Checklist for the start of your studies
Before the first day of your education, you need to take some important steps.
1.Reply to your offer
If you have been admitted to a course or programme, or been placed on a waiting list, you must reply to your first admissions notification to keep your place. If you don't wish to keep your place, you should decline your offer. In doing so, you free up your place to someone who is on the waiting list. You reply to your offer by logging in to your account at Universityadmissions.se by 20 july 2026.
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
Help! It´s not working
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
Self registration will take part between 2026-09-25 - 2026-10-01
How to register?
If you have problems to registrate please contact study administrator in time.
4.Course start
2026-09-30
Not yet ready, see schedule further on.
The schedule is preliminary until four weeks before the course starts
The main focus of the course is applied, advanced cartography. This entails in-depth understanding of fonts, color and symbols, as well as corresponding practical applications in GIS in terms of labeling techniques, color choice and symbolization. Theoretical and critical views of GIS as a tool, as well as maps as purveyors of information, are also given attention. Furthermore, the course provides an introduction to the post-processing of maps in raster and vector graphic editing environments (Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, respectively).
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