Pre-arrival activities

Before you arrive, get ready to start your studies at Stirling by taking part in free online workshops to develop your skills and understand expectations of studying with us.

Stirling Essentials

Before you arrive, get ready to start your studies at Stirling with Stirling Essentials. These online workshops, activities and resources will help develop your skills and understand expectations of studying with us. It is as easy as:

  1. Attend our free online orientation programme: 
    • Undergraduate (28 August to 5 September)
    • Postgraduate (11 to 19 September)
  2. Complete a few essential activities by week 3 of semester.
  3. Check out our Stirling Essentials resources which will help answer some of your questions and get you started.

You’ll have access to Stirling Essentials once you start the enrolment process and can register for the free online orientation programme in advance:

Group student work happening in library

International students

We can’t wait to welcome you to the UK and to the University of Stirling. It is essential that you work through our international student induction programme, a series of free online workshops to help you understand the expectations of studying at Stirling.

There’s also some extra things you need to do in preparation for your arrival, so we’ve got lots of useful guidance for you in our international students section.