Smart and Sustainable Design, Bachelor of Culture and Arts

Timetable for joint application in spring 2024

Eligibility

You can apply to a Bachelor’s degree programme at a university of applied sciences when you have completed:

• the Finnish general upper secondary school syllabus and/or the Matriculation Examination
• International Baccalaureate, German Reifeprüfung or European Baccalaureate Diploma
• a Finnish upper secondary vocational qualification (120 credit units) or an equivalent previous vocational qualification with a minimum scope of 80 credit units
• a Finnish post-secondary or higher vocational level diploma
• further vocational qualification or specialist vocational qualification or an equivalent previous qualification
• foreign education that provides eligibility to apply for higher education in the country in question
• Bachelor's or Master's degree

Refugee or refugee-like situation

If you are a refugee or in a refugee-like situation and you cannot prove your eligibility through documentary evidence, HAMK can consider whether you can be invited to the entrance exam. You must prove the refugee status by reference to a decision made by competent authority and submit a copy of it to the Admission Services within 7 days after the application period has ended.

Application practicalities

1. Check the eligibility requirements and get familiar with the admission criteria of the study programme to which you are planning to apply.
2. Find out if you are required to attach documents to your application. You can find this information from the website of the study programme to which you are applying at Studyinfo.fi.
3. Submit an online application at www.studyinfo.fi between 3 January - 17 January 2024 3:00 pm (Finnish time).
4. The application form must be submitted before the application period ends. After the application period has ended, it is no longer possible to submit the application.
5. Get ready for the entrance examination by reading carefully the material sent to you in the entrance examination invitation.
6. Participate in the entrance examination

In the joint application of Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences you can apply to 1-6 degree programmes.

Please notice: You are only allowed to submit one application. If you submit several applications the last application will stay in force.

Making changes to the application

You may change or delete the application preferences indicated on the application form until the end of the application period. Once the application period has ended, you may no longer:

• add new preferences
• delete individual preferences.

Deleting the entire application is possible after the application period has ended. If you want to delete your entire application before any student selection has been made please contact Admissions Services.

Changes in address or other relevant personal details can be changed any time (also outside the application period).

The student selection results of the joint application to higher education in spring 2024 will be published by 31 May 2024 and admitted applicants must confirm their study place by 11 July 2024 at 3:00 pm Finnish time at the latest.

Tuition fees

Non-EU/EEA students

As a non-EU/EEA-citizen you are required to pay tuition fees for Bachelor’s degree studies.

The tuition fee must be paid at the time of confirming the study place. Please notice: tuition fees are charged directly by HAMK and should never be paid through third parties (i.e. educational agents).

You can be exempted from paying tuition fees if you:

• have an EU Blue Card granted in Finland
• have a continuous residence permit card in Finland, type A permit
  • NB: Type A permit granted for studying in Finland (from 15 April 2022 onwards) doesn’t exempt student from paying tuition fee.
• have a permanent residence permit card in Finland, type P permit
• have an EU Family Member's Residence Card in Finland
• have an EU residence permit for third-country citizens with long-term residence permit card in Finland (Type P-EU)

In order to be exempted from paying tuition fees, please attach a copy of one of the above-mentioned documents to your application at Studyinfo.fi. The document must be downloaded to your application within one week after the application period has ended. Check the exact time from the timetable.

Please notice: if you receive one of the documents mentioned above at any point of the admission process, please contact the Admission Services.

EU/EEA students

There will be no tuition fee for EU/EEA citizens. In order to be exempted from paying tuition fees you need to attach one of the following documents to your application at Studyinfo.fi:

• Passport or identity card to indicate the citizenship of EU/EEA/Switzerland (citizens of Finland are not required to provide proof of their citizenship as it will be verified from the population register)

The document must be downloaded to your application within one week after the application period has ended. Check the exact time from the timetable.

Please visit Tuition fees and scholarships -page for more detailed information.

Student selection criteria

Student selections are made on the basis of a motivation letter and design assignments.

Entrance examinations

The entrance exam consists of a motivation letter and design assignments.

Content of the entrance examination

Eligible applicants who have provided an acceptable English language certificate to the application will be invited to the online entrance examination. Detailed instructions and information will be given in the invitation letter. The invitation letters will be sent before the end of February by e-mail.

The entrance examination consists of a series of tasks that measure suitability and motivation for the design field, creative problem-solving skills, technical skills and visual presentation skills.

Submission of motivation letter and design assignments are open on 6 and 7 March 2024.

The motivation letter is evaluated as passed/failed and design assignments are graded 0-100. Applicants need to get a pass mark in the motivation letter and at least 50 points out of 100 in the design assignments in order to pass. Applicants are required to pass each task.

Pre-reading materials

There is no pre-reading material.

Co-operating degree programmes

HAMK's Degree Programme in Smart and Sustainable Design is not in co-operation with any other degree programmes in terms of entrance examinations. If you wish to be admitted to this degree programme you need to participate in the entrance examination organized on 6 and 7 March 2024.

Individual arrangements at entrance examinations

Fill in the Application for individual arrangements and deliver it with the enclosures by email to HAMK Admission Services (admissions@hamk.fi) by 24 January 2024 at 15:00 (UTC/GMT+2). HAMK will inform you by email on individual arrangements that you have been granted. If the decision is negative, reasons for rejection will be provided with the decision.

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 need for individual arrangements emerge after the end of the application period, fill and deliver the application for individual arrangements by email to HAMK Admission Services (admissions@hamk.fi) as soon as possible.

Required enclosures

Please enclose to your application copies of certificates that validate your need for individual arrangements (e.g. a doctor’s certificate or an equivalent statement on the type of disability/illness at hand or a statement of dyslexia or learning disability). If you are applying for support measures, e.g. additional time, because of dyslexia, a statement from a speech therapist, qualified special education teacher, psychologist familiar with dyslexia or a specialist doctor (e.g. children’s neurologist, neurologist or phoniatrist) should be enclosed. The statement should entail which support measures you need due to the dyslexia. The higher education institution may accept the equivalent decision from the Finnish matriculation examination board as long as the support measures you were offered are stated there.

How long the certificate or statement is valid, is assessed case by case depending on the durability of the disability, illness or learning disability. Statements of dyslexia are valid when they have been issued at 16 years of age or later. Do not send original copies of any statements or certificates. However, should you be admitted to a study place, be prepared to present the original copies when the studies commence. Information concerning the applicant’s health is confidential (JulkL 24§).

Notification on granted special arrangements

The higher education institution responsible for the entrance examination will contact you by e-mail or by post well before the exam date to inform you on the practical arrangements. If you are dissatisfied with the granted arrangements, contact the higher education institution in question.

The notification on granted individual arrangements only applies to the specified study programme/entrance examination and is valid only on the specified exam date.

Student selection results

The student selection results of the joint application will be published by 31 May 2024 at the latest.

You will be sent an e-mail if you are offered a study place. You then have time until 11 July 2024 at 3:00 pm (Finnish time) to confirm the study place using the link included in the message from Studyinfo or by logging in to My Studyinfo -service with online banking credentials, mobile certificate or an electronic ID card.

Please notice that once you confirm the study place you cannot anymore accept any other study places leading to a higher education degree in Finland if the studies begin in the same academic term. The one-study-place-per-term-provision applies to higher education regardless of how the studies are provided. For example, if you have already accepted a study place offered to you in some direct application, you cannot then anymore accept a study place from the joint application if the study programme begins in the same academic term.

Appeals

If you believe there has been a mistake in the student selection and the admission criteria have not been applied correctly, you can make a written request for rectification within 14 days after the student selection results have been published.

The request for rectification must be addressed to the Examination Board of Häme University of Applied Sciences and sent to HAMK, PO Box 230, 13101 Hämeenlinna, Finland within 14 days after the student selection results have been published.