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
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.Programme registration
Registration on the programme will take place on August 31 when you have an introduction to and start of the first course, see time and place below.
If you are unable to attend at the introduction, you need to contact the programme director Nathaniel Street, nathaniel.street@umu.se, or study administrator Hanna Öhman, hanna.ohman@umu.se, in advance, or you risk loosing your place in the programme.
4.Programme start
2026-08-31
09.00
The schedule is preliminary until four weeks before the programme startsprogramme start
Personal laptop and login credentials
You will need a personal laptop computer for all courses in the programme. You will use the laptop to work on a remote compute cluster but need a functioning laptop for this.
We will guide you through the required setup during the first week but for this you will need to be able to authenticate using your UMU login credentials.
Foreign students will also require a digital copy of the information age from your passport and it is advantageous to have setup Freja (https://frejaeid.com/ and https://manual.umu.se/en/freja-eid/).
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