Being on a waiting list means that the applicant has not succeeded well enough to be admitted. Each study option will admit no more than their maximum intake. Those who have been admitted are the ones who have succeeded the best in the evaluation process. If the applicant is not among this group, but the application has not been rejected, the applicant is placed on the waiting list.
If the application has been rejected, it is not possible to be placed on the waiting list or to be admitted.
The evaluation criteria are informed on the web pages of the study options.
If an admitted applicant does not accept their admission offer by the deadline, the applicant highest on the study option’s waiting list will be admitted. Applicants can be admitted off the waiting list until 12 June, 2025.
If you are admitted off the waiting list, you will receive an email to the email address you have given in the application system. The deadline to accept the admission offer received from the waiting list is by 29 April 2025 at 15.00 (3 pm, UTC +3) or within 7 days of the admission notification.
The number of applicants admitted off the waiting list cannot be estimated in advance. It is not possible to comment on the probability of being admitted off the waiting list.
Admission Services or the study options will not provide information on the number of applicants accepting the admission offer or being admitted off the waiting list. The university will only contact those applicants who are admitted from the waiting list. Those applicants will be contacted via email.
Applicants admitted off the waiting list cannot get a scholarship. Scholarships have been allocated to the best tuition fee liable applicants.
Students who are liable to tuition fees and are admitted off the waiting list must cover the tuition fee, living expenses (at least 800 euros per month) and other study related costs from their own financial resources. Aalto University does not have additional scholarships or other financial support for students.
You can accept the admission offer to your second study option conditionally (by the deadline set for accepting the admission offer) and choose to remain on a waiting list for your first study option. You can stay on the waiting list until admitting applicants off the waiting list ends (12 June, 2025).
Acceptance of the study place will become binding, if you are not admitted off the waiting list to your first study option. If you are admitted off the waiting list to your first study option, the acceptance of the study place will be transferred to your first study option automatically and become binding.
If you were admitted to your second study option and chose to remain on the waiting list for your first study option, you can change the conditional acceptance of the admission offer to your second study option as binding (if it has not changed already) and stop being on the waiting list. This change cannot be withdrawn.
You can enrol to the university only after the conditional acceptance of the study place has become binding.
Note that a conditional acceptance of the admission offer cannot be changed to cancellation of accepting the admission offer. In that sense, also a conditional acceptance is binding.
Note that scholarships are study-option-specific. If you were granted a scholarship to your second study option, it does not transfer to your first study option if you are admitted off the waiting list. You lose the scholarship, if you do not accept the study place bindingly to your second study option. If you wish to receive the scholarship and start studies in your second study option, accept the study place to your second study option bindingly.
Applicants meeting the general eligibility criteria for master's studies were evaluated and ranked according to the evaluation criteria decided in advance for each study option. The applications are compared to each other and the best applicants are admitted. The study-option-specific evaluation criteria are informed on the web pages of the study options.
Since the number of study places is restricted, unfortunately not all eligible applicants can be offered admission.
Study options are not obligated to fill all available study places. The maximum quota of each study option is informed in Studyinfo.fi.
Please find below general information about the reasons for rejection in the 2025 admissions.
The grades and study success of the applicant are not good enough. Also, the time consumed for studies may not meet the requirements. If the evaluation criteria include a certain limit for GPA or other grades, the applicant does not fulfil this requirement.
The application fulfills the general eligibility criteria and it has been evaluated by the study option. The application does not fulfill the study-option-specific eligibility criteria.
The study-option-specific eligibility requirements are on the web pages of the study options.
The applicant’s degree may be suitable for the programme, but at a closer look, the individual courses do not fulfil the prerequisite knowledge required for the programme.
See the study-option-specific evaluation criteria on the web page of your study option.
The degree is not applicable to the programme in question.
See the study-option-specific evaluation criteria on the web page of your study option.
The application fulfills the general eligibility criteria and it was evaluated by the study option.
The outcome of the study-option-specific evaluation did not qualify for admission. The application may have been insufficient in terms of study-option-specific documents or it did not rank high enough in the overall evaluation to qualify for admission this year.
See the study-option-specific evaluation criteria on the web page of your study option.
A large part of the contents of the applicant's previous studies are similar to the educational goals of the programme in question. Thus the programme will not sufficiently offer the applicant new knowledge to justify their selection as a master’s degree student.
This reason for rejection is used automatically for those applicants who were placed on the waiting list but were not admitted by the closing date of the waiting list.
The general eligibility criteria have not been fulfilled and application has not been forwarded to study-option-specific evaluation.
The general eligibility requirements (e.g., language requirements, obligatory application documents, degrees granting eligibility to apply) are listed on the admissions website.
If you wish to have further information about the evaluation of your application, contact the Aalto School of your study option after the final admission results have been published.
Include your full name and your study option in the email and mention that you have applied in the 2025 master's admissions.
Aalto schools, study options and their contact information are below.
Due to a large number of applications, the study options do not give feedback on the portfolios or other study-option-specific documents for the applicants not admitted to the second phase of the evaluation.
If you were rejected in the first phase of evaluation you can request feedback at arts-admissions@aalto.fi. Include your full name and your study option in the email and mention that you have applied in the 2025 master's admissions.
The time slots listed below are reserved for applicants admitted to the second phase of evaluation.
Study options and contact information for the applicants admitted to the 2nd phase
All time slots are given in Finnish time (UTC +3).
Study options and contact information
Contact information: programmes-biz@aalto.fi
Study options and contact information
Contact information: Taru Korkalainen, studies-chem@aalto.fi.
Study options and contact information
Contact information: masters-elec@aalto.fi
Study options and contact information
Contact information: masterstudies-eng@aalto.fi
Due to a high number of applications, please be prepared to wait for our reply to your information request.
Study options and contact information
Contact information: masters-sci@aalto.fi
It is possible to submit a written request to rectify the admission decision within 14 days of the publication of the results.
The purpose of the rectification request procedure is to allow applicants to appeal against the admission decision on the grounds of an error in the decision-making.
Student admission statistics are published after each year's admissions.
