Admission criteria for Materials Science and Technology

Read more about the programme at Master's programme in Materials Science and Technology.

• Bachelor of Science in Technology in the field of Mechanical Engineering tekniikan kandidaatti
  Completed in a University
  See further details at 'Fields of study included in Mechanical Engineering'. 

Applicants who have completed or are completing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering (konetekniikan diplomi-insinööri) before starting the LUT studies are not eligible to apply. 

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University in a field other than Mechanical Engineering are eligible to apply but only when applying with the Bachelor's Degree. 

Applying with a Master's Degree in a field other than Mechanical Engineering completed in a University is accepted only if the Master's Degree having been completed before the two-tier degree system when there were no separate Bachelor's Degrees awarded. 

• Bachelor of Engineering in the field of Mechanical Engineering Insinööri (AMK)
  Completed in a University of Applied Sciences
  See further details at 'Fields of study included in Mechanical Engineering'.

Applicants who have completed or are completing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering in a university (konetekniikan diplomi-insinööri) before starting the LUT studies are not eligible to apply. 

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University of Applied Sciences are eligible to apply but only when applying with the Bachelor's Degree. 

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University of Applied Sciences with no prior Bachelor's Degree while the prior degree having been completed on a higher secondary or secondary level are not eligible to apply. 

• Bachelor of Science in Technology in the field of Mechanical Engineering
  Completed in a University - All countries
  See further details at 'Fields of study included in Mechanical Engineering'.  

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University are eligible to apply but only when applying with the Bachelor's Degree. 

Applying with a Master's Degree completed in a University is accepted only if the Master's Degree having been completed before the two-tier degree system when there were no separate Bachelor's Degrees awarded. 

Applicants who have completed or are completing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering in a university in Finland (konetekniikan diplomi-insinööri) before starting the LUT studies are not eligible to apply. 

Applying with a combination of a 2-year Bachelor's + 2-year Master's Degree completed in certain countries is accepted when the combination of these two degrees is equivalent only to a Finnish Bachelor's Degree. 

• Bachelor of Engineering in the field of Mechanical Engineering
  Completed in a University of Applied Sciences - EU/EEA countries and Switzerland
  See further details at 'Fields of study included in Mechanical Engineering'.

   

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University of Applied Sciences are eligible to apply but only when applying with the Bachelor's Degree. 

Applicants who have completed or are completing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering in a university in Finland (konetekniikan diplomi-insinööri) before starting the LUT studies are not eligible to apply. 

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University of Applied Sciences with no Bachelor's Degree while the prior degree to the Master's having been completed on a higher secondary or secondary level are not eligible to apply. 

Requirements for the Bachelor's Degree

• The degree must be equivalent to a corresponding Finnish Bachelor's Degree regarding the number of academic years and ECTS credits.
• The degree must provide eligibility for applying to university level Master's studies in the country where the degree was awarded in.

Requirements for the degree-awarding university

• The university must be recognized by the national education system in the country in question
• The university must be listed on the World Higher Education Database WHED by International Association of Universities

To be eligible to apply, the Bachelor's Degree must be completed in the field of Mechanical Engineering.

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

Bachelor of Science in Technology
Completed in a university

The following fields are included in Mechanical Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering
• (Mechanical) Automation Engineering
• Materials Science / Materials Technology
• Automation and Systems Engineering

or closely related.

Bachelor of Engineering
Completed in a university of applied sciences

The following fields are included in Mechanical Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering
• Production Engineering
• Manufacturing Technology
• Machine Automation
• Paper Machine Technology
• Automotive and Work Machine Technology
• Vehicle Design
• Product Design
• Production Systems
• Metal Technology
• Maintenance
• Robotics
• Virtual Production
• Intelligent Machines

or closely related.
 

The Admissions Committee for the programme reserves a right to decide whether the applicant's degree that s/he has to apply with is considered to be in the field of Mechanical Engineering.

To be eligible to apply to the programme, the arithmetic GPA for the degree you have to apply with must be

• a minimum of 3.25 
  on the scale of 1.00 - 5.00

The arithmetic GPA will be first checked and verified by LUT University. In case the original grading scale not being on a scale of 1.00 - 5.00, the arithmetic GPA will be converted by LUT University on this scale during the evaluation process. Finally, the arithmetic GPA with two decimals will be evaluated.

The grading scale must include at least two different grades for passing that together form a clear range of passing grades so that an arithmetic GPA can be calculated.

If the completed courses having been evaluated by using verbal or letter-based grades, these grades will be converted on a numerical scale of 1.00-5.00 by using linear conversion.

The arithmetic GPA evaluated in the LUT selection process is

• an arithmetic average of grades for all the individual courses and for the grade for the Final Thesis included in the degree you have to apply with 
  • that have been completed at the time of applying
  • that are listed on an official Transcript of Records

What is excluded from the arithmetic GPA?

• Courses evaluated with 'pass' or 'fail' 
• Courses evaluated with a grade corresponding to a failed grade
• Courses without a related study unit such as ECTS credit, credit, credit hour etc. 
• Combined modules including only a single grade for all the courses included in the module unless the individual courses having been evaluated separately
• Courses not included in the degree you have to apply with
• Courses not included in the degree you have to apply with that have been credited or compensated unless the degree-awarding university having evaluated them on a numerical, verbal or on a letter-based grading scale

You must prove your proficiency in English with one of the following:

• one of the accepted language tests
• a degree in higher education completed in English in an EU/EEA country or in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, United Kingdom or the United States of America
• a degree in higher education completed in Finnish or in Swedish in Finland

More information: How to prove your proficiency in English

Before starting your application process, have a look at the basics on applying at

• Applying to Master's Programmes through Regular Admission
  
  >> Application process

where all the important information regarding to applying in general is given.

When filling in your application form

While filling in your application form, you must indicate the cumulative number of original study units completed for the Bachelor's Degree you are applying with. 

If applying with an unfinished Bachelor's Degree, you must indicate the cumulative number of original study units expected to be completed for being able to graduate. 

If having completed a combination of degrees that together correspond to a Bachelor's Degree, you must indicate the cumulative number of original study units for all the related degrees.

Requirements for the Transcript of Records 

The Transcript of Records for the Bachelor's Degree you are applying with must include the cumulative number of original study units (credits, credit hours etc.).

If the cumulative original study units not included on the Transcript of Records, an official statement on them issued in English by the related university must be uploaded. You may also upload an official brochure for the programme issued by the university instead of the official statement if the cumulative original study units indicated in the brochure. 

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 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

If admitted, you must be able to

• Graduate by 31 August 2025
• Provide us with the following documents by 31 August 2025 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 5 September 2025 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
  • Scans for the official translations in English for both the documents (when applicable)
  • Official translations required, 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, your right to study in the programme will automatically be cancelled and you will lose your place without a possibility to claim it back.

Only complete applications will be forwarded for academic evaluation done by the Admissions Committee for the programme. 

The Admissions Committee first checks the academic eligibility regarding to previous programme-related studies and minimum arithmetic GPA for the degree the applicant must apply with. The Committee reserves a right to decide whether the degree and the studies completed by the applicant qualify him/her to apply to the programme.

There is no interview for this programme.

All applicants having provided a complete application according to the requirements and meeting with the following programme-specific requirements will be admitted:

• Minimum arithmetic GPA of 3.25 on a scale of 1.00-5.00
  for the degree that you have to apply with

The points for the selection process are equal to the arithmetic GPA on a scale of 1.00 - 5.00.