Student Recruitment
The following student recruitment activities are organized by the Office of Science and Technology. We complement the efforts made by the central Student Recruitment Unit (at the Communaction division).
The activities are presented in a somewhat chronological order. Activities eaither aim to effect the domestic recruitment, international recruitment or both markets.
Activities in autumn
International ambassadors
International
At the beginning of the autumn semester, we recruit international students from our Master’s programmes to be ambassadors and conduct webinars with their home universities during the academic year. They book their webinars themselves, present their programme and how they came to study in Sweden, and answer questions. They are paid a certain amount for this and receive a certificate.
Upper secondary school ambassadors
Domestic
During the autumn, we recruit students to be upper secondary school ambassadors. The role involves visiting your old upper secondary school to present your route from school to university, talk a bit about your programme and answer questions about life as a student. The ambassadors receive some compensation for this, as well as travel expenses, and a certificate. We send out about 50 ambassadors per academic year.
Search engine advertising
Every autumn we carry out national and international search engine advertising on Google based on a selection of keywords. This captures searches on subjects where Uppsala University offers programmes.
Uptown Tech
Domestic
Uptown Tech is an event intended for girls in the last year of an upper secondary school programme in natural sciences, engineering or technology. Over the course of a whole day, they have the chance to meet the programmes, hang out with our students, get some insight into student life and see the Ångström Laboratory.
Activities in spring
"Skugga en student"
Domestic
To give prospective applicants a better picture of the University, the campus and our programmes and courses, we offer upper secondary school students the chance to shadow our students for a day - in Swedish "Skugga en student". If you would like to shadow a student, you fill in a form and we will do our best to find a student in the programmes you’re interested in. Shadowing may involve accompanying a student to a teaching session or a lab, and being shown round the campus. Lunch is on us! The visit lasts about half a day.
Programme pages
Programme texts are updated every spring. Programme coordinators are invited to provide input for any changes and adjustments in the programme descriptions. The updates are produced in cooperation with communications officers engaged in student recruitment.
Instructions for programme descriptions
Timeline for teknat 2024 | |
|---|---|
March | Feedback and suggestions is sent out from the faculty. |
April 30th | Corrections and updates are sent to the faculty. |
1-31 May | The faculty works with the texts, possible questions are handled and discussed together with the program coordinator. |
June 20th | All texts are done. |
Undergraduate programmes – Lovisa Svensson
Master’s programmes – Alexandra Abde
Öppet hus (open house)
Domestic
Öppet hus is an event designed for students in the last year of upper secondary school in engineering, technology or natural sciences. Our undergraduate programmes are represented at an educational fair. Visitors are offered guided tours around campus and a panel discussion on student life and student housing. Invitations are sent by postcard. In 2022 we had a record number of visitors.
Webinars for Master’s programmes
International
During the autumn our international ambassadors are organising webinars with their home universities, and this will continue in the spring. These webinars will be supplemented in future with programme-specific webinars organised with programme coordinators and offered to prospective students who have applied to or shown an interest in a certain programme.
Activities throughout the year
Domestic
On the account @uppsalastudent_teknat, we do programme take-overs, where programme students get to take over the account and publish pictures to showcase their everyday life. We also publish our own material.
Advertising
Domestic
Every autumn and spring, we advertise a campaign in channels used by the target group, including the engineering quiz "Vilken ingenjör vill du bli?" and the science quiz "Vilken naturvetare vill du bli?".
Recruitment brochure
Domestic
Each year a brochure is printed presenting the Faculty's undergraduate programmes. The brochure is posted to Uppsala University's closest recruitment area and distributed at our events, such as Uptown Tech and Open House.
Latest recruitment brochure (in Swedish)
Subject visualisation
Domestic
We have developed subject visualisations for all our undergraduate programmes. Programme coordinators are involved, along with representatives from NUN and TUN. The idea is to provide a simple and easily understood picture of the subjects included in a programme and roughly how large a percentage of the programme they represent, so that prospective students can quickly get a sense of how much mathematics a programme contain, and a possibility to how different programmes compare.