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News, stories and updates for applicants and international students at the University of Helsinki
Have you been wondering what the University of Helsinki, its students and daily life look like? The answers can now be found on Instagram.
So if you are on Instagram yourself, please follow us @universityofhelsinki. And don’t worry – if you haven’t signed up for Instragram, the pictures can also be viewed through a feed on our New students at UH Facebook page.
The University of Helsinki Career Services offers career skills training
during spring semester 2014 at the Centre Campus.
What is career planning? How do I market my knowledge and skills? What are the building blocks of a good job application or a CV? How to be successful at a job interview? Continue reading “Curriculum for Career 2014 spring”
The final date for applying for International Master’s Degree Programmes 2014 is fast approaching. The faculties base their decisions on the information and documents you provided during the application period (December 2, 2013 to January 31, 2014).
Only if you have your language test taken early enough (often at the latest in mid-January), or have your language skills otherwise indicated, and have your documents prepared for sending, it is still possible that you may get everything completed to meet the closing date. Use an international courier service to make sure that everything arrives at University Admissions Finland. Continue reading “The final date for applying for International Master’s Degree Programmes 2014 is fast approaching”
The application period for the grants and scholarships from the University of Helsinki Funds and funding from the Research Foundation begins tomorrow. The application time is 21.1.2014 8.00 o’clock – 4.2.2014 15.00 o’clock (3:00 p.m. Finnish time).
The University of Helsinki Funds awards grants and scholarships for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers. All funds awarding grants are based on donations to the university. The funds offer grants and scholarships only to students and researchers of the University of Helsinki (the only exception is The Cooperative Teaching and Research Fund). Continue reading “UH’s Funds and Research Foundation: Application round 2014 for grants and funding opens!”
“University of Helsinki is definetly a good choice!” raves one student, and countless other international exchange and degree students who have studied at the University of Helsinki seem to think so, too.
The University scored nearly full marks in a survey conducted by the Student Experience Exchange exploring the willingness of international exchange and degree students to recommend their host university to others. Just under 17,000 international students responded to the survey. Continue reading “The University gets top marks from international students”
The University of Helsinki Welcome Fair for new international students is once again over for this spring term.
A big thank you from all of us at the International Exchange Services and Student Services to you who visited and worked at the Fair! Once again, an awesome Fair! Continue reading “Welcome Fair – Thank you and info for those arriving late”
University of Helsinki has so much to offer (learning spaces, laboratories, libraries, technology etc), so couple of our Student Ambassadors decided to share with you some of their personal favorite places. What’s your favorite place at the UH? Continue reading “My favorite place at the University of Helsinki”
Christmas is just a week away and the activities at the University of Helsinki are quieting down.
Most of the staff is taking a few days off during Christmas and the New Year, so we ask you to be patient if you do not get an answer to your email straight away. Please note that the Faculties are also closed during Christmas and the New Year.
We’ll be back at the beginning of January and we hope to see all of the new exchange and visiting students at the Welcome Fair on January 8th and 9th, 2014! More information on the Welcome Fair and the orientation is available on the Orientation website.
Wishing you a peaceful and fun-filled Holiday Season!
International Exchange Services and Student Services
The University of Helsinki has been given the responsibility to organise the European Campus of Excellence (ECE) course this summer. The three-week course, Measuring and Valuing Ecosystem Services, uses methods from agricultural and forest sciences as well as social sciences to focus on ecosystem services from a multidisciplinary perspective. Continue reading “Top-level summer course on ecosystem services”
In no time at all it will be January and we are looking forward to greet all our new exchange and visiting students here at the University of Helsinki.
Your exchange experience will begin with a visit to the Welcome Fair on January 8th or 9th, 2014, as well as your Faculty orientation. So you need to take part in both! Remember to bring your official ID (passport, ID card) with you – otherwise you won’t be able to get all of the official matters out of the way. Continue reading “Begin your stay in Helsinki with a visit to the Welcome Fair!”
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