Fill out an online application on Studyinfo.fi during the application period 5.–24.6.2024.

You need to attach application documents to your application form. The required documents are:

• Copy of a valid passport or other government-issued identification card with photo
• Copy of your upper secondary degree certificate, if you have already completed your upper secondary education
• Motivation letter including a brief description of yourself and your motivation for applying for the University Pathway Finland programme 
• If you are currently pursuing your upper secondary degree, an official letter of attendance, a transcript, or another relevant document that demonstrates your enrollment and states your expected graduation date is required
• If any of your documents are in a language other than English, Finnish or Swedish, an official translation is required

If an obligatory application document is missing after the document deadline, the application will be rejected as incomplete.

You can also submit other study-related documents to your application form. For example, if you already have a language test result or a certificate demonstrating your official English language proficiency, you can submit the document to your application form. Please note that demonstrating English language proficiency is not mandatory at this application stage.

You may apply to a maximum of three routes, which you must list in order of priority on your application form. You can change the routes or their order of priority only during the application period. You cannot change the order of priority once the application period has ended.

Priority order means that if you are admitted to your first priority option, your next options will be automatically cancelled.

You cannot save the application form as a draft. However, you can edit your application form during the application period. 

Link to the application form will be added to our website when the application period starts. 

Basic Skills Test consists of a brief mathematics assessment. The test is completed on Aalto OpenLearning platform. Once the Basic Skills Test is completed, officials will assess your eligibility for the Pathway studies.

Please note that you need to create a new account on Aalto OpenLearning platform before taking the Basic Skills Test. You can find the "Create new account" button on the main page of OpenLearning. 

Written entrance exams will take place on 8.–10.7.2024. Applicants will be invited to the written exam based on their Basic Skills test score. The entrance exam is organised electronically in OpenLearning platform. To login, please use the account you created for Basic Skills test. Note that you can only take the electronic exam once. Before taking the actual exam, we expect you to complete practice exam in the OpenLearning platform.

Entrance exam tests the mathematics skills you need to be able to study the mathematics courses in the Pathway programme. It also serves as a self-evaluation tool for you to assess whether you have the skills to succeed in the programme.

Make sure that you have a method to turn your solutions into a pdf file, since some of the questions require that. For example, you can use a software suitable for writing mathematical formulas and text. Alternatively, you can just take a picture of your "paper and pen" solution and turn it into a pdf file. There are multiple apps for that (e.g. Tiny Scanner). The maximum size of the submitted files is 250MB.

Components

• Practice exam (2 hours 30 minutes: can be completed at any time before your entrance exam)
• Electronic exam (2 hours 30 minutes): See your entrance exam invitation letter for written exam group and time 

You must complete the electronic exam yourself and without help from other people. You may use a scientific calculator but not a programmable calculator. Most of the exam questions are designed to be completed without any calculators.  

All exams will be monitored and recorded. Prepare to show your ID/Passport to the supervisor in the beginning of your exam. If you intend to use a simple calculator, please show it to the supervisor in the beginning of the exam.

Topics

• Functions
  -Definition and notations
  -Domain and range
  -Graphs of functions
  -Composite functions
  -Absolute value functions
  -Inverse functions
• Elementary functions
  -Polynomials and rational functions
  -Exponential and logarithmic functions
  -Trigonometric functions
• Systems of equations and inequalities
• Limits and continuity
• Derivatives
   

Materials

The recommended open access study material covering the entrance exam topics is PreCalculus2e in Openstax. The relevant chapters are:

• Chapter 1: Functions
• Chapter 3: Polynomials and rational functions
• Chapter 4: Exponential and logarithmic functions
• Chapter 5: Trigonometric functions
• Chapter 6: Periodic functions
• Chapter 7: Trigonometric identities and equations
• Chapter 8: Further applications of trigonometry
• Chapter 9: Systems of equations and inequalities
• Chapter 12: Introduction to calculus
   

After the written entrance exams, top applicants will be invited to an oral exam. Oral exams are organised between 15.–19.7.2024. The 30-minute oral exam will test both your mathematics and English language skills.

Oral exams will be recorded. Prepare to show your ID/Passport to the supervisor in the beginning of your exam. 
 

Study place offers and admission results will be communicated to applicants by 26.7.2024. Applicants will be ranked based on their performance in the entrance exams. Those placed on the waiting list may be offered a spot if openings become available.

Accept the study place offer and pay the programme fee 7500 € (incl. VAT) by the specified due date. The programme fee must be paid in one installment before the studies begin.

Studies commence on 19.8.2024 with a Welcome Webinar. Check the study schedule and learn more about the study content on our Study Information Page.