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. Your professional work might support your MFA project as case studies. The programme is organized through mandatory intensive periods of one week where you meet guest lecturers from various fields at Stockholm University of the Arts. Usually there will be two weeks of compulsory attendance per semester. Between these one week-sessions, 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 study compulsory courses, each with a specific perspective, where you read research-based literature, communicate your own work and write  your own conclusions. During the first academic year, you for example study different methods and theories of choreography from a decolonizing perspective and exercise these in practice. During the second academic year, one theme is documentation and screendance. During the third school year, you will work with community dance outside traditional stage rooms. As early as in the second school year, introductory work is started around your own independent work, which finally ends in the fourth year. You study two cross-disciplinary method courses in artistic research together with SKH's master's students in choreography, dance, acting and film. The programme also includes an elective course of your choosing, which gives you room to deepen your special focus.

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

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

Please note! Read all the instructions below before you submit your application

1. Apply to the course via universityadmissions.se
   Last day for application: 16 January 2023 
2. Submit your worksample via Varbi (accordning to instructions below). Last day to submit worksample to be part of the selection: 16 January 2023

Submit supporting documentation of previous studies via universityadmissions.se
Check that your documentation of previous studies is submitted at universityadmissions.se. If you can’t see your documents on “My pages”, then you need to submit them there: universityadmissions.se/My pages/Documents/Upload documents.

Other important dates

• 1 February 2023 - Last day to complete your application with supporting documentation to prove your eligibilty.*
• 1 February 2023 - Last day to pay the application fee or prove fee exemption (read more under Application and tuition fees, below).
• 30 March 2023 - Admission results are published on My pages on universityadmissions.se.

*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 time for registration.

Instructions for worksamples

You need to submit the following work samples via Varbi in order to be part of the admission process:

• Work sample​

​Upload a text, maximum three A4 pages (approx. 1 500 words), that describes in more detail one or two development projects you have completed, in which context the project was developed and which target group it was aimed at. Also explain the educational and artistic ideas that formed the basis of the work.

• Film

Upload a film as an example of the project(s) you described in the work sample (max. file size 150MB). Read more here about reduce video size and What is Bitrate.

• Resume

Upload a CV/resume that briefly describes your background (max. 1 A4 page).

• Idea sketch

​Upload a text, 1-2 A4 pages (approx. 500-1000 words), where you describe an 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.

Before uploading your documents, they must be prepared as follows

1. Register by providing name and e-mail address.
2. Fill in you contact information.
3. Please note! Fill in the application number you received when submitting your application to the course via universityadmissions.se.
4. Submit the requested documents/files.
5. Please name the document/file with content and your name for example: CV_ first name_ family name

Confirmation that you have submitted your work samples via Varbi

When you've submitted your work samples you will receive a confirmation to the e-mail address that you’ve stated.

If you don’t receive a confirmation e-mail, you should first check your spam filter. If the confirmation e-mail is not there, contact Varbi's technical support.

E-mail: support@varbi.com 
Phone: +46 520 580 050 (weekdays 08:30–12:00 and 13:00–16:30).

The assessment of eligibility and the selection take place in several stages. The assessment of formal merits/grades is carried out by the Swedish Council for Higher Education (UHR). 

The assessment of tests and work samples for eligibilty and selection will be made by an admissions group consisting of teachers and professionals from the field. A student representative will also participate in the admissions group, but will not take part in the assessment.

Admission tests for eligibility and selection will take place via Zoom 13–15 March 2023. 

Here you will find detailed information on 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 2023 is SEK 91 750 per semester and SEK 734 000 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.