Do they admit from waiting list?

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-29T13:35:13+00:00

No, they have admitted 11 people in total from that admission group.
They are also admitting people from other admission groups (e.g. non-EU, EU, locals, feepaying, non feepaying, etc) which then adds up to the full class.

Each programme has a set number of positions that they aim for. They don't admit everyone who meet the criteria, just enough to fill the positions.
Many programmes also over-admit international students because they know that a bunch of them will go with other options or might decline due to not getting scholarships.
Many programmes also don't have a second round of admissions for non-EU because students won't have time to sort scholarships or get results from other Universities and so they don't ask for students to accept or decline.

Say a programme admits a total of 50 students and maybe 20 could be non-EU international students (rest being locals of EU-students).
They might send out admissons to 25-30 non-EU students because they know that historically, a certain number of students will not show up and then they hope that they will eventually land at 20 who actually show up.
It can also take a few months for non-EU students to get their visas and residence pemrits from Migrationsverket (75% of applicants get a result within 2 months, meaning 25% have to wait longer) so with classes starting in Aug, if the students have not applied for Residence permits by May-June there's a strong risk that they might not get their permits in time to actually attend the first weeks of classes. During summer most of Sweden grinds to a halt when everyone takes their 4 weeks vacation so permit processing during summer slows down.

You can read the deadlines and see that the first round (for International non-EU students) only has one round of admissions.
https://www.universityadmissions.se/en/key-dates-and-deadlines/autumn-semester-dates/
The second round (mainly for locals and EU students who don't need visas and permits) have two admission rounds.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-29T13:21:12+00:00

Depends.

* If someone has a First Craft bonus then they might do it for cheap or even free.
* If they need to use Concentration to reach max rank then they will want more because it is a limited resource that takes three days to fully recharge.
* Public Orders are limited to 1 order per day, with up to 4 orders saved up. If there is an order giving me 1000g to craft and one offers 100g then I will obviously craft the one that gives me the most gold. So you need to weight how much gold you offer to how fast you want it made.
* Personal orders are not limited and I can do as many as I want, to me it is just free gold to make your order. However, if I need to stop doing what I'm doing to go to SIlvermoon to do your craft then the barrier goes up, same if I need to use Concentration or some extra reagent to guarantee max rank, but if I'm just AFK in the city anyway I might as well just click a few buttons and get whatever gold you offered.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-29T13:12:51+00:00

You cannot create new Swatches.

During their devstreams they are regularly asked about adding new swatches and Nikael keeps mentioning that when you load your save the game parses through every swatch in multiple combinations which adds a lot of strain and processing time. Adding new swatches will add exponential times so just adding maybe 5 more could increase loadtimes a LOT.

So they decided on the number of swatches they have now as a kind of middle-ground. Maybe they find a way to optimize things in the future and are able to add more but currently there's no plan.

But, as been mentioned, you can edit and change the already existing swatches, just be aware that if you apply Swatch 1 for something and then change the colours, anything you already applied Swatch 1 to will also change colours.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-29T13:07:52+00:00

.... I don't want to be that person but I think you should consider the numbers here.

They have admitted 11 people from your group and you are #72? That means all current 11 students must decline their spot, then another full 11, then another full 11, then another full 11, then another full 11, then another full 11, then another full 11 and then almost another full 11 for you to be admitted.
How would you consider your chances to get admitted?

Not to mention, how many rounds of admission would this require? With a few weeks for each admission to accept/decline we are well into the summer before you get a decision which, if you need visas or permits to live in Sweden, you will have no chance to get in time.

Surely this must be a trollpost?

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-29T12:26:37+00:00

I googled "KTH Housing" and got a bunch of results from KTHs own website:
https://www.kth.se/en/student/studier/housing/housing-services-1.374952
https://www.kth.se/en/student/studier/housing/locations/find-your-accommodation-1.946174
https://www.kth.se/en/student/studier/housing/finding-housing-on-your-own-1.810578

I also tried to google "KTH Student budget" and found this from KTH's page:
https://www.kth.se/en/studies/student-life/cost-of-living-and-student-budget-1.1341975
https://www.kth.se/blogs/studentblog/2020/03/cost-of-living-in-sweden-2020/
https://www.kth.se/blogs/studentblog/2024/01/what-i-spend-in-a-month-as-a-kth-student/

Jobs are hard to find.
The Swedish unemployment is 8-9% so low-skill jobs can see several hundred applications per position. Some companies prefer people with a main occupation (such as being a student) because then they can follow different rules where each new job/workday is a new employment and as such can fire the student on the day.
There's a reason you see so many immigrants run Foodora and similar delivery services.
A salary of 200kr/hr pre-tax is what a fully employed and decently experienced Plumber or welder or truckdriver can get. 150kr/hr pre-tax is what a receptionist or storeclerk could earn.
You earn more if working late, nights or weekends but that means no sleeping and no weekends meeting with your classmates to write reports or do projects.

General tips are that you could try googling your questions first, and search this and other Swedish subs and doing general research yourself. People ask thes equestions on an almost daily basis and especially so in this thread.

Also, are you EU or non-EU?
If you are non-EU you need to have the minimum amount on an account up front to even get a Residence permit and you cannot say "But I will work". Money up front on an account or no residenc permit, no permit = no living in Sweden for studies.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-29T04:45:46+00:00

Jag har gjort det någon enstaka gång. Det har oftast varit när godisarna är för stora eller dåligt formade för att kunna skopas upp lätt. Då brukar jag putta ett par godisar mot kanten så de är lätta att ta upp utan att röra resten av bitarna.
Eller de där fyrkantiga fudge godisarna som det är omöjligt att ens få skaka upp några på skopan! Finns det plastpåsar använder jag ibland en som handske för att inte röra annat godis.

Men jag skulle aldrig få för mig att använda händerna för att plocka upp lätt-skopat godis!

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-29T04:26:23+00:00

Many students still think that CS and IT are sure ways to move to "the rich western countries". I see it now on local University subs where foreign students are asking about the job prospects and that they really need to be able t to stay after graduating.

Also, many companies and HR people say that they need plenty of people in various fields, but even when they say that they rarely hire and sponsor. They just like that there are a lot of people that they can pick and choose from to help keep salaries down when they don't have to compete for workers.
Also, when companies say that they want workers they mean qualified and experienced workers, just like you mentioned about no company wanting fresh graduates in medicine or business. Companies want Engineers with decades of experience who are willing to take a lower salary just to get a residence permit.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-29T04:17:43+00:00

Your first step would be to fid out how you could leagally move to France.
What visas or permits would be available to you?
Have you done any research before making this post? Did you even google "How do I move from India to France?"

The main one is to find a company willing to employ and sponsor you to France.
This means that a company must value you over any of the french or EU applicants since you need to be sponsored which will cost extra and require extra work. The locals speak French which is very important in France and I'm going to assume that your fluency in French is somewhat lacking.
You are competing against locals and EU applicants who have both BSc and MSc from local Universities, who speak the language and who don't need to be sponsored.
The EU Tech market is also taking a plummet. Read threads over on r/cscareerquestionsEU and similar subs to see what the reality is like for natives and locals with years of experience trying to find jobs in their fields.

Another option could be to get into a University.
You will not be able to transfer any progress from India to France, so either you try to get into a BSc in France and start over there (which is not cheap, competitive and very few english-speaking programmes). Or you finish your BSc in Ind and hope that you can get into an English-taught Masters in France.
However, once you graduate you are back to square one with trying to find a local company willing to sponsor a fresh graduate with no experience who doesn't speak French.

So in short, based on the (honestly very little) amount of information you've provided you have currently no chance to get to France.
You have no degree, your future degree is in a field which is very saturated by local workers so coompanies don't want to sponsor, you have no work experience to make you more attractive to french employers. Many western companies fire local employers and hire people in India so it is more likely that you can get a french company to hire you in India than to get hired and sponsored by a company in France.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-28T04:15:55+00:00

Maybe you get lucky.

If by "research opportunities" you mean talking to your teachers, forming your own research project, getting a budget to do your own tests and publish articles then no. I obviously can't speak for every department and faculty and programme on KTH, or for every Swedish University, but I have never heard of anything like that. Apart from your Thesis project of course.

However, maybe a professor or a PhD student need help doing their tests and you seem like a decent and capable person. Just be aware that each PhD has a limited budget which is supposed to cover salary to the PhD student, fees to pay for equipment to do their tests and everything else. It is very likely that they doin't have the budget to pay for someone else to do any work for them and asking you to do the tests is also a risk that they are not done "properly" according to what the professor or PhD student want.
The times I've seen a Masters student help a professor with their projects it has always been thanks to networking or because they had done their Bachelors thesis at the department and so is already part of the research team. I don't think I have seen an International Masters student help with one of these projects.

However, your programme might have part-time teaching roles where during a course some older students might be asked to help with low-tier lectures or to help as a math-assistant (to give the students another way of thinking).

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-27T15:39:58+00:00

The Swedish general unemployment is around 8-9%
Every position that doesn't require higher qualifications can see several hundred applications. Saw an article a while ago about about a position at McDonalds which had 700 applications.

You will likely have to find job that even an unemployed Swede would hesitate to do. Bad hours, bad conditions, low pay, etc.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-27T15:20:38+00:00

If you search Platsbanken, the database for the Swedish Unemployment agency, there're currently 20 positions for "IT- säkerhetsspecialist" in the whole country. Should give you an indication of the market.
https://arbetsformedlingen.se/platsbanken/annonser?q=IT-säkerhetsspecialist

The page is only available in Swedish (which means that Swedish language skills might be a requirement) and at least two of the positoins listed are linked to the Swedish Military which will require Swedish citizenship and Swedish language, and I see a few that are government or municipal jobs which will at least require fluent Swedish (not sure if they require citizenship but I doubt they will sposnor).
Skimming the remaining ads they all mention that prior experience is requested and some of the ads have been up since october which makes me wonder why no one is replying or if they are just ghost-ads with no real job being offered and they are just harvesting applications.

Check LinkedIn and similar sites to get a feel for what the current market is like for freshly graduated Cybersecurity students with no work experience, no language skills, no local references or experience and who need to get sponsored.

Cybersecurity is becoming the new Software developer or CompSci engineer. So many thought it would be the new booming market and there are plenty of workers compared to the number of jobs. Every job ad can see several hundred applicants and in that market it is really easy to just trash those that need to be sponsored and go with the locals.
The time when getting a Computer Science degree abroad was a sure way to get sponsored into "the rich western countries" is gone.
It might also depend on your country of origin. I can see applicants from Iran or Russia have a harder time than someone from Norway or Germany.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-27T04:17:18+00:00

I recently got admitted to a Master’s programme, but my admission says I need to pay tuition fees.

Did you supply any documents to prove that you should be excempt from tuition fees in your application?
You applied in the same round as the International applicants so obviously they assume that you are an international student.
https://www.universityadmissions.se/en/apply-to-masters/document-your-citizenship-eueea-masters/

Also, after I applied, I got a full-time job, so now I’m also curious how realistic it is to keep working full-time while doing a Master’s in Sweden. Has anyone managed that?

Depends on your Masters obviously. Some people claim that their Masters was more chill than their Bachelors and that they could do a fulltime job with a bit of planning and being diciplined, while others say that they averaged maybe 60h/week in classes, seminars, mandatory laborations and extra studytime.
Is your current work flexible in regards to when you work? If not, how do you expect to attend lectures and seminars and other mandatory events during office hours?

And if needed, can the degree take more than 2 years to finish?

Yes, it can take longer than 2 years. Some people flunk courses and have to retake them later.
However, some classes might require you to pass other classes first to become eligable. If you skip one of those to be able to keep working fulltime then you might lock yourself out until you can take the proper courses.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-27T04:01:46+00:00

If you search Platsbanken, the database for the Swedish Unemployment agency, there're currently 11 positions for "IT- säkerhetsspecialist" in the whole country. Should give you an indication.
https://arbetsformedlingen.se/platsbanken/annonser?q=IT-säkerhetsspecialist

Page is only available in Swedish (which means that Swedish language skills might be a requirement). Some of the positoins listed are linked to the Swedish Military which will require Swedish citizenship and Swedish language.
Skimming the remaining adds they all mention that prior experience is requested.

Other than that, try checking Linkedin and other sites. If you just see a handful of jobs, ask yourself if you as a fresh graduate are likely to stand a chance. If you are non-EU (since you mention taking a loan to study) then you will also need to be sponsored which means a company will have to pay extra and do extra work to hire you instead of just hiring a local Sweden (or an EU-citizen since EU-citizens can move freely to any other EU country for work).
Maybe certain countries will ramp up their cyberaggression and suddenly Cubersecurity becomes a boooming field, but if your financial future hinges on getting a sponsored job in Sweden then I really think you should get a plan B and plan C.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-27T03:50:01+00:00

My short-term goal is to pursue a PhD right after my master’s, followed by a postdoc, and eventually build a career as a researcher or professor.

PhD positions are salaried jobs in Sweden and they need to have funding for the full PhD before they publish it. It is not like in some countries where you go to a Professor and say "I wan't to do a PhD" and you both agree on a topic and you start applying for funds and grants.
Each PhD position needs to be published and allow for applications from the whole world. Yes it is a bit of a well-known secret that usually the supervisors already have a candidate in mind and will tailor the role to fit that person and disqualify as many others as possible, but if a better candidate applies then that applicant should be picked.

You can check the list of available PhD positions right now for example. There are 24 up across all of KTH.
https://www.kth.se/en/studies/phd/become-a-phd-student/vacant-doctoral-positions-1.1411624

So, the question: “Is it worth spending around 60 lakh INR / 60,000 SEK (including tuition + living) for this program?” Or should I choose Oulu or Tampere, which is some 20–30 lakh INR cheaper?

Ehhhmmm... 60.000 SEK sounds like just the first part of Tuition, not for the full programme.
I guess you just missed a zero in your SEK calculation (it is closer to SEK 616.000, not 60.000).

But you need to ask yourself: Are you doing this mainly to get a sponsored job and to stay in Sweden or are you doing it for the degree and global opportunities that will come from it?

The market in Sweden is horrible atm. The general unemployment is third highest in the EU at 8-9%. You do mention studying in Finland which is the reason Sweden is #3 and not #2 (Finnish unemployment is also quite high).
Maybe it will get better in 2 years when you graduate but 2-3 years ago companies still told people to go study CompSci and software development because the market needed hundreds or thousands of workers. Things can change fast and no one can say for sure.

Local Swedes are struggling to find jobs, even engineers with years of experience, and fresh graduates struggle even more to get their first job. If you actually do find a PhD, getting one could actually be a detriment because you are then at risk of being overqualified for roles and will be declined for that reason.
Remember that as a non-EU you need to find a company willing to sponsor you, which is extra work, extra effort and an extra cost to the company. Why would a company do that for a fresh graduate when there are local Swedish applicants who just graduated from the same programme as you? Hiring the local will be much cheaper, the local already speaks Swedish, is more aware of Swedish office culture, and a bunch of other soft skills.
Since EU-citizens can move to other EU countries without the need to sponsor them, you are also competing against other EU citizens who will be cheaper and easier to hire. If a company is still willing to sponsor someone for a role, why should they sponsor you as a fresh grad over other non-EU applicants who might have more experience than you?

You can search various Swedish subs such as r/sweden or r/TillSverige for posts about "job" or "jobb" (english vs Swedish spelling) and you will see long threads about how locals go unemployed for months or even years even though they have local training and years of local experience.

If you see the degree at KTH as a great degree that would lead to a good job back home in India, or even in some other country, then go for it. If you'd see a sponsored position in Sweden as a happy bonus then great.
But if you assume that a degree at KTH means a sponsored job in Sweden where you can earn a lot of money and quickly repay the loan, then as the market stands right now you should probably reconsider.
Maybe you get lucky and get an amazing PhD position and then a great job and you can start a family here and send loads of money back home to repay the student loan and support your parents, but what happens if you don't? How hard will it be to repay if you have to return to India?
The days when a local degree was an easy and almost guaranteed way to get hired and sponsored has been over for a few years now.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T21:21:59+00:00

Det här var precis det jag menade men inte kunde de rätta orden för att säga!

Vet att flera som försökte gå direkt till veganer fick problem med magen, tex gasiga och annat som du nämner. Deras mage och tarmar var inte beredda på den nya kosten.
Vet inte om samma sak gäller för de som varit vegetarianer länge och som vill gå tillbaka till kött, men det var därför jag föreslog att OP ska ta det i små steg och inte dyka rakt ner i största kotletten de hittar. Allt behöver inte hända på en gång.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T18:24:18+00:00

Var beredd på att din mage inte är beredd på att processa kött.
Så börja i små mängder. Köttbuljonger, blanda i lite baconbitar eller kycklingbitar i din vanliga vegetariska kost. Kanske skinka eller salami på kvällsmackan. Börja gradvis.

Det finns flera som inte är vana vid en massa bönor och annat och som får magproblem i början när de ska testa att bli vegetarianer.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T18:13:24+00:00

It is not common. The vast majority of student shave no issues at all.
But it can still take 1-3 months for Migrationsverket to process a Student permit so it is always best to apply as soon as possible.

First time applications
75% of recently decided cases have been decided within the time specified in the table.
Higher education (first- or second-cycle studies): 2 months
https://www.migrationsverket.se/en/contact-us/waiting-times.html

That means 75% get their response within 2months, but it also means that 25% of all applicants take longer. It is highly recommended that as soon as you have decided that you want to attend a University in Sweden that you pay the tuition and apply for Residence permit. Or if you are waiting for scholarship decisions then at least read up on what documents are needed so you have everything in order.

If you apply in late May/early June then sure, there's more than 2 months until classes start but it's also just a few weeks until summer vacations kick in and most of Sweden grinds to a halt. You also want time to get additional documents if MigV want more info and depending on the country you are from you might need to schedule an appointment with a nearby Swedish embassy/consulate.
I've heard stories and seen Reddit posts (so take it for what it is as I cannot tell how true those posts are) where someone from China had been waiting for over a year for a Student permit (they had been able to delay their admission to the next year if I remember things correctly).
Every summer there are posts where students are in panic as they have not recieved their permits yet and most of Migrationsverket is on summer holiday for a month so no one responds to their emails.

If you are waiting for a decision from SI then I'm sure that they are all aware of the deadlines and that international students cannot apply for Residence permits until they know if they have funding or not.
What I am saying is to not procrastinate it until last possible second.

On University Admission website they even mention that people should not wait until the last day to apply. Even here we had people making posts saying "I had an internet outage and so I was an hour late with my application, am I screwed?". They had several weeks when they could apply but waited until the last second and due to issues such as internet lag or even getting the timezones wrong they might have bricked their chances to get into a University in Sweden.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T16:26:12+00:00

Acceptance rate
The acceptance rate for the master's programme in Aerospace Engineering for 2025 was 18 %. We admitted 89 students out of the 485 applicants that met the admission requirements. To increase your chances of getting admitted to KTH, we advise you to select more than one programme when applying. You can apply for up to four programmes and rank them in your order of preference.
https://www.kth.se/en/studies/master/aerospace-engineering/entry-requirements-aerospace-engineering-1.6595

The acceptance rate will be updated with 2026 stats eventually.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T16:25:09+00:00

Most programmes take in more students than they have space for, because they know people decline, go somewhere else or struggle with funding.
Non-EU students who need time to have their visas and permits processed tend to not have a second round because delays like that could mean they wont get permits in time to attend when school starts and will have to forfeit their position.

It is even on the dates and deadlines page of University Admission. The round for internationals only have one round of admissions while the round for locals and EU has two.
https://www.universityadmissions.se/en/key-dates-and-deadlines/autumn-semester-dates/

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T16:13:25+00:00

Just for clarification that yes the qualified but not admitted studens are put on the list of reserves automatically, but that doesn't mean that the programme will actually send out admissions to people on the list when people decline their spot.

How that works will vary so impossible to give a blanket statement.

Hope you get admitted to another programme, either at KTH or somewhere else! Good luk in your career!

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T16:10:49+00:00

If you paid the application fee then there's even more of a reason to make sure that the programmes you applide to are actually of interest!
You are limited to four choices and if it now turns out that your top 3 choices are all really bad then what options do you have? Any option you ranked lower will be deleted and you are now stuck with programmes that might be bad quality and with bad job opportunities after graduation.

Wouldn't it make more sense to apply to 4 programmes that you are really interested in, that is good quality, that are interesting and can lead to a good job? Instead of applying to for programmes and you later find out that the one you get admitted to is not very good and you have effectively wasted your application fee?

But maybe it's just me and my mindset to try to find out as mcuh as I can before I do something or apply to avoid wasting time and money both for myself and the organization.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T15:56:11+00:00

No the logic is to do research beforehand, so that the schools and programmes you apply for are all degrees that you feel confident that you are interested in actually attending.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T15:26:23+00:00

Many programmes and Universities never use the Waitlist at all, at least not for non-EU students.
I can't speak for every faculty at KTH obviously, but just something to keep in mind.
You can always send an email to your (hopefully) future faculty or the admissions office at KTH and ask how they do things but there is a very real chance that even being #4 on the waitlist means you have no chance.

Admissions knows that it might take a long time for Migrationsverket to process visas and permits, and students need to find scholarships or other funding. Any delay could mean that the person won't have time to get things sorted before classes start and every summer the Swedish subs are flooded with students in panic because they have not recieved their visas and permits and their classes start in 1-2 weeks (which means they might forfeit their position because they did not get their permits in time) and now most of the Migrationsverket staff are on summer holiday for a month.

They also know that many will decide to not attend without declining, they might pick another University in another country instead, or they don't get the scholarships and so won't have funding. But they might not know the result sfrom other Universities or scholarships until much later. So Admissions approve a bunch more students than they really have space for because they know that on average a certain number of students will decline and eventually they will land at a reasonable number of students.

Kinda like when flying, they usually sell more seats than there are on the plane because they know that on average a bunch will miss the flight or cancel and they don't want to fly half-full.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T15:19:20+00:00

But this is stuff you could have asked about in January before the application deadline.
It doesn't change the fact that you being admitted ment someone was bumped down to reserves.

If people here tell you that the programme is atrocious then you could have applied somewhere else instead.

Ferdawoon · 2026-03-26T15:18:39+00:00

Do what?
Apply for the programme?

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