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Mälardalens universitet

Statsvetarprogrammet

Bachelor's · Västerås · Starts in the autumn

Admission cutoff

BI: 13.36; HT 2025
BII: 12.7; HT 2025
HP: 0.2; HT 2025

BI is upper-secondary grades and BII grades with completed subjects, both scored up to 22.5. HP is the Swedish national university aptitude test, scored up to 2.0.

Length

180 credits · full time

Application deadline

15 April 2027 (HT 2027)

Place

Västerås

Tuition

None (EU/EEA)

Degree

Bachelor's

How you get in

The figure is the lowest score admitted in the grades group, in the most recent term it was reached. Above it, you would have had a place that year.

This is how the places were divided between the selection groups in HT 2025 (100 admitted):

52%

13%

33%

Upper-secondary grades (BI) · 52%
Grades with completed subjects (BII) · 13%
National aptitude test (HP) · 33%
Other selection groups · 2%

What you study

Statsvetenskap54 %
- Demokrati, makt och medborgarskap
- Demokratins problem
- Internationell politik
- Makt och medborgarskap
- Offentlig politik och förvaltning
- Politisk teori
- Svensk och jämförande politik
- Utvärdering
Juridik13 %
- Förvaltningsrätt
- Grundläggande juridik
Företagsekonomi13 %
- Organisation och ledarskap
- Verksamhetsstyrning i offentlig sektor
Nationalekonomi13 %
- Samhällsekonomi
Statistik7 %
- Statistik

The proportions are measured over the courses the syllabus names. The rest of the programme varies with specialisation and optional courses.

Admission statistics

HT 2025
BI 13,36 · BII 12,7 · HP 0,2 · 467 applicants
HT 2024
BI 14,27 · BII 13,64 · HP 0,2 · 454 applicants

Eligibility and admission

Grundläggande behörighet + Matematik 2a eller 2b eller 2c, Samhällskunskap 1b eller 1a1+1a2. Eller: Matematik nivå 2a eller nivå 2b eller nivå 2c, Samhällskunskap nivå 1b eller nivå 1a2
Apply through antagning.se: HT 2027 by 15 April 2027.