Sustainable Technologies

Timetable for joint application in spring 2023

Date	Application
4 January 2023	Application period begins
18 January 2023 3:00 pm (Finnish time)	Application period ends
25 January 2023 3:00 pm (Finnish time)	Enclosures must be downloaded to the application at Studyinfo.fi
2 June 2023	Student selection results are published at the latest
14 July 2023 3:00 pm (Finnish time)	Admitted applicants must confirm their study places

 

Eligibility

The relevant qualifications for Master's Degree Programme in Sustainable Technologies

• Insinööri (AMK) / Bachelor of Engineering (UAS)
• Insinööri (ylempi AMK) / Master of Engineering (UAS)
• DI / Master of Science (Technology)
• Foreign bachelor's or master's degree that is comparable to the above mentioned qualifications.

Work experience

In addition to the required qualification, you need to have at least two years of work experience from the field of Technology. The work experience needs to be obtained after completing the higher education degree.

Notice: Work experience can be counted after completing a vocational college diploma (opistoaste) or a higher vocational diploma (ammatillinen korkea-aste, mm. insinööri) or another higher education degree. The work experience must be from the field of Technology.

The vocational college diploma and the higher vocational diploma are old qualifications offered in Finland before the year 2000. If you have completed a qualification comparable to these diplomas outside of Finland, please contact Admission services.

The work experience needs to be obtained by 31 July 2023.

The only kind of work experience accepted is one of which you have been given a testimonial by your employer. A testimonial should contain the exact date when your employment started and terminated, description of your tasks, employer’s contact information and total working hours (if part-time job). If you have worked outside of Finland and you have not been given such document by your employer, please fill out this form and attach it to your application together with a reference letter from the employer. The information that you provide will be used to verify if your work experience fulfills the eligibility criteria.

Entrepreneurship is accepted as work experience if you can provide a certificate of it given by a designated authority (in Finland i.e. a testimonial of YEL or MYEL insurance). If you have worked as an entrepreneur outside of Finland, please contact the Admission Services for instructions.

A part-time job is converted into full-time so that 150 hours or 20 full-length working days (at least 7 hours per day) are equivalent to one month. The work experience does not have to be continuous or obtained under the same employer.

Work placement or practical training are not counted towards work experience if they are included in the degree used in admission.

Military service, non-military service or child-care leave are not counted towards work experience.

Tuition fees

Non-EU/EEA students

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

The tuition fee must be paid at the time of confirming the study place. The fee must be paid at once and cannot be paid in installments. 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 selection will be made based on the preliminary assignment (thesis plan and motivation letter) and online interview.

Only applicants who have passed both parts of the preliminary assignment: thesis plan (minimum requirement 20 points, max 85 points) and motivation letter (minimum requirement 5 points, max 15 points), will be invited to the online interview. The online interview measures English language proficiency. Only applicants passing the language test will be considered for admission.

Applicants will be exempted from the online interview if they provide proof of their English language skills with one of the following documents:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree certificate completed in English in an EU/EEA-country
• Bachelor's or Master's degree certificate completed in English in Great Britain, Ireland, United States, Canada, Australia or New Zealand
• IELTS academic level, overall score 6.0
• TOEFL iBT score 60
• Pearson test of English, Academic minimum score 46
• iTEP, Academic-Plus 3.7
• Cambridge C2 Proficiency (Certificate of Proficiency in English) overall Cambridge English Scale score 169
• Cambridge C1 Advanced (Certificate in Advanced English) overall Cambridge English Scale score of 169
• National Certificate of Language Proficiency skills level 4 in all parts of the test (speaking, listening comprehension, writing and reading comprehension)

Applicants who have one of the above mentioned documents should upload the language skills certificate to the online application at Studyinfo.fi by 25 January 2023 3:00 pm (Finnish time).

Häme UAS uses the IELTS TRF Verification Service and the TOEFL Online Score Verification System to make sure applicant presents an authentic Test Report Form and scores. IELTS overall band score,TOEFL iBT total score and Pearson test of English are valid for two years.

Preliminary assignment

You can download the instructions for the preliminary assignment here. 

The Preliminary assignment consists of a thesis plan and a motivation letter. You must upload it to your application at Studyinfo.fi (or in My Sudyinfo -service with the link in the email that you have received) by 25 January 2023 3:00 pm (Finnish time) at the latest.

 

Application practicalities

• Apply through the joint application system at www.studyinfo.fi between 4 January - 18 January 2023 3:00 pm (Finnish time).
• The application form must be submitted before the application period ends on 18 January 2023 3:00 pm (Finnish time). After the application period has ended, it is no longer possible to submit the application.

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).

 

Student selection results

The student selection results of the joint application will be published by 2 June 2023 at the latest.

You will be sent an e-mail if you are offered a study place. You then have time until 14 July 2023 at 3:00 pm (Finnish time) to confirm the study place using the link included in the message 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 joint application or some direct application, you cannot then anymore accept a study place from the joint application or from direct 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.