Master's Programme in Electronics and Nanotechnology

Required prior knowledge

For admission to the Electronics and Nanotechnology programme, a high‐quality Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, in physics, or in a related field is required. Excellent candidates with degrees in other fields such as information systems, engineering, natural sciences, or mathematics, will be considered if they can show to have acquired sufficient skills and knowledge.

Background requirements depend on the chosen study field within the programme. Recommended background includes sufficient skills in

• electronics
• physics
• mathematics
• basic programming skills

Applicants with a previous Master’s degree of comparable quality and content in the fields of the Master’s Programme in Electronics and Nanotechnology or who intend to complete one, or who have a valid study right in this application target will not be accepted to the programme except for special reasons, which the applicant must explain in the application. The Master’s programme should provide genuinely new knowledge and further the career of the applicant.

In addition to the mandatory application documents, applicants to the Electronics and Nanotecnology programme are requested to provide the following additional documents:

• curriculum vitae*
• motivation letter*
  • The motivation letter should be written in English. The maximum length of the motivation letter is about 4000 characters. You should write a separate motivation letter for each study option you apply to.

* the lack of these two application documents will adversely affect the evaluation of your application

• at least one original recommendation letter (preferably academic)
• work certificates and certificates of other relevant achievements
• copies of any publications
• the official transcript of records for other university studies which are not included in the mandatory part of the application

The application should fully explain the educational history of the applicant. If the applicant has started or completed other studies in addition to the Bachelor's degree mentioned above, he or she should also provide the respective official transcripts and other possible (degree) certificates.

If the applicant has work experience or other activities or achievements to support their application, certificates or other proof should be included in the application. If the applicant has publications, copies or permanent web links to the publications should be provided. The CV should be used to provide a summary of one's personal history, achievements, objectives and other points that one considers important for the application.

The motivation letter can supplement the description of personal history. The motivation letter should also describe why the applicant is applying to the study‐option and why she/he would be a good candidate for the study option.

The recommendation letter should preferably be from a university professor, lecturer or a thesis instructor who has supervised the applicant’s studies at the university. The recommendation should comment on the applicant’s suitability to the specific study option and major.

General instructions on study-option-specific documents

All additional application documents described above should preferably be submitted in English. If some other language than English, Finnish or Swedish is used in them, the applicant must provide precise, word-for-word translations of them.

Upload the documents to your online application form in pdf-format. Name the file(s) according to format: Name of the document-Lastname-Firstname (e.g. CV-Lastname-Firstname.pdf). Maximum file size is 1.0 GB.

The study-option-specific documents must be uploaded for each study option separately, even if you use the same document (e.g. CV). Please check carefully the study-option-specific document requirements for each study option you apply to.

The deadline for the study-option-specific application documents to be uploaded to your application form is the same as for the general application documents.

The applicants must first meet the general eligibility requirements of Aalto University.
Applicants meeting the general eligibility criteria for master's studies are evaluated and ranked
according to the evaluation criteria listed here.

Firstly, the applications are evaluated based on the following (critical) criteria.

• Relevance of previous studies
• Academic performance

Only the applications who fulfill the requirements for these criteria will be evaluated against the full
set of evaluation criteria. After the evaluation of the remaining criteria below, the best applicants will be selected based on the joint evaluation of all criteria.

• Recognition and quality of institution
• Suitability
• Other areas of competence

Relevance of previous studies

Academic performance

Recognition and quality of institution

Suitability

Other areas of competence

The minimum GPA for applicants from Finnish universities of applied science is 3.8. Applicants with a GPA below the 3.8 limit will not be admitted unless they have other exceptional merits. Meeting the minimum GPA does not guarantee admission to the programme.

Previously, all admitted students whose previous degree was from a Finnish university of applied science were required to take a selection of complementary studies. This is no longer required, and complementary studies are assigned only in individual cases. Therefore, it is important to demonstrate the depth of the required prior knowledge in the application. This can be achieved, for example, with excellent grades in the relevant Bachelor courses and by completing a small number of demanding courses in the areas of required knowledge. A limited number of seats for non-degree students are available in the Bachelor-level courses in Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Programming at Aalto University, and similar courses may be available through the Open University.