University applications rocket to record high

Swedish universities continue to draw vast amounts of applicants with the number of prospective students seeking a third level education increasing for the seventh year in a row.
The deadline for registrations expired on Wednesday with the Swedish Council for Higher Education (Universitet och högskolerådet) reporting that they'd received 390,000 applications - an increase of 9,500 compared to 2013. Due to the added demand for places the state body extended the deadline by a day. In the space of 24 hours they received 20,000 more applications for courses due to begin in the autumn. More...