Admission offered to over 6000 applicants to higher education institutions’ English-taught study programmes and art study programmes

The selection in the joint application consisted of programmes offered in English and programmes offered by the University of the Arts and the theatre study programme at Tampere University. Compared to last year, approx. 1 000 more applicants were offered admission and there were approx. 1 000 more study places available and also a bigger number of applicants. The rate of acceptance was a bit higher (25 % in 2020).

The most contested fields of study were arts and culture, with only 10 % of applicants being accepted, as well as agriculture and forestry, with an acceptance rate of 15 %. With 30 % of applicants accepted, the easiest field to gain admission to was technology.

60 % of all the applicants admitted were accepted to bachelor's degree programmes while 40 % were accepted to master’s degree programmes.

The acceptance rate to universities of applied sciences (UAS) was 60 % and 40 % when applying to universities. 39 % of the accepted applicants are Finnish citizens. The next two most prominent nationalities within the accepted applicants were Vietnamese and Bangladeshi. 49 % of the total number of accepted applicants were from outside the EU/EEA-area.

The applicants were informed of the results of the joint application during the first week of June. The offer of admission must be accepted by 16 July, before 15.00 EEST. Applicants can be admitted from a waiting list until 2 August.

The higher education institutions can organize supplementary application rounds in order to fill study places left vacant in the joint application. The higher education institutions independently decide if they will organize supplementary application rounds, and the programmes and instructions on how and when to apply will be published on Studyinfo and the institutions’ own websites once the decisions have been made. These programmes can be applied to via Studyinfo.

Starting from 2020, the joint application to higher education has been divided into two separate joint applications. In the first joint application, one can apply to degree programmes offered in English, programmes offered by the University of the Arts and the theatre study programme at Tampere University.  In the second joint application in spring, one can apply to degree programmes offered in Finnish and Swedish.

Additional information:

Planning Specialist Risto Hanhinen, risto.hanhinen [at] oph.fi, tel. +358 29 533 1615