Apply to an international master’s degree programme

• Find the right study programme for you – see the full list of our programmes.
• Look up tuition fees and scholarship opportunities. Do note that students themselves need to provide for their living costs.
• Get familiar with the academic requirements for admission.
• Check the English language requirements and if you need to take a language test to prove your English langue skills – book it well in advance.
• Already know what programmes you are applying to? Read through the admission criteria for those programmes! They can be found in the Studinfo.fi portal and on the programme website.
• Make sure that you fulfill all requirements and have the required educational documents available before you apply.

• When submitting you application you only need to upload scanned copies of your documents. You do not need to send documents by email or post.
• The scans should be clear, in color and in PDF-format.
• You need the following documents:
  • Original bachelor’s degree certificate
  • Original transcript of records of all higher education studies completed so far, including present studies.
  • Diploma supplement, if available
  • Translations of original documents to Swedish, Finnish, or English, if the original documents are not in one of those languages.
  • Proof of language skills, see the English language requirements for information on what documents are accepted.
  • Passport containing information about your name, date of birth, nationality, and photo.
  • Residence permit, required of non-EU/EEA applicants that already reside in Finland or another EU country on permanent basis. Include both sides of the permit.
• In addition you might want to submit:
  • Relevant original master’s degree certificate and transcript of records
  • Any other enclosure required by the programme. See programme information.
• Do note that we cannot accept scanned copies of copies, only scan original documents.
• Read the general requirements for the enclosures.

Not yet graduated from your bachelor’s program?

If you graduate with your bachelor’s degree after the application deadline, you can still apply as long as you will graduate on or before the 31 July 2027. In your application, state the expected graduation date and upload the transcript of records of all studies completed so far. You can then be admitted conditionally, with the condition that you graduate before 31 July and then provide Åbo Akademi University with your original bachelor’s degree certificate.

You apply to the international master’s degree programmes via Studyinfo.fi, the application form is only available during the application period (7 – 21 January 2027, 3:00 p.m. GMT+2).
Application fees are introduced from 1 January 2025. The fees apply to applicants from outside the EU/EEA area, read more on Studyinfo.fi.

• You can find a link to the application form on the page of the programme you wish to apply to. The application is submitted through www.studyinfo.fi
• Fill out only one application per application period. If you fill out multiple applications only the latest will be saved for consideration. Within your application you can apply to up to 6 programmes. The programmes can be from different universities.
• You can accept only one study place leading to a bachelor or master’s degree in Finland per academic semester.

Åbo Akademi University grants an early commitment offer for students liable to pay tuition fees and who are admitted for studies starting in the autumn of 2026 or later. The early commitment offer is a discount of 4000 €, i.e. the remaining annual tuition fee is 8000 €. Admitted students can claim the offer by accepting their study place and paying the tuition fee within a deadline specified in their admissions letter. Admitted students who do not accept their study place and do not pay the tuition fee within the deadline for the early commitment offer need to pay the full amount of 12000 €.

For the second year, all admitted students are awarded a tuition fee waiver of 4000 €, leaving the remaining annual tuition fee at 8000 €. Applicants do not need to apply separately for this scholarship.

• The application form consists of:
  • Questions about your personal information such as name, date of birth, address etc.
  • Questions about your educational background
  • Questions about your language proficiency
  • Programme specific questions that gauge the applicants’ skills and motivation.
• Read through the application questions carefully and reserve plenty of time to answer the questions.
• You save your application by submitting it. After you have clicked submit you get a link by email to the email address you used in your application.
• Using that link, you can modify your application and edit answers up until the application deadline.
• The application form and all questions need to be answer in English.
• After the application period has ended you cannot change the content or your answers in the application form. Enclosures can be submitted until a week after the application deadline.
• If the university need you to provide additional documents to your application, ÅAU will reach out to you via studyinfo.fi with a request for additional enclosures and you will be given 7 days to fulfill the request.
• Besides possible requests for additional enclosures, you will not receive any separate messages or status updates during the application period or while the university is processing your application.
• Please do not reach out for an update on your application status, since updates will not be provided outside of admissions results or requests for additional documents.

When applying, you only need to submit your enclosures electronically. Do not send your documents by post or e-mail, unless asked to by the admission services.

• Enclosures should be submitted to your application form within one week after the application deadline.
• Read instructions for submitting enclosures.
• Submit the enclosures as PDF-files.
• Scan your original documents, scans of copies are not accepted.
• If your original documents is not in English, Swedish or Finnish, you need to provide translations for your documents as well as the originals.
• Late enclosures are not guaranteed to be considered for your admission.

• Admissions decisions are published in studyinfo.fi in the first half of April. Use the link provided to you in your application confirmation to check your application status.
• You are notified by an automated email from studyinfo.fi if you are admitted, and within a couple of days you will be issued an admissions letter.
• Read more about application results.