Educational Profile
Umeå University offers a wide selection of courses taught in English. We have a strong international presence with students, teachers and researchers from all over the world. The university is renowned for creating learning environments, featuring Umeå Arts Campus, the University Library, high-speed WiFi and Bildmuseet – the university’s museum of contemporary art and visual culture.
Research Profile
Research at Umeå University is innovative and extends over many disciplines and scientific fields. We carry out top-level international research within such areas as ageing and population studies, infection biology, global health, and plant and forest biotechnology.
City of Umeå
Umeå is known as the young university city, the culture city, the festival city, the floorball Mecca, and the city of birches. It is one of Sweden’s fastest growing cities. When Umeå University was inaugurated in 1965 the city had only 40 000 residents. Today, more than 120 000 people live here. The city is also home to many growing companies, mainly in the field of biotechnology, medicine, IT, the envrionment and energy, and modern forestry and engineering industries.