Uppsala Universitet (UU)

Collect useful information before going like housing, cost living, travelling facilities. But be always open to new cultures and experiences that can make you improve in a personal, academic and professional way.

Join one of the more international oriented nations. It is obligatory to join one anyway. They will organize the most for you and maybe you can organize somethings yourself?!

I wanted to learn Swedish. BUT people speak english perfectly and if you tried to speak swedish they lose patience very fast. After if you spoke Swedish people started to see you not as a respectful EU citizen but as a dangerous possible emigrant. They dont appreciate very much the fact you want to learn their language. They see that as a threat, "another foreigner to support within our welfare state" they don t realize you can be very profitable for their economy and society. Unfortunately If you despise swedish as an useless language (only spoken by 9 milion people) they respect you more, In my opinon swedish society is fed up of receiving emigrants from the most distant countries as Iran, chile, Bosnia. Swedish are good people and very open and inocent, they always believe whatever you tell them, they never lie, I like very much this facet of Sweish. Just because this culture and behaviour Swedish had deceived by emigrants and in one way I understand why they look suspiciously to foreingers, they are good but not stupid. Now I m learning swedish for my own, because in spite of everything I like Sweden, Swedish and Swedish language. I regret not to have taken advantage of my situation when I was there. BUT IT WAS TERRIBLY DIFFICULT, and by the way at this time I was not very proficient not even in English so taking 2 languages at the same time was crazy. Anyway it is a shame for the swedish language but my overall communication was OK. Though I would have liked to speak in Swedish with some people I met I could not. But I m sure I WILL

You won't want to travel when you study here...everytime I planned to go away I realised I'd be missing something amazing here!!

Ryanair flys quite cheaply from both Paris and London Stansted, although try and fly into Vasteras because the connecting bus to Uppsala is a lot easier than travelling through Stockholm. If you can get cheap flights to Arlanda then thats the best place to land - the connection is a quick and direct train ride!