New transfer students

1. Accept your study place

Admitted applicants must accept the offered study place by logging into Studyinfo.fi portal by 31 July 2023 at 3 pm. at the latest. If the confirmation has not been done by the set date and time, the applicant will lose the offered study place. Acceptance should be done by using the unique link sent automatically from the Studyinfo portal. If you are technically unable to use the link or have trouble completing the confirmation, please contact TAMK Admissions at admissions.tamk(a)tuni.fi

2. Register as present

All selected students must also register as present or absent for the following term. This option will appear in the Studyinfo.fi portal once you have accepted your study place. Please note that transfer students cannot register as absent. If you are a tuition fee paying student, your registration is only possible by paying the first installment of your tuition fee. If you have completed your payment to your previous higher education institution before receiving their student selection results from TAMK, you must ask for reimbursement from the previous institution and pay the first installment of your tuition fee when completing your enrollment at TAMK.

3. Book housing

As a transfer student, you are most likely coming from another city or region. It is therefore wise to book accommodation as soon as you know you are going to transfer. After confirming your study place, you should look into student housing.

4. Upload updated documents to Studyinfo

Once you have confirmed your study place, make sure to upload your final transcript and attach it to your application in Studyinfo by 31 July 2023 (3 pm). Student selections are always conditional, until we have received and checked the final documentation from your previous university or UAS. Your selection can be retracted if you do not submit the required documentation in due course, or you have given false or misleading information regarding your credits and/or grades.

5. Prepare for original documents check

We will check the originals either from databases or by comparing against the copies you have submitted in Studyinfo when applying. Student selections are always conditional until documents have been checked. If the original documents do not grant you eligibility, the student selection decision will be retracted. If possible, avoid sending original documents in regular mail, for they may be lost in transport. Either travel with the documents with you, or use a courier service with tracking options. Study affairs coordinators will inform each group of students how and when the documents check is done.

6. Activate your TUNI account

When you have registered your attendance and your information has been transferred to TAMK’s student register, you will receive a link to the username registration and account activation by email. You can identify yourself by Finnish online banking ID's, Finnish mobile / citizen certificate card, European eIDAS identification or Finnish Authenticator Identification Service available for non-EU students.

7. Plan accreditation of your previous studies

Contact the student counsellor in your degree programme as soon as you have your final transcript from your previous university. You can find more information, list of student counsellors and TAMK curricula in the links below.

7. Apply for student financial aid and housing allowance

International students are usually not entitled to the financial benefits to The Social Insurance of Finland (KELA). If you have worked in Finland prior to you studies or are married or in a long-term relationship, you might be entitled to some benefits. Check you eligibility from Kela. If you are entitled to Kela benefits, apply for student financial aid after you have received and accepted your offer of admission. If you are not eligible for student financial aid, you may be entitled to unemployment benefits while studying (www.te-palvelut.fi) or adult education allowance (www.tyollisyysrahasto.fi). If you receive adult education allowance, you can apply for a government guarantee for your student loan from Kela.

8. Pay the healthcare fee of the Finnish Student Health Service

All degree students registered Present are allowed to use the healthcare services provided by the Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS). As you are entitled to use the healthcare services by FSHS, you must pay a healthcare fee to Kela. Students pay the healthcare fee twice a year, once for the autumn semester and once for the spring semester. The fee for autumn 2023 is 36,80€. There will be no separate invoice for the payment, you must pay independently by 30 September 2023.

9. Apply for a student card and join Tamko

By joining the student union Tamko, you will receive a student card that demonstrates that you are eligible for thousands of student discounts across Finland. Your access rights to TAMK will be automatically added to your plastic student card if you order one. Note that it takes estimated two weeks to you student card to arrive after you fill up the membership form on Tamko's website. If you order your student card beforehand, it’ll ease up your first weeks at TAMK.

10. Download Pivo app

The digital student card works like the plastic, physical student card. You can demonstrate that you are eligible for student discounts by presenting your digital student card. Pivo is a free app that can be used by the customers of all Finnish banks. To start using Pivo, you need an online banking codes.

You can already visit the Lukkarikone system where your timetable will be published. If you do not yet know your group code, you can search for timetables, for example, based on the degree that you will be working towards at TAMK. Select Group search on the start page and type, for example, “business” as your search term, select the 2021 group (you can select multiple groups at a time), click +Add and Show calendar. The system will display the courses planned for the coming semester as well as a tentative schedule for the new student orientation. However, please read more about the schedule and programme of our new student orientation on the programme-specific pages (links above).

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Executive Director (City of Tampere) Teppo Rantanen's greeting to new students: "I am so happy that you have chosen Tampere to be the place where you study. This is a great place, great city to live, to study, but also I want to invite you to stay after your studies and work here. Because this is also a great place to live for everybody in Finland."

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