Tuition Fees and Scholarships

Tuition Fees

Non-EU/EEA students

• Tuition fee for Bachelor’s degree studies: €8700/academic year
• Tuition fee for Master’s degree studies: €9700/academic year

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).

There will be no tuition fee for non-EU/EEA students

• who have started their studies before 1 August 2017
• who have accepted the study place in the 2016 joint application and have enrolled as absent
• study in degree programmes taught in Finnish
• have an EU Blue Card granted in Finland
• have a continuous residence permit card in Finland, type A permit
• 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)

If you are unsure about whether you need to pay tuition fees or not, check the ‘Am I required to pay tuition fees?‘ section at Studyinfo.fi.

Exemption from tuition fees

Students are required to provide one of the following documents to be exempted from paying tuition fees:

• EU Blue Card granted in Finland
• Continuous residence permit card in Finland, Type A permit
• EU Family Member’s Residence Card in Finland
• Permanent residence permit card in Finland, Type P permit
• EU residence permit for third-country citizens with long term residence permit card in Finland (Type P-EU)

Please notice: if you receive one of the documents mentioned above at any point of the admission process, please provide us the document immediately.

EU/EEA students

There will be no tuition fee for EU/EEA citizens. Check the specific list of the EU/EEA countries here.

Students are required to provide one of the following documents to be exempted from paying tuition fees:

• 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)

We reserve the right to change these terms.

Scholarships

Bachelor’s degree studies

HAMK will offer you a scholarship of 45% of your annual tuition fee if your studies have progressed according to the schedule below.

In order to receive the scholarship, you need to complete:

• 27 ECTS credits in the first academic semester (August – December)
• 55 ECTS credits in each academic year (August – July)

The scholarship for Bachelor’s degree studies will be granted annually after the student has fulfilled the conditions of the scholarship. The scholarship can be granted at the earliest after studying for one semester.

The maximum duration of the scholarships is the estimated studying time: 3.5 years in the Degree Programme in International Business and 4 years in the Bachelor of Engineering degree programmes.

We reserve the right to any changes.

Master’s degree studies

HAMK offers a scholarship of 30% of the annual tuition fee to those students who have completed 45 ECTS credits each academic year.

The HAMK scholarship for Master’s degree studies will be granted once a year after the student has fulfilled the conditions of the scholarship.

We reserve the right to any changes.