New Student's Guide

Read the instructions on how to confirm your study place, register for the academic year and submit the required documents the General Instructions page.

You can find the starting dates of the studies, information on the campuses and instructions for activating the user ID and using your own laptop on Starting the Studies page.

If you need an apartment in Turku, you need to start looking for accommodation as soon as you have received information about being accepted to Turku UAS. You can apply for an apartment from the Turku Student Village Foundation. Read the instructions carefully, and remember that you have to submit your housing application no less than six weeks before the date you are about to move in. However, fill in the application at the earliest 3 months before the apartment is needed. 

Turku is the city of 40,000 students and six higher education institutions. Read more about living and studying in Turku: turku.fi/studyinturku.

In the beginning of academic year there will be a Study in Turku fair where the new students will be introduced to the services and hobby opportunities of the City of Turku, local companies and associations, and student organizations.

Read also the brochure about Turku Region Public Transport for students.

Turku UAS campus in Salo is located in the Salo IoT Campus.

Please read about housing and leisure time on the city of Salo website.

See also  accommodation in Salo brochure   for the housing options. Remember to contact the accommodation providers well in advance, to ensure that you have a room in Salo when the studies start.

The notification of spring 2024 joint application results is sent to all applicants on 31 May 2024 for the first joint application and by 4 July 2024 for the second joint application. The notification is sent by email from My Studyinfo service. The electronic letter of results of the joint application is the official letter of acceptance. Before you receive a letter of acceptance, you can prove, for housing application for example, your place of study by:

• a screenshot of the My Studyinfo view showing that you have accepted your study place.
   

After your study right time starts in August 2024 you can upload an official study certificate and transcript of records yourself from the Peppi system. You can find the documents in Peppi student's desktop by selecting "Orders" in the navigation bar.

1. Select the document that you want to order.
2. Select the language and order.
3. After ordering, you can find and upload the document on the Documents page.

If for some reason you do not receive a study certificate as a self-service from Peppi, you can also order a study certificate by e-mail from the Student Office once your studies have started. Please note that student certificates for public transport student discounts are available the first day of the studies at the earliest.

If you need a confirmation from Turku UAS, for example on a TE Office form, please fill in your own information to form and send it to the Student Office. Write in the email that you are a new student and the degree programme to which you have been accepted to.

If you are eligible to student financial aid from Kela, you can make the application as soon as you have confirmed the study place bindingly. In addition, you can apply for general housing allowance when you have signed the rental agreement. Read more about the financial aid for student on Kela's website.

Adult education allowance can be granted to employees and entrepreneurs who have at least eight years of employment history in Finland. Read more about the adult education allowance on the website of Employment Fund.

Students who study for a bachelor’s or a master’s level degree are entitled to use the services of the Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) and must pay a student healthcare fee to Kela. No bill will be sent on the healthcare fee, and thus you have to pay the fee on your own initiative. However, if you have social security coverage in another EU/EEA country or in Switzerland or in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, you do not have to pay the healthcare fee.

How to pay the healthcare fee in higher education.

Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS)  is responsible of student health services. However, FSHS do not cover urgent medical care or secondary health care in hospitals.

Students from other EU or EEA countries must to provide a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) when accessing FSHS services. The FSHS is required by law to ask to see a European Health Insurance Card to identify students who are covered by state-provided health insurance from a country other than Finland. The card must be obtained before coming to Finland. Students from Britain and Northern Ireland may provide a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC).

For students from non-EU-countries, it is necessary to have an insurance that covers both accidents and illness.

Read more about the services of FSHS.

The student union of the Turku University of Applied Sciences – TUO is the student’s home in Turku UAS, the one organization that takes care of your interest as a student. Student union is a group of students from all faculties which creates a better university environment day.

Student Union is here to help you if you have any questions or problems concerning your studies. TUO organizes different kind of events during the year from which one example is TUO's legendary freshman party KNB that wishes all new students welcome to Turku University of Applied Sciences! All of our activity and events are done by students in TUO-community. TUO-community is available for everyone. Join in TUO-community here!

The identifier of TUO’s membership is the student card. With it, you get discounts on public transportation (VR, Matkahuolto, Föli) and Kela’s meal subsidy – and also countless discounts in different businesses all around Turku and Finland. TUO is religiously and politically neutral and independent from trade unions.

Read the Student Union's brochure for new students!

More info: https://opiskelijakunta.net/en/

Physical activity is an important part of well-being and coping while studying. The higher education institutions in Turku provide together a wide range of sport opportunities to their students. 

By paying the CampusSport sports fee, you get to access the following services:

– Five different gyms
– Almost 100 hours instructed sports classes weekly
– Weekly ball sports shifts for beginners and advanced players

Learn more about CampusSport and buy a sports licence from the online store. Turku UAS user ID and password are required. It is not possible to pay the sports fee by cash or card at the sports facilities.

Students get student discounts by using a digital student card. The student card can be found in the Tuudo application. Members of the Turku University of Applied Sciences Student Union TUO receive an electronic student card in the Pivo application.

You can buy a student-priced lunch in student restaurants by presenting your Kela meal subsidy card. The meal subsidy card can be used with your electronic student card. If you need a paper Kela meal subsidy card, you can pick it up at the service point of Student Office. A valid identity document is required to get the Kela meal subsidy card.

You can also get a student discount on public transport tickets from companies such as Matkahuolto, VR and Föli. You can get the discount with your electronic student card.
If necessary, you can obtain a paper application for student discount on Föli public transport from the service point of Student Office, but not before the first day of your studies. 

Read Turku region public transport Föli's guide for students.

On the first days of your studies you will receive more detailed information and instructions on how to recognise previous studies. In some programmes, you are asked to submit the studies to be recognised before the start of your studies. These programmes are listed in the table of starting time and place, under "Note".

At the beginning of studies you create yourself an Individual Study Plan (ISP) based on the curriculum. Your studies include a lot of compulsory studies but in your ISP you can also include specialization studies and elective studies according to your own interests. Your tutor teacher will help you in creating the ISP.

Information on accreditation of previous studies and competence is given in the beginning of your studies. You can also ask more about accreditation from your tutor teacher.

The tutor teacher will familiarize you with the studies and study environment and will support you througout your studies. The tutor teacher will provide information on the planning of studies, current issues and support measures related to the studies.

The peer tutor is a student who has started his/her studies earlier and will help you during the first year of studies. Peer tutors know their way around the campus and Turku UAS and they know where to look for more information.

With the study councellor you can disscuss the progress of your studies and possible problems or perhaps your career plans, especially if you have significant problems in your studies: problems with reading, returning to the studies after being absent, crisis situations in life, problems related to your study group and/or mental/physical adversities.

The  Student Office can advise you for example about the right to study, study records and graduation. You can also get study related documents from the Student Office.

The department of Learning environment services is responsible for IT services and systems at Turku University of Applied Sciences. Services provided include:

• Service Desk
• E-mail and other Office 365 services
• Wireless eduroam network on all campuses

Read more about IT Services in the website.

In Turku UAS library you can get the material needed for studying and support for searching information.

Read more about the services on the library's website and in the Welcome to the library article.

Messi is the intranet of Turku UAS and it contains all important information on issues related to studying. You can login to Messi with the Turku UAS network user ID when you have activated it. You are expected to follow especially the front page of Messi regularly every week because the important news for students are mainly announced there.

You can find information in Messi for example on:

• Student health care services
• Recognition of studies and competence (AHOT)
• On-campus study facilities
• Student Office services
• IT services, study environments and security