Welcome to Lund University! The competition for securing student housing at the start of the semester can be challenging, but we know from experience that it usually works out. We are doing everything we can to make it easier for you as a new student (novisch) in Lund.
Our novisch priority allows you to make bookings for at least 250 student housing (corridor rooms and one-room apartments) reserved for novisch students. The student housing are primarily rented out with move-in dates on January 1st and February 1st. Please note that demand is often higher than the number of reserved novisch student housing, so the novisch priority does not guarantee housing.
To get novisch priority you must make a housing application between 10-11 December and meet two requirements, according to AF Bostäder's housing list and rental conditions:
- You have not previously started (been registered to) any studies at Lund University and are accepted to or put on an acceptance waiting list for at least half-time studies (15 credits per semester) at Lund University
- You have not been living in Skåne (a province in southern Sweden) since at least 12 months back.
Housing applicants with novisch priority will receive a queue time (e.g. 2024-12-10 08:00) on 12 December, which is randomly distributed through a lottery. On the same day, we will start to publish novisch housing on our webpage. If you want to rent housing, you need to book it. If several novisch students book the same novisch housing, the contract proposal goes to the one with the longest queue time. This is how you apply:
1. The housing application opens 10 December
The housing application opens on 10 December for all new students spring 2025 regardless of when you received your letter of acceptance or notification of selection results. If you, as a new student make a housing application earlier than that, your queue time will be invalid and you will lose your queue time, novisch priority and contract proposals will be canceled.
To make a housing application and stay with us, you must take at least 15 credits per semester at Lund University and be a member of Studentlund.
2. Await letter of acceptance or notification of selection results
You must have received a letter of acceptance or notification of selection results before you can make a housing application. The document must verify that:
- You are accepted to or put on an acceptance waiting list for at least half-time studies (15 credits per semester) at Lund University. (You must not have previously started any studies at Lund University.)
Please note that the housing application will open for all new students spring 2025 on 10 December regardless of when you received your letter of acceptance or notification of selection results. For instance, if you received your letter of acceptance in October, you still need to wait until 10 December to make a housing application.
3. Become a member of Studentlund
To make a housing application, you must first be a member of Studentlund.
If you don't have a Swedish Personal Identity Number when registering on the Studentlund website, provide the same personal code as you enter in the housing application. For more information about the personal code, see details below.
4. Make a housing application 10-11 December
To take part in the lottery, you must make a housing application during the lottery period 10 December 00:01 - 11 December 23:59. You make a housing application by scrolling down this page and click on “Make a housing application”.
The queue times given to novisch students are randomly distributed by a lottery on 12 December. The queue time you get in the lottery will not be affected by which day during the lottery period that you make your housing application.
After you have made your housing application, if you are eligible for novisch priority, your queue time will display as “Lottery underway”. You will find your queue time on Your pages under the heading “Your overview” after the lottery has been completed on 12 December.
If you are not eligible for novisch priority you will automatically join our regular housing queue. Your queue time will immediately display as a time and date instead. You may then start booking housing that is not marked “Novisch”.
Personal code
In the last step of making a housing application, you must state a Swedish Personal Identity Number. If you don't have a Swedish Personal Identity Number, tick the box "Missing Swedish Personal Identity Number" and enter your birthdate and personal code instead. This is where you find it:
- Degree program students find your “Personal code no.” at universityadmissions.se under My Applications in the Notification of Selection Results PDF file.
- Accepted exchange students will in early December receive an email from Lund University including their personal code, in the form of yyyymmdd - P123.
Only personal codes with the letters P, R, S, T, U, and W are accepted in AF Bostäder's housing queue system. If you have not yet received a personal code or if it has a different letter, please contact your coordinator at Lund University.
5. Put on the waiting list? (if not – proceed to step 6)
You can register for the lottery even if you are put on the admission waiting list to Lund University. You must however be admitted before you can start booking any student housing.
Bookings made before you have been admitted are invalid which means that you will lose your queue time, novisch priority, and the contract proposal will be canceled. Once you are admitted, please proceed to step 6.
6. The lottery of novisch student queue times is conducted on 12 December
After you have made your housing application, await the queue time lottery on 12 December. When the lottery is finished, the queue time on Your Pages will change from displaying “Lottery underway” to your given queue time (a time between 10 December 00:01 - 11 December 23:59).
7. Book housing on afbostader.se
Novisch students who have participated in the lottery can book available novisch housing from 12 December and onward. Remember that you must be admitted to Lund University before you start to book housing. You will find information about how to book housing here.
Note!
- The specified date of admission is provisional, see the exact date on universityadmissions.se.
- Novisch priority cannot be obtained if you have previously started studying at Lund University.
- If you have been put on the admission waiting list and participate in the novish lottery, your queue time is invalid if you are not admitted.
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