Student life
The long university tradition and strong research in Uppsala guarantee a high-quality education as well as an exciting student life.
Student organisations at the Biology Education Centre
There are several unions for Uppsala University students. The union for students at the faculty of science and technology in Uppsala is UTN, Uppsala Union of Engineering and Science Students. UTN takes care of educational issues, student welfare, and international and labour market issues. UTN also organises social activities.
The Uppsala Student Union is an organisation for student groups without their own specific union. The activities of the Student Union can be divided into two types: the day-to-day services and the long-term political matters concerning students. The day-to-day services include access to computers, telephones, second-hand book sales, counselling for international students, housing information and much more.
BÄR (Biologiska ÄmnesRådet)
The biology student association BÄR (Biologiska ÄmnesRådet) arranges parties, monitors the courses given in biology programmes at both bachelor and master level, and more. If you want to get in touch with BÄR, if you have questions or want to get more involved in your studies, you can email nvb-ordf@utn.uu.se.
To receive information from BÄR, please join the Facebook group. BÄR is located at EBC, ground floor Norbyvägen 18B, near the lunchroom.
X-section
All students in the Molecular biotechnology engineering programme and the Master's programme in Bioinformatics are welcome to X-section, your student association. X-section can help you with everything related to your studies, be it problems in the lecture halls, party activity, or gender issues. E-mail x-ordf@utn.se.
Buddy programme
The International Buddy Programme is a cooperative programme from Uppsala Student Union, ELSA (The European Law Students’ Association), UTN (Uppsala Union of Engineering and Science Students) and Uppsala University. The main intention with this programme is to make sure that all new international students receive help and feedback by students at Uppsala University, both before, during and after they have settled in Uppsala.