When the admission results are published, you are informed of your personal admission results by e-mail no later than 15 April 2024. You can also find this information in the My Studyinfo service.
Check the instructions for accepted and rejected applicants when the results are published. If you are offered a study place, remember to accept it by 11 July 2024 at 15.00 (UTC+3).
Please note that the University of Helsinki does not publish the names of the admitted students.
Some of the applicants are conditionally accepted. If you are conditionally accepted, you have been notified via email or through the MyStudyinfo service.
Your acceptance may be conditional for one or a combination of the following reasons:
You must provide proof that you will meet the condition set by the deadline. Failing to meet the set deadline causes you to lose the offered study place.
If your acceptance is conditional because you graduated and received a degree after the end of application period, please read the detailed instructions below and prove your eligibility by 2 September 2024 at 15.00 (UTC+3). Your study right is conditional until your eligibility has been verified.
If your acceptance is conditional because you are liable to pay tuition fees or you have received a scholarship, you can find the instructions in your letter of acceptance.
You have graduated and received a degree after the end of the application period, thus you must provide a proof of your eligibility to the master's programme. Your study right is conditional until your eligibility has been verified.
If your eligibility is based on a degree taken outside Finland:
If your educational documents have not been issued in English, Finnish or Swedish, you must also submit official translations into one of these languages in addition to the officially certified copies of the documents in the original language. Please also note that there are some country-specific requirements concerning the delivery of educational documents to the Admission Services.
If there is a considerable delay in receiving the final degree certificate due to a technical or administrative procedure at the awarding institution, you can provide a temporary degree certificate or another official document, for example your last transcript of records or an official letter addressed to the University of Helsinki. The substituting document must contain the information required from a degree certificate.
The degree certificate or the document that substitutes for the degree certificate must carry the official stamp of the awarding institution and the signature, print name, and status of the certifying university officer, as well as the following information:
Failing to meet the set deadline causes you to lose the offered study place.
You have graduated and received a degree after the end of the application period, thus you must provide a proof of your eligibility to the master's programme. Your study right is conditional until your eligibility has been verified.
If your eligibility is based on a Finnish degree:
The Admission Services will verify the completion of your degree through a national database at the end of August. To further the process before that, please fill in this e-form after you have graduated. In the event that your degree cannot be found in the electronic database, the Admission Services will contact you to the email address used in your application for further instructions.
Failing to meet the set deadline causes you to lose the offered study place.
The service is intended for persons who have been conditionally admitted to the University of Helsinki and who are unable to deliver officially certified copies of documents demonstrating their eligibility for studies by post or directly to the Admission Services’ post box.
The service is intended for the presentation of original documents. Copies of original documents cannot be presented here.
The service is available in the Metsätalo building at Unioninkatu 40.
The service is open from April to August. See available slots in the calendar. Please note that there are limited slots available from April to June.
You can book an appointment here.
After making an appointment, you will receive an email confirmation reviewing the details you have submitted. The message also contains a link for cancelling your appointment. Please do so if you are unable to make it to your appointment.
NB! Make sure your appointment is before the deadline applicable to you.
Please enter through the main doors of the Metsätalo building and follow the signs in the lobby to the correct door. The Admission Services' staff will meet you at the door when your appointment begins. Please make sure to arrive in time. Otherwise you risk missing your appointment and will have to book a new appointment.
Please do not come to your appointment if you are sick.
If you are unable to come to your appointment personally, you can authorize someone else to bring your documents on your behalf. You must give your written authorization when booking your appointment or by contacting the Admission Services by email before your appointment.
The service is intended for the presentation of original documents. You must bring with you all of the documents demonstrating your eligibility which you have been required to present. The documents must be original. Please ensure that your documents include all of the pages that are officially part of them.
You must also bring with you a photographic proof of identity (driving licence, passport, identity card issued by the police). Please be prepared to prove your identity several times.
Officially certified copies are not reviewed at the service. They must be sent to the Admission Services by mail or delivered in person directly to the Admission Services’ post box following any applicable country-specific requirements.
An Admission Services employee greets those who have an appointment one at a time and receives the original documents demonstrating eligibility. The Admission Services employee will then verify the authenticity of the documents and take copies of them. The original documents will then be returned to you. A separate email on the results of the demonstration of eligibility will be sent to you soon after your appointment.
Your information will be saved to the University’s student register in two weeks’ time when you have:
You can activate you user account, apply for a student card and sign up for courses only after your information has been saved to the student register. See the instructions for new students on how to do these.