General Academic and Programme Specific Requirements

A completed, nationally recognised, three-year Bachelor’s, Master’s, or equivalent degree in the Social Sciences or Behavioural Sciences (e.g., psychology, education, cognitive science) or other suitable area is required for admission.

General requirements: https://www.abo.fi/en/study/apply/international-master-programmes/

Language requirements
Applicants must meet the general English language requirements set by Åbo Akademi University: https://www.abo.fi/en/study/apply/language-requirements/

Admission Criteria

Students are admitted on the basis of application documents. At this application stage ÅAU only requires scanned copies in colour and in pdf format. Students must fulfil the formal admission criteria in order to be admitted. Relevance of former studies and grades for these are considered. 

A completed, nationally recognised, three-year Bachelor’s, Master’s, or equivalent degree in the Social Sciences or Behavioural Sciences (e.g., psychology, education, cognitive science) or other suitable area is required for admission. A score for major subject (in parenthesis) is given as follows: psychology (40), developmental psychology (40), educational psychology (40), education (36), cognitive science (36), other suitable social or behavioural science (30). The score is then multiplied with a quotient based on the grade point average (GPA), varying from 0–1.00, with 1.00 representing the highest possible grade of previous studies.