Rolling admission for Bachelor's studies

• Check out the eligibility requirements at the end of this page.
• Fill in the online application form, upload all the required documents and submit your application by 15 May 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3).
  Note: link active only during Rolling Admission.
• You may only apply to ONE bachelor's programme in technology.
• LUT Admissions Services will check your application.
• You will either receive an e-mail from LUT Admissions Services through StudyInfo about your application being accepted as it is or, a request to supplement it.
• If supplementary actions are needed, you must supplement your application within two weeks after having been sent the supplementary request.

• You will receive your admission result within a month from the date of having provided LUT Admissions Services with all the required documents.
  • If admitted, you will receive a Certificate of Admission by email.
  • If not admitted, you will be informed about the decision by email along with the reason for not having been admitted.

• If admitted, you must confirm your place at LUT and pay the tuition fee (when required) within three weeks from the date of having received the Certificate of Admission.
  • You can only confirm one place in a programme in higher education starting in Finland in Fall semester 2024.
  • The first place you confirm in Finland will be your first, only and final choice as you or us will not be able to change it.
  • If getting admitted at LUT University through rolling admission and confirming the offered place as required, you will be no longer able to confirm yet another place in any of the LUT programmes through regular admission or, to any other university or, university of applied sciences in Finland.
    More information at StudyInfo - One Study Place Per Term Provision
• You must also enroll for the academic year within the given timeframe.
  More information on the enrolments at eLUT - Starting Studies

HARD COPIES TO BE MAILED FOR THE DEGREE THAT YOU APPLIED WITH

If having applied with a finished degree the hard copies (not originals!!) for the following documents

• Degree Certificate
• Transcript of Records

must be provided according to the given specific instructions for the degree you had to apply with.

The required documents must be received

• by LUT Admissions Services at Lappeenranta Campus as requested and
• by the given deadline of 31 August 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)

The deadline is the same when providing us with the electronically verified documents by Digitary or by the awarding institution.

** In case of the documents not reaching us at Lappeenranta Campus by the given deadline and/or as requested, your place will be automatically revoked without any exceptions due to not having been able to meet with the requirement that is an official part of the admission process.**

The instructions on how the documents must be processed or certified and mailed depend on the country where the degree was completed.

Mailing address:

LUT University
Admissions Services
Yliopistonkatu 34
FI-53850 LAPPEENRANTA Finland
Tel: +358 29 446 2111

Customs notification:
To avoid your documents to get stuck in the customs, do not indicate any monetary value to your documents when mailing them. In case of your documents get stuck in the customs, you are responsible for actions required for them to be delivered to LUT University.

DEGREE COMPLETED IN COUNTRIES WITH COUNTRY-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

DEGREE COMPLETED IN OTHER COUNTRIES
 

DEGREE COMPLETED IN COUNTRIES WITH COUNTRY-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

If the institution having awarded you the degree you applied with is located in the listed countries you must choose one of the following methods (1-4) for providing us with the required documents.

• African countries
• Bangladesh
• China
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Malaysia
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Vietnam

1. Documents provided according to country-specific requirements

For each one of these listed countries there is a special way of providing the documents that must be fully followed.

See the full instructions for each country at country-specific requirements - and carefully follow them accordingly.

2. Documents electronically verified by Digitary

Instead of following the method for providing the documents according to the country-specific requirements we also accept the required educational documents electronically verified by Digitary.

3. Documents electronically verified by the awarding institution

Instead of following the method for providing the documents according to the country-specific requirements we also accept the required educational documents electronically verified by the awarding institution.

The documents must either bear a digital verification element on them or they must be verifiable from an official online verification system. In case of there are codes or passwords needed for the verification in the latter case, you must provide us with them.

Emailed copies without any true electronic verification element are not accepted.

4. Documents verified by Finnish Digital and Population Data Services (DVV)

If already residing in Finland you have an option to have the Finnish Digital and Population Data Services (Digi- ja väestötietovirasto, DVV) take the required copies for your original documents and provide us with the copies officially certified by them.

Further information: Notarisation process

DEGREE COMPLETED IN OTHER COUNTRIES

If the institution having awarded you the degree you applied with is located in any other country except for the ones with country-specific requirements, you must choose one of the following methods (1-5) for official certification for providing us with the required documents.

Whenever the original educational documents not issued in English, official translations in English are required in addition to the documents in original language.

If having completed the degree you applied with in Finland, there is no need to provide us with any documents as the degree is a verifiable one from the national database.

1. Official certification by the awarding institution

The easiest way to get officially certified copies for your original documents is most likely to turn to the awarding institution and have them provide you with the certified copies according to the given specifics:

• Copies are taken from the original documents
• Copies include each page of the original documents
• Copies bear an original stamp of the awarding institution
  on each page of the document
  • a generic stamp "Certified true copy" is not accepted
• Copies bear an original signature of the certifying officer

Photocopies without an official certification will not be accepted.

Whenever the original educational documents not issued in English, Finnish or Swedish, official translations in English are required in addition to the documents in original language.

2. Documents electronically verified by the awarding institution

Electronically verified documents sent by email are accepted instead of the certified paper copies.

The documents must either bear a digital verification element on them or they must be verifiable from an official online verification system. In case of there are codes or passwords needed for the verification in the latter case, you must provide us with them.

Emailed copies without any true electronic verification element are not accepted.

3. Official certification by legalisation

If not able to have your educational documents officially certified by the awarding institution, you can get them officially certified through a process called legalisation. 

Legalisation is divided into two different methods depending on whether the country where the degree was awarded is a signatory to the Hague Convention of 1961 or not.

A. Apostille

Apostille Certificate is required if the degree was awarded in a country that is a signatory of the Hague Convention of 1961.

• Signatory countries and the authorities issuing Apostille Certificates

An Apostille Certificate can be done by stamping the document with a specific Apostille stamp or, on a separate Apostille Certificate.

B. Legalisation

Legalisation is required, if the degree was awarded in a country that is not a signatory of the Hague Convention of 1961.

• The first legalisation for the document must be done by the Foreign Ministry of the degree-awarding country
• The second legalisation for the document must be done by a Finnish Embassy or Consulate to that country having completed the first legalisation.

4. Documents verified by Finnish Digital and Population Data Services (DVV)

If already residing in Finland you have an option to have the Finnish Digital and Population Data Services (Digi- ja väestötietovirasto, DVV) take the required copies for your original documents and provide us with the copies officially certified by them.

Further information: Notarisation process

5. Documents electronically verified by Digitary

We also accept the required educational documents electronically verified by Digitary.

OFFICIAL TRANSLATIONS

An official translation must be one of the following:

• Issued by the awarding institution
• An officially certified copy of a translation issued by the awarding institution
• Translated by an official translator
• An officially certified copy of a translation made by an official translator

Each translation must bear the translator's stamp and/or signature.

The official Diploma Supplement in English will be considered as a translation for the Degree Certificate as well.

If having applied with an unfinished degree and having been conditionally admitted, you must graduate by

• 31 August 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)

and email LUT Admissions Services scans for your original Degree Certificate and the final Transcript of Records in a way that we receive them by

• 31 August 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)

Scans for the official translations for these documents (when required) must be received by email by

• 6 September 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)

The rule for the conditionally admitted students applies to all students, regardless of the country where the degree having been awarded.

Not following the final deadline will automatically lead into losing your place without a possibility to claim it back.

Tuition Fees

Citizens of the following countries are not required to pay a tuition fee:

•     The European Union (EU)
•     The European Economic Area (EEA)
•     Switzerland

Non-EU/EEA Citizens

For the Bachelor's programmes starting in the academic year 2023-2024, the tuition fees are:

• EUR 9 500/each academic year in Bachelor's Programmes in Technology and Engineering Science, Computational Engineering, Sustainable International Business and Industrial Engineering and Management

Early Bird discount: When accepted to one of these four programmes, you are granted an Early Bird discount of EUR 2000 on your first year's tuition fee:
During the first year of studies, you must pay the total amount of EUR 7 500.
The tuition fee must be paid within 21 days of the admission decision.

• EUR 9 000/each academic year in double degree programmes

Citizens of the non-EU/EEA countries (excluding Switzerland) must pay a tuition fee for their studies in the international programmes in Finland in general and also at LUT University.

Exceptions for the Non-EU/EEA Citizens

If being a citizen of a non-EU/EEA country (excluding Switzerland) and a holder of one of the following, you are NOT required to pay a tuition fee:

• Continuous Residence Permit Card in Finland (A) for a non-study purpose

NOTE: Having been awarded a Residence Permit Card A with a remark OPISKELIJA 2016/801/EU or OPISKELIJA for studying, you are required to pay a tuition fee

For further information, please see  Residence Permit A for study purposes from 15 April 2022 onwards

• Permanent Residence Permit Card in Finland (P)
• EU Residence Permit for Third-Country Citizens with a Long-Term  Residence Permit Card in Finland (P-EU)
• EU Family Member's Residence Card in Finland
• EU Blue Card in Finland

To prove LUT University of being exempted from paying a tuition fee based on a Residence Permit Card issued by Finnish Immigration Service, you must upload a copy for your Residence Permit Card to your application form.

In order to be exempted from paying a tuition fee, the document proving the excemption must be valid on August 1 in the academic year you have been admitted to start your studies. Should the status for your Residence Permit Card change at any time, you must contact LUT Scholarships without any delay.  

Your residence (permit) card or residence card has to be granted by The Finnish Immigration Service.

Exceptions for the UK Citizens

After the United Kingdom having left the European Union, the UK citizens are now following the same rules regarding to the tuition fee and scholarships as the other non-EU/EEA citizens, while the application period for Brexit permits in Finland was closed on 30 September 2021.

The following exceptions are related to the UK citizens living in Finland since before 1 January 2021:

1.  If having been living in Finland since before 1 January 2021 and having been issued a Brexit permit by 30 September 2021, you are exempted from paying a tuition fee.
2. If having been living in Finland since before 1 January 2021 and having been applied for a Brexit permit by 30 September 2021 but still waiting for your Residence Permit Card, you may be exempted from paying a tuition fee.
   To prove of being exempted, please upload a statement by Finnish Immigration Service for having applied for a right of residence or, for a permanent right of residence under the Withdrawal Agreement.
3. If having been living in Finland since before 1 January 2021 and not having applied for a Brexit permit by 30 September 2021, please see further information at About Brexit by Finnish Immigration Service (MIGRI) about whether you would still be able to apply for a right of residence or, for a permanent right of residence under the Withdrawal Agreement under certain conditions.

Please see further information on the scholarships at Scholarships for Bachelor's studies.