Autumn joint application 31 Aug – 10 Sep 2026

How to participate in the joint application?

Fill in the application

The application can be completed during the application period Mon 31st Aug 2026 8:00 – Thu 10th Sep 2026 (ends at 3:00 PM) at Opintopolku.fi

The joint application ends on the last day of the application at 3:00 PM.

Do not guess the information on the application form. So before filling in your application, have your degree and employment certificates ready and take the necessary information from them. The applicant is responsible for providing correct information during the application, for example about educational background, grades and work experience.

The study place is conditional until the accuracy of the information and documents used in the application has been verified.

Add copies of certificates to your application by the deadlines. Deadlines are always shown on the application in connection with the attachment request.

You can select up to six preferences on the application form. You must rank your preferences in order of preference, because you can only be admitted to the highest preference for which your points are sufficient.

After the application period ends you cannot change the order of preferences, remove or add preferences.

Instructions for filling in the application form

When you have submitted your application, you will receive a confirmation message to the email address you provided on the application.

Add the requested copies of degree certificates to your application form

Copies of certificates must be attached to the application in the universities’ autumn 2026 joint application by 17th Sep 2026 at 3:00 PM, if you are applying with any of the following qualifications;

• Finnish upper secondary school completion without the matriculation examination
• Matriculation examination completed in Finland before 1990
• Vocational qualification completed in Finland before 2017
• Vocational or specialist vocational qualification completed in Finland before 2018
• Post-secondary or vocational higher-level qualification
• International matriculation (EB, IB, Reifeprüfung/DIA qualifications)
• Higher education degree completed in Finland (Alternatively, you can share a link to your study records from the My Studyinfo/Oma Opintopolku service on the application form)
• Degree completed abroad (if the certificate is not in Finnish, Swedish or English, you must also send a copy of a translation made by an official translator).
  

Information on qualifications other than those listed above will be transferred to the universities of applied sciences directly from the Koski database.

Save your attachments in PDF/JPG/PNG format. Name files in the format “Surname_Firstname_document”, for example Smith_John_Bachelordegree.

If you photograph your certificate, the entire certificate must be visible in the image and the photo must be sharp so that all details of the certificate are readable.

If necessary, you may also mail the attachments to Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Admissions Services, Ratatie 22, 01300 Vantaa. In that case, the copies of certificates must also arrive by the deadline.

If the applicant is a refugee or a person in a comparable status in Finland, or an asylum seeker, and cannot document their previous degree with documents, they must supply a copy of the asylum decision or a residence permit on grounds of protection to the admission services of the higher education institutions of all application options by 17th Sep 2026 at 3:00 PM.

Do not upload sensitive attachments to the application.

Work certificates for Master’s degree programmes (UAS)

Applicants to Master’s-level UAS degree programmes must attach copies of employment certificates to their application that prove the required minimum of two years’ work experience for the programme. We will check the employment certificates from those selected as students.

The employment certificate must show, among other things, the exact start and end dates of the employment, the employer’s contact details, job duties and, in the case of part-time work, working hours. If the employment continues, a temporary employment certificate should be requested from the employer. The employment certificate must bear the employer’s or the employer’s representative’s signature (stamp) or an electronic signature that can be verified.

Name extract and certificate of employment are accepted. The official name extract or certificate of employment must have the issuer’s signature (stamp) or an electronic signature that can be verified.

Entrepreneurship is accepted as work experience if there is evidence that the applicant is or has been YEL-insured. (YEL = self-employed person’s pension insurance).

Apply for individual arrangements for entrance exams by 17th Sep 2026 at 3:00 PM

The application for individual arrangements, with attachments, must be submitted in the universities’ autumn 2026 joint application between 31 Aug 2026 at 8:00 and 17 Sep 2026 at 3:00 PM (at the latest).

If you need individual arrangements for the entrance exam, fill in the e-form for individual arrangements and attach a copy of the attestation or statement (e.g. medical certificate) that indicates the ground for individual arrangements.

Individual arrangements are not granted if the applicant applies for them after the deadline for applying for individual arrangements. An exception is where an obstacle requiring individual arrangements arises or is diagnosed after the application period ends.

If any attachments are written in another language than Finnish, Swedish or English, the applicant has to also provide a translated copy of the document with an authorized translator’s name, signature and stamp.

Please attach copies of attestations that support your request (e.g. medical certificate or equivalent statement on the nature of your disease or disability, or certificate on dyslexia or learning difficulty). Those who request support measures, such as additional time, on the grounds of dyslexia have to attach a statement of a trained special needs teacher, an expert psychologist, speech therapist or specialist medical doctor (e.g. child neurologist, neurologist or phoniatrician). The statement shall indicate that you need support measures for taking the exam due to dyslexia. The UAS may accept an equivalent decision made by The Finnish Matriculation Examination Board if it contains the granted support measures.

The validity of statements is assessed on a case-by-case basis depending on the persistence of disability, disease or learning difficulty. For dyslexia, only statements that have been obtained at the age of 16 or later are considered. Do not send original certificates but be prepared to present the originals at the start of your studies should you become accepted to the study programme. Information related to your health shall be kept secret (Section 24, Act on the Openness of Government Activities).

Admissions Services will inform you by email on individual arrangements that you have been granted.

The announcement on individual arrangements in the entrance examination is exam-specific and valid only in that particular entrance examination. If, for some reason, individual arrangements cannot be arranged as requested by the applicant, the UAS sends a written notification, with justifications, to the applicant.

Requests for individual arrangements sent after the deadline are processed only in acute, exceptional cases. Individual arrangements cannot be granted if the request is submitted too late, with regard to the timetable of the entrance examination, or individual arrangements are otherwise deemed impossible to arrange.

If the applicant is not satisfied with the arrangements stated in the announcement, they should contact the university of applied sciences without delay so that it can, if necessary, revise its previous decision. When the applicant receives the final joint application selection decision, they can lodge a request for a review on the granted arrangements as part of an appeal against the selection decision.

Prepare for the entrance exam

Master’s degree entrance exam or selection study unit

Applicants to Master’s degree programmes participate in Laurea’s own programme-specific entrance exams. The schedules and instructions for the entrance exams and selection study modules will be published before the application period.

Familiarize yourself with the schedules in good time and make sure you can participate in the entrance exams for all the programmes you have applied to.

After the entrance exam

Notification of results

Results of the Master’s degree programmes will be published no later than 19th Nov 2026.

All applicants to the joint application will receive a personal result letter sent by the Finnish National Agency for Education by email on 19th Nov 2026.

Accepting a study place

The study place must be accepted, the necessary copies of degree or employment certificates added to the application form, and you must register for the academic year in the autumn 2026 joint application by 26th Nov 2026 at 3:00 PM.

If you are offered a study place from the reserve list, these matters must be completed within 7 days of being notified of the selection.

If you have been selected for your first-priority application option, you can accept the offered study place immediately in the Oma opintopolku service. Logging into the service requires authentication, for example online banking credentials.

If your selection status shows “accepted – awaiting results of higher preferences”, you cannot accept the study place until results for all your higher preferences have been published (in the autumn 2026 joint application no later than 19th Nov 2026).

Reserve list selections and additional admissions

You can be admitted from the reserve lists from the time the results are published. Reserve list selections end on 10th Dec 2026.

You can follow the development of your own situation in the My Studyinfo/ Oma opintopolku service.

Universities of applied sciences may arrange additional admissions for programmes starting in spring 2027. Any additional admissions will be published on the Opintopolku.fi service.

For new students

In the new student’s instructions you will find more detailed instructions

• for accepting the study place,
• for registering for the academic year,
• for submitting any missing certificate copies,
• for activating Laurea user accounts and
• the online orientation to be completed before the first meeting.

From the programme-specific instructions you will find:

• the schedule for the first meeting,
• teaching times (timetable).

Appeal instructions

If the decision on student selection has not been made in accordance with the admission criteria, the person has the opportunity to apply in writing for rectification from the university of applied sciences’ Higher Education Collegium within 14 days of the publication of the student selection result.

Please contact Laurea’s applicant services before submitting an appeal request. This may speed up the handling of your matter or it may be resolved without the need to submit a formal appeal.

In the appeal, state your name, contact details and in what respects the admission criteria have not been followed or in what respects the student selection was made incorrectly.

The appeal request is sent using the electronic form at E-form – Appeal request – Laurea University of Applied Sciences or to Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Higher Education Collegium, Ratatie 22, 01300 Vantaa.