The University of Helsinki has the widest range of disciplines in Finland with eleven faculties concentrate on high-level scientific research and researcher education. The University is bilingual, but in addition to Finnish and Swedish teaching is also provided in English. Besides Helsinki, the University has operations at 20 localities throughout Finland.
The University participates in more than half of the national Centres of Excellence in Research, elected by international scientific panels, thanks to the results produced by the research and teaching carried out at the University. The University has strong international connections. It has some 80 co-operation agreements with universities on different continents.

How to apply

The University of Helsinki has one student intake per year. The regular application period is from November 16  to February 1 (16:15/4:15 p.m. GMT +2).
Please note that the different application groups (e.g. the visiting student status, the International Master’s Programmes) might have other application closing dates. For detailed information see the deadline table.
All undergraduate and graduate applicants register online through the University Admissions Finland’s (UAF) applicant registration service. E-registration can be done during the application period only. UAF is a centralised admissions service, screening applications and documents for Finnish universities.
When you have completed the applicant e-registration, you may print the application from directly from the UAF website or send to your mail box as a PDF file. Your registration is saved on the UAF database. The printed and signed paper application form (with all the requested documents) must be sent to the University Admissions Finland: see below.

University Admissions Finland
Snellmaninkatu 14 B
FI-00170 Helsinki
Finland

As a rule, students who are applying for Master’s level (graduate) studies or PhD (postgraduate) studies do not participate in entrance examinations. They are accepted through direct admission: i.e. admission without the entrance examination. Direct admission is based on the content, scope and quality of the applicant’s previous degree and as well as on the resources of the department and/or major subject in question. Another area in focus is the applicant’s language proficiency.

Student Scholarships and Exchanges

International degree students may obtain state grants. You may receive student financial aid for your studies only if your residence in Finland can be considered permanent (residence code A or P) and your residence is based on some other status than that of a student. Immigrants returning to Finland and refugees are exempted from this regulation.

Exchange students
As a rule, exchange students (i.e. students who register for a limited period of studies through a certain exchange programme as well as through a bilateral or multilateral agreement) are awarded a grant on the basis of that programme or agreement. Erasmus and Nordplus grants are always awarded to students in their home country. Please contact the International Affairs or equivalent at your home institution or your own department for more information on grants and other benefits they may be offering.

Visiting students
Visiting students who come to study at the University outside the exchange programmes or without any institutional or departmental agreements between their home institution and the Universtity of Helsinki, have to finance their studies themselves.

P.O. Box 33 (Fabianinkatu 18)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
viestinta@helsinki.fi
Contact form
tel. +358-(0)9-1911 (exchange)
fax: +358-(0)9-191 23010

Official website

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.

The University of Jyväskylä has its origins in the first Finnish-speaking teacher training college, founded in 1863. The University is a top-ranked university with good links among local business, a wide range of disciplines and active international relationships. It is ranked as the second largest university in Finland with around 15,000 students enrolled in the degree programs. Core fields in research and education are natural sciences and mathematics, human-centered sciences, sport and health sciences and teacher education.

Application

University of Jyväskylä offers high-quality programmes conducted in English. International students are welcome to apply to degree programmes or as an exchange student through existing exchange agreements.

Bachelor’s programmes
All Bachelor’s programmes at the University of Jyväskylä are offered in Finnish language only. Applicants to Bachelor’s programmes should have a good command of Finnish. Should you be interested in applying, please contact the Head of Academic Affairs of the Faculty in question for more information on the application procedure and to find out what qualifications are needed or from lesser known educational institutions will be accepted. Of course a lot of applicants will be coming straight from school and will hopefully have the grades required.

Masters’ degree programmes
1. Check your qualifications at the web sites of the Master’s programmes.

2. Fill in the online application form. Register to the online application system and fill in the electronic Application Form.

3. Collect your application documents and send them via mail by the application deadline. The online application form will indicate the required application enclosures. The documents related to educational background and proof of language skills are normally required.

Doctoral studies
A number of departments, such as those of Biology of Physical Activity, Chemistry, Physics, and Biological & Environmental Sciences offer excellent research opportunities for international postgraduate students.

Online Application here:
University Admissions Finland Unversities

Application deadlines:
18 January and 1 March

More info.

Exchange studies

You are studying in one of the partner universities of the JyU and wish to enrol as an Erasmus, Nordplus, ISEP, FIRST,  North-South-South or a bilateral exchange student.

Admissions criteria
You can apply to the University of Jyväskylä (JyU) as an exchange student for one or two semesters in case your home university is a partner university of JyU. You should first apply through your home university to be nominated to Erasmus, Nordplus/Nordlys, ISEP, FIRST, North-South-South or bilateral exchange.

Application procedure
1. After your home university has nominated you to study at the University of Jyväskylä as an exchange student, please fill in the online Application for Admission/Exchange Students. There is no need to send a paper copy of the application.

2. Send a transcript of your university records (a list of courses you have completed at your home university so far) to:

International Office
P.O. Box 35 (T)
FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Fax: +358 14 260 1163
E-mail: intl@jyu.fi (scanned transcript)

If your university cannot provide you with a transcript of records, you can use a standard form. Please note that your application cannot be processed without the transcript.

3. After we have received your application form and the transcript of records and your host department has approved your application, we will send you a letter of admission and information on living and studying in Jyväskylä.

Application deadlines
1 June  for the autumn semester
1 November for the spring semester

Application form
Online Application for Admission/Exchange Students
(Erasmus, Nordplus/Nordlys, FIRST, North-South-South or bilateral applicants)

Address
P.O.Box 35, FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä
Street address: Seminaarinmäki, building  T (Hallintorakennus)
tel. +358 14 260 1211
fax: +358 14 260 1021

Official website

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.

The University of Turku is a highly international institution with a very good quality of teaching, research and student support services. It is the second largest university in Finland and offers study and research opportunities in six faculties: Humanities, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Medicine, Law, Social Science and Education.. The university is a member of the Coimbra Group, a network of prestigious universities in Europe. Even though the main language of instruction is Finnish, each Faculty offers study opportunities in English to both non-degree and degree students.
Total enrolment of students is about 18,000 and each year about 1,000 international students study at the university. Most of them participate in English-language programmes or at the doctoral level in research projects.

How to apply

Students who have completed a high school or (upper) secondary school or equivalent may apply to the University of Turku as a first-cycle degree student. The Bachelor’s degree consists of 180 credits and takes about 3 years of full-time study to complete. The Bachelor’s degree usually consists of basic and intermediate study modules of a specific field as well as other required studies and also minor studies. After completion of the Bachelor’s degree, the student may continue in the advanced Master’s studies module of his/her chosen main subject without any separate application.

PLEASE NOTE: The University of Turku currently does not offer Bachelor’s degree studies in English. All information about how to apply, admission criteria and procedures can be found on the university’s Finnish-language web-pages.

Students may apply for the Master’s degree programmes by filling in a joint online application form at the University Admissions Finland web page. The call for applications for the programmes starting in autumn 2010 will open on 1 December or 4 January depending on the programme.
Application form

The online application system guides and helps you to fill in the application template and gives information on the required enclosures which must be sent to the University Admissions office by post. The information you have given on the template will be compiled into a pdf-document, which will become your Application Form as you print it out. Please note that the application is complete only if the filled and printed application template and the enclosures reach University Admission by the application deadline.

Before applying, please read carefully the application instructions of the programme you are applying for. Information about each programme can be found here.
In addition to the Master’s degree programmes, international students holding a university degree at the Bachelor’s level in a relevant field of study may apply to complete a Master of Science (MSc) degree at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Information about this possibility can be found here.
Information for Licentiate and Doctoral degree studies can be found here.

Student Scholarships and Exchanges

The University of Turku does not charge tuition fees. The university itself, however, cannot offer financial assistance or student-specific job opportunities. For the most part, all students, Finnish and international, are expected to finance their living costs by themselves.

Scholarship possibilities are announced in the spring semester at the end of March and the application deadline is at the end of April. Information, instructions and application forms for international students can be found on this webpage.
Students participating in the Triple I programme coordinated by the University of Turku are entitled to EM ECW grant. The Triple I programme’s objective is to create multidisciplinary cooperation between Russian and European institutions. The programme and its grants are meant for Russian students applying for European institutions and for European students applying for Russian institutions. More information can be found here.

The Fulbright Center awards grants to American graduate students, teachers, lecturers, and scholars to study, teach, or pursue research in Finland. There is also a Fulbright – University of Turku Graduate Award available.
Information about funding for research can be found here.
Questions on how and when to apply for State financial aid is handled by Student Services and can be contacted via e-mail at opintotuki@utu.fi.

20014 Turun yliopisto,
Finland
Puh. +358 (0)2 333 51

Official Website

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.

The University is located in Tampere, the third biggest city in Finland. There are also activities in smaller towns of Hämeenlinna, Pori, Seinäjoki, Valkeakoski and Virrat. There are six faculties and nine independent institutes. The University of Tampere is the biggest provider of higher education in Finland for social sciences and the accompanying administrative sciences.
Around 14,600 students are currently pursuing degrees at the University of Tampere. Every year approximately one thousand master’s degrees and one hundred doctoral degrees are produced. The personnel number about 2,200. For 2008 the entire budget of the University was in the range of 150 million Euros.

How to apply

Whether you are interested in Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree programmes or studying in Tampere as an exchange student.

If you want to pursue a degree at the University of Tampere, click Applying for a degree programme.

If you are interested in spending a semester or a year on exchange at the University of Tampere, click Applying for an exchange period.

If you are a degree student at one of the Finnish Universities and wish to apply to study at the University of Tampere as a visiting student under the JOO Agreement, click JOO Agreement.

Extensive information package for those who have just gained admission to the University of Tampere, see Information for admitted students.

Student Scholarships and Exchanges

Unfortunately, the University cannot offer financial aid to international students. You must at all times be able to finance your studies and living expenses or have a scholarship from your home university or from other sources outside the University of Tampere. Only under certain bilateral agreements may the University of Tampere grant a scholarship to a student of a partner university.
International Partner Universities with which the University of Tampere has bilateral agreements on student and teacher exchange or multilateral agremeents on co-operation can be found HERE (use back-button to re-enter this site).
CIMO awards and administers scholarships for international students, postgraduate students (after Master-level), researchers (postgraduates after Master-level degree or postdoctorates) Scholarships are offered to applicants from all countries. There are several scholarship programmes, each of which has its own eligibility criteria, application procedures, application deadline and application form.
ampere

Visiting address
Kalevantie 4
33100 Tampere, Finland
Mailing address
FI-33014 University of Tampere
Tel +358 (0)3 355 111
Fax +358 (0)3 213 4473
Email registry@uta.fi

Official website

Please note that Mladiinfo does not give scholarships or any financial support, but only informs about different opportunities. Click on the direct link to the official page above to apply for the program.