Information Technology – (B.Eng.)

Requirements

General eligibility for the programmes is given by:
* completed Finnish upper secondary education or the Finnish matriculation examination (Act on the Organisation of the Matriculation Examination (672/2005)
* International Baccalaureate, Reifeprüfung or European Baccalaureate examination
* a vocational college diploma or higher vocational diploma (e.g. in engineering)
* a vocational qualification of at least three years duration, completed in vocational upper secondary education and training, referred to in the Vocational Education and Training Act (630/98), or an earlier corresponding qualification
* combined education programmes of at least three years duration, referred to in the Act on Youth-level Education and the Polytechnic Experiment (391/91)
* a vocational qualification in adult education of at least three years duration, referred to in the Vocational Adult Education Act (631/98)
* a foreign degree or qualification which gives eligibility for higher education in the awarding country.

Language skills
An applicant who is not a citizen of an EU/EEA country must provide proof of his/her English language skills by set date at 4.15 pm at the latest to the admissions office of his/her first preference UAS. In order to prove the applicant’s English language skills, he/she must provide one of the following minimum requirements:

* IELTS score academic level 6,0 or
* TOEFL score 550 paper-based test/ 79-80 internet -based test or
* skills level 4 in English in the National Certificate of Language Proficiency (=> Tutkinnot ja opiskelu => Yleiset kielitutkinnot).

The certificate copies must be delivered to the admissions office by set date at 4.15 pm Finnish time (+2 hrs GMT). All applicants who have demonstrated their eligibility and language skills will be invited to the entrance examinations.