New student

Welcome to our new students at the Department of Mathematics!

We hope that you will enjoy your studies at our department. On this page you can find useful information for starting you studies, about for instance admission, registration, course literature and course web.

If you have already started your studies and are looking for information about for instance exams, see this page

 Are you admitted to one of our master's programmes?

Before starting your studies

There are a number of things you need to do before starting your studies.

  1. In the second admissions round you must reply to your offer
  2. You need to activate your university account and register for your course via Ladok (can usually be done from early August or early January)
  3. If you are starting a programme, you may need to attend a meeting
  4. Find your schedule, course literature etc., and get started!

You can find more detailed information below, but see also the following pages:

Pre-departure information, if you are moving to Sweden to study

Checklist for new students (welcome activities, student unions, digital tools and services)

If you are starting one of our master's programmes, welcome! You can find important information about moving to Sweden (tuition fees, residence permits, insurance, accommodation, etc.) in the Pre-departure information.

If you are admitted to one of our master's programmes in the first admissions round (admissions results in March), you don't need to reply to your offer to keep your place. This applies to the master's programmes in Mathematics, Mathematical Statistics and Machine Learning, and Computational Mathematics.

If you are admitted to a programme (or course) in the second admissions round, you always have to reply to your offer via Universityadmissions.se.

There may be an information meeting at or shortly before the start of the autumn semester, and if so we will send information about it to those admitted to the programme. If your programme has several options for which courses to take during the first semester, you choose courses at or in connection with the information meeting, and we will send out information about this as well.

To keep you place on a course you have to register online, via Ladok. You need to be registered in order to take part in exams and get credits for the course. If you do not register, you lose your right to take the course.

Register online in Ladok

Online registration generally opens a few weeks before the start of the semester. For most courses, online registration is open until a few weeks into the course, but for some courses registration closes earlier. You can see in Ladok when registration closes.

In some cases you cannot register online.

Programmes

Usually you cannot register online for a programme but must instead attend a compulsory meeting, a week or so before the semester starts. If you are admitted to a programme, we will e-mail you with more information about this.

Degree projects

If you are admitted to a degree project you may not be able to register online. If you can, you should, but for some projects we will instead register you once your project plan has been approved.

Exchange students

If you are an exchange student you cannot register online, instead we will register you. Ask the exchange coordinator if you have questions about this.

You can be conditionally admitted either because you need to pay a tuition fee, or because you have not finished all courses that are given as special eligibility requirements for the course or programme you have applied for. In order to take the course or programme, you must fulfil the condition (i.e., pay your tuition fee and/or complete the relevant courses) before the start of the course or programme to which you are conditionally admitted.

More on tuition fees in the pre-departure information

If you are conditionally admitted because there are some courses you have not finished, but you expect the results from these to be reported into Ladok before the course you have applied to starts, we will usually remove the condition without you needing to contact us.

You should contact the study advisors before online registration closes if the condition still remains and you have not been able to register online. In particular, you may need to contact us in these cases:

  • If you are waiting for results from abroad these will not be visible in Ladok and you will need to contact us when you have them.
  • If you are of the opinion that you fulfil the requirements for the course already, or if you are unsure of what is missing.

Please note that we cannot remove conditions before the second notification of selection results has been published.

If you do not meet the entry requirements at the time of application, and it is not likely that you will have time to become eligible by course start, your admission status will be set to "unqualified", and your application will be deleted. If you feel that your eligibility has not been judged properly, contact the study advisors.

It is best if you contact us directly after you have been notified of you admission status. We cannot guarantee a place for you after first notification of selection results, even if it turns out that you do fulfil the eligibility requirements.

Another reason for a deleted application is that you already have been admitted to courses with higher priority. You can be admitted to at most 45 ECTS credits per term. If your application has been deleted for this reason you can reapply, if the course or programme opens for late application.

Information on reapplying on Universityadmissions.se

Course literature

You can find information about course literature in the course catalogue, but we also have a list here:

List of course literature at the Department of Mathematics

Course web and schedules

We don't use Athena, instead you can find our course webpages on kurser.math.su.se.

You can find links to course schedules in the course catalogue, or you can search by course code in TimeEdit.

Course catalogue
Schedules in TimeEdit

Courses given jointly with KTH may have their course web and schedule at KTH, in which case you can find information in the course catalogue or we will send out information before the course starts.

The Library

The research library is housed as part of the institute in spacious and fresh premises.
You will find the main entrance in the corridor to the right of the student office.
The library is primarily for employees but is available to students and the general public subject to availability.

More information about the library

Guide to studying effectively

Do you understand what is expected of you, are you using your time effectively, and are you keeping on top of your reading and assignments? The Academic Writing Service have put together a guide to help you during your studies at Stockholm University.

Guide to studying effectively

Studying with a disability

Students with disabilities may be eligible for different types of support in their studies. We recommend that you start the process of applying for support as soon as you have been admitted to a course or programme at the Department of Mathematics (and, if you are applying in the second admissions round, have replied to your offer).

  1. Follow the instructions under: Apply for support and adaptations.
  2. Contact the department at stod@math.su.se, attaching your certificate with recommended types of support.
  3. You will get a reply about how this support will work in practice at the Department of Mathematics.

The Department of Mathematics can be found (from August 2022) in building 1 in Albano. Our offices are on floor 3. The Student Office is situated on floor 3, building 1, close to the lifts and the stairs. There administrators and study advisors have drop-in times.

Contact details and drop-in times

Lectures are usually held in Albano, or sometimed on campus Frescati. There are plenty of places to study in buildings 1, 2 and 4 in Albano.

Public transport

Our closest metro station is Universitetet, about a kilometer's walk from Kräftriket. The bus stop Albano is closer, and you can take bus 670 from Tekniska högskolan, or bus 50 from e.g. Odenplan (you can also take these buses from Universitetet to Albano, if you are coming from that direction).

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Contact

Student contact at the Department of Mathematics

Last updated: 2026-03-30

Source: Department of Mathematics

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