Only now Sweden is realizing the problem I was complaining about (as a foreign student) 10 years ago. When I submitted my MA degree, the next day my visa expired. Especially during the three months up to the thesis submission/visa deadline, you are too busy to look at anything than your thesis writing. I hope Sweden will give me a visa now to compensate for that!!!

This proposal won't effect any thing unless the 'Swedish' employers change their attitude.............................

Its a good move but i guess it would be of no use until the Swedish system will remain the same for labour market of foreigners. Right now foreign students due to language barrier mostly have two only two choices either to work in any Irani pizza shop where mostly treated as (animals) 25 kr per hour and jobb include assisting in kitchen to cleaning of toiletts.(work doesn't matter but 25kr and irratating behavior is killing), where any Swede never takes less than 100 kr per hour and after tax earn an easy 70-75 kr with respect.

2nd Reklam distribution (Svenska Direct Reklam), where foreigner have to disribute advertisment door to door (200-400) houses or apartment in an extreme cold and what you get is 50-80 kr for that (one district), so after a month (4 weekend) it give you a salary of massive 200-300kr which is not even the cost of 4-5 meal.

Only IT is the sector which are compelled to offer jobs to foreigner as there are not so Swede in this field and ultimately they are compelled to hire foreigner.

So who would like to stay here for long time, every one have some limits and when limits overpass, people are compelled to leave the place in search of some respectful jobb. Even the 3 months will count if foreigner jobs are created.

this proposal is completely useless and its impossible to get IT or telecom job in sweden.swede only give benefits to swede. six months visa for what

@theibmsstate2000

you are right but in IT sector there are some possibilities, as some found job, but those are 10% may be, But still 10% counts. In other sector its almost 99% no chance without fluent Svenska language.

six month is too short, that'll take the migrationsverket to decide weather they want you to stay or not.

The deal is with the employers here, they do not believe in the Swedish education system though they believe in Sweden. This makes it challenging for foreign professionals to integrate (professionally) except to take the dirty works (jobs that the swedes will not dare to do) as mentioned above.

not all the programmes offered to foreign students are needed on the labour market. Due to the free charge of tuition, Swedish universities established 'programmes' which are not favourable to Swedish labour market. The universities need to save their jobs for their researchers. In some of the universities, the programmes are called 'business creation' by themselves. The programmes are not developed for Swedish labour market, so that, not a lot of Swedish take part of these kind of programmes. The quality of English teaching programmes cannot be compared with the programmes Swedish studied. How can people find jobs with programmes which are not needed? I have been in 2 Swedish universities for 6 years in 3 programmes. I have seen a lot of this kind of facts. One funny story is one international business school in southern Sweden even employs marketing and recuritment staffs with background in law and psychology. Their programmes even cannot provide enough labour forces to their own need.

who pays for them to stay 6 months?

This would be great , but it would be better when the employers give the chance for the employees to learn swedish (by allowing them to leave the work for the school for 2-3 hours per day) and they can cut from the salary of course .

This way i think no body will complain

At last SWEDE Authorities think on right direction if they want to use the skill and knowledge of international student, the Swedish employers should provide equal opportunities for all international students.It will be good thing to provide extra time for job searching.I think this periods will be of one year(12 months) and this will attract more international student. Employers also give relaxation for Svenska, and after starting job they give minimum 3 months to learn Svenska so Its easy for International student to learn Svenska after getting job.Thanks for Sweden and All Swedes.

who pays for them to stay 6 months? my tax money ?? its like there is no unemployed people in sweden and they want to take in more ? besides the Swedish employers dont want to take in foregins and i do understand why , and i hold to there side , until these Blattar change there attitudes and ways ( Evolve ) to catch up with the rest of the human rase , until then this proposal is worthless and i hope it wont pass ! enough is enough , Fix the problems we have inside and Stop Just Stop for a moment exporting people and then dont know what to do with them and They even dont want to respect the land that feeds them !

shouldn't we welcome the enormous evolution of the bureaucracy?

there is no use of 6 months if there are no jobs specially for non Swedish speakers. it is the age of globalisation the Swedish companies should also adopt global culture to hire international students and promoting english as 2nd language.

who pays for them to stay 6 months?

let me tell you who will pay , during my stay i used to study in Vaxjo and work in Kopenhagen , many of students work in oslo or kopenhagen so infect Denmark or Norway is going to pay for that .

not just for their stay but also many university cities and campus accommodations and grocry store are being paid by them .

further a 16 yesrs qulified professional come to sweden on which his/her country have spent so much and now if sweden is unable to take benifit of him because of conservative policies and cant even pay for 10% of value of that professional then it is not my fault.

by the way i completed my study from sweden and now i have danish green card and learning danish language , because i have job here

@DAVID T: Do you pay my room rent, food cost and transportation?

@ lev8080: For your knowledge I'd like to share some info or if you still won't able to understand it then I might suggest you think before you speak. Tax money goes only for the tuition fee not for accommodation and not too far from Autumn2011 that load is over! so don't worry just chill.Have you ever thought whatever students buy here pay tax too? Who it goes to?

I have made a group on behalf of all international students on Facebook on the name "Sweden Work Permit Noneu"

I think the sixth month period is short and we will say it should be 1 to 2 years.

The ideology behind the face book group is as under.we have already send email to different officials.and will request the government to consider.

We international students from different NON EU countries of the world.We want to convey our message to the Swedish government and Swedish Immigration minister .

We all international students are very much thankful to Swedish government that have provided us free Higher education till now.After completion of education the graduates from Sweden goes back to their countries or more than 90 percent go to Denmark as they have introduced green card scheme for skilled people all over the world ,they issue work permit through this scheme for 3 years and after extension of 3 years they will be offer Permanent residence for all graduates under some specified criteria. The Australian government also offer Permanent residence if the student complete 2 years education in Australia and the same other countries also do.

We all graduates who has completed their higher education in Sweden most of us have Denmark green card but we do not want to move there and want to stay in Sweden. We think as Sweden have provided higher education to us and we must use our skills here in this country.We want to contribute in Swedish economy and Swedish skilled labor market.

The work permit for several years to all graduates from NON EU countries will be great output of Swedish investment they did.

We are requesting to the government to consider the issue and make debate in the parliament.

i don't understand why does the citizen commentators so offended. what does your tax money do for int. students? nothing. who really cares about int. students? no one. is Swedish education even worth some respectable amount of tuition fee? i don't think so. logically thinking, your tax money only pays some professor's salary and electric bills of the university! on the other hand, apartment renting costs, food costs, transportation takes it all from students. and students are unable to compensate it because they can't get a job because they don't know swedish.

That's great,,,,,,,this decision will be definitely in favor of students as well as Swedish government both.....more specifically this decision will prove more fruitful for the Swedish government than the international students.......I hope that the Swedish government will take positive steps,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

It's about time, but really too little too late. We had our chance to retain top talent when we still had tuition-free education for everyone. Now with very high tuition fees we most likely will not get many master's students any more though, there are other choices out there that are just as good but not quite as expensive.

The immigration law has been extemely stringent and insane in this area. I know several master's students who even had to go through a lot of trouble to extend the visa even when the master's thesis was not yet finished, going through such procedures while focusing on a thesis project is daunting and stressful, and when they are finished, the visa runs out *very* quickly, hardly allowing any time for them to find work in Sweden. It is a terrible waste of talent.

Such temporary stay won't attract International Students. Denmark gives 3 year Work Permit Visa, Canada give 1-2 years after Study, then Why someone will care for Six months Visa with low chances of getting any Job.

short sighted policy...no surprise.

So you have been in Sweden studying for 1-5 years (maybe longer), and you couldn't be bothered to take a Swedish class? Don't complain about not speaking Swedish and it hampering your chances of finding work, if you didn't put in the effort at school.

if someone is intelligent enough, then 6 months visa is perfect! Many of the us foreign students who come to study here, are just too lazy to start applying for jobs early enough!!! The employers arent stupid to hire people just like that, and ignore the people who are capable... come on they are doing business ok! For them swed or no swed are the same, whoever works according to them is the one who gets selected! They have criteria as well.

After this effort you will get enough time, around 1 year I guess to complete your thesis and apply for jobs. Because when you submit your thesis you can ask for 3 or 6 months extra (this is before graduation). After you get the degree you can again apply for 6 months visa . this in total is 1 year. If you are intelligent and lucky enough you can get the job.

And look, if you are capable, and say luck was against you, still no worries you can always find good jobs in other countries as well, just dont loose hope and keep trying.

One thing I have seen here is, the student try to do MS right after their BS or B.Sc. degree. Please try to have some years of experience in between these two degrees! M.Sc. isnt a kids stuff as many of us think!!!

Blaming the employers for not selecting your is completely absurd! As far as I know, Swedish govt motivate people and spend a lot in trying to make the people be productive here and set up businesses as well!

@lev8080

You are a 100% loser..Why do u cal students blater and do u realy think Swedne fed them? Students out here,u wana stay in sweden.use the fist 3 monhs to catch a swedisg gal and change ur residency..Its that easy as people like user lev8080 can not satisfy thier women

After 3 years,u have your pasport,u can stay in Sweden or move anywhere..So easy..

Anyone who believes that Swede Employer grade Swed and Non Swede Equal chance for getting Jobs needs to go round the market to get the facts right.

Good decision. But I think from my point of view

1. It should be 1 or 2 years not six month like other some countries.

2. Employer need to change them and be careful about they are not racist.

3. Employer should recruit foreigner student first then give them opportunity to learn language.

4. As Sweden is very peaceful country, so we all want to live here, but Sweden is not the only place for talent people. So, job market should be easy for us. Otherwise we can consider other European job market which one is not good experience for Swedish tax payer.

5. We are very grateful to Swedish people that they gave us chance to study in their universities with their money. So , I hope they will give us chance to give some feedback.

Anyway, more or less, its a good move

Why should the companies put money & effort to teach the Swedish Language. The Companies are being run for the purpose of generating money for the Owners. They are not charity houses. If you want to suceed, put in your own effort to learn the language.

@yyyvxyyy : When you were studying in Vaxjo, How come you were working in Copenhagen? Were you being paid in black (Svarta Pengar)?

Be glad with what you got :)

Bravo to Swedish Gov't, Great idea....... to extend the visa expiry period for foreign students, but a year post qualification would be a more significant time for settling and get a job here in Sweden. Not too late to think towards this adjustment. Employers also need not to set priority on Swedish language only but also acknowledge the significance of English speaking when recruiting internationals with Swedish qualifications given we are now in a global economy.........Matovu iddi Halmstad City, Sweden

I think the proposal is stupid. Non-EU graduates will use Swedish welfare system without contributing to the Swedish society within 6 months. If Swedish government wish to pass the proposal, please must indicate that all Non-EU students can not enjoy free medical treatment, free Swedish tuition at SFI as well as social benefits from government and charitable organisations. And during the 6-month period, all Non-EU graduates can not work freely before signing a work contract.

Next, I think the Swedish government should significantly rise application fee for student residence permit and 6 month job seeking visa. Reference to UK, out of UK student visa application fee is £255; in UK student student visa extension fee is £386; the post study work visa costs £594. As for the Netherlands, the cost of student residence permit is €433. Finland charges initial student visa application at €250. Why does the Swedish migration board only charge SEK 1000? Does the charge cover the full cost of processing visa? Do the Swedish taxpayers burden the fee of student residence permit?

@bitter_truth:

Please tell me what facts are you talking about? Businesses are currently being set up by non-sweds here, this is according to migerationsverket and skatteverket. Only 20% percent sweds account for new business setups while 80% goes to non sweds!

As for the jobs, please have a look at the major organizations like ericsson, telenor, volvo etc. and many others, ALL OF THEM have over 50% of employees as non-sweds!

Look at the phd students (which is actually a job) at almost all of the institutes in Sweden... majority of these positions are being occupied by Asian, and other non-EU students.

if you guys think that non-sweds are not being given proper chances, please look at the people who actually are working in Sweden. They are also humans like us, and non-sweds like us!

I agree that Swedish is the requirement in many of the organizations, but please you need to understand, having a good work environment means communicating well as well as understanding the requirements properly! The government organizations mostly deal with swedish citizens, which is why their requirements are in swedish, which is why mostly SWEDISH-SPEAKING people are hired (not particularly SWEDS)

Same goes for many private organizations. I myself have been unable to speak swedish properly, even though I am going to SFI for the last 1 year. But I can not blame SFI for that because I have seen many other students who completed SFI in 6 months and now communicate properly and openly with the sweds and danish as well.

So, I try to improve myself by comparing myself with people similar to me and at better positions. I can get all that by improving myself as well. But blaming others for not hiring people is wrong. Perhaps at minor cases here and there are encountered, but this should not be used as a generalization.

See good in everything and create an example rather than complaining

Let's face it. If someone wants to stay and work in Sweden, must put an effort in learning the language. So the first thing is to enroll in Swedish courses. After two years at least someone can mumble Swedish. Then it will be easier to find a job.

Some people here complain too much and desire that things come easy.

@Commoner: Open your eyes by visiting Denmark n Norway, you'll find your fellas workin' there in black n odd jobs!

@andttrip: who is providing free medical and medicines, you live in dreamworld come on wake-up from long winter sleep. Your comparison of application fee is completely illogical coz if there ain't jobs and system is designed in a way to keep away foreigners from entering in job market. Then 1000kr is equal to10,000kr.

@muscle

OK now look the thing the you look.

1) You are saying 80% Business setups are arranged by Non-Swed, Do you know what 80% these Business are, Only Irani Pizzerias and Some Cleaning firms that are formed by immigrants living here for more than 10 year. And i don't feel any panic to say that they all recruit black job holder where condition is worse i have ever Seen. They are exploiting Non-Swed (specially 3rd world country people) with 25Kr per hour, It is better to die at road rather than working and humiliating yourself at any Pizzeria like this, And forget about to find a job at McDonalds, Subway, Max even at back end and Kitchen jobs, Only respected Swede and some 5% permanent resident holder in Sweden (Immigrant) (Who are strongly backed up by Arbetsf?dlingen to be hired) are welcomed, But Student Sorry. Real Business Firms are owned by Swede and don't expect any call from any Swede Employer,

2) Volvo, Ericsson and all the firm you mention related to IT field where unfortunately Swed are not intellectual enough to hold any middle level position in IT field and the reality is Swede don't study hard subjects and IT is one of them, In our University almost 95% are Non Swed, So Unfortunately they can't recruit Swede in-spite of their eagerly desire. Fortunately that is the sector that where Non Swede fixed by chance. What about the other fields, Business, Marketing, Accounting etc.

3) Phd's. You are talking about few number of Science or IT Phd position which most Swede not dare to do because according to them it is tough (enligt many Swede I met) and want to enjoy their life as well on Welfare fund, University are compelled to offer Phd's to Non Swede Student for the Research Publication because without it, University have no Value and these Phd's counts for 10-15% What about the Phd's in Business, Marketing , Accounting, Management which are the main programs in many Business School.

I also Disagree that Swede Employee hire Swedish Speaking rather than Swede, I have learnt Swedish conversational level, Submit my CV's in Swedish, Met employers personally and discuss everything in Swedish(Svenska), Everything clear but next day or two you will found any Swede there, And it is not happened once but many time and many people, Experiment yourself by dropping your CV (Written in Pure Swedish),in any McDonald's, Max website if you get any call ever I will change my name. Its not about Swedish Speaking but a race is Involve here as well. Swedish speaking (Non Swede) only get job in Cleaning company or Snow work. How many Foreigner you found at any Executive Post in a Reputed Company. Svan, Bj?matter more than any experience and skills.

@Andttrip

You seems to be irrational while making such comments, Are you comparing UK with Sweden ,, Huh.

When someone pay £255-594 pound as Visa Fee, then he/she also earn £1000 per month as well, and i am not firing in the Air, My Brothers and cousins are there (In UK, Australia & Canada) who earns. They pays University Fees, Accommodation, Foods,Leisure, and beside this save some money as well.

Now talk about Sweden, Sweden offering free education, A big plus and in return University ranking goes up, No job at all, (Bigger disadvantage than Free Education) so either all the borrowing money from homeland or starving. So ultimately they are spending in Sweden and earning nothing. Only education counts as Investment.

@ hammad674

1) What do you want to say? That the State should finance Big Ventures by Non Swedes? Is that what you are looking for? How many Leading Business Houses in your Home Country are owned by Foreigners?

2) Volvo, Ericsson...Perhaps they should run their businesses according to your Whims & Fantasies. They should fire all the Middle Management n heed your advice.

Just because you speak the language does not entitles you to get a particular job. Apart from that you have to demonstrate that you have the "Necessary" skills to perform the job as well.

@ hammad674:

All businesses start with a small level. If not all then atleast majority of them. If you have the creativity, the small ventures can be made big...but only if you have the will and the sight for it! Unless of course one happens to be billionaire and opens up a big enterprise!

You are talking about PhD's, well, i know about KTH and BTH , all of them get phd applications from sweds and non sweds. mostly non-sweds are preferred because of their capabilities and experience.

You are talking about IT and technology, well most of the latest telecom research and IT products were produced by SWEDEN in the past, and still the research is progressing. The best example is of SKYPE!

Ok leave the IT and technology side, consider the management trainees. First, of all, especially for management side, the MBAs and stuff, they are NOT SUPPOSED to get job here man. They need to understand the culture here, they need to understand many things here other than the language!!!! MOST of the graduates of top ranking universities in management programs, fail to get jobs in asian countries, not because the employers are bad or the university is bad. Its just because they are not familiar with the culture and norms of the place.

Let me state here clearly, I am not taking anyone's side here. But the thing is complaining will not benefit anyone. Trust me, if someone is capable, he will get the living he deserves! I also would like to add here, communication skills matter the most here, infact every where. And most of the people lack the communication skills.

Just think like this please, if you can not speak the language, how would you enter the sales market, where you need to make contacts in Swedish! A chinese friend of mine tried to open chains of stores here, but failed initially. Because in china, the discount they give, it represents the amount of money you NEED to pay, not what you don't need to pay! This is just one of simplest examples I could find.

And you need to find opportunities, if you see one field is getting saturated, you can target some other area else unless you have an innovative idea.

I myself am a foreign student. I have studied courses in management as well as IT. If i don't find a job here right now, I will not blame this state. Just my luck but I am confident of finding the job somewhere else perhaps.

@ David T.

who pays for them to stay 6 months?

The student dont have to be paid. the criteria being that you have concluded your degree and have enough money to finance your stay for the period -6 month as proposed. so you can relax your nerves Mr Tax-payer!

@muscle

Talking about capabilities and experience of Swedish PhDs - why is it that not a single Swede, doing research in Sweden has EVER won an academic Nobel prize? Their skills and capabilities cannot be that high if they are not excelling on the global level, and the academic Nobel Prize is the standard of global excellence for academicians. Academicians from India and China have won, and these are not developed countries.

@Commoner

In most countries many business are owned by foreigners, both in third world and in developed countries and it is aggressively encouraged. US, Britain, Japan and even small tiny countries you have never heard of. From big companies to small businesses. Look at the Forbes 500 list, you will recognize a lot of European and Asian companies and pay attention US is NOT in the EU, and is in fact a business RIVAL of the EU. On an individual level US will give you a green card instantly if you are going to start a business investing a certain amount of money in a business based in US. Towns and cities in the US invite and lavishly host foreigners who they think might be be candidates for such green cards. Embassies play a similar role, they are not there to do business, yet they are always partnering and doing events with business organizations. Cities also sell themselves. New York City, for instance sells itself as the "Capital of the World", but this is not just bragging, they want international companies to move their headquarters to "The Big Apple". Stockholm also sells herself as "The Capital of Scandinavia" for similar reasons.

Go to a small third world country and you might find a Swedish person running a business there, but you will find many Germans, Britons, French, Chinese.

Swedish chef Marcus Samuelsson's career and restaurant businesses exploded when he went to the US, in a short time he owns several very successful restaurants in major US cities. Half the NHL roster is Swedish. Swedish actors and models are living and working in the US. People in other countries in the world are open to foreigners including Swedes while Swedes are not. American culture is THE OPPOSITE of Swedish culture (think jante laws) yet Americans are quite happy to bring all the Swedish hockey players they can get their hands on, and try to learn to cook like Marcus Samuelsson.

The Swedish government is working hard to attract foreign entrepreneurs at all levels through "Invest In Sweden". In the last two years the Swedish government has changed immigration rules to aggressively court individual foreign investors. The government is doing it's job, but Swedes are failing their government. The problem for Sweden is that Swedes are very closed to foreigners, so it is not a welcoming place for foreign investors.

@mieoux

http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/culture/lifestyle/prizes.html

If you don't know about the nobel prize winners of Sweden, this doesn't mean that they don't have them.

I didn't want to appear biased by take the side of SWEDEN, but please before arguing read first.

And I am not talking about whether sweds are capable or not, I don't care about that. The thing is whether we are capable or not. If we are then we have to show our worth! If not here then somewhere else Simple! But blaming others for not hiring us is simply wrong!

@muscle

It is always the way especially on this forum, Those who are incapable always blame the country/the system/bias etc. etc, and never think that the problem may be MUCH closer to home

International students are held to a much higher standard as far as proving they have sufficient funds to cover their living expenses. I'm not sure who is under the impression that foreign students come here to live off the welfare but I can assure you that is 100% incorrect. I can't even get my visa renewed unless I prove I have (I think) 7000sek per month for 12 months. Oh, and I'm prevented from working while I'm here as well.

@mieoux

Swedish Nobel price winners

Kemi

1903 - Svante Arrhenius, teorin om den elektrolytiska dissociationen

1926 - The Svedberg, kolloid-kemiska unders?ngar

1929 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, enzymer verksamma vid j?ing av sockerarter

1948 - Arne Tiselius, unders?ng av proteiner med elektrofores

Fysik

1912 - Gustaf Dal? uppfinningar

1924 - Manne Siegbahn, r?enspektrografi

1970 - Hannes Alfv? magnetohydrodynamiska v?rna (Alfv??rna)

1981 - Kai Siegbahn, utvecklingen av elektronspektroskopi

Fysiologi eller medicin

1911 - Allvar Gullstrand, synforskning

1955 - Hugo Theorell, f??ng?de oxiderande enzymer

1967 - Ragnar Granit, n?innans mekanismer vid f?seende

1970 - Ulf von Euler, uppt?ten av noradrenalin

1981 - Torsten Wiesel, forskningsr?m hj?ans syncentrum

1982 - Sune Bergstr?Bengt Samuelsson, prostaglandiner

2000 - Arvid Carlsson, signal?f?g i nervsystemet

It´s all about atitude, stop being so hostile!

L

Didn't The Swedish Minister For Integration Say That The Average Time For An Immigrant To Get Into The Jon Market Is 7 Years?

this sounds like a joke...

....Give them six months + tell employers to tighten employment rules for foreigners="dont blame us,atleast we tried,u can now leave.

6 months is good time to plan another migration...

A Female Swedish Student who has completed a degree from University of Lund looking for a waitress job in Norway because she's unable to get a job here.....Then what's the point of investing money in education when you can't utilize it? So international students don't get frustrated just learn from Swedes experiments! They're also struggling when they're failed they're flown to other countries in search of better future!

@ Smartone

Well, atleast she is doing something. Instead of living off a-kassa, she preferred to work.

What exactly is your point, art hjarna?

It's not about that she's at least doing something, it's matter of world renowned university graduate seeks job in restaurant why?

1. Unable to find a professional job after completion of the degree.

2. why such degrees are taught when job market isn't open for them.

3. Swede students dependent on CSN which must be paid off.

4. For this, they have to do what they don't want to do (odd jobs)

5. They're Swedes, knows language, culture everything.....why searching jobs abroad?

They really need to look into student visa issue as well. I gained admission into malmo university late last year and till this moment the Swedish consulate is yet to issue me residence permit.

@Happy Niklas: i totally agree with you man. Whats more important is changing the mindset of Swedish employers. Giving students more time to face employers who have prejudices on hiring people who's last name's do not end in "...son" would help to achieve nothing.

I have a question from Swedes hope if any one would like to give reasonable, non raciest answer....I am a Master's student at KTH during my two years of stay i didn't work even in summar.My family has supported me through out.so form day one till today i have paid some 100k SEK to swedish government without earning a single penny here.Dont i even deserve to get a job or so much so a paid thesis.....i really love this country but i am afraid i'll have to leave soon...

too bad my expertise would be used by danish or germans and not swedes who deliberately spent their tax money for my high qualification....i really want to serve sweden even with at low price as compare to average swede but. OK...Suit yourself

Hej

I havenot heard any thing about this proposal since then and what is the status? I mean Is it ratified?

@ sleeplesssweden

Loved it man :) Quenched.....

@ Malangi31

so form day one till today i have paid some 100k SEK to swedish government without earning a single penny here.Dont i even deserve to get a job or so much so a paid thesis

But why do you come to study at KTH? I think most probably because you are not good enough to be accepted as a Master student in a university at your home country....lol..