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Nordic Master's Programme in Cold Climate Engineering

For Aalto students
This site contains the student study guide for the Nordic Master in Cold Climate Engineering. Here you will find the programme curriculum as well as detailed guidelines for planning your studies. All the materials and instructions are for the students in the programme. If you are interested in applying to the programme, follow the link at the bottom of the site to the application page.
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Nordic Master in Cold Climate Engineering is organized by the School of Engineering.

The main focus of the Nordic Master in Cold Climate Engineering is to give the students a profound understanding of how the obtained specializations can be applied in jobs as researchers, consulting or practising engineers in the Arctic.

All graduates will have the ability to work within a team of experts having different international backgrounds such as education, values, language, culture, etc.. and have a profound understanding of the challenging Arctic environment.

The teaching methods will include lectures, assignments, field work, laboratory work and project work. Theory is supported by experimental work and modelling, which are used intensively, and also depending on the track.

Specialization

The programme consists of three specialised study tracks:

  • Land Track: Focus on Arctic geoengineering (DTU and NTNU)
  • Sea Track: Focus on Arctic ships and offshore structures  (NTNU and Aalto)
  • Space Track: Focus on mapping and observing the Arctic (DTU and Aalto)

You'll find more information on study tracks and curricula on the programmes own website.

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Tuition fees

The programme follows each university's own tuition fee policies.

In Aalto University, the tuition fees for tuition-fee students are the following:

  • Right to study started on or before 1 August 2024: 15,000 EUR / academic year
  • Right to study started on or after 1 August 2025: 17,000 EUR / academic year

For more information, please see the Tuition fees and scholarships webpage in the Student Guide.

Participation costs and fees will be charged according to the university regulations at the Partner Universities.

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