Welcome as alumni!
When you complete your studies, you become one of our alumni (former students), and one of our most important ambassadors. You become part of a network offering valuable professional and social contacts. Keeping in touch with the School also helps you to continue your personal and professional development.
All alumni activities will be consolidated at the School from 1 January 2025.
The School of Business, Economics and Law and the independent alumni association Handels Vänner (formerly Handelshögskolans i Göteborg Alumnförening) have entered into a cooperation agreement which means that all alumni activities from 1 January 2025 will be managed by the School.
Everyone who has studied at the School of Business, Economics and Law is (free of charge) an alumnus/alumnae and an important and valuable target group for the School. We have been communicating with you alumni and inviting you to various events since the early 2000s. For over 90 years, the independent alumni association Handels Vänner has existed, where alumni could become members for a fee. Often, the school and Handels Vänner have collaborated and organised joint events.
Having alumni activities with two different organisers has been perceived as unclear. To make it clearer and simpler for our alumni, all alumni activities from 1 January 2025 will be organised by the School. With the addition of financial resources from Handels Vänner, the School’s range of alumni activities will be broadened. After the turn of the year, the association Handels Vänner will no longer be marketed.
Make sure you are included in the School’s alumni database!
For GDPR reasons, there will be no automatic transfer of Handels Vänner’s members to the School’s alumni database. For the same reasons, the School can only communicate with alumni who have actively registered in our database. To ensure you do not miss our newsletters and invitations, it is important that you make sure you are in the database and that your contact details are up to date.
Click here to register in the alumni database, or to update your details
Network, career and lifelong learning
Our alumni activities aim to create value both for you as alumni and for the School. We want to remain part of your lifelong learning, and hope that you will share your knowledge and experience with future generations of students if and when opportunities arise.
Alumni relations involve contact and exchange between the School and its former students. There are numerous benefits to being an alumnus of the School and a member of our Alumni Network. These include:
- Invitations to alumni gatherings in Gothenburg, Stockholm and internationally (e.g. San Francisco and London).
- Invitations to topical lectures given by leading speakers and hosted by the School, both digitally and on site.
- Access to new research via digital publications and online resources.
- News about the School via our digital newsletter and regular posts on social media channels such as our LinkedIn page.
- Opportunity to interact with researchers.
- Opportunity to keep in touch with fellow graduates and secure new contacts at alumni gatherings and digitally via our LinkedIn page.
- Access to our Career Portal and all its job vacancies, exclusive to the School, for up to two years after graduation.
- Help in recruiting new talent or students for thesis work, internships and so on via our Career Service.
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Register with the alumni database
To enable us to keep in touch with each other and make sure you don’t miss out on invitations and messages from us, you need to register with our alumni database. Also, do not forget to update your details, for example if you get a new e-mail address.
In 2019 the School of Business, Economics and Law and the rest of the University of Gothenburg launched a new joint alumni database. Even if you have received messages from us before, for GDPR (an EU data protection law) reasons you need to go into our new database and confirm your personal details.
As part of the School’s commitment to sustainability, we are increasingly sending out information electronically. To make sure you don’t miss out on anything, it is important that you enter your e-mail address in the database. The data you submit to the database will only be used by us within the University of Gothenburg.
Being a School of Business, Economics and Law alumnus is entirely free of charge.
About the alumni database
The University of Gothenburg’s alumni database is password protected and shared across the whole university. You need to register in order to stay in contact with us.
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12 May – London Alumni Evening
Alumni eve with Professor Måns Söderbom, newly appointed Dean
We have the pleasure of inviting our London alumni to meet the School's Dean, Måns Söderbom, Professor in Economics, appointed in July, 2024. He will give an update and present his vision for the School. He will also reflect on the current world situation from his professional perspective.
This spring event will also be an opportunity for you to connect and reconnect with other alumni.
DATE: Monday, 12 May, 2025
TIME: 5.30-8.30pm
VENUE: Room Stora Salen, Church of Sweden, 6 Harcourt Street, London
21 May – Amsterdam Alumni and Student Evening
Assistant Professor Conny Overland at Svalner Atlas
We have the pleasure of inviting our alumni and applying students residing in the Netherlands to an evening at the office of Svalner Atlas Group, and our first ever alumni event in Amsterdam. Presentations will be given by their representatives and by Assistant professor Conny Overland, head of our master programme in Accounting and Financial Mangement.
This spring event will also be an opportunity for you to connect and reconnect with other alumni, and for applying students to meet our alumni and ask questions.
DATE: Wednesday 21st May, 2025
TIME: 16:30-20:00
VENUE: Svalner Atlas, Weteringschans 24, Amsterdam
10 June – Copenhagen Alumni Evening
Professor Johan Woxenius, "Shipping and global supply chains - is there too much sand in the machinery?
The School of Business, Economics and Law invites our Malmö and Copenhagen region alumni to an evening in Copenhagen, our first ever alumni event in Denmark.
Johan Woxenius is professor of Maritime Transport Management and Logistics. He will talk about global supply chains in turbulent times with repeated disruptions and geopolitical tensions, and connect it to his research on container shipping.
This event will be an opportunity for you to connect and reconnect with other alumni.
DATE: Tuesday June 10th, 2025
TIME: 17:00-20:00 / 5-8pm CEST
VENUE: Comfort Hotel Vesterbro, 500 m from the central train station
Want to organise your own alumni event?
Does your year-group have a major anniversary coming up? We can help you track down your old coursemates, arrange a visit to the School, offer tips on reunions and more. Contact ingmarie.karlgren@handels.gu.se
Professional coaching for alumni
Free career sessions for alumni with a professional coach from the School of Business, Economics and Law. Email us at career-service@handels.gu.se.
GU Executive Education offers a part-time Executive MBA programme over two years, bespoke courses and open programmes.
Recruit our students
Our Career Service offers employers a great way to get in contact with current students. You can advertise job vacancies free of charge and even submit proposals for thesis work. The School’s Partnership Programme provides additional opportunities in the area of employer branding.
Partnership Programme
The School’s Partnership Programme brings together private and public sector organisations in a long-term collaboration that adds value for both the partner organisation and the School. International companies and organisations are most welcome to join this programme!
Find a new job
As alumni of the School of Business, Economics and Law, you have access to our Career Portal for two years after graduating. This is where the School’s partners and other employers advertise job opportunities, generally aimed at relatively recent graduates. To gain access to the Career Portal, you need to sign up with the School’s Career Service.
You can also post vacancies to our students and newly graduates free of charge. Advertise job vacancies here.
