KTH Master's Admission Autumn 2025

Master's Programme in Railway Engineering

 

We recommend you to fill in this form using a desktop/laptop computer, if available. Tablets and mobiles work as well, but are less convenient. Compulsory questions are marked with an asterisk.

Please note that you will not receive any confirmation by email when submitting the form, but you will have the possibility to download a PDF copy of all your responses, after the submission.

1. Personal details of applicant

*1.1 Family name

Your family name as stated in your application at universityadmissions.se.

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*1.2 First name / Given name

Your given name as stated in your application at universityadmissions.se.

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*1.3 Date of birth of applicant in the format YYYYMMDD

For example, birth date 14 September 1987 must be written 19870914 

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*1.4 Application number at www.universityadmissions.se

You receive your application number at universityadmissions.se when you submit your application. 

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*1.5 E-mail address

Submit the same E-mail address as stated in your application at universityadmissions.se.

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2. Proficiency in English

*2.1 Proof of proficiency in English is based on

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3. Bachelor's degree (or comparable qualification) of applicant

If you have multiple degrees, state the bachelor's degree most relevant to this application here. 

Competence shown by other means than a formal Bachelor's degree

*3.1 Name of the country where the bachelor's degree is issued or will be issued

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*3.2 Full name of the university where the bachelor's degree is issued or will be issued at

Use the search functionality by typing in part of the (English) name of your university.

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*3.3 Major subject of bachelor's degree (or ongoing degree)

Choose the subject that lies closest to what you have studied from the list. If your major has a broad scope (for example Engineering or Natural sciences), indicate instead your minor or your specialization. 

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*3.4 Full title of bachelor's degree (or ongoing degree) 

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*3.5 Date of graduation or expected date of graduation

(If you degree is older than 10 years, please type in the date by hand in the requested format, since there are some limitations in the graphical data selection function).

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4. Overall study performance (Bachelor's degree) 

*4.1 Number of credits equivalent to one year of full-time studies

Use the credit system at your home university. For example, if the total number of credits required for graduation is 128 and the programme duration is 4 years, the number of credits equivalent to one year of full-time studies is 32 credits. 

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ECTS Credits

For the below questions you must convert the credits into the ECTS credit scale. ECTS stands for the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System, where 60 ECTS credits corresponds to one full year of studies. If your home university does not offer an official conversion of your credits into ECTS credits, estimate the corresponding ECTS credits for each of your courses through the following formula: 


ECTS credits for course Y = 60 x (credits for course Y at your home university) / ( Number of credits equivalent to one year of full-time studies). 

Example: A course from an Indian university has 5 local credit points. The total number of credit points per year stated in the transcript is 32. Then the equivalent ECTS is 60*5/32 = 9.4 ECTS. 

*4.2 ECTS credits in total required for your bachelor's degree

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*4.3 ECTS credits passed so far

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*4.4 Your local grading system

The local grading system is predominately based on ...

• If both numeric and letter grades are used in parallel, please specify the numeric scale here and use that consequently in the questions below.

• If you have been assessed through several different grading systems, please choose the most predominant grading system here and only use data from that grading system when answering the questions below

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*4.6 Lowest passing grade for obtaining the degree

At some universities, there are additional requirements that the average grade must be higher than a certain value to obtain a bachelor's degree. Which is the lowest average grade that is required at your university to obtain the bachelor's degree?

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*4.7 Grounds for GPA calculation

Is there an official calculation of an overall grade point average (usually referred to as GPA or simply CGPA) at the certificate issued by your university?

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4.8 Relative performance

Convert your GPA into a relative percentage value using the following formula:

Relative performance = 50 + 50*(GPA from 4.7.1 - lowest grade for degree from 4.6) / (Highest grade from 4.5 - lowest grade for degree from 4.6)


Check: Your calculation should lead to a numeric value in the range [50...100]

4.9 Additional information concerning grading systems

If a significant amount of your credits (>10%) uses a different grading system than specifed above (for example if you have been on exchange studies or if your university has changed grading system during your bachelor studies), please specify university and number of credits that have not been included in the calculations done above.

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5. Eligibility for the programme

Here, you supply information that is required to assess if you fulfill the specific requirements for admission to the programme.

Please carefully read the instructions below before you fill it in.

Recalculate the local credits into ECTS credits in the same way as in section 4.2 and 4.3. For your convenience, we repeat the conversion formula here.

ECTS credits for course Y = 60 x (credits for course Y at your home university) / (Number of credits equivalent to one year of full-time studies).

*5.1 Total number of ECTS credits in Mathematics and Programming

Fill in the total number of ECTS credits in Mathematics and Programming in the field below

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*5.2 Total number of ECTS credits in Applied mechanics

Fill in the total number of ECTS credits in Applied mechanics in the field below

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Instruction for entering the key courses

Please provide one line per course, and for each course provide the following 5 pieces of information: 1) course code, 2) course name, 3) the number of local credits of the course, 4) your local grade for the course, 5) the URL to the official English course description.

Separate each of the fields with a semicolon (;). If you are missing information for a field, put a dash ("-") in that field. If you are specifying a course that you have not yet completed but have scheduled to complete before the actual admission, put the word "ongoing", in the field for the grade (4). Please be careful about the defined syntax. If you get it wrong, we may require you to make a new and corrected submission. We suggest that you create the text in your preferred tool of choice and then copy/paste it into the answer box.

For example, a row could look like this:

SF1625; Calculus in One Variable; 7.5; C; https://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/SF1625?l=en

Or like this, if the course is not completed and there is no URL available:

SF1625; Calculus in One Variable; 7.5; ongoing; -

*5.3 Key course(s) in Partial differential equations

Course(s) in Partial differential equations with link(s) to course description. Specify one course per line in the following format:

Course code; Name; Local credits; Local grade; URL

 

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*5.4 Total number of ECTS credits in Partial differential equations

Fill in the total number of ECTS credits in Partial differential equations in the field below

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*5.5 Key course(s) in Solid mechanics

Course(s) in Solid mechanics with link(s) to course description. Specify one course per line in the following format:

Course code; Name; Local credits; Local grade; URL

 

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*5.6 Total number of ECTS credits in Solid mechanics

Fill in the total number of ECTS credits in Solid mechanics in the field below

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5.7 Additional information you want to add concerning the specific eligibility (not required)

In most cases, you should leave this field blank.

However, if the eligibility for the programme you apply to at KTH depends on other documents than your Bachelor's degree, please upload additional, and attested documents at universityadmissions.se. This holds for the following two cases:

1. You have courses not included in your Bachelor's degree that are relevant for the eligibility asked for in Section 5.
2. You have another type of formal recognition of previous learning than a Bachelor's degree.

In these cases, please leave a short account on what type of additional documents that have been uploaded. Note that all these documents must be formally attested by a representative of an authoritative body to be valid for your application.

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6. Additional information for selection

*6.1 Brief letter of motivation for studying at this programme at KTH (maximum 1000 characters)

Add your motivation text in the box below. If you have uploaded a longer motivation letter at universityadmissions.se, please add a compressed version of that motivation letter here. We will use the shorter text written here during our assessment of your merits.

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7. Confirmation of your answers

*7.1 Confirmation of your answers

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*7.2 Data handling

By submitting this form, you consent to KTH processing and storing submitted personal data according to the information on the page KTH’s processing of personal data via web form.

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8. Feedback

KTH is constantly improving the services for applicants to our Master’s programmes. We would be very grateful if you could share your experiences about filling in this Summary sheet with us. 

8.1 How do you rate the clarity of the Summary sheet you just filled in?

8.2 What do you think can be improved?
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