For new students

The results of the student selection from the Haaga-Helia direct application will be published in My Studyinfo -service by 27 November 2020 at the latest. NB the final results may become available earlier.

Note that you can confirm only one study place per academic term (1.8.–31.12. or 1.1.–31.7.) in Universities of Applied Sciences and Universities in Finland. The application system offers you a study place in the highest possible study option on your ranking in which you have received enough admission points. The lower study options on your ranking will thus be cancelled. When you have confirmed a study place, all other study programmes that you have applied to and that begin during the same academic term will be cancelled automatically.

Confirm your study place online in My Studyinfo -service (www.studyinfo.fi) by 4 December 2020, 15.00 Finnish time (GMT/UTC +2 hours). If you get selected from a waiting list, we will inform you when to confirm the study place at the latest. You will lose the study place if you do not confirm the offered study place by the deadline.

In order to be able to use My Studyinfo, you need personal online banking codes from a bank in Finland or a Finnish mobile certificate or Finnish electronic ID-card. If you are not able to use My Studyinfo, you can confirm the study place by using the confirmation link you have received by email.

In case you are not able to confirm your study place online, please contact us for further instructions. Contact information at the end of this page

If you need a confirmation of accepted study place, we can send it to you by request.

Reserve place

If you do not get selected by 27 November 2020 and you are placed on the waiting list, you still have a chance to be selected from a reserve place until 15 December 2020 at 15.00 Finnish time. If you are accepted to one of your study options but are also on a reserve place (on a waiting list) to your other study option:

• You can confirm the offered study place bindingly but then all your other study options will be cancelled and you are no longer on any waiting list.
• You can confirm the offered study place and keep on waiting. In case you get a study place from your other study option, you are bound to accept it and the previous confirmation will automatically be cancelled. If you don’t get a study place from your higher study option until 15 December 2020, 15.00 Finnish time, the previous confirmation becomes binding.

You can also stop waiting for a higher option and change the previous confirmation to binding.

Students must enrol as present or absent for each academic year. Enrol as present or absent for the academic year by 4 December 2020, 15.00 Finnish time online at My Studyinfo -service (www.studyinfo.fi).  You will lose your study right if you do not enrol for the academic year by the deadline.

If you get selected from a waiting list, we will inform you when to enrol for the academic year at the latest. 

If you are required to pay tuition fee, you cannot enrol yourself to the academic year before the fee is paid and all the documents are submitted to Admission Services. After Admission Services has received all required documents and verified the payment, you will receive instructions how to make the enrolment for the academic year.

According to the Universities of Applied Sciences Act, a student may enrol as absent for the first academic year only due to legal reasons (Act 932/2014):

1. Military service according to the Conscription Act (1438/2007), Non-Military Service Act (1446/2007), or Women's Voluntary Military Service Act (194/1995) in Finland
2. Maternity, paternity or parental leave
3. An illness or injury, which prevents you from beginning the studies

You must prove the legal reason for your absence by documents:

1. Call-up order (palveluksen aloittamismääräys)
2. Kela's certificate regarding maternity, paternity or parental allowance period or, if the certificate has not yet been received, a medical certificate regarding the pregnancy. Corresponding certificates from the authorities of other countries regarding statutory parental leave.
3. Sickness allowance decision or, if no decision exists, a medical certificate. The medical certificate must state which illness or injury you suffer from, and that this condition prevents you from beginning your studies. Obstacles caused by the practical arrangements required by the illness or injury: an adequate clarification, e.g. a certificate from the student housing foundation that you are on the waiting list for an apartment required by your injury. Your own notification is not an adequate clarification.

The documents must be submitted in Finnish, Swedish or English. If the legal reason covers only one academic term of the first academic year, you may still enrol as absent for the whole first academic year.

Documents proving legal reasons for absence must be submitted to Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Admission Services in Pasila campus (Ratapihantie 13, 00520 Helsinki) by 4 December 2020 at 15.00 Finnish time. If you choose to send the documents by email, please take security issues into account.

See contact information at the end of this page.

The admission of a student is conditional until Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences has checked the applicant’s school and other relevant certificates (copies and originals). Attach the required certificates and translations to your application by 4 December 2020, 15.00 Finnish time. 

You must attach the required certificates and translations to your application even if you enrol as absent for the first academic term. You will lose the study place if you do not provide required certificates by the deadlines given in the acceptance notification or if you have given inadequate or false information about your grades or other factors.

If you get selected from a waiting list, we will inform you when to submit the documents at the latest. 

What copies of required certificates should I submit?

NB If you have already submitted copies of certificates and translations to Haaga-Helia during the application period (2.9.-16.9.2020), you do not need to submit them again.

Bachelor’s degrees

If the educational qualification used for applying (marked on the application form) is any of these, you need to attach a copy of your degree certificate to your application by 4 December 2020 at 15.00 Finnish time:

• A copy of Vocational Qualification
• A copy of Further or Specialist Qualification
• A copy of Matriculation examination completed in Finland before year 1990
• A copy of Finnish upper secondary school syllabus
• If you are graduating in autumn 2020, the educational qualification must be completed so that you can attach the final degree certificate and a possible official translation with translators stamp and signature (if the certificate is not in English, Finnish or Swedish) to your application by 28 December 2020 at 15.00 Finnish time (GMT/UTC +2).
• If the degree certificate is not in English, Finnish or Swedish, you must also attach a copy of translation made by an authorized translator.
• A copy of a certificate which proves that you are exempted from paying tuition fee. If you submitted the copy during the application period (2.9.-16.9.2020), you do not need to submit it again. Please note that your residence permit needs to be valid on 1st January 2021, for you to get exemption from paying tuition fee for the spring term.

Master’s degrees

Attach your degree certificate and work certificates to your application by 4 December 2020 at 15.00 Finnish time. If the educational qualification used for applying (marked on the application form) is a Finnish higher education degree completed after year 2004, you do not need to attach your degree certificate to your application.

If the certificates are not in English, Finnish or Swedish, you must also attach a copy of translation made by an authorized translator by 4 December 2020 at 15.00 Finnish time.

Attach also a copy of a certificate which proves that you are exempted from paying tuition fee. If you submitted the copy during the application period (2.9.-16.9.2020), you do not need to submit it again. Please note that your residence permit needs to be valid on 1st January 2021, for you to get exemption from paying tuition fee for the spring term.

Where should I send the copies?
Please attach the required school and work certificates and translations to your application form by 4 December 2020, 15.00 Finnish time. If you have enrolled as absent, attach your school and work certificates to your application and submit the certificates proving the legal reason for your absence to Admission Services by 4 December 2020, 15.00 Finnish time by post or email (delivery address below).

Delivery address for certificates proving the legal reason for your absence:

Haaga-Helia UAS, Admission Services
Ratapihantie 13, FI-00520 Helsinki, Finland
e-mail: admissions(at)haaga-helia.fi

We will contact you directly, if you have to present your original documents to Admission Services/Study Services at the start of your studies. The University of  Applied Sciences can verify your work experience directly from your employer. Students enrolled as absent will show their original certificates when they enrol as present and start their studies.

The University of Applied Sciences will withdraw the admission, if the applicant has given inadequate or false information in the application process. Falsifying a document is a crime according to Finnish legislation.

See contact information at the end of this page.

Please note that Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences does not take any responsibility for incomplete or missing documents or delays in postal service.