Overview
This programme will not be offered during 2024
Pathway for International Sports makes it possible for you as an international student to continue practicing your career in sports, while preparing for your future studies in higher education on a Pathway Programme. We offer two different tracks depending on what you want to acheive, that are both created to give the very best opportunities for a parallel academic career and a career in sports, a dual career:
- Dual Career Track, where your focus is to utilize your skills and knowledge that you have gained from your career in sports to progress into a parallel career that starts at Jönköping International Business School or another university when you have completed your Pathway and gained eligibility.
- Elite Track, where you have many of the same opportunities for a dual career, and even more time to focus on your sport, by bringing what you learn on the Pathway and following programmes into developing yourself and your organisation.
Pathway for International Sports includes placement in an organisation, sports club, association, event or team where you can reach your full potential and apply new-found knowledge in practice. We have also created great capabilities within the programme to allow for placement within esports, like event organisations for LANs or DreamHack, or as a coach or tester.
- You can apply to the programme with or without a placement.
Dual Career Track
Bring new skills into your career in sports, and make sure to have a solid foundation for life.
This track has a more academic direction, and offers opportunities for you to become eligible for programmes at JU that require both English (IELTS 6.5) and Mathematics.
It also includes more preparation for academic language use.
In total, over the two semesters of the one-year programme, you will have placement courses corresponding to 10 credits, around 6 hours per week on average.
Elite Track
Gain new knowledge to go even further in your career in sports and leadership.
This track makes you eligible for all JU programmes that require a language level of IELTS 6.5 or equivalent, and has a focus on your development as a professional athlete supported by a secondary academic professional career.
Over the two semester of the one-year programme, you will have placement courses corresponding to 25 credits, around 16 hours per week on average.
How placements work
Placement courses
What is a placement? Placements are embedded in the programme, and the placement courses provide you with university level credits within the programme. We offer placement courses within an organisation, sports club, association, team, company or event for international students.
- You can train, practice, compete and develop within an academic programme, as a full-time student.
- There are multiple benefits, one being that you will have access to our facilties and teachers to develop leadership skills, transferable skills and other important skills.
- You are eligible for a residence permit for academic studies in Sweden, as you are a full-time student.
Two different options
When you apply to the Pathway for International Sports Programme, you have two options: either you apply with a placement, or without a placement.
Pathway for International Sports is both a Pathway Programme, and a way for you to continue practicing as an athlete, sportsman, sportswoman or player on an elite level. This is why the programme has placements in sports organisations embedded in the programme. We have also made sure that your development and growth is scaffolded both academically and in your chosen sport, by ample opportunities for interaction and cooperation between the classroom and the placement. This scaffolding is created in partnership with NYSA Sweden, our partner that can also help with finding a placement.
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Finding a placement
Depending on which track you choose, you have more or fewer placement courses. We recommend that you have a placement in mind when applying, but it is also possible to apply without a placement. In that case you will first be placed in one of our default placements, a sports association at JU. Then, we will help you match with one of our partners. Through our partnership with National Youth Sports Association Sweden, NYSA Sweden
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Who do I contact regarding placements?
We recommend contacting our partner NYSA Sweden directly. If you need help or support with your placement, send an email with your questions.
For questions and support about the Pathway for International Sports programme, Jönköping University, admissions and other questions regarding the university, send us an email to pathway@ju.se.
Additional required documents for placement
Applying with a placement agreement already in place
If you are already in contact with a possible placement, all that is needed is a signed form, an assurance that you will be allowed placement and that we are able to conduct education based on certain requirements. The requirements for you and the placement are listed in the form.
Applying without a placement
We know it can be difficult to find a placement without being recruited by one of our partners, but it is still possible to apply to Pathway for International Sports. Instead of an assurance from a placement, we will ask that you submit a filled and signed form with your application that describes your current level as an athlete, your aspirations and hopes, your current skills and abilities, and your aims with a dual career. We will share that information with possible placements. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee a placement in all sports, but we will do our very best.
With placement
Contact the organisation, sports club, association, team, company or event where you wish to do your placement courses, and ask them to fill and sign the form below.
The form is an agreement between you as a student, the university and the placement that we will conduct education together.
When the form has been signed, attach it to your formal application to the programme.
Without placement
If you are applying without a placement, it is important to understand that it is not possible to start the programme without a placement. We will do our very best to find a placement that is perfect for you, and we will start with a default placement in one of the university sports associations.
We will then work to match your profile and preferences with our partners to propose a placement in an organisation, sports club, association, team, company or event.
Additional required documents for a follow-up programme
Applying with a follow-up programme
It is possible to apply to the Pathway for International Sports programme either as your only application to JU, or with a request for a pre-assessment to a follow-up programme at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS). Applying for a follow-up programme means that you might have to provide additional documents for the pre-assessment of eligibility. Pre-assessment means that you know beforehand that you will be eligible for a follow-up programme after completing your Pathway, and that you have a conditional offer for a programme at JIBS.
Pre-assessment form
In order to apply for Pathway for International Sports together with a follow-up programme, select a programme at JIBS, fill out a form and add it to your application.
After the programme
Pre-assessment of eligibility and guarantee place
Students on the Pathway for International Sports programme may be pre-assessed when applying to the programme. This means that your eligibility to a programme at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS) is assessed before you are admitted to Pathway for International Sports, and when you have started the Pathway Programme, you can apply to a follow-up programme at JIBS. We will assist you in the application process. You will have a guarantee place on the programme that you have applied for. Upon completion of the Pathway Programme you will have:
- direct entry to a degree programme at Jönköping University, without any further testing
- the English language preparation in reading, writing, listening and speaking necessary for enrollment in degree programmes at Jönköping University
- depending on your chosen track, the necessesary level in Mathematics for enrolment on all JIBS degree programmes
A Letter of Acceptance to the degree programme will be issued after the successful completion of the Pathway Programme as long as the degree programme has not been cancelled or changed. It is possible that one such change is a change in tuition fee. You will be notified of any changes by our Admission Office. If you have applied for a degree programme with a guarantee place, you will be pre-assessed for admission to the programme. The condition for that admission is that you successfully complete the Pathway Programme and pay the tuition fee for the degree programme on time.
Without pre-assessment or applying to a follow-up programme
Even if you aim to apply for another university in Sweden, upon completion you will have:
- eligibility in English and Mathematics, depending on your chosen track
- a set of transferable skills necessary for life-long learning
- support in adjusting to the demands, challenges and expectations of higher education
- acclimatization to Swedish culture making it easier to live and study in Sweden
In addition, at the end of the Pathway Programme, you will receive a certificate of completion demonstrating skills equivalent to the Swedish high school course English 6. This is the most common English language level required for entering higher education in Sweden. You can read more about corresponding levels in other countries here. External link, opens in new window.
Facts and requirements
Syllabus (.pdf)
How to apply
To learn more about our requirements and how to apply click here.
Fees
Read more about programme fees here
Course syllabi
Course plans
The course plans for each of the courses included in the programme are listed below. For more information about how teaching and learning works in a specific course, you are always welcome to contact us and discuss your expectations. One thing we believe is very important to explain is that each course has the same horizontal aims as all our programmes, where we strive towards teaching transferable skills and 21st century literacies that make you prepared for life and studies.
Common courses
Common Association Placement Course 1 Syllabus (.pdf)
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Common Association Placement Course 2 Syllabus (.pdf) Pdf, 113 kB, opens in new window.
Pathway English 2 Syllabus (.pdf) Pdf, 115.1 kB, opens in new window.
Pathway Study Skills, Intercultural Competence and Advanced Literacies Syllabus (.pdf) Pdf, 114.2 kB, opens in new window.
Sustainable Leadership Syllabus (.pdf) Pdf, 114.1 kB, opens in new window.
Dual career track
Academic English Syllabus (.pdf) Pdf, 114.9 kB, opens in new window.
Pathway Mathematics 1 Syllabus (.pdf) Pdf, 112.3 kB, opens in new window.
Elite track
Elite Track Advanced Association Placement Course 1 Syllabus (.pdf) Pdf, 113.1 kB, opens in new window.
Elite Track Advanced Association Placement Course 2 Syllabus (.pdf) Pdf, 113 kB, opens in new window.
Dual Career Track
Semester 1 (Autumn)
Pathway English 2
Common Association Placement Course 1
Pathway Mathematics 1
Semester 2 (Spring)
Pathway Study Skills, Intercultural Competence and Advanced Literacies
Sustainable Leadership
Common Association Placement Course 2
Academic English
Elite Track
Semester 1 (Autumn)
Pathway English 2
Common Association Placement Course 1
Elite Track Advanced Association Placement Course 1
Semester 2 (Spring)
Pathway Study Skills, Intercultural Competence and Advanced Literacies
Sustainable Leadership
Common Association Placement Course 2
Elite Track Advanced Association Placement Course 2
Student projects
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