Umeå Universitet (UMU)

Fly cheap, with RyanAir to Stockholm. Then it is also possible to take a train and/or bus from Stockholm to Umeå but this takes quite long. Try to book the textbooks you need from the library. Ask a friend to book it after you since you can only keep it two weeks per booking. The courses take 4,5 so two bookings in a row should be enough.

Get a membership card from IKSU. It's very cheap and good facilities. Sports is very popular in Sweden. Fika is too. This is drinking coffee and eating cake every single day! Unhealthy, so you will need to get the IKSU membership card ;-) Be aware of the short amount of daylight during autumn/winter. Go home for Christmas and during summer time. Hardly anyone will stay in Umeå so the city that has about 1/3 of students will seem dead. Be aware of the amount of snowfall (6 months a year). It can be very slippery in the last months of winter and the first months of spring! It takes long to disappear completely. Be aware of the Swedish drinking habits. They are quite shy (they say the further up North you go, the shyer they get). This is why they drink heaps when going out and they might get a bit annoying.

It was unfortunate that again the exchange students were offered the Swedish language course no matter what. The freemover students (who were usually staying longer, 2 semesters) did not get in until the second semester. This lowered my motivation.

It was good but for freemovers it is harder to get. Exchange students get placements no matter what. For me it took quite long. I shared a emergency-housing appartment with another student for over 3 months.

Corona (club), E-puben (club organised by students). Iksu, great sport centre