Below please find the document requirements for each of the Bachelor's programmes.
Bachelor degree programme Lifelong Learning and Sustainable Development
1. Certification of completed secondary education degree
The required secondary education degree must be completed by 19.1.2022. Required degree certificate (with translations) must be uploaded on the online application form by 26 January 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2).
Applicants who have completed their Finnish matriculation examination in or after 1990 or a vocational qualification in Finland in or after 2017 do not need to upload degree certificate as these are electronically available through Studyinfo.
Applicants who are in the final semester of their upper secondary education are also eligible to apply. The required secondary education studies must be completed by 19.1.2022.
2. Certification of English language skills
- a scanned copy of the English language test result or
- if the language test is not required, a certificate of completed secondary education. The language of instruction of the secondary education must be proven with a degree certificate, diploma or transcript. Please note that all teaching and assessments must be entirely in English.
Required documents must be uploaded on the online application form by 26 January 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2).
Applicants who prove their English language skills with the Finnish matriculation examination and have completed Finnish matriculation examination in or after 1990 do not need to upload the degree certificate as these are electronically available through Studyinfo.
Original copies of the documents
Students admitted to university will have to show the original copy of the diploma when the studies begin at the university. Applicants who have completed their Finnish matriculation examination in or after 1990 or a vocational qualification in Finland in or after 2017 do not need to show the degree certificate as these are electronically available through Studyinfo.
Bachelor of Social Sciences
1. Certification of secondary education degree
Applicants must upload copies of certificates/diplomas (with translations) on the online application form by 26 January 2022 at 15:00 (UTC+2).
Applicants who have completed their Finnish matriculation examination in or after 1990 or a vocational qualification in Finland in or after 2017 do not need to upload degree certificate as these are electronically available through Studyinfo.
Applicants who are in the final semester of their upper secondary education are also eligible to apply. Applicants receiving their diplomas in 2022 must meet the following deadlines:
- Any other comparable upper secondary educational qualification which provides eligibility for University-level Bachelor’s studies in the country in question must submit the most recent grades with translation by 26 January 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2)
- The most recent transcript of a Bachelor level degree conferred by a foreign institution with translation by 26 January 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2)
- International Baccalaureate diploma (IB) and European Baccalaureate diploma (EB) predicted grades by 6 April 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2)
- Deutsches Internationales Abitur diploma (DIA) final grades by 6 April 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2)
Final certificate/diploma:
- International Baccalaureate diploma (IB) and European Baccalaureate diploma (EB) final grades by 15 July 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2)*
- Any other comparable upper secondary educational qualification which provides eligibility for University-level Bachelor’s studies in the country in question final grades with translation by 15 July 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2)
- Bachelor level degree final certificate conferred by a foreign institution with translation by 29 July 2022.
*Applicants receiving an International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma in spring 2022 must apply for a Transcript of Grades from the IB organisation to be submitted electronically directly to the University of Eastern Finland by 15 July 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2). The IB organisation will submit the final grades electronically.
2. Certification of English language skills
- a scanned copy of the English language test result or
- if the language test is not required, a certificate of secondary education. The language of instruction of the secondary education must be proven with a degree certificate, diploma or transcript. Please note that all teaching and assessments must be entirely in English.
Required documents must be uploaded on the online application form by 26 January 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2). Applicants who are in the final semester of their upper secondary education, have to upload the predicted grades by 26 January 2022 at 15:00 (UTC +2).
Applicants who prove their English language skills with the Finnish matriculation examination and have completed Finnish matriculation examination in or after 1990 do not need to upload the degree certificate as these are electronically available through Studyinfo.
How to submit documents
At the application state we require only scanned enclosures attached (uploaded) to the application form. Paper copies are not required during the application period.
Once you have filled out the online application, required enclosures must be uploaded electronically to the application form (recommended file types pdf and jpeg, max. file size 1.0 GB) by the given date at 15:00 (UTC +2). Please make sure that you upload each enclosure to the right place in the application form.
Collect the required documents. Information concerning the documents is available on the programme specific admission application requirements and also on your online application. There are certain requirements for the documents uploaded in electronic format:
- We accept scanned copies of the original degree certificates and transcripts as well as the translations when they are required.
- We do not accept scans of photocopies unless they have been certified by the awarding institution
- Please scan the original documents with care, always scan in color and remember to scan all pages. If your scan is blurred, discoloured or the file is flawed it will not be accepted. The use of PDF -format is encouraged, as this ensures that the files can be opened in all operating systems.
If application documents are mailed in by a third party, e.g. your university officials, the admissions office will forward the documents to the programme coordinator for evaluation. These documents can be mailed either to Joensuu or to Kuopio campus.
Postal address to Joensuu Campus:
University of Eastern Finland
Admissions Office, Joensuu Campus
(include the programme name)
Yliopistokatu 2 / P.O. Box 111
80101 Joensuu, Finland
Postal address to Kuopio Campus:
University of Eastern Finland
Admissions Office, Kuopio Campus
(include the programme name)
Yliopistonranta 1 C / P.O. Box 1627
70211 Kuopio, Finland
It is always the applicant’s responsibility to make sure that the application documents reach the University of Eastern Finland (UEF) by the deadline. UEF does not process any application documents that have arrived after the deadline.
Verification of original documents (for students beginning in September 2022)
We require that all admitted applicants submit their original degree certificates and transcripts of records for verification upon arrival in Finland. It is also possible to send the officially certified copies to the programme coordinator if the programme is offered online.
If you are admitted and have proven your eligibility with a degree from a higher education institution (Bachelor's or Master's degree) you must submit the paper documents according to these country specific requirements. If the country your degree was given is not on the list, we require you to bring us the original documents for verification.
Please prepare to submit your documents to the university at the latest by 15 September 2022. If it is not possible to bring the documents in person, the documents can be sent to either campus, addresses mentioned above.
If your educational documents are issued in a language other than English, Finnish or Swedish, official translations of them to one of these languages is required.