Rolling Admission for Master's studies

24 Master's Programmes in Business and Technology are available through Regular Admission.

The ones not available through Rolling Admission are

• Biorefineries
• Circular Economy
   
• Erasmus Joint Master Degree programme Sustainable Bioproducts and Bioprocess Engineering
• Erasmus Mundus Master's programme Software Engineers for Green Deal
• Nordic Master's Programme in Sustainable ICT Solutions of Tomorrow

In Rolling Admission, if submitting a complete application within the time frame given, meeting with the eligibility requirements and getting a minimum of 50% for the maximum points for the interview*, you will automatically get admitted as long as there are seats still available for the programme you are applying to.

Meaning, that there isno competing against other applicants.

You can only apply to only one programme either in Technology or in Business.
 

*Interviews done only within the programmes in Technology, except for in Electrical Engineering. No interviews done within the programmes in Business Administration.

Do not submit applications through Regular and Rolling Admission simultaneously as parallel applications will be deleted.

If you apply through Rolling Admission, you must wait for your admission result - and if you did not get admitted, you can still apply through Regular Admission, if the application period still being an ongoing one.

Again, if you apply through Regular Admission and do not get admitted, you still have an option to apply through Rolling Admission by the deadline of 31 May 2023 at 15:00 (UTC+3) after the results for Regular Admission are released on 24 March 2023 - given that you meet with the requirements for Rolling Admission.

Submit your application only if able to upload all the required documents and results - including your language test result (when required) and the GMAT Exam or GRE General Test result (required for programmes in Business) - at the time of submitting your application or, within the next 14 days.

This is because if your application being an incomplete one, you have 14 days to supplement it after having received the supplementary request. If the application is not supplemented as requested by the given deadline, it will be ruled out as an ineligible one.

Bachelor of Science in Economics and/or Business Administration

Completed in a university - all countries
Including equivalent degrees with different titles but meeting with the following requirements included.

• A minimum of 80 ECTS credits of studies in Business Administration must be included.
• An equivalent degree to a corresponding Finnish Bachelor of Science Degree by number of academic years and ECTS credits.
• Degree providing you with eligibility to apply to university level Master's studies in the country where the degree was awarded in.

Having completed a Master's Degree in Economics and/or Business Administration or equivalent at the time of applying or, completing it before starting the LUT studies makes you ineligible to apply.
 

Bachelor of Business Administration

Completed in a University of Applied Sciences - EU/EEA countries

• A minimum of 80 ECTS credits of studies in Business Administration must be included.
• An equivalent degree to a corresponding Finnish Bachelor of Science Degree by number of academic years and ECTS credits.
• Degree providing you with eligibility to apply to university level Master's studies in the country where the degree was awarded in.

Having completed a Master's Degree in Business Administration still makes you eligible to apply, but only when applying with a Bachelor's Degree.
 

Bachelor's Degree in a field other than Business Administration

Completed in a University - All countries

• A minimum of 24 ECTS credits of studies completed in Business Administration required.

Having completed a Master's Degree still makes you eligible to apply, but only when applying with the Bachelor's Degree.

Requirements for the degree-awarding university

The university having awarded you the degree you are applying with must be

• An official and recognized part of the national education system
• Listed on the World Higher Education Database WHED by International Association of Universities
   

The Admissions Committee for the programme always reserves a right to decide whether the degree and the completed studies provide the applicant with eligibility to apply to the programme.

To possibly get admitted, you must have completed a minimum of 24 ECTS credits of previous programme-related studies as follows:

Business Analytics

• a minimum of 24 ECTS credits of studies completed in Business Administration
   

International Business and Entrepreneurship

• a minimum of 24 ECTS credits of studies in International Business, International Marketing, Entrepreneurship or Management
   

International Marketing Management

• a minimum of 24 ECTS credits of studies in Marketing, International Marketing or International Business
   

Strategic Finance and Analytics

• a minimum of 24 ECTS credits of studies in Finance, Accounting or Economics related and applicable to the programme
   

Supply Management

• a minimum of 24 ECTS credits of studies in Supply Management, Management, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Marketing or International Business

You must list your courses in English on your application form - also when they have been completed in Finnish - plus, upload an official Transcript of Records in English for your studies.

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

To be eligible to apply to programmes in Business Administration, the arithmetic GPA for the degree you have to apply with must be

• a minimum of 3.50 on the scale of 1.00 - 5.00

The GPA considered in the LUT selection process is an arithmetic average of all individual study records included in the degree and graded with numbers, including the Final Thesis and excluding the grades for all the fails. The considered GPA includes two decimals.

Your GPA will be converted on a scale of 1.00 - 5.00 during the evaluation process when the original scale having been a different one.

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

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

More information: How to prove your proficiency in English

To be eligible to apply to programmes in Business Administration through Rolling Admission, you must be able to provide us with one of the following tests with at least the minimum scores required:

• GMAT Exam & GMAT Online Exam
  Total score 550
   
• GRE General Test & GRE General Test at Home
  Verbal Reasoning 152 + Quantitative Reasoning 152 + Analytical Writing 3.0

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 2022
   
• Provide us with the following documents by 31 August 2022 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 6 September 2022 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
  • Official translations required, if the original documents are not issued in English, Finnish or Swedish.
     

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.

Bachelor of Science in Technology or closely related to Technology

Completed in a University - All countries

Additional degrees accepted for certain programmes

For certain programmes, there are also additional degrees accepted in a field other than Technology.

The countries listed do not include Finland.

• Global Management of Innovation and Technology

  Bachelor of Science in Business Administration or Economics
  Completed in a University - EU/EEA countries

  Bachelor of Business Administration
  Completed in a University of Applied Sciences - EU/EEA countries
   

• Industrial Design Engineering

  Bachelor's Degree in Design/Industrial Design
  Completed in a University - All countries
   

• Innovation and Logistics

  Bachelor of Science in a field other than Technology/Engineering
  Completed in a University - All Countries
   

• Digital Systems and Service Development
  Software Engineering and Digital Transformation
  Software Product Management and Business

  Bachelor of Science in Business Informatics or in Business Information Technology
  Completed in a University - All countries

  Bachelor of Business in Informatics or in Business Information Technology
  Completed in a University of Applied Sciences - All countries

• Sustainability Science and Solutions

  Bachelor of Science in Natural Sciences
  Completed in a University - All countries

Regarding to the degrees mentioned above:

• The degree must be equivalent to a similar Finnish Bachelor's Degree regarding to number of academic years and ECTS credits.
   
• The degree must give you eligibility to apply to university level Master's studies in the country where the degree was completed in.
   
• Having completed a Master's Degree still makes you eligible to apply, but only when applying with the Bachelor's Degree
   
  • Exception:
    Master's Degree with no immediate prior Bachelor's Degree included is accepted for applying.

Requirements for the degree-awarding university

The university having awarded you the degree you are applying with must be

• An official and recognized part of the national education system
• Listed on the World Higher Education Database WHED by International Association of Universities
   

The Admissions Committee for the programme always reserves a right to decide whether the degree and the completed studies provide the applicant with eligibility to apply to the programme.

For the following programmes, there is a requirement for having completed a minimum number of ECTS credits of previous programme-related studies as follows:

Data-Centric Engineering

• Specialisation: Applied Mathematics
  a minimum of 40 ECTS credits of studies in Mathematics or Statistics
   
• Specialisation: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  a minimum of 40 ECTS credits of studies in Information Technology or Computer Science

Electrical Engineering

• a minimum of 40 ECTS credits of studies in Electrical Engineering
• Studies in Control Technology, Automation and Embedded Systems can also be included - but studies in Information Technology are not included.

Sustainable Energy Systems, Energy Conversion, Nuclear Engineering

• a minimum of 40 ECTS credits of studies in Energy Technology

  Studies in Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Nuclear Engineering and Energy Conversion are for example, included.

  Courses related to planning, measuring and manufacturing of pumps, blowers and fans, compressors, turbines and heat transformers used in power plants and in energy conversion are considered to be included in studies supportive to Energy Technology, as well as studies in calculation of the related processes.

  However, studies in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Process Engineering, Automation Engineering or Environmental Technology are NOT included in studies in Energy Technology.

Global Management of Innovation and Technology

• a minimum of 24 ECTS credits of studies in Industrial Engineering and Management, Information Technology, Mathematics or Statistics

Innovation and Logistics

• a minimum of 24 ECTS credits of studies in Industrial Engineering and Management, Economics, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Information Technology, Mathematics or Statistics

Digital Systems and Service Development
Software Engineering and Digital Transformation
Software Product Management and Business

• a minimum of 24 ECTS credits of studies in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Informatics, Computer Science and Engineering, Business Systems and Analytics, Business Systems Design, Programming, Databases or Data Science

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

For the following programmes, a Bachelor's Degree in the field of Mechanical Engineering is required:

• Industrial Design Engineering
• Materials Science and Technology
• Mechanical Engineering

For the following programme, there is no minimum requirement for the previous programme-related studies:

• Sustainability Science and Solutions

A minimum arithmetic GPA for the degree you must apply with is required for each programme as follows:

3.50 on the scale of 1.00 - 5.00

• Data-Centric Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Global Management of Innovation and Technology
• Innovation and Logistics

3.00 on the scale of 1.00-5.00

• Energy Conversion
• Industrial Design Engineering
• Materials Science and Technology
• Mechanical Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Software Engineering and Digital Transformation
• Software Product Management and Business
• Sustainable Energy Systems
• Sustainability Science and Solutions

The GPA considered in the LUT selection process is an arithmetic average of all individual study records included in the degree and graded with numbers, including the Final Thesis and excluding the grades for all the fails. The considered GPA includes two decimals.

Your GPA will be converted on a scale of 1.00 - 5.00 during the evaluation process when the original scale having been a different one.

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

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

More information: How to prove your proficiency in English

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 2022
   
• Provide us with the following documents by 31 August 2022 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 6 September 2022 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
  • Official translations required, if the original documents are not issued in English, Finnish or Swedish.
     

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.

1 November 2022 - 31 May 2023 (UTC+3)

The application period will continue until the application deadline or, as long as there are still seats available for the programme you are applying to.

Rolling Admission for Technology and Business Administration

You may submit one application form with a maximum of one programme you wish to apply to.

In case of any multiple application forms under a different email address, the earlier one/s will automatically be deleted while the latest one remaining a valid one.

The application form is available at www.studyinfo.fi only during the application period.

Upload all the required documents

Submit your application

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

Carefully answering all the questions

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

If failing to present the information as requested on your application form, this information will not be taken into account or considered in the evaluation process.

• Degree Certificate for the Bachelor's Degree

  • Upload a scan for the original Degree Certificate
    • + an official translation in English if the original is awarded in another language
       

• Transcript of Records for the Bachelor's Degree

  • Upload a scan for the original Transcript of Records
    • + an official translation in English if the original is awarded in another language

An official Diploma Supplement in English will be considered as an official translation for both the original Degree Certificate and Transcript of Records.

You may also need to upload additional educational documents for example, for the following reasons:

• Degree Certificate and/or Transcript of Records for another degree completed
  • If proving your proficiency in English with another degree apart from the one you are applying with.
• Transcript of Records for additional university level studies
  • If having completed programme-specifically required university-level studies not included in the degree you are applying with.
     

• Language Test result when required

  • Upload the test result or a screen shot from your test account
  • the result will always be electronically verified
     

• GMAT Exam or GRE General Test result

  • Only for programmes in Business Administration
     

• Passport or ID card with nationality

  • Upload a scan for your passport or ID card.
     

• Finnish Residence Permit Card

  • Upload a copy of your Finnish Residence Permit card if having one.

Check the required documents under Required documents.

Do not upload any additional documents as they will be automatically ignored by the Admission Committees.

You are responsible for uploading all the required documents on your application form as requested.

No hard copies are to be mailed at the time of applying.

Details for uploading the documents

You must upload a scan for the original educational documentsplus for the other required documents to your application form. The formats PDF or JPEG are preferred (max. 10 MB).

Combine all individual pages for the document in the right order to make one scan for the whole document.

Name your documents accordingly, for example:

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

Make sure that all the documents are clearly readable ones.

LUT Admissions Services will check your educational documents and proficiency in English as soon as possible after you having submitted your application.

You will receive an email from us through StudyInfo about your application being accepted or a request to supplement it within 14 days - the deadline is given in your supplementary request.

If not able to supplement your application by the given deadline as requested, your application will be ruled out as an incomplete one, while only the complete applications are forwarded to academic evaluation.

If your application meeting with the academic requirements for the programme, you will be automatically admitted as there are no interviews involved.

If your application meeting with the academic requirements for the programme, you will be invited to an interview*.

The interview is done through RecRight video interview system or through another electric form of interview such as for example, Teams or Skype.

Remember to check your junk mail as well for the invitation.

To get admitted, you must get a minimum of 50% for the maximum points for the interview.

* No interviews in Electrical Engineering.
* No interviews in Water Technology.

You will receive your admission result by email 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.

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

Citizens of the non-EU/EEA countries (excluding Switzerland) must pay a tuition fee of EUR 13 500 per each academic year.

There are exceptions regarding the tuition fee for holders of a certain type of residence permit awarded by Finnish Immigration Service.

Further information: Tuition fee.

First academic year: Early Bird Discount

The admitted students required to pay a tuition fee are offered an Early Bird Discount of EUR 6 000 for the first academic year.

To be able to get the Early Bird Discount, the offered place must be confirmed and the rest of the tuition fee EUR 7 500 paid within three weeks from the date of having received the Certificate of Admission.

Second academic year: Scholarship

Students required to pay a tuition fee will automatically be awarded a scholarship of EUR 6 000 for the second academic year if having completed a minimum of 60 ECTS credits of studies included in the personal study plan during the first academic year.
 

Further information: Early Bird Discount and scholarships.

TUITION FEE

Do I have to pay a tuition fee?

Studies in higher education are free for students with a nationality of a country within the European Union (EU), the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland. Citizens of the non-EU/EEA countries (excluding Switzerland) are required to pay the LUT tuition fee of EUR 13 500 for the Master's Programmes per each academic year. Please see the exceptions to this requirement at Tuition fee.

I have both an EU/EEA nationlity and a non-EU/EEA nationality. Which nationality I have to apply with?

You must apply with your EU/EEA (or Swiss) nationality to avoid paying the tuition fee. If being a citizen of the United Kingdom with the conditions listed at About Brexit by Finnish Immigration Service (MIGRI) you are exempted from paying the tuition fee and you must then apply with your UK nationality.

When do I have to pay the tuition fee for the first academic year?

If you wish to get the Early Bird Discount of EUR 6 000 you must pay the rest of the tuition fee EUR 7 500 within three weeks from having received the Certificate of Admission.

The ultimate and final deadline to confirm the place is however, always 30 April 2022 at 15:00 (UTC+3) without any exceptions.

Please note that if required to apply for a Residence Permit and pay a tuition fee, your application process will be on hold until you have paid the tuition fee or, are able to show the funding for it.

Where and how can I pay the tuition fee?

You can pay the tuition fee with the payment details that you will receive in your admission e-mail.

What happens if I do not pay the tuition fee?

You will not be included in the LUT University study register and the time within you have to complete your studies will be reduced with the time period for which you have not paid the tuition fee. You will also lose the Tuition Fee Waiver you have possibly been awarded.

If not having paid your tuition fee for the first academic year, you are not able to start your studies - and if you do not start your studies by a certain date in September (informed in your admission e-mail), you will lose your right to study. The payment must be paid by that certain date informed in your admission e-mail.

How do you decide whoever gets to be exempted from paying a tuition fee?

The basic rule is that citizens of the non-EU/EEA countries (excluding Switzerland) must pay a tuition fee. Please see the exceptions at Tuition Fee.

The decision for being exempted from paying the tuition fee or not is made by LUT University at the time of applying, based on the nationality or, a status for the Finnish Residence Permit Card (if already having one) or, for the UK citizens who have arrived in Finland before 1 January 2021, based on having registered, or applied to register, their EU Right of Residence in Finland in accordance with the Withdrawal Agreement.

I already have a Finnish Residence Permit Card allowing me to get exempted from paying the tuition fee. How do I secure that exemption?

You must upload a copy for your Residence Permit Card to your application at the time of applying to the programme.

What happens if I have already paid the tuition fee but will not be granted a residence permit by The Finnish Immigration Service?

If you have not started your studies (not received any study credits), you are entitled to a full refund of 100% of the tuition fee that you have already paid.

If started, completed courses with ECTS and then quit your studies, you will lose the tuition fee for the ongoing semester (50% of the total payment). The remaining 50% of the total payment (= tuition fee for the next semester) will be refunded.

What happens if I have cancel my place due to other reasons, accepting other study place, family issues etc.?

In case of cancellation before starting your studies, you will receive a refund for the tuition fee that you have paid. However, LUT University will charge you EUR 250 for the administrative costs.

If started, completed courses with ECTS and then quit your studies, you will lose the tuition fee for the ongoing semester (50% of the total payment). The remaining 50% of the total payment (= tuition fee for the next semester) will be refunded.

I am conditionally accepted and have already paid the tuition fee, but cannot graduate by the given DL and provide LUT University with the required documents as requested. What will happen?

If not being able to fulfill the requirements for the conditionally admitted students, you will lose your right to study and will be refunded by the amount of the tuition fee you have already paid for. LUT University will however, charge you for EUR 250 for the administrative costs.

During the application period, I had a Finnish Residence Permit Card allowing me to get exempted from paying a tuition fee.
However, it will expire before starting my studies. What do I have to do?

You are exempted from paying a tuition fee as long as you have one of the Finnish residence permits listed at Tuition Fee that allow you to get exempted from paying the tuition fee, so you must e-mail a copy for your new Finnish RP card to scholarships[a]lut.fi asap after having received it. If the status no longer allows you to get exempted from paying the tuition fee, a tuition fee will be charged from you.

My Finnish Residence Permit Card allows me to get exempted from paying a tuition fee.
However, it will expire during the academic year. Do I have to pay a tuition fee then?

You are exempted from paying a tuition fee as long as you have one of the Finnish residence permits listed at Tuition Fee that allow you to get exempted from paying the tuition feed. When that RP Card expires and the new one not being one of those allowing you to get exempted from paying the tuition fee, you are required to pay the tuition fee starting from the beginning of next semester.

What happens if I have already paid the tuition fee and will then get a Finnish Residence Permit Card with the status that allows me to get exempted from paying the tuition fee?

If you are able to provide LUT Scholarships with a copy of your Finnish Residence Permit Card by 31 July (=before the academic year starts) the amount you have already paid for will be refunded to you in full.

If providing LUT Scholarships with a copy of your Finnish Residence Permit Card within August 1-July 31 (= during the academic year), your exemption of Tuition fee will be counted to start from the beginning of the next semester. For example, if receiving your residence permit in October, your exemption will begin on 1 January and your payment for spring semester may be refunded.

I have paid the tuition fee for the whole academic year but will now graduate before the academic year is over.
Will I be refunded a part of the tuition fee I already paid for?

The remaining part of the paid tuition fee will be refunded starting from next semester.

I am going to complete a student exchange period or an internship abroad.
Do I still have to pay the tuition fee?

Yes, you do have to pay the tuition fee even if going for exchange studies or for an internship abroad.

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT - FIRST ACADEMIC YEAR

I am required to pay a tuition fee of EUR 13 500.
Is there any Early Bird Discount available?

Yes, the Early Bird Discount is EUR 6 000.

How can I get an Early Bird Discount?

In Regular Admission, if required to pay the tuition fee of EUR 13 500, you can get the Early Bird Discount of EUR 6 000 by confirming your place and paying the remaining tuition fee of EUR 7 500 within three weeks from having received the Certificate of Admission.

The ultimate and final deadline to confirm the place is however, always 30 April 2022 at 15:00 (UTC+3) without any exceptions.

In Rolling Admission, if required to pay the tuition fee of EUR 13 500, you can get the Early Bird Discount of EUR 6 000 by confirming your place and paying the remaining tuition fee of EUR 7 500 within three weeks from having received the Certificate of Admission.

SCHOLARSHIP - SECOND ACADEMIC YEAR:

What are the requirements for the scholarship for the second academic year?

In a 2-year Master's Programme, when required to pay a tuition fee, you will automatically be awarded a scholarship of EUR 6 000 if having completed a minimum of 60 ECTS credits of studies included in your Personal Study Plan during the first academic year.

The required credits must be included on your Transcript of Records by the end of the first academic year i.e. by 31 July. Any previous studies possibly credited to your LUT studies will not be included in the minimum required ECTS credits.

I will not be able to graduate within two academic years as expected.
Can I still get a scholarship after two academic years?

It is not possible to get a scholarship after two academic years, so you will be charged a tuition fee since the beginning of the third academic year.

If admitted, you will be emailed an official Certificate of Admission.

You must confirm your place within

• three weeks from the date of having received the Certificate of Admission

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

Early Bird discount

If required to pay a tuition fee, we offer you an Early Bird discount of EUR 6 000 when confirming your place and paying the rest of the tuition fee of EUR 7 500 within three weeks of having received the Certificate of Admission.

How to confirm your place?

Students with a Finnish ID number will log into MyStudyInfo with their Finnish e-identification methods.

Students without a Finnish ID number will receive an email from StudyInfo, including a personal link that they will use for logging into MyStudyInfo.

Provision for one study place per semester

You may only confirm one place in Finland for the same semester.

The first place confirmed will be your first and final choice as you will not be able to change it anymore - or first cancel and then confirm yet another place.

Further information: StudyInfo - One Study Place Per Term Provision.

You must enroll for the academic year 2023-2024 within

• three weeks from the date of having received the Certificate of Admission

Not following the deadline will automatically lead into losing your right to study. You may reclaim your right to study by contacting LUT Student Customer Service and by paying an extra fee of EUR 35 for a late enrolment.

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.

Not following the deadline will automatically lead into losing your right to study. You may reclaim your right to study by contacting LUT Student Customer Service and by paying an extra fee of EUR 35 for a late enrolment.

If having applied with an unfinished Bachelor's Degree and having been conditionally admitted, you must graduate by

• 31 August 2022 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 2022 at 15:00 (UTC+3)

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

• 6 September 2022 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.

WHEN ADMITTED AND ALREADY HAVING BEEN GRADUATED AT THE TIME OF APPLYING

If the university having awarded you the degree that you applied with is located in one of the listed countries below, you must choose one of the following methods (1-3) for providing us with the required documents.

The deadlines for us to receive the documents are

• 31 August 2022 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
  Degree Certificate and Transcript of Records in original language
• 6 September 2022 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
  Official translations for Degree Certificate and Transcript of Records (when required)

Not being able to follow the given deadlines and provide us with the required documents as requested will automatically lead into losing your place in the programme without a possibility to reclaim it back.

If the university awarding you the degree is not located in the countries listed above, there is no need to mail or email us any documents.

1. Documents certified through country-specific requirements

You must be able to provide us with the hard copies for the required documents that have been certified according to the country-specific requirements for document authentication.

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.

Bangladesh, China, Iran and Pakistan

There is a special way of attesting both the copy for your Degree Certificate and the copy for your Transcript of Records - carefully follow the instructions given at country-specific requirements.

African countries, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal and Sri Lanka

There is a detailed way of mailing the official Transcript of Records to LUT University directly by the awarding university plus, getting the copy for the Degree Certificate either officially certified by the awarding university or, getting it attested by you through a special process called legalisation.

Carefully follow the instructions given at country-specific requirements and section Document authentication below.

2. Documents electronically verified by Digitary

If able to provide us with educational documents electronically verified by Digitary, there is no certification according to the country-specific requirements required.

3. Documents verfied by Finnish Digital and Population Data Services

If already residing in Finland, you can take your original educational documents to Finnish Digital and Population Data Services and buy officially certified copies from them.

Further information: Notarisation process

OFFICIAL CERTIFICATION

Official certification can be done by the awarding institution or through a special process called legalisation.

1. Official certification by the awarding institution

• Copies are taken from original documents
• Copies include every 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.

2. 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, which 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.

For more information on the signatory countries for the Hague Convention of 1961 and the authorities issuing Apostille Certificates, please see Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents.

A. Apostille

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

The 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 has been awarded in a country that is not a signatory of the Hague Convention of 1961.

The document must be first legalised by the Foreign Ministry of the degree-awarding country. After that, the document must be legalised again by a Finnish Embassy or Consulate to that country having done the first legalisation.

3. Digital credentials by Digitary

 If able to provide us with educational documents electronically verified by Digitary, there is no certification according to the country-specific requirements required.

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.

The very last step of the admission process is the final verification for the educational documents. Prepare to bring your original Degree Certificate and Transcript of Records that you applied with plus the official translations (when required) with you during the Orientation Days at LUT University.

You will sign in your documents for the final verification process as a final part of your admission.

If not able to do that during the Orientation Days, you will bring the documents to LUT Student Customer Service as soon as possible.

Not presenting the required documents or presenting documents involved in forgery will lead into revoking your study right at LUT University plus, LUT filing a report to the related Finnish authorities.

Info package for the new degree students

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

• eLUT - Starting Studies