Application process in joint admission
The joint application period to the international Master's programmes takes place annually around January. For studies commencing in August 2025, the application round will take place from the 8th January until the 22nd January 2025. Exceptions cannot be made to the application deadline, and only applications received during the application period will be considered.
All applicants, both international and Finnish, apply to the international Master’s programmes through the national Studyinfo electronic application system, and links to the application forms can be found below. All of your attachments need to be uploaded to your application (or arrive in another way directly to the University of Vaasa in case uploading is not possible) at the latest within one week after the application deadline. You may apply for admission to 1-6 programmes in your application form.
Please note! Starting from 1 Jan 2025, applicants from outside the EU, EEA or Switzerland are required to pay an application fee (100€) in order to apply to higher education studies. For more information, please visit Studyinfo.
Good luck with your application!
Steps to applying
- Get to know the general admission criteria and the programme-specific criteria.
- Read the instructions on submitting your documents carefully.
- Below you can find direct links to the application portal. Click on the programme you want to apply to, which leads you to Studyinfo.
- The list of required documents can be found below on this page.
- See if there are country-specific requirements for your degree-awarding country. You do not need to submit your educational documents according to country-specific requirements when applying, but if you are admitted, you will need to meet those requirements if they apply to your degree-awarding country. Therefore, be aware of their existence already when applying.
- Make sure your educational documents are certified correctly and you have the official translations of these documents if the documents have not been originally issued in English, Finnish or Swedish. Possible translations must be into one of these three languages.
- When you have your documents ready, fill in the application in Studyinfo.
- Upload your documents to the application and save the application form.
- Pay application fee, if required from you. More information in Studyinfo.
- Wait for the admission results!
The required application attachments
The required application documents are following:
- High quality scan of original Degree certificate(s), if graduated
- High quality scan of original Transcript(s) of records (an explanation of the grading system used is mandatory if it is not clearly stated in the Transcript)
- Official translations of your degree certificate(s) and transcript(s) of records if they are not in English, Finnish or Swedish
- Proof of language proficiency
- High quality scan of passport's information page / official ID card
- High quality scan of your Finnish residence permit card if you are not a citizen of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland and you are applying for the exemption from tuition fees based on your residence permit
Applicants who have not yet graduated can apply and be conditionally accepted as long as they graduate by the 10 July 2025. If you have not graduated by the time you apply to the programme, you are required to submit an officially certified copy of your most recent transcript of records.
After submitting the application
An admission decision is made after the application has arrived with all the enclosures needed. The results are published by 28 May 2025. The applicant must accept the study place by 10 July 2025 at 15:00 (UTC+3) and pay possible tuition fee by the deadline:
- 10 July 2025
N.B.! The study place must be accepted and tuition fee paid already within 21 days from acceptance in order to receive the 21-days-discount from the first-year tuition fee.
If accepted, the applicant must send in the educational documents according to country specific requirements (if applicable). The documents have to arrive at University of Vaasa at the latest by:
- 13 June 2025 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
Once the fees have been paid and documents have arrived according to country-specific requirements, the offer of admission is no longer conditional. Please note that any application documents submitted to the University of Vaasa by post (e.g. the country-specific documents) will not be returned to the applicant.
Contact information
You can contact the Admission Services at: admissions(at)uwasa.fi
Note that any inquiries made to the university about the application may take several days to answer. Therefore, please ensure that your application is complete. Read carefully through all the admission criteria, make sure that your educational documents are certified properly, and that you submit all the required attachments by the document deadline.