Programmes open for admissions in 2019 are:

Arctic Art and Design (AAD)
Media Education
Tourism, Culture and International Management (TourCIM)
Northern Tourism

A) Educational Background: Bachelor’s or Master´s level degree in a relevant field of study

An applicant may apply for master's degree studies if she/he has completed a first degree (normally a bachelor’s degree) in a relevant field of study at a recognized institution of higher education entitling her/him to apply for master’s degree studies in her/his home country. You can find the programme specific detailed eligibility criteria on the pages of each programme.

Applicants who will be graduating after the application deadline can apply for admission before they have received their diploma. They should indicate the expected date of graduation on the application form and submit proof of graduation by a deadline in July in 2019 informed to them in more detail in the acceptance letter.

B) Language Requirements: A good command of the English language for academic purposes

See the complete list of approved methods of documenting your language proficiency and the relevant tests here. Please note that each applicant must prove their proficiency in the English language in one of the ways stated in the language requirements.

C) Submitting a full application

If you do not submit a full application, you will not be considered eligible. Full application means that you have submitted the online application form by the application deadline and that all the required attachments to the application have reached the University by the given deadline. Also, if you only submit scanned copies of your documents, your application will not be considered. You need to send the documents in paper format to us via postal mail by the application deadline.

In addition, we have strict requirements for officially certified copies of educational documents and official translations. Copies of educational documents and translations that do not meet our requirements will not be considered in the admission process, and consequently the application will be considered ineligible.     
Therefore, it is very important to send all the required attachments in good time before the deadline, and to make sure that educational documents and official translations fulfill our requirements. It is in your best interest to deliver your application documents as early as possible. 

You will find the direct link to application forms from programme pages and below:

Arctic Art and Design

Media Education

Tourism, Culture and International Management

Northern Tourism

Timetable of application process

• Application round opens: December 3rd 2018 at 8:00 (GMT+2)
• Deadline for applications: January 31st 2019 at 3:00 p.m. (GMT+2)
• Admission results by: April 8th 2019 at the latest
• Accept your study place by: April 29th
  
• Tuition fee payments (if required) by: May 16th 2019
  
• Delivering proof of graduation: July 8th 2019
  
• Studies begin at the University of Lapland: August 2019
  

Application process in a nutshell: 

1. Get to know your study option, admission criteria and prepare for applying well in advance
2. Check your eligibility and make sure you can fulfill all criteria regarding educational background, language requirements and submitting a full application with officially certified copies of educational documents 
3. Get to know the application process and timetable: Application period 3.12.2018-31.1.2019
4. Collect the required enclosures: Check country-specific requirements first
5. Fill in the Application: Applications are filled in and submitted only through the national Studyinfo Portal, and only during the application period. 
6. Submit your online application and send the required enclosures also by post
7. Application period closes and applications are being processed: We will start processing your application once the application period ends 31st of January. 
8. Selections are made and results announced: results are announced to all applicants via e-mail. 
9. Accept your study place in the Studyinfo portal by the given deadline
10. Enroll and register as a student

All educational documents must be officially certified and translated. General info on application documents and their attestation you will find here.

When putting together the documents, please also note that there are country-specific document requirements for some degree-awarding countries that need to be followed first and foremost. 

If application documents are mailed in by a third party, e.g. your university officials, language test centres, etc. the University of Lapland will match them to your application according to the personal details on those documents. If the documents are submitted separately to the University, they should clearly state the name of the applicant.

Make sure you have all the required documents ready before you start your application as you need to upload them to the application:

• certified as required by the University of Lapland
• scanned and in PDF format

Once you have filled in the application form and uploaded all the required documents you can submit your application and it will be saved. You cannot pause the electronic application once you have started filling it in. You cannot save a draft of the application form. If you close the form without submitting it, the information you have entered on the form will be lost. After submitting the form you will receive a confirmation e-mail with a personal link through which you can make changes until the end of the application period.

If you are applying to more than one international master’s degree programme at the University of Lapland, please fill in only one form. On the form, you are asked to choose the programme(s) you are applying to. With the same form, you can also apply for the scholarship which covers the tuition fee, in case you would be liable to pay the tuition fee

We require paper copies of these documents, because the authenticity of documents can only be verified from a paper copy. Please write down your name and application number in to the envelope in which you send your application documents.

Mailing address:
Applicant and Student Services
University of Lapland
P.O.Box 122, 96101 Rovaniemi
Finland

If the country-specific document requirements require that the documents must be sent to the University of Lapland by the awarding institution, the documents can be delivered by postal mail only (i.e. it is not required to attach them to the online application in electronic form).

Make sure that the required enclosures reach University of Lapland by post by the application deadline. It is in your best interest to submit your application documents as soon as possible. It is acceptable to submit documents already before submitting the online application. Late applications will not be processed. Enclosures sent by email or fax are not accepted. The documents you submit will not be returned. If you apply to more than one programme at the University of Lapland, you can use the same educational documents. We don’t need two separate sets of documents.

If there is a chance that your documents will not reach us by mail by the application deadline, we recommend you use an international courier service. Please include the following information
Address: Applicant and Student Services, University of Lapland, Yliopistonkatu 8, 96300 Rovaniemi, Finland
Phone number: +358 40 484 4195

Your application is not complete and cannot be processed until all required attachments have been received. We must receive all attachments, also paper copies, by the application deadline. It is always the applicant’s responsibility to make sure that the application documents reach the University of Lapland by the deadline. 
If you have completed or are completing your degree in an institution that submits official transcripts of records only electronically (e-transcripts), please contact admission(at)ulapland.fi

 

We will check your eligibility, verify that your language skills meet the requirements, check that all of the required educational documents have arrived and verify your credentials. The faculty responsible for the programme in question makes the decision on the admission of applicants to the programme.

Due to the large amount of incoming mail, University of Lapland cannot confirm the arrival of individual documents. All mail will be processed in order of arrival. Once your documents have been processed, you will receive an email notification from us, informing you of the status of your application. Please be patient, we will contact you as soon as possible.

 

Results of the application round are announced via e-mail to all applicants by April 8th at the latest. Admitted applicants will receive an electronic Letter of Admission by email, accompanied with the scholarships information if applicable.

 

Admitted students need to confirm their acceptance of the study place offered to them in the Studyinfo portal by April 29th. Please note that you can only accept one study place at a higher education institution leading to a university degree starting at the same academic term. This is due to the one study place per term provision of Finnish higher education. Thus it is not possible to accept the study place after the given deadline, nor is it possible to cancel the acceptance after accepting the study place in Studyinfo.

After accepting your study place, you need to register as an attending student in order to enroll yourself to the University. To register, you need to pay for the Student Union fee (approximately 105 euros per academic year) to the Student Union of the University of Lapland. Students who are required to pay the tuition fee are asked to make the tuition fee payment for the first academic year before enrolling. Further instructions on tuition fees and enrolment will be sent to students with the Letter of Admission.   

Please note that the information presented on these web pages is subject to changes. The Applicant and Student Services, Internationalisation Office and the faculties of the University of Lapland reserve the right to reconsider and modify the conditions on which international students are admitted.