Regular Admission for Master's studies

• Regular Admission for Technology
  • Application form for Master's Programmes in Technology
     
• Regular Admission for Business Administration
  • Application form for Master's Programmes in Business Administration
     
• Regular Admission for Social Sciences and Communication Sciences
  • Application form for Master's Programmes in Social Sciences and Communication Sciences

Answer carefully all the questions

Fill carefully in your application form by answering the questions exactly as requested.

If failing to present the required information as requested, the missing information will not be considered in the evaluation process. Any missing information  will not be tracked down from the uploaded documents.

• Your answers on the application form cannot be modified after the application deadline.

Upload all the required documents

Upload all the required documents to your application. If not yet able to upload a compulsory document at the time of submitting your application, upload a blank document stating that you will upload the required document by the supplementary deadline.

Submit your application

The deadline for submitting your application form is

• 17 January 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+2)

We strongly advise you not to leave the submission to the last minutes as there may always be some things you may have forgotten and at that point it might be too late to react to these issues.

After having submitted your application by the deadline you will receive an auto-reply from StudyInfo about successfully having submitted the application.

Application checked for technical eligibility

LUT Admissions Services will check that your documents are uploaded as requested and check your proficiency in English as soon as possible after you have submitted your application.

In case of your application being accepted regarding the technical eligibility, we will email you a confirmation email through Studyinfo.

In case of documents missing, you will receive a supplementary request from LUT Admissions Services by email through Studyinfo. Read the supplementary request carefully through and follow the given instructions.

Supplement the missing documents

In case of any missing documents, you may still supplement your application by uploading them by the supplementary deadline of

• 31 January 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+2)

See all the further information at Uploading the required documents.

The number of applications and programmes you can apply to is limited in Regular Admission.

The maximum number of applications is considered separately for programmes taught in English and programmes taught in Finnish.

• Master's programmes in Technology
  You may submit one application form including max. two programmes.
  You may however, apply to only one Master's programme in Electrical Engineering, either to Electric Transportation Systems or to Electrical Engineering.
• Master's programmes in Business Administration 
  You may submit one application form including max. one programme.
• Master's programmes in Social Sciences and Communication Sciences
  You may submit one application form including max. one programme in Social Sciences + one programme in Communication Sciences.

Multiple applications discarded

In case of any multiple application forms on a different email address/es submitted by the same applicant within the same field of study, the earlier one/s will automatically be discarded while only the latest one remaining a valid one.

When applying to any of our international Master's Programmes you must be able to prove your proficiency in English language in addition to the other programme-specific admission criteria.

• How to prove your proficiency in English language

In case of having applied through Early Admission in October-November 2023 you may not apply through Regular Admission before having received your admission decision for Early Admission.

• If not admitted through Early Admission
  You may apply through Regular Admission* right after having received your admission decision.
• If admitted through Early Admission but not planning on accepting the offered place
  You must first decline your place in StudyInfo and only then apply through Regular Admission*.
• If admitted through Early Admission and having confirmed the place
  You may not apply again as you would not be able to confirm yet another place again. Further information: StudyInfo - One Study Place Per Term Provision

*Regular Admission will be closed on 17 January 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+2)

Applying through Regular Admission before having received your admission decision for Early Admission automatically leads into your application through Regular Admission to be discarded.

You must list the programme-related studies on your application form in ECTS credits by each course under the related field of study and indicate the total ECTS credits for all the listed courses.

In case of your courses not originally listed in ECTS credits on your Transcript of Records, you are responsible for converting the original study units (credits, credit hours etc.) to ECTS credits according to the following conversion.

How to get the conversion factor?

• Divide 180 ECTS credits (= the total credits for a LUT Bachelor’s Degree) by the total number of all the original study units (credits, credit hours etc.) you have completed for the Bachelor’s degree that you are applying with
• As a result you will get a factor for the following conversion.

How to convert your study units to ECTS credits?

• Multiply the original number of study unit (credits, credit hours etc.) for your courses with the factor explained above
• As a result you will have your courses in ECTS credits

Case example:

The total study units completed for your Bachelor’s Degree are 120 credits and you need to convert a course with 2 credits to ECTS credits.
Divide 180 ECTS credits by 120 credits >> the conversion factor is 1.5
Multiply 2 credits with the factor 1.5 >> your course is equal to 3 ECTS credits.

Do not round up the result for the converted ECTS credits:
If the result is 3.84 ECTS credits, you must also list the course with exactly 3.84 ECTS credits.

Total scope of studies to be indicated on the application form

You must also indicate the total scope of studies on your application form i.e. the total number of all the original study units for your Bachelor’s Degree that you have completed. 

If you have completed a combination of degrees that together correspond for a Bachelor's Degree you must indicate the total number of original study units for all these degrees.

If applying with an unfinished degree, you must indicate the total scope of studies that is expected to be completed for being able to graduate. 

What to do if there are no credits available for the completed courses?

The Admission Committees do not provide any preliminary statements about the required previous studies or about the conversions on the scale of 1.00-5.00 for the arithmetic GPA. 

These academic requirements when being part of the admission criteria will only be checked and evaluated at the time of academic evaluation after the application period.

Check the required documents under each programme at Required documents as you are responsible for uploading them on your application form as requested.

You should upload all the required documents as soon as possible, but by the supplementary deadline at the latest.

• Supplementary deadline for uploading the documents:
  31 January 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+2)

NOTE: Your answers on the application form cannot be modified anymore after the application deadline of 17 January 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+2).

Details for uploading the documents

You must upload

• scans for the original educational documents
• scans for the other required documents

Educational and other documents uploaded in PDF or JPEG are preferred while the maximum size for an attachment is 1 Gt.

Combine all individual pages for a document in the right order to make a scan that corresponds to the original and make sure that the scan is a clearly readable one.

Name your documents accordingly, for example:

Degree Certificate - Bachelor
Transcript of Records - Bachelor
Letter of Motivation

What if not having an obligatory document at the time of submitting?

If not able to upload a compulsory document by the end of the application deadline but able to do that during the 14-day supplementary period, upload a blank document stating that the required document is yet to be uploaded.

The blank document is needed for you to be able to submit your application by the application deadline and then supplement your application within the supplementary period.

No extra documents

Do not upload any extra documents as they only slow down the process and will be automatically ignored by the Admission Committees.

Do not mail any documents to LUT University at the time of applying.

What is an unfinished Bachelor's Degree?

• You have not yet graduated = you have not been awarded your Degree Certificate or the Provisional Degree Certificate

Having completed all your studies does not mean that you have graduated unless not having been awarded the Degree Certificate or the Provisional Degree Certificate.

If not being able to upload your Degree Certificate or the Provisional Degree Certificate by the supplementary deadline, you must identify your status on the application form as "not yet graduated".

When applying

• Indicate the estimated date of graduation on your Application Form
  • No official statement for the date required from the home university
• Upload your latest Transcript of Records to your Online Application Form
  • plus the official translation (when required)
  • The Transcript of Records must include the name of the degree to be awarded.
    • If not included, an additional statement issued by the awarding university about the name of the degree must be uploaded to your Online Application Form.

If admitted

You must be able to

• Graduate by 31 August 2024
• Provide us with the following documents by email by 31 August 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
  • Scan for your original Degree Certificate
  • Scan for your original Transcript of Records
• Provide us with the following documents by email by 6 September 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
  • Official translations in English if the original documents are not issued in English, Finnish or Swedish.

The documents must be provided according to the given instructions despite of the country the degree was awarded in.

If not being able to meet with both the requirements by the given deadlines, you will automatically lose your place without a possibility to reclaim it.

Your chances on getting admitted are equal whether you choose to apply directly on your own or through an education agent as all the eligible applications are ranked for each programme according to the same admissions criteria.

LUT Admissions Services will first check the technical eligibility for your application: your educational documents and proficiency in English will be checked for as soon as possible after you have submitted your application.

In case of documents missing, you will receive a supplementary request from LUT Admissions Services by email through Studyinfo.

If not able to supplement your application by the given deadline as requested, your application will remain as an incomplete one while only the complete applications being forwarded to the Admissions Committees for academic evaluation.

In case you need to correct or supplement your answers on the application form, you need to do it by the application deadline as you are no longer able to modify your answers after the application period being closed. You will be however, able to upload the required documents until the supplementary deadline.

Only complete applications are forwarded to Admissions Committees for academic evaluation.

The elements for academic evaluation are programme-specific.

Stage 1: Educational background etc.

The evaluation starts on stage 1 where the applications are given points for different evaluation elements in each programme. 

Stage 2: Interview when included*

A limited number of applicants with the highest points for stage 1 are invited to an interview*. Remember to check your junk mail as well for the invitation if necessary.

Interviews are carried out either through a video interview, Teams, Zoom or Skype depending on the programme.
     
There are no updates given during the evaluation process before the admission results being released.

There is an interview included in the selection process only in the following programmes:

Business Administration

• Business Analytics
• International Business and Entrepreneurship
• International Marketing Management
• Strategic Finance and Analytics
• Supply Management

Computational Engineering

• Data-Centric Engineering

Environmental Technology

• Circular Economy
• Sustainability Science and Solutions

Industrial Engineering and Management

• Global Management of Innovation and Technology
• Innovation and Logistics

Mechanical Engineering

• Industrial Design Engineering

The results will be released on

• 26 March 2024

All applicants will receive an email about their admission result/s on 26 March 2024.

The admission email will be sent to the email address indicated on the application form.

Remember to indicate an email address that will be valid throughout the whole admission process.

If having applied to several programmes you will receive an individual email for each programme.

Sending all the emails takes the whole day - kindly wait for yours patiently.

If admitted, you will be informed about your admission decision with an official admission email by LUT Admissions Services. 

If having been admitted to several programmes you will receive an individual admission email for each programme.

• The admission email begins with a Certificate of Admission
• No additional document emailed or mailed for the admission decision

The official admission email is accepted by Finnish Immigration Services as a proof for your admission when applying for a residence permit.

HOW TO CONFIRM YOUR PLACE?

If having or once had a Finnish ID number you will log into MyStudyInfo through Finnish e-identification methods.

If not having or ever had a Finnish ID number, you will receive an email from StudyInfo on 26 March 2024 around 20:00 (UTC+2) including a personal link through which you will log into MyStudyInfo.

DEADLINES FOR CONFIRMING YOUR PLACE

• When not required to pay a tuition fee you must confirm your place
  by 30 April 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)

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

• When awarded a Finland Scholarship you must confirm your place
  by 30 April 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)

Not following the deadline will automatically lead into losing your place together with the offered Finland Scholarship without a possibility to reclaim them.

• When required to pay a tuition fee and taking the Early Bird discount
  you must confirm your place and pay the rest of the tuition fee EUR 7 500
  by 16 April 2024
  • If not awarded a Finland Scholarship we offer you an Early Bird discount of EUR 6 000

Not following the deadline will automatically lead into losing the Early Bird Discount without a possibility to reclaim it.

You may still confirm your place by the final deadline of 30 April 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3) but with a full tuition fee.

• When required to pay a tuition fee and not taking the Early Bird discount you must confirm your place by 30 April 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)

Not following the final deadline for confirming your place will automatically lead into losing your place without a possibility to reclaim it.

Confirming your place by the deadline without paying the full price for the tuition fee will automatically lead into losing your right to study.

You may still request your right to study to be reactivated after the final deadline with a request emailed to LUT Student Customer Service at opinto@lut.fi and by paying the full tuition fee plus an extra fee of EUR 35 for reactivating your right to study.

According to this national provision you may confirm only one offered place leading to a higher education degree in Finland for the same semester.

Confirm your place after being certain that it is the one you wish to go for as the first place confirmed will also be your final choice.

You will not be able to change it anymore or accept yet another place by first cancelling the previous one.

Further information: StudyInfo - One Study Place Per Term Provision

DEADLINE FOR ENROLLING

You must enroll for the academic year 2023-2024 by the deadline of

• 30 April 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)

HOW TO ENROLL?

After having confirmed your place, you are able to enroll by moving forward from MyStudyInfo to the enrolment system OILI.

The enrolment must be finalised by paying the obligatory Student Union Fee through OILI system.

WHAT IF I MISS THE DEADLINE?

Not following the deadline will automatically lead into losing your right to study.

You may reclaim your right to study and request for a late enrolment

• by contacting LUT Student Customer Service at opinto@lut.fi

and paying an extra fee of EUR 35 for a late enrolment in addition to the compulsory Student Union membership fee.

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

If having applied with a finished degree completed in a country other than Finland 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 according to the given instructions by

• LUT Admissions Services at Lappeenranta Campus
• by 31 July 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 university.

** 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 / Master's programmes
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 - FINLAND EXCLUDED

DEGREE COMPLETED IN FINLAND 
 

DEGREE COMPLETED IN COUNTRIES WITH COUNTRY-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS

If the university 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 university

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 university.

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 - FINLAND EXCLUDED

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

Finland is excluded from the requirement as we are able to check the completed degrees from a national database.

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.

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 university 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 university

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.

DEGREE COMPLETED IN FINLAND

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

OFFICIAL TRANSLATIONS

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.

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 Bachelor's 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 in English 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.

In addition to not having provided us with the required documents as requested by the given deadline leading to revoking an offered place, the place will also be revoked if the student having provided LUT University with any inaccurate or misleading information regarding the educational background at the time of applying that has an impact on the admission decision.

The information for the place being revoked will also be forwarded to the related Finnish authorities.

After having been admitted and started your studies, supplementary studies may still be assigned at the time of making the personal study plan if necessary.

The scope of any possible supplementary studies depends on your previous studies and the educational background compared to the studies included in the programme in order to meet with the requirements set for the degree and for the graduation. 

The maximum scope of any possible supplementary studies is 60 ECTS credits while these studies will not be included in the 120 ECTS credits completed for the Master's Degree.

Info package for the new degree students

Remember to go through the check list regarding to starting your studies at

• eLUT - Starting Studies

The following information does not apply to the LUT cooperated programmes 
as they are following their own tuition fee policies. Kindly visit the programme websites for further information.

EU/EEA citizens 
Citizens of Switzerland
Holders of a Finnish residence permit card with a certain status

• No tuition fee

Studies are tuition-free for nationalities within the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland.

Non-EU/EEA citizens

• Tuition fee of EUR 13 500 per each academic year

Citizens of the non-EU/EEA countries (excluding Switzerland) must pay a tuition fee.

Further information: Tuition fee

The following information does not apply to the LUT cooperated programmes in Software Engineering and Chemical Engineering as they are following their own scholarship policies. Kindly visit the programme websites for further information.

In Regular Admission, the following discounts and scholarships are offered.

First academic year

• One Finland Scholarship offered in each programme
  • Deadline for confirming the place 30 April 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
• Early Bird discount of EUR 6 000
  • Deadline for confirming the place 16 April 2024 at 15:00 (UTC+3)

Second academic year

• LUT Scholarship of EUR 6 000 for the second academic year

if successfully having completed a minimum of 60 ECTS credits of studies in your personal study plan.

Further information: Early Bird discount and scholarships 

For more information on the conditions regarding the tuition fee, please see 

• Tuition fee: LUT Refund Policy