKH has some possibilities of offering scholarships that cover the study fees for programmes.

If you are required to pay an application fee, the Swedish Council for Higher Education needs to receive your payment by the last date for paying the application fee. The application fee is SEK 900. If you are required to pay the application fee and the Swedish Council for Higher Education has not received your payment by the last date for paying the tuition fee, they will not process your application. Read more here.

Tuition fee for the Master's Programme Dance Education starting autumn semester 2025 is SEK 106,509 per semester and SEK 852,074 for the program as a whole.

Scholarships to Cover the Tuition Fee

If you are obliged to pay a tuition fee you can apply for a scholarship which covers the tuition fee. The scholarship does not cover any private costs during your studies. Please note that you still need to pay an application fee (900 SEK). The application fee is non-refundable.

Read more about tuition fees and scholarships.