Master’s Degrees
Find new drive for your career from our Master School. Reach your career goals by obtaining a Master’s degree at HAMK Master School. Welcome to HAMK, you’re here to make a change!
Master’s Degree
Why choose a Master’s Degree offered by a University of Applied Sciences?
Work-life orientation and practical approach
Degrees are designed in collaboration with working life and focus on developing practical skills. Studies are often directly connected to the student’s own work, and the thesis addresses real-life questions or challenges from the workplace. This makes the Master’s degree particularly useful for career advancement and strengthening expert roles.
Flexible combination of studies and work
Degrees are designed to be completed alongside work. Flexible teaching methods, such as online learning, mean that you don’t have to take a full-time break from working life to study.
A faster and more targeted path to career development
A degree is often shorter than a university master’s degree and provides targeted expertise in a specific field. This can accelerate your career progression, especially toward supervisory or expert positions.
A Master’s degree qualifies you for positions that require a higher education degree. The degree is a fully recognized university degree in Finland as well as abroad, and upon completion provides you with the eligibility to apply for a doctoral degree.
Applying
The two years of work experience required for a Master’s degree from a university of applied sciences is not just a formality – it is the key to impactful learning. When you already have experience in working life, you better understand the relevance of the knowledge you are acquiring and how it can be applied in practice.
Thanks to your work experience, you can bring your own observations, questions, and development ideas into your studies, enriching both your own learning and that of others. Studying becomes a dialogue between professionals – not just passive reception of information.
Become a student for a Master’s degree:
You can apply for Master’s degrees provided in English annually in January (joint application period) or in February-March (direct application period). You are eligible for Master’s degree studies when you have completed relevant qualification, mainly a higher education degree at UAS or university and obtained required two years of work experience from the relevant field.
As a student selection method, we have a preliminary assignment, which is mainly a thesis plan. We will publish the preliminary assignment instructions on our website during October.
You can also complete Master’s level studies at an open university of applied sciences as a path student or as an open university of applied sciences student.
Study path
As a path student, you complete the studies that are part of the Master’s degree and start your Master’s thesis together with degree students. You can start the Master’s level study path even if you do not have the work experience required for the Master’s degree. However, when registering for the Master’s level study path, you must have a Bachelor’s degree that is suitable for the education.
Once you have completed the required number of studies and have met the required work experience, you can apply to become a degree student to continue to complete your studies. Registration for the Master’s level study path is open at the beginning of August.
Open UAS studies
Enroll in an open university of applied sciences to complete courses that are relevant to a Master’s degree. As a student at an open UAS, you can complete individual courses that support your professional development and career goals.
Become a degree student through open studies
After completing studies at an open university of applied sciences that are suitable for a degree at the Master’s level, you can apply to become a degree student based on these studies, provided that you have a Bachelor’s degree or other higher education degree suitable for a Master’s degree and two years of work experience in the relevant field.
You must complete the open UAS studies with a minimum average of three. The scope of the open studies you complete must be 10 ECTS if you are applying for a 60 ECTS Master’s degree. Correspondingly, for a 90 ECTS Master’s degree, you must complete 15 ECTS of open studies.
Degree among work
Master’s studies last 1,5-2 years depending on whether you complete 60 or 90 credits degree. Our degrees have been designed to be completable while working. Some of our degree programmes are fully implemented online and some are implemented as multiform studies. In both study modes, there are contact days in addition to independent and small group online study.
Master’s studies at HAMK
Bettermake your expertise
The contents of the courses of Master’s programmes support each other, combining theory and work life-oriented practical application, including the utilization of artificial intelligence. In the learning assignments, you solve real problems at work and learn future-oriented decision-making skills. Although the assignments require commitment, scheduling and self-direction from you, they offer you flexibility and the opportunity to fit your studies into your own life.
Master’s Thesis
The Master’s thesis is a goal-oriented and research-oriented workplace development project which allows you to deepen your expertise. Our theses are directed by experienced and competent supervisors who want to support you in achieving your goals. The thesis guidance relationship is confidential, developing, and supportive.
Power of Team Learning
At Master School, we believe in the power of team learning. According to our student feedback, communal team learning is rewarding, because master’s students already have knowledge, skills and competence to share with each other. At the beginning of the courses, our teachers give the student teams an introduction to the topic and introduce them to the work-oriented learning assignment. After this, the teams work on the assignment together and receive guidance from our teachers. At the end of the course, the teams present their learning results to each other and they are discussed together under the guidance of the teachers. In courses, you also do assignments independently.
Good teamwork requires flexibility, respect for others and listening skills. When each team member recognizes their own strengths, the team can assign roles according to them in different courses, which makes studying more meaningful. Master’s studies require you above all to have a desire to learn and enthusiasm to constantly develop yourself.
Teamwork also has its own challenges, such as coordinating schedules and evenly dividing the workload. Clear rules and common goals help to commit and achieve the best possible result.
Check the Master’s Degrees:
Applied Machine Learning (Master’s Degree)
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90 ECTS credits
Management in Sustainable Business (Master’s Degree)
Entrepreneurship and Business
90 ECTS credits
Wearable Intelligence (Master’s Degree)
Technology and Traffic
90 ECTS credits
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90 opintopistettä
Kulttuuri- ja taidetoiminta hyvinvoinnin edistäjänä (Ylempi AMK)
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90 opintopistettä
Liiketoiminnan kehittäminen (Ylempi AMK)
Yrittäjyys ja liiketalous
90 opintopistettä
Luontoympäristöt ja hyvinvoinnin edistäminen (Ylempi AMK)
Luonnonvara-alat ja biotalous
90 opintopistettä
Monialainen hyvinvoinnin ja terveyden edistäminen (Ylempi AMK)
Sosiaali- ja terveysala
90 opintopistettä
Rakennusalan innovatiivinen uudistaminen (Ylempi AMK)
Tekniikka ja liikenne
60 opintopistettä
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90 opintopistettä
Teknologiaosaamisen johtaminen (Ylempi AMK)
Tekniikka ja liikenne
60 opintopistettä
Tietojohtaminen ja älykkäät palvelut (Ylempi AMK)
Tekniikka ja liikenne
60 opintopistettä
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