All PhD students of UPSC belong to the UPSC graduate school. The graduate school is co-ordinated by and .
The goals of the UPSC graduate school are; 1) to set up and guarantee a high level of graduate studies at UPSC, 2) to guarantee an adequate supply of graduate courses and seminars, 3) to oversee the advancement of the individual graduate students, 4) to form an additional communication and support platform for the PhD students, 5) to harmonize the graduate studies between the two departments of UPSC, and 6) to form a contact network and to coordinate graduate studies between different graduate schools in Sweden and in other Nordic countries The policy (only in Swedish) for the graduate studies at UPSC can be found here.
General recommendations for graduate studies (also in English) can be found at :
http://www.doktorandhandboken.nu or at http://www-ubyr.adm.slu.se/postgradstud/index.html