Factory Automation and Robotics, Automation Engineering

Eligibility criteria in the master's programmes consist of two parts: Tampere University's general eligibility criteria, and programme-specific eligibility criteria, which specify and/or add information to the general criteria. Applicant must meet both to be considered eligible. Applicants who do not meet both the general eligibility and the programme-specific eligibility criteria will not be selected as students in Tampere University.

General eligibility

To be eligible to apply to a master’s programme at Tampere University, you must have:

1. Bachelor’s degree - nationally recognized 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. For more information, please see Language requirements.

Applicants in their final year of the bachelor’s degree, who are due to graduate in the spring of 2022, are eligible to apply if the degree will be completed by 31 July 2022, provided that you fulfil all other requirements and deliver certified copies of educational documents by 22 August 2022. In this case, they would be accepted conditionally. Their applications will be assessed based on the transcript of records which they at the time of applying. Please see special instructions for applicants in the final year of the Bachelor's degree.

Admission to studies leading directly to a master's degree will be based on the applicant’s bachelor's degree conferred by a university or a university of applied sciences. Depending on programme-specific admission requirements, the programme may take into account skills previously acquired by applicants when considering applications.

Please see detailed information on the General eligibility criteria web page.

Programme specific eligibility criteria

The previous degree should be from a field closely related to the Master's Programme you are applying to. In the Master’s Programme in Factory Automation and Robotics, Automation Engineering the previous degree has to be in one of the following (or highly related) fields:

• automation or control engineering, robotics, mechatronics, electrical engineering, aeronautical engineering, mechanical engineering, fluid power, computer science, software engineering. We require proficiency in mathematics, physics and strong programming skills.

For applicants who have completed their degree in a University of Applied Sciences (AMK) or a University in Finland the required minimum GPA is the same as in the admission to the Master’s degree programmes offered in Finnish.

Minimum GPA for Bachelor of Engineering degrees completed in a Finnish University of Applied Sciences (AMK):
3,00/5

Minimum GPA for Bachelor's degrees completed in a Finnish university (yliopisto):
3,00/5

An admission score will be calculated for all applicants who meet the minimum requirements.

When counting the unrounded GPA (calculated to two decimal points) weighted by ECTS only the courses (incl. thesis) with numeric grade value are taken into account. Applicants in their final year of Bachelor’s degree must meet the minimum cumulative GPA when applying and after graduation.

If you have not yet graduated from your current institution, you may receive a conditional offer of admission. The offer will be withdrawn if your final GPA falls below the minimum requirements.