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Police University College

valinnat.polamk@poliisi.fi

Vaasa University of Applied

Sciences
admissions@vamk.fi

Lapland University of Applied

Sciences
admissions@lapinamk.fi

Discretionary Admission

N Ielts

Entrance examination
- Organize entrance examinations only
here in Finland, at The Police
University College, located in Tampere.

- Using discretionary admission

http://www.puv.fi/en/prospective_degree_stu
dents/applying/discretionary_admission/

- No
- Because All attachments
including the English language
certificate should be delivered to
Admission Services of first
preference UAS by 10 February
2016 3pm Finnish time at the
latest. Unfortunately it is not
possible to provide IELTS
certificate later as we need to
evaluated all eligibilities before
sending invitation to entrance

-Participate
in FINNIPS entrance
examinations outside Finland. All
eligible applicants will be invited to
entrance examinations arranged in April
2016.

examination.
No later than 3 pm on 10 -Entrance examinations are
February 2016 for the first arranged between 1st April - 3th
spring application period.
May 2016. The invitations will include
all the details about time, location, and
special arrangements. Please note, that
some UAS do not arrange examinations

land University of Applied

Sciences
admissions@ha.ax

anywhere else than in Finland.

-Entrance examinations will be held
abroad in cooperation with the Finnish
Network for International Programmes
(FINNIPS) www.finnips.fi

-All programmes at land UAS are

available in Swedish only.
- In 2016 Electro-technical engineering
will be the only programme available in
English.
Read
more
at
our
webpage www.ha.ax/en
The application period is 8-27 January
2016.

Laurea University of Applied

Sciences

-No

Haaga-helia University of
Applied Sciences
admissions@haaga-helia.fi

Saimaa University of Applied

Sciences.
admissions@saimia.fi

Use discretionary admission only in

degree programmes conducted in
English
(full-time
Bachelor
studies) .UAS may select as student a
person who the UAS deems to have
sufficient skills and knowledge for The entrance exam will be held
studies in the UAS. In such cases the on April 2016.
UAS
may
use
discretionary
admission.
-Yes
- For applicants from Vietnam:
-

The
English
language
proficiency certificate is a
mandatory requirement and it
must be provided together with
the high school leaving diploma
before the 10th of February,
2016, 3pm.
-No
-At Haaga-Helia University of Applied
- Because all documents must be Sciences does not arrange examinations
submitted by post by the given
outside Finland in any circumstances
deadline on 12 February 2016.

-Saimaa UAS organizes entrance

examinations in Finland and also in

When you get your temporary graduation

certificate by the end of July 2016, you
must submit a scanned copy of your
certificate by email to the admissions
office as soon as possible as an institution
of proceedings. You will get more
information on the submitting the
temporary graduation certificate in the
acceptance letter, if you will be admitted.
Please notice that for the Degree
Programme in Tourism and Hospitality
Management the applicant must be
eighteen years old or at least turn 18
years old by the end of the year 2016. If
you turn 18 years old just in 2017, you
will not be invited to the entrance
examination of DP in Tourism and
Hospitality Management.
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Tampere University of
Applied Sciences
admissions@tamk.fi

-No
- TAMK International Business does not
use discretionary admission, so you
cannot apply to that programme if you do
not have your high school diploma ready
(signed and stamped) by the end of the
application period (27 January 2016).

some countries outside Finland together

with
the
FINNIPS
networkwww.finnips.fi. Please check
the entrance examination countries of
each UAS in January 2016 before
making the decisions on the UASs you
want to apply to. Saimaa UAS doesnt
organize entrance examinations in all
countries offered by FINNIPS. Saimaa
UAS
doesnt
arrange
entrance
examinations in any embassy or
consulate for individual applicants
either
-Entrance examinations will be arranged
in Vietnam.

JAMK University of Applied

Sciences
admission@jamk.fi

- TAMK does not offer English degree

programmes in Tourism, Nursing or BIT
-Yes
- If you want to apply via discretionary
admission the following steps need to be
taken:
1.
At first fill the online application
form at www.studyinfo.fi during 8 - 27
January 2016 by 3:00 p.m. (UTC+2).
2.
Then send the copies of the
possible final school certificates,
translations and/or English language
proficiency certificate and possible other
certificates to JAMK's admission
services. The attachments must arrive to
our admission services by 10 February
2016 by 3:00 p.m. (UTC+2) by post or
via delivery services.
Based on the documents JAMK/the head
of the degree programme decides
whether or not you are given a chance to
participate for the entrance examination.
As a conclusion, all eligible applicants
are invited to the entrance examination,
but applicants applying via discretionary
admission have a smaller chance to be
invited to the entrance examination. In
discretionary admission applicants are

English language proficiency

certificate (e.g. IELTS or
TOEFL). The attachments must
arrive to our admission services
by 10 February 2016 by 3:00
p.m. (UTC+2) by post or via
delivery services. So, also the
language test has to be here by
10 February 2016. However, if it
is impossible for you to provide
these certificates on time, you
can apply via discretionary
admission I told you before.

- JAMK is arranging entrance

examinations as a part of FINNIPS
network. We will publish the countries
in which we organise entrance exams
during spring 2016 at the end of
November on our website. Now there is
list about exams in spring 2015
(http://www.jamk.fi/en/Education/Howto-apply/bachelors-degrees/
Applicants will be invited to participate
to an exam in Finland and possibly in
another country based their address
mentioned
in
the
application. Applicants living in the
neighbouring countries mentioned in the
brackets can be invited to the entrance
examinations of the respective country.

evaluated by the result of the entrance

exam only.
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Arcada University of Applied

Sciences
admissions@arcada.fi
Savonia University of Applied Savonia University of Applied Sciences
Sciences
uses the discretionary admission in 2016
admissions@savonia.fi
admission process as follows:
Applicant who uses discretionary
admission must fill in the online
application
form at www.studyinfo.fi and send
copies of relevant certificates to
Savonia UAS Admission Services by 3
February 2015 at 3:00 p.m. Finnish time.
Kymenlaakso University of
Our school uses Discretionary admission
Applied Sciences
Apply online
admissions@kyamk.fi
at www.studyinfo.fi during the
application period 8 January - 27
January 2016.
Print out the online application
and attach a copy of it to your
documents.
Fill in the Application Form for
Discretionary Admission, print it,
sign it and send it together with
your certificates to the

You have to have the valid result

ready when applying.
Unfortunately its not possible to
owe the result

-No
- If an applicant does not send a

IELTS certificate by 10 February

2016, he/she will not get an
invitation to the entrance
examination.

Admissions Office. The

application form and the
certificates for discretionary
admission must reach
Kymenlaakso UAS by 10
February 2016.
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Humak University of Applied

Sciences
viestinta@humak.fi
Helsinki Metropolia
University of Applied
Sciences
admissions@metropolia.fi

Humak University of Applied Sciences

does not offer degree courses in English
at this moment.
At Metropolia we do not have
discretionary admission, you have to
fulfill all the admissions requirements.

Turku University of Applied

Sciences

We don't have discretionary admission in Any

non-EU/EEA
citizen
our English conducted Bachelor's degree applying with a qualification
programmes
completed outside Finland is
required to submit a certificate
of his or her English language
proficiency to the admissions
office of the first-choice
university of applied sciences by
3 pm on 10 February 2016.
Lahti UAS uses discretionary admission.
Discretion only concerns applicants
eligibility to apply. Discretionary
applicants are included in the student

admissions@turkuamk.f

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Lahti University of Applied

Sciences
admissions@lamk.fi

Some of our degree programmes

(mainly in the field of Technology)
organize entrance exams outside of
Finland but mainly we arrange our
exams in Finland
You will be invited to the examination
outside Finland according to the
principals of FINNIPS.

We will organize exams outside

Finland, and we will inform the
countries later this year on our website
at http://www.lamk.fi/english/future-

selection process in the same way as

other applicants.

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Karelia University of Applied

Sciences
admissions@karelia.f

You can apply with discretionary

admission if you are a non-EU/EEA
citizen. You will graduate in spring 2016
and receive your graduation certificate by
15 July 2016. Proof of the language skills
is required.
You must make the online application on
studyinfo.fi and submit the following
documents to Karelia UAS Admissions
office (admissions(at)karelia.fi) by 10
February 2016 by 3:00 pm Finnish time:

students/entranceexamination/Sivut/default.aspx
We are not able to inform because
decisions are not made yet. However,
exams are always held in Vietnam.
Her language proficiency to the
admissions office of the firstchoice UAS no later than 3 pm
on 10 February 2016. Certificate
copies delivered after the
deadline will not be accepted.

Karelia UAS participates in the Finnips

network which organizes entrance
examinations in several countries in
April 2016.