Admission of exchange and visiting students

We welcome applications for Computer Sciences, Information Studies and Interactive Media, Mathematics and Statistics.

The teaching timetable for the next academic year is yearly available in late May, but the departmental advisor/Erasmus co-ordinator can be contacted for earlier information.

Exchange and visiting students get a letter of acceptance from their host faculty, but they may take course units also in other UTA faculties and in the UTA Language Center. The Language Center offers course units in the Finnish language on beginner's level. Other language course units are available to exchange students only if there is room.

All disciplines offer many course units as book exams or essays, but you need to be more active to manage these.

Visiting reseachers

Visiting researchers may be given the status of a visiting student if they have a student status (Master or post-Master level) in their home university.

Only persons with student status at UTA may take course units at UTA and get student accomodation.

Applying

All persons wishing to study as exchange or visiting students at UTA must make an online application and send the requested enclosures by post to UTA within the deadline given.

There are two deadlines. Only a limited number of visiting students are accepted.

The application form is online. Please make sure with the coordinator of your home university that you choose the right major subject (and faculty). Erasmus agreements are signed between departments (major subjects), and students may be accepted only by the department that has made the agreement. Despite this, during the studies it is possible to take course units in other departments and faculties as well.

Please notice that although the applying is done online, you still must send the required enclosures by post within the deadline given.  All enclosures are to be sent to the Faculty of Information Sciences.

The application form and the enclosures are first checked in the Faculty of Information Sciences and then sent for academic assessment to the department in question.

If the department supports the application, the faculty asks the Dean to accept the new exchange student.

Official letter of acceptance is sent by the faculty. Letter of acceptance cannot be issued before the original application enclosures with stamps and signatures have arrived to the faculty.

Learning Agreements are signed by the departmental advisor and sent to you with the letter of acceptance. Any alterations are accepted and signed by the departmental advisor.

For more information on eligibility criteria and the online application form please see the UTA Guide for International Exchange and Visiting Students. 

The Faculty of Information Sciences contact person is Ms. Kirsi Tuominen.