Checklist for the start of your studies
Before the first day of your education, you need to take some important steps.
1.Your offer
You have been admitted. If you want to keep your place (seat), you do not have to reply to your offer.
If you do not want to keep your place you should decline your offer by logging in to 'My pages' on universityadmissions.se, and follow the instructions. You should click "I wish to decline this offer" next to the course or programme you want to decline.
If you see "Reserve" next to your course or programme in the Notification of selection results, this means that you've been placed on a waiting list for that course/programme.
2.Activate your user account and MFA
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.
Exchange student or tuition fee paying student
If you are an exchange student or tuition fee paying student, you will receive an email with instructions on how to activate your account.
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.
I want to activate my user account and install MFA
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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.
3.Course registration
The course starts off with registration and introduction. You need to be registered on the course in the study documentation system in order to be able to follow the course and to get your results registered during the course. If you are unable to attend during the registration and introduction, you need to contact the study administrator Angelica Johansson in advance, or else you risk losing your place (seat) at the course/programme.
It’s not possible to self-register online for this course.
In order to get registered you need to attend the mandatory roll call at 13:00 pm December 3. In lecture room Alicante.
4.Course start
2026-12-03
10:30
The schedule is preliminary until four weeks before the course starts
Course structure
The course will start on Thursday the 3rd of December. The morning session of this day is devoted to an overview of the course Health Economic Evaluation Methods (part of our Master’s programme). The overview is targeting those of you who have not taken the Master’s programme course or a similar course, but you are all recommended to come!
The registration for the course will be on Thursday the 3rd of December at 13:00. You must inform in advance if you are absent on this occasion, else you risk losing your place in the course. After the registration, the lectures of the course will start.
There will be two full weeks of teaching before New Year and two days for presentation of a home assignment after New Year. The full schedule of the course is attached to the welcome letter. All of the lectures will be held at the department.
The examination consists of two parts, an individual home assignment and a written exam. Both examinations must be graded as at least Pass to Pass the course. The grade Pass with distinction is determined by the written exam (this grade is required for it). During the end of the course the home assignment is presented at a seminar, where a model for calculating incremental cost-effectiveness ratios is needed.
The compulsory course literature is:
Briggs A, Claxton K & Sculpher M. Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation. Oxford: Oxford university press, latest edition.
You are allowed to bring the book with you and use during the written exam. However, it will not be provided in the exam hall to a student who does not have a book of his or hers own.
Additional material, in form of e.g. articles, will be provided by the department throughout the course.
Reference literature:
Drummond MF & McGuire A (eds.). Economic Evaluation in Health Care. Merging theory with practice. Oxford: Oxford university press, latest edition.
Learning Platform
In this course, we use the learning platform Canvas. There you will find for example course schedule, instructions for exercises during the course and messages from the teachers. In order to get access to the learning platform, you sign in using your Umu-id. You will get access to the Canvas site (Advanced Topics in Health Economic Evaluation Methods) after the first day of the course. If you are not able to attend on the first day it's important that you let us know.
Registration and Umu-id
It’s not possible to self-register online for this course.
In order to get registered you need to attend the mandatory roll call at 13:00 pm December 3.
In order to access the central IT systems at Umeå University, you need a user account, an Umu-id. You will receive a user account after you have been admitted to studies at Umeå University, and you will need to activate it before you can use it to sign in. https://www.umu.se/en/student/help-and-support/it-services/umu-id/
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