For Degree Students
Orientation kit
On these pages you will find information how to orientate yourself for living and studying in Finland.
Confirm your study place
To keep your study place, you must confirm the acceptance or you study place by the given deadline. Please note that you can accept only one higher education study place per academic term.Your study place offer is conditional until Laurea Admissions has checked your eligibility to apply form your final degree/graduation certificates uploaded to your application form. Admission is also conditional for tuition- fee-paying students until the tuition fee has been paid.
How to confirm your study place?
If you do not yet have a Finnish identity number, you will receive an email from Studyinfo titled
“Offer of admission in Studyinfo”. You can confirm the offered study place via the link that is
included in this email.
If you have a Finnish identity number, you can confirm the study place online at My StudyInfo
Service by logging in via Suomi.fi e-Identification with Finnish online banking credentials, a
Finnish electronic ID-card or mobile certificate. Link to My StudyInfo ↗
If you are not able to confirm your study place in the above mentioned ways, please contact
Laurea Admissions admissions@laurea.fi
Make sure to confirm the offered study place before the given deadline or you will lose the
offered study place.
Keep in mind that you can only accept one higher education study place per semester. This means
that if you have applied to several universities of applied sciences or universities in Finland and get
offered more that one study place during one semester, you can only accept one. Read more about
the one study place per term provision here.
Upload the necessary certificates to your applicaton form
Bachelor degree students
Your admission is conditional until Laurea Admissions has verified your eligibility to apply to higher education.Your eligibility to apply to higher education will be checked from the education certificates you have uploaded to your application form (Studyinfo.fi).
If you receive a study place, please ensure your final upper secondary school graduation certificate / degree certificate have been uploaded to your application form. You must also attach its official translation if it is not issued in either Finnish/English/Swedish.You can upload the certificates to your Studyinfo application form underneath the heading ‘Certificates required in connection with student selection (UAS)’.
Laurea may withdraw the admission if you do not provide the certificates which have affected your admission by the deadline given or if you have given false information in the application process.
Document forgery and misuse may lead to criminal responsibility and belongs to police
authority.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Laurea Admissions:
admissions@laurea.fi
Pay the tuition fee
For non-EU/EEC citizens only
This segment is meant only for non-EU/EEA citizens. If you are a citizen of an EU/EEA country, you can skip this segment about tuition fees. Non-EU/EEA citizens admitted to an English-taught degree program are required to pay the tuition fee for the academic year, unless they have a valid document exempting them from the tuition fee.
Instructions on how to pay the tuition fee will be provided in the admission notification email sent by Laurea Admissions. Please ensure that your eligibility to apply has been checked by Laurea Admissions before making the tuition fee payment.
For Master’s degree students, please ensure that your proof of work experience has been checked by Laurea Admissions before paying the tuition fee. The tuition fee for the first academic year (8000 EUR) must be paid by the given date. Please read through all the information in the Laurea Student Agreement before payment of the tuition fee.
Information about tuition fees and exemptions as well as the Laurea Student Agreement is available on the Laurea Tuition fee page ↗
Laurea may withdraw the admission if the student does not pay the tuition fee by the given deadline or if the student has given any false information in the application process.
Your admission is conditional until Laurea Admissions has verified your eligibility to apply to higher education.Your eligibility to apply to higher education will be checked from the education certificates you have uploaded to your application form (Studyinfo.fi).
If you receive a study place, please ensure your final upper secondary school graduation certificate / degree certificate have been uploaded to your application form. You must also attach its official translation if it is not issued in either Finnish/English/Swedish.You can upload the certificates to your Studyinfo application form underneath the heading ‘Certificates required in connection with student selection (UAS).
Laurea may withdraw the admission if you do not provide the certificates which have affected your admission by the deadline given or if you have given false information in the application process.
Document forgery and misuse may lead to criminal responsibility and belongs to police
authority.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Laurea Admissions:
admissions@laurea.fi
Register as present or absent
In addition to the confirming your study place, you must also register as either present or absent for the next academic year. You can complete your registration for the academic year by logging into the My Study info -service ↗. Failure to register for the academic year results in loss of study entitlement.
If your admission is conditional, the condition has to be fulfilled first before you can register for the academic year. If you are liable to pay tuition fees, you can be registered as present for academic year only after Laurea has received your tuition fee payment.
If you register as absent, you need legal grounds to do so. You can register as absent for the first academic year only by providing proof of the legal grounds of your absence. If you do not send proof of the legal grounds of your absence by the given deadline, your registration will be changed to present. However, if you are required to pay tuition fees and you register as absent but do not provide the proof of legal grounds for you absence, you will lose your study entitlement.
Legal grounds for registering a absent for the academic year
Students who bindingly accept the study place offered must also register as present or absent for each academic year. According to the Universities Act/Polytechnics Act, a first-year student may register as absent for the academic year for the following reasons only:
- Service under the Conscription Act (1438/2007), Non-Military Service Act (1446/2007) or Act
on Women’s Voluntary Military Service (194/1995. Example of document required: Call-up
order - Maternity, paternity or parental leave. Example of document required:
- Kela’s certificate regarding maternity, paternity or parental allowance period or, if the
certificate has not yet been received, a medical certificate regarding the pregnancy. - Corresponding certificates from the authorities of other countries regarding statutory
parental leave.
- Kela’s certificate regarding maternity, paternity or parental allowance period or, if the
- The student cannot begin studies due to being incapacitated by personal illness or injury.
Example of document required:- Sickness allowance decision or, if no decision exists, a medical certificate. The medical
certificate must state- which illness or injury the student suffers from, and
- that this condition prevents the student from beginning their studies
- Sickness allowance decision or, if no decision exists, a medical certificate. The medical
- Obstacles caused by the practical arrangements required by the illness or injury: an
adequate clarification e.g. a certificate from the student housing foundation that the student
is on the waiting list for an apartment required by his or her injury. The student’s own
notification is not an adequate clarification.
Documents proving legal grounds for absence must be submitted in English, Finnish or Swedish.
The documents that prove the legal grounds for your absence must be submitted to Laurea
Admissions by the same deadline which is given for confirming the study place offered and for
registering for the academic year.
Documents sent by post must also arrive to Laurea Admissions by the given deadline. If the legal grounds for absence concerns only one academic term (for example service under Conscription Act or maternity leave begins in January), you may either register as absent for the entire academic year or you may change your registration for the spring term.
You can send the documents via this link ↗ or alternatively you can send them to the address:
Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Admissions Services, Ratatie 22, 01300 Vantaa,
Finland.