Welcome to the Master’s Programme in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The programme provides an opportunity to gain advanced knowledge in the foundations and applications of AI in an international environment. Having completed the programme, you will be well prepared for a career in academia or industry, depending on your interests and the focus of your studies.
As a new student, you need to activate your user account (your Umu-id) approximately two weeks prior to the start of the semester.
With your user account you can:
register for courses
access the internet in computer labs and the university's wireless network
submit assignments and verify your study results
access your student e-mail
If you are a new student, you will automatically receive a user account when you are admitted, but you will need to activate it for it to function properly. You will not be able to activate it until approximately two weeks prior to the start of the semester.
Install MFA for a more secure login To increase security and reduce the risk of unauthorised access to your information or account, students must enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) to log in to various systems, such as Canvas and the Student Web.
If you are an exchange student or tuition fee paying student, you will receive an email with instructions on how to activate your account.
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If you are having problems activating your account or logging in, please contact our Servicedesk. You will find answers to common questions, and can submit enquiries.
The week before lectures start you are invited to meet the programme directors Dr. Juan Carlos Nieves and Dr. Ola Ringdahl, who will give a short introduction to the program and answer your questions.
Depending on which courses you took in your Bachelor you have to choose to take either logic or statistics in the autumn:
• Foundations of Logic and Model Theory (If you already took a course in Statistics)
• Statistics for Engineers (If you already took a course in Logic)
If you have taken both logic and statistics since before, please contact the programme director to decide a suitable alternative course.
During the second half of the semester, you will take different courses depending on which profile area you choose; the data science profile area (Mathematical Statistics) or one of the four profile areas within Computer Science.
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To help our planning, please fill in this form to choose which courses you are planning to take, before August 15.
You can choose between 5 different profile areas in the programme:
Computer science: • Reasoning and decision making • Human-AI interaction • Intelligent robotics • Machine learning
Mathematical statistics: • Data science
More information about the profile areas can be found in the programme syllabus. Most of the courses are eligible ones that you choose based on your interests and choice of profile area. For the first semester, you have to choose if you want to take the Data Science profile or one of the four CS profiles.
Follow this simple list of things to complete your enrolment at Umeå University. It includes: how to secure housing, getting a residence permit (for citizens from outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland), tuition payment (if applicable), travel directions and more.
The website for current students has all sorts of information about services, support, legal and practical matters at Umeå University. You can sign in to the learning platforms, see your schedule and course overview, get a study certificate, apply for a degree or sign up for an examination.
International students are recommended to arrive at least a few days before the start of the regular semester, preferably prior to the Orientation. If you fail to arrive on time, you have to contact the study counselor as soon as possible, but no later than one week ahead of the course start, or you may not be able to register for the programme or course.
If you will have student housing through the Housing Office at Umeå University you will receive information about your arrival in your offer of housing.
Don't forget - Umeå has cold winters, so pack accordingly with a warm jacket, warm shoes, gloves and hat.
Moving to a new country with an unfamiliar language, culture and customs can be a challenge. We would like to help you and ease that challenge so that you can focus on your studies. Therefore, we would like to offer you the possibility to take part in our Orientation, which begins a few days before the start of the semester (Autumn) or the same day as the semester starts (Spring).
Are you a new student at Umeå University? Visit the Welcome Fair – a perfect opportunity to learn what our university and Umeå can offer. The fair normally takes place in the beginning of each semester.
Students at Umeå University have free access to the programmes of Microsoft Office 365. This means that you have access to Teams, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Whiteboard Forms, your student email and other services which can facilitate your studies and your collaboration with other students. To access Office 365 you need to activate your UmU-id.
