First selection round completed for the courses in autumn 2026
The Medicine Programme and the Psychology Programme have the highest merit ratings in the first selection round for the autumn 2026.Photo: Ida Stigzelius / Uppsala University
The first selection round for the autumn semester courses and study programmes is now complete. The total number of admissions for the autumn semester 2026 is 61,860, compared with 63,294 admissions in the autumn semester 2025, a drop of 2.3%.
Campus Gotland has 5,644 admissions for the autumn semester 2026, a drop of 4.7% compared to the autumn semester for 2025 when Campus Gotland had 6,102 admissions in the first selection round.
The Medicine Programme and the Psychology Programme have the highest merit ratings.
A person can be admitted to several courses/programmes, so this is not the same as the number of admitted applicants (individuals). This differs from the statistics published by the Swedish Council for Higher Education, which counts the number of individuals rather than the number of admissions.
Programmes with the highest merit ratings – top five for 2026 autumn semester
Applicants with final school grades without supplementary qualifications
- Medicine Programme (22.19)
- Master’s Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management (21.98)
- Psychology Programme (21.98)
- Master’s Programme in Engineering Physics (21.77)
- Law Programme (21.77)
Applicants with final school grades with supplementary qualifications
- Medicine Programme (22.25)
- Psychology Programme (22.19)
- Master’s Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management (22.15)
- Master’s Programme in Engineering Mathematics (21.67)
- Bachelor’s Programme in Political Science (21.60)
No one in this group was admitted to the following study programmes: Bachelor’s Programme in Physics – Geophysics, Bachelor’s Programme in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Bachelor’s Programme in Theology – Islam: Past and Present.
Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (Högskoleprovet)
- Master’s Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management (1.80)
- Master’s Programme in Engineering Physics (1.75)
- Master’s Programme in Engineering Mathematics (1.75)
- Medicine Programme (1.75)
- Bachelor's Programme in Physics – Geophysics* (1.70)
- Master’s Programme in Materials Engineering (1.70)
- Psychology Programme (1.70)
* Limited places, only one admitted in this selection group. No one from this group was admitted to the Upper Secondary School Teacher Education Programme – Technology and Mathematics or the Bachelor’s Programme in Theology – Islam: Past and Present.
Courses with the highest merit ratings – top five for 2026 autumn semester
Applies to 30 credit courses which are aimed at beginners and are offered full-time, daytime with normal instruction (not distance education).
Applicants with final school grades without supplementary qualifications
- Egyptology A* (22.19)
- Psychology A (21.09)
- Information Systems A* (21.03)
- Business Studies A (20.85)
- Political Science A (20.78)
* Limited places, only two admitted in this selection group.
Applicants with final school grades with supplementary qualifications
- Statistics A (22.50)
- Rhetoric A (21.15)
- Business Studies A (20.78)
- Psychology A (20.60)
- Development Studies A (20.54)
No one was admitted in this selection group to Egyptology A or Linguistics A. Statistics A, Rhetoric A and Development Studies A each have one admitted in this group; Psychology A has two.
Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (Högskoleprovet)
- Statistics A (1.70)
- Information Systems A (1.45)
- Business Studies A (1.40)
- Psychology A (1.40)
- Political Science A (1.40)
Elin Bäckström