Over 90,000 applicants for autumn courses
The Law Programme received most applicants (7,355), followed by the Bachelor’s Programme in Business and Economics (5,707) and the Medicine Programme (5,324). Photo: Emma Wallskog
The applications to courses and programmes in the autumn semester are now in. A total of 92,342 people have applied to a course or programme at Uppsala University, an increase of 3 per cent compared with last year. The Law Programme and the Bachelor’s Programme in Business and Economics have attracted most applicants.
The total number of unique applicants to Uppsala University is 92,342, an increase of 3 per cent compared with autumn semester 2024, when there were 89,622 applicants. The number of unique applicants to Campus Gotland was 12,820, down 5.6 per cent compared with autumn 2024, when there were 13,587 applicants.
The University is offering a total of 2,231 application options (courses and programmes) in the 2025 autumn semester, as against 2,270 in autumn 2024. The number of application options marked as belonging to Campus Gotland is 215 in autumn 2025, compared with 223 in autumn 2024.
The following programmes have received most applications:
Law Programme 7,355 applicants
Bachelor’s Programme in Business and Economics 5,707 applicants
Medicine Programme 5,324 applicants
Psychology Programme 3,908 applicants
Nursing Programme 3,697 applicants
The most popular courses in autumn 2025 (first semester (‘A’) courses, full-time, not distance):
Business Studies A 1,531 applicants
Psychology A 1,127 applicants
Economics A 1,081 applicants
Leadership – Quality Management – Improvement A 896 applicants
Political Science A 746 applicants
Most applications to options listed under Campus Gotland:
Leadership and Communication, 5 credits 1,796 applicants
Bachelor’s Programme in Leadership – Quality Management – Improvement (distance) 1,076 applicants
Leadership – Quality Management – Improvement A, 30 credits 893 applicants
Programming in Java, 7.5 credits 645 applicants
Geopolitics and International Relations, 7.5 credits 621 applicants
Among programmes belonging to Campus Gotland, the Bachelor’s Programme in Leadership – Quality Management – Improvement (distance) therefore leads the way, with 1,076 applicants. Next comes the Nursing Programme (416 applicants), then the Bachelor’s Programme in Game Design and Graphics (411), the Bachelor’s Programme in Game Design (310) and the Bachelor’s Programme in Game Design and Programming (296).
Annica Hulth
Increasing numbers applying to higher education
- In all, 23 higher education institutions have received more applications for autumn 2025, and among these Uppsala University has the twelfth largest increase in percentage terms.
- Interest in higher education studies is increasing in Sweden. When registration for the autumn semester closed at midnight on 15 April, 411,200 people had made at least one application, compared with 405,552 people a year ago.