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Entrance exams

Student selections of Laurea degree programmes are carried out based on entrance exams.

Bachelor degree entrance exam autumn 2024

Detailed information, exam dates and updates on the International UAS Exam autumn 2024 will be  available at the UASinfo website. 

The International UAS Exam selection method is used for all Laurea Bachelor Degree programmes in 2024.


If the study places allocated to a selection method are not filled, the remaining study places will be allocated to another selection method.

 

Master degree entrance exams

Master degree programmes have each their own entrance exam. Samples of entrance exams from previous years are not available.

Exam information for 2024 is announced on the studyinfo.fi website. See links below.

Beauty and Cosmetics, Development and Management of Cosmetics Expertise

Service Innovation and Design

Leading Transformational Change

Global Health and Crisis Management

 

Individual arrangements for entrance examinations

If, due to disability, disease, dyslexia or some other specific reason, you need individual arrangements during the entrance exam (e.g. additional time, tasks without pictures for applicants using a screen reader), you have to fill in a written request for individual arrangements. Please attach a medical certificate or other equivalent attestation on the nature of your disability or disease. The applicants’ situations are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Information about individual arrangements for the International UAS exam.

Submit your request for individual arrangements for the entrance exams with the application form with the necessary attachments, latest by 18th September 2024 at 15:00 EET.

 

Please attach a copy of the attestation or statement (e.g. medical certificate) that indicates the ground for individual arrangements. If it is written on another language than Finnish, Swedish or English, the applicant has to provide, in addition to the original attestation or statement, a translated copy of the document with an authorized translator’s name, signature and stamp.

Please attach copies of attestations that support your request (e.g. medical certificate or equivalent statement on the nature of your disease or disability, or certificate on dyslexia or learning difficulty). Those who request support measures, such as additional time, on the grounds of dyslexia have to attach a statement of a trained special needs teacher, an expert psychologist, speech therapist or specialist medical doctor (e.g. child neurologist, neurologist or phoniatrician). The statement shall indicate that you need support measures for taking the exam due to dyslexia. The UAS may accept an equivalent decision made by The Finnish Matriculation Examination Board if it contains the granted support measures.

The validity of statements is assessed on a case-by-case basis depending on the persistence of disability, disease or learning difficulty. For dyslexia, only statements that have been obtained at the age of 16 or later are considered. Do not send original certificates but be prepared to present the originals at the start of your studies should you become accepted to the study programme. Information related to your health shall be kept secret (Section 24, Act on the Openness of Government Activities).

Admissions Services will inform you by email on individual arrangements that you have been granted.

The announcement on individual arrangements in the entrance examination is exam-specific and valid only in that particular entrance examination. If, for some reason, individual arrangements cannot be arranged as requested by the applicant, the UAS sends a written notification, with justifications, to the applicant.

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 applicant is not satisfied with the arrangements stated in the announcement, they should contact the university of applied sciences without delay so that it can, if necessary, revise its previous decision. When the applicant receives the final joint application selection decision, they can lodge a request for a review on the granted arrangements as part of an appeal against the selection decision.

Laurea Admission Services

Ratatie 22
FIN-01300 Vantaa
Tel. +358 9 8868 7293
Fax. +358 9 8868 7298
e-mail: admissions@laurea.fi

Admissions Office open hours

Phone service Mon - Thu 10:00 - 12:00.
The phone service is closed on Thursday, October 10th.

Laurea Admissions services are available by email, phone and online via Teams. The phone service is open Tuesday – Thursday from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon. Reservations for a Teams session can be made for Tuesday – Thursday from 12:45 pm to 3:00pm with the link below. Reservations will be confirmed by Laurea Admissions by e-mail.  The office is located in Laurea Tikkurila campus together with Student Affairs. The Admissions services office is open by reservation only.
The next reservations are available in Fall 2024 semester.

You can make the reservation for a Teams session here.

We recommend to contact us by email in the first place.