This period is characterised by sweeping educational reforms and expansion of the number of students. All post-secondary education has been concentrated in the universities and university colleges. For Uppsala University this means that all teacher-training programmes and shorter nursing programmes are now part of the University. The number of students, which had been about 5,000 in the 1950s, increased dramatically in the 1960s, reaching some 20,000 students before stabilising at a somewhat lower level. In the 1990s new expansion has taken place, with more than 30,000 students involved in undergraduate education.
All education is now subject to selective admissions.
In postgraduate education there are greater demands for better through-put efficiency. There has been a democratisation of modes of operating at the University. Students participate in decision-making bodies. Quality issues are in focus. Apace with increasing job-oriented education, further and continuing education have become firmly established as vital areas.