A University city

Umea is a young city. Not only because of his recent history but due to the quick development since 1965, when the university was established. The importance of its 2 universities, Umea University and the Forestry School of SLU (the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) have attracted many young students and researchers to come here from Sweden and around the world. As a consequence, the average age of the population of this city is only 38. And over a population of 114000, more than 35000 are students! This convert Umea in the fifth largest university city of Sweden