Eligibility
Selection methods
Eligibility requirements
You will be eligible to apply for admission through this route if you are studying on the Open University MSc route in Tampere University during the academic year 2026–2027 and complete a set of required courses by 14 June 2027 and your academic performance meets the requirements.
The Open University MSc routes are meant for applicants already residing in Finland with a suitable bachelor’s degree for master’s degree studies. The Open University organises an application round for the routes annually. The MSc route studies define which degree programme you can apply for. Please see more information and the requirements of the MSc route studies.
If an applicant who has been accepted to the Open University MSc route in Tampere University with an incomplete degree is accepted to Tampere University as a degree student, the acceptance will be conditional. The conditional offer will be confirmed if the applicant graduates and submits officially certified copies of educational documents to Admissions Services of Tampere University no later than 13 July 2027 at 23.59 UTC+3.
If you have refugee status (or similar), please see more information on our Applicants with refugee status or similar in Finland webpage.
Language Requirements
As the admission is based on studies completed at the Open University of Tampere University, further demonstration of language proficiency is not required.
Eligibility criteria for Tampere University master's programmes taught in English consist of two parts: general eligibility criteria, and programme-specific eligibility criteria, which specify and/or add to the general criteria. Applicants who do not meet both the general eligibility and the programme-specific eligibility criteria will not be admitted to Tampere University.
Detailed instructions on how to apply to the Tampere University master’s programmes are provided on Applying to Tampere University master’s programmes conducted in English webpage and its subpages.
If you have been granted refugee status or similar, see the Applicants with refugee status webpage.
General eligibility
To be eligible to apply for a master’s programme at Tampere University, you must have
1. Bachelor’s degree - nationally recognised first cycle degree
an applicable bachelor’s degree at a university or a university of applied sciences in Finland
a bachelor's degree completed in a university outside Finland which provides eligibility for equivalent university master’s degree studies in the country in which it was awarded: with a minimum scope of 180 ECTS credits, three to four years of full-time study; from a relevant field for the master’s degree programme that you’re applying to; from a recognised institution of higher education.
2. A good command of the English language for academic purposes.
If you are in the final year of your bachelor’s degree due to graduate in the spring/summer of 2027, and fulfil all other requirements, you are eligible to apply. The degree must be completed by the start of studies 23 August 2027. Please see special instructions for applicants in the final year of the bachelor’s degree.
Detailed information can be found on the Eligibility criteria webpage.
When applying to a master’s programme at Tampere University, you must submit proof of English language proficiency for academic purposes. You have two options for demonstrating this: language tests or previous studies. Please see detailed instructions on the Language requirements webpage.
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