Guide for accepted and rejected applicants

This page provides guidance for accepted and rejected applicants in the application for international master's programmes. If you have been accepted, accept your offer of admission and register for the next academic year in good time.
Admission results

When the admission results are published, you are informed of your personal admission results by e-mail no later than 30 April 2025. You can also find this information in the My Studyinfo service.

Check the instructions for accepted and rejected applicants when the results are published. If you are offered a study place, remember to accept it by 10 July 2025 at 15.00 (UTC+3).

Please note that the University of Helsinki does not publish the names of the admitted students.

Accepted applicants
Conditionally accepted applicants

Some applicants are accepted conditionally. If you are accepted conditionally, you will be notified by email, or you can check the conditions on your admission at Studyinfo. You can access your information in Studyinfo through the link in the message titled "The study place can be confirmed in Studyinfo" that you receive when the admission results are published.

You must meet all the conditions listed in Studyinfo by the relevant deadlines. Failing to meet any of the conditions by the deadline causes you to lose the offered study place.

Possible conditions and their deadlines

Your acceptance may be conditional for one or a combination of the following reasons. Please note that different conditions have different deadlines, and you must meet all deadlines that apply to your acceptance.

  • Submit officially certified documents by the deadline (30 May 2025 at 15.00, UTC+3): Some of the educational documents that you submitted during the application period were not officially certified documents or officially certified copies, thus you must submit those documents as officially certified documents.
  • Graduate and submit officially certified degree certificate by the deadline (1 September 2025 at 15.00, UTC+3): One or more of your previous degrees used as the basis of your application were incomplete during the application period, thus you must provide a proof of your graduation and the awarded degree.
  • Pay the tuition fee by the deadline (1 September 2025 at 15.00, UTC+3): You are liable to pay tuition fees, thus you must pay the tuition fee.
  • Accept the scholarship agreement by the deadline (1 September 2025 at 15.00, UTC+3): You have been awarded a scholarship, thus you must accept the scholarship agreement.
How to submit officially certified educational documents

If you are required to submit your educational documents as officially certified documents, those documents will be listed in Studyinfo. Please only submit the documents that are required.

Please see the instructions on how to submit officially certified educational documents on our website: Submitting officially certified documents if you have been conditionally admitted

Alternatively, you can present the required documents in person to the Admission Services. See information about the service for presenting your original documents below on this page.

How to submit proof of graduation and awarded degree

How to submit a proof of your graduation and awarded degree, when the degree was awarded by an institution outside of Finland:

  • You must graduate and the degree must be awarded to you by 1 September 2025.
  • You must deliver an officially certified copy of your degree certificate to the Admission Services by 1 September 2025 at 15.00 (UTC+3). Please see the instructions on how to submit officially certified documents to the Admission Services on our website: Submitting officially certified documents if you have been conditionally admitted.
  • Alternatively, you can present the required documents in person to the Admission Services. See information about the service for presenting your original documents below on this page.

If your educational documents have not been issued in English, Finnish or Swedish, you must also submit official translations into one of these languages in addition to the officially certified copies of the documents in the original language.

If there is a considerable delay in receiving the final degree certificate due to a technical or administrative procedure at the awarding institution, you can provide a temporary degree certificate or another official document, for example your last transcript of records or an official letter addressed to the University of Helsinki. The substituting document must contain the information required from a degree certificate.

The degree certificate or the document that substitutes for the degree certificate must carry the official stamp of the awarding institution and the signature, print name, and status of the certifying university officer, as well as the following information:

  • the name of the degree awarding institution
  • the date when the degree was awarded
  • the name of the student
  • the awarded title

Failing to meet the set deadline causes you to lose the offered study place.

How to submit a proof of your graduation and awarded degree, when the degree was awarded by an institution in Finland:

  • You must graduate and the degree must be awarded to you by 1 September 2025.
  • You must notify the Admission Services that your degree has been awarded by filling our this e-form. Once you have filled out the e-form, the Admission Services will check the award of your degree in the national database in Studyinfo. Please note that you should only fill out the e-form after your degree has been registered and is visible in MyStudyinfo.
  • You may also upload a copy of your degree certificate in the application system.
How to pay tuition fee or accept scholarship

Please see the instructions on how to pay the tuition fee or, if you have been awarded a scholarship, how to accept the scholarship agreement in your letter of acceptance or on our website: Tuition fees and scholarship programme.

Service for presenting original documents in person

The service is intended for applicants who have been conditionally admitted to the University of Helsinki and who are unable to deliver officially certified copies of the documents needed to meet the conditions on their acceptance through any other accepted method.

This service is meant for presenting the originally issued and certified documents. Copies of original documents cannot be presented here.

The service is available in the Metsätalo building at Unioninkatu 40.

The service is available starting in May after all application results have been published. See available slots in the calendar. The calendar opens two weeks before the first slots are available for booking.

You can book an appointment here.

After making an appointment, you will receive an email confirmation reviewing the details you have submitted. The message also contains a link for cancelling your appointment. Please do so if you are unable to make it to your appointment.

NB! Make sure your appointment is before the deadline applicable to you.

Please enter through the main doors of the Metsätalo building and follow the signs in the lobby to the correct door. The Admission Services' staff will meet you at the door when your appointment begins. Please make sure to arrive in time. Otherwise you risk missing your appointment and will have to book a new appointment. 

Please do not come to your appointment if you are sick.

If you are unable to come to your appointment personally, you can authorize someone else to bring your documents on your behalf. You must give your written authorization when booking your appointment or by contacting the Admission Services by email before your appointment.

The service is intended for the presentation of original certified documents. You must bring with you all of the documents which you have been requested to present. The documents must be original. Please ensure that your documents include all of the pages that are officially part of them.

You must also bring with you a photographic proof of identity (driving license, passport, identity card issued by the police).

Officially certified copies are not reviewed at the service. They must be sent to the Admission Services by mail or delivered personally to the Admission Services’ post box following any applicable country-specific requirements.

When you arrive to your appointment, please wait outside the door for your time slot. An Admission Services employee greets those who have an appointment, one at a time, and receives the original documents as well as checks the identity of the person handing the documents. The Admission Services employee will then verify the authenticity of the documents and take copies of them. The original documents will then be returned to you. This usually takes only a few minutes, but may in occasion take longer, so please be prepared to wait for the whole duration of the booking.

A separate email on the results of verifying your officially certified documents and meeting the conditions on your acceptance will be sent to you soon after your appointment.

User account and instructions for new students

Your information will be saved to the University’s student register in two weeks’ time when you have:

  • accepted the offer of admission and
  • registered as an attending or non-attending student.

You can activate you user account, apply for a student card and sign up for courses only after your information has been saved to the student register. See the instructions for new students on how to do these.

Applicants on a reserve list and rejected applicants