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Applying to University of Helsinki as an exchange student

Has your home university selected you for exchange at the University of Helsinki? Thinking about what to do next? Congratulations! You are making a good choice.vaihtari

Every spring about 600 students from UH’s partner universities apply to UH as exchange students, planning to come here for one semester or a year. In total, University of Helsinki welcomes about 1000 exchange students each year, for one term or for the full academic year.

If you have already been nominated by your own university, you have taken the first steps towards becoming an exchange student. The next steps are outlined below. Continue reading “Applying to University of Helsinki as an exchange student”

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The application time for incoming exchange students for the spring semester 2014 ended 15.10.2013!

Thank you all for applying! If your exchange application is approved, you will receive your Acceptance Letter by e-mail, sent by your host faculty. Acceptance information is usually available in the beginning of December at the latest. Before that your application is considered by your host faculty. Please try to be patient until that!

In addition to the Acceptance e-mail, university bilateral exchange and ISEP, AEN, MAUI and North2North exchange students (not Erasmus SMS, Nordplus etc.) will also receive an Acceptance Letter from the International Exchange Services. This letter is always sent to the coordinator of your home university, and it is needed for Residence Permit application. Continue reading “The application time for incoming exchange students for the spring semester 2014 ended 15.10.2013!”

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See you at the Welcome Fair!

One more month and then you will hopefully be on a plane/train/bus/boat to Helsinki. The first not-to-be-missed opportunity to get to know the University and the Campuses as well as to get all the official matters out of the way is the Welcome Fair.

The Welcome Fair takes place on August 29 to August 30, 2013, and the venue is the Language Centre of the University of Helsinki (address: Fabianinkatu 26). Continue reading “See you at the Welcome Fair!”

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Erasmus exchange applications still being processed

Please note that we are still processing Erasmus exchange applications and documents at the International Exchange Services. As soon as we have checked your documents, you will get an email that your documents have been received, in case you have uploaded or sent all of the required documents. You should receive this email by Friday, please try to be patient until that!

After this your application will be sent to the Faculty for evaluation. If your application is approved at the Faculty, you will receive your Acceptance Letter by e-mail. Acceptance information is usually available around mid-June or after that.

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Coming to UH as an exchange student? application time ends May 15th, 2013!

If your home university has selected you for an exchange at the University of Helsinki, you still have some days left to apply. The deadline for applications for the autumn semester 2013 and the full academic year 2013-14 is May 15th, 2013!

Detailed application information for exchange students can be found on our website. Also take a look at our previous post here, it will give you some useful information about the application process.

Once you have applied, your application first goes to UH’s International Exchange Services, where the staff checks that you have included everything. After this your application will be sent to the appropriate Faculty for their consideration. You’ll hear the results via e-mail by the end of June.

We hope to meet you in Helsinki!

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