How to Reach Borås from Gothenburg - Landvetter Airport

Here is the answer for one of your frequent question. How to reach Borås? First of all I will teach you how to pronounce Borås. It is not an english word. It is a swedish word. In english you should pronounce as "Buros".

To learn the pronounciation of swedish words online CLICK HERE!


Gothenburg - landvetter airport is the nearest airport to Borås. The airport is situated in the high road of Gothenburg - Borås. It takes 30 to 40 minutes by bus from Landvetter. You can find bus to Borås at the entrance of Airport. You have to take ticket before getting in to the bus. You can get ticket (SEK 80) in Informaton center and 'Press Byran' at Airport. Bus timings also displayed outside of the airport. You wont find any difficulty in getting a bus to Borås.

You can find the ticket fare and timings HERE.

You have to get down at Borås bus terminal - 'Södra Torget'. There you have to get a monthly pass - SEK 410 (SEK 310 for below 26 years) at 'Press Byrån' or 'västtrafik', with that you can roam anywhere in Borås for 1 month.

To reach Distansgatan / Tunnlandsgatan(Where student accommodation of AB Bostader is situated) you have to take bus route no. 1 from södra torget - towards Angsgarden / Hasseleholmen / Bramhult, via Sjukhuset. Bus stop is Fjardingskolan.

Do remember the area where your room is - "Hässeleholmen", and street name is Distansgatan.

For calling, there is no pco's like in India. You can find 'TELIA' telephone booth at airport and at södra torget. But you find little bit expensive there. If you ask any body near you, they will lend their mobile for you.

It is always better if you have Visa card. If you bring cash in Euro, you find some advantage than in SEK. Dont bring money in Rupees. You can exchange the cash EURO/Rupee at Airport - FOREX counter. There is no extra charge if you convert Euro to SEK.

HAVE A NICE JOURNEY!!!

Student life in Sweden

First of all, based on current scenario dont come to Sweden,if you are planned to study by paying the tuition fee. From 2011 Autumn intake, tuition fee is compulsory for all students from non-european nations, some exceptions are there, but India is not in that exception. If you are going to take 2 year program in 2011 Fall intake means, you no need to pay any fees for the second year also.

You may get scholarship once the fee has been implemented. You can read the government order about tuition fee here: http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/11317/a/131434

I studied in University of Borås. My perspective is only based on Borås not on other universities in Sweden. Situations may be similar. Here most of the Indians are South Indians. Especially Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Even some of the North Indians were graduated from South India only. Here main part time job is Paper distribution. That too from 2.00 AM to 6.00 AM. It is very difficult to distribute in Sweden climate. Even people are doing for the money sake. There is high demand for this job also, so you wont get job easily. Since the education is free most of the Telugu guys are doing 2 master / 3 master programs. Simply enroll their name in any course and do the paper distribution as their professional job. Other part time job available is cleaning in restaurant - very limited.

After finishing the course, many people trying for Denmark. Denmark is having some point system for applying Work permit. You can search in google for getting more information about this.