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Heading home exchange student?

Photo: Eeva Anundi
Photo: Eeva Anundi

Dear exchange student at the UH, most of you are probably soon heading home and we would like to thank you for sharing this experience with us!

We hope that you have enjoyed your studies and student life here in Helsinki and will return home with a backpack full of knowledge and great memories!

Important information for returning exchange students

● Check your transcript through WebOodi. Your University of Helsinki username usually works until the end of January. Please save the course descriptions for the credit transfer at your home university as after your UH username expires you won’t be able to login the WebOodi anymore.

● If all of your credits have already been registered before you leave, you can collect your official transcript at the Student Services. Continue reading “Heading home exchange student?”

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The application time for incoming exchange students ended on 15.10.2015!

SONY DSCThe University of Helsinki received once again hundreds of exchange applications from around the World in various programmes for the spring 2016! We want to thank you all warmly for applying!

If your application is approved, you will receive your acceptance letter by e-mail, sent by your host faculty. Acceptance information is usually available by the end of November latest. Before that your application is considered by your host faculty. Please try to wait patiently!

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Come Celebrate the New Academic Year!

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Listen to a Commissioner, jump around in a bouncy castle and check out the pop-up shows at the opening festivities for academic year 2015-2016!

The 2015–2016 academic year is launching in style on Monday 31st August. The opening ceremony in the Great Hall of the University’s Main Building at 12.15 will feature Prime Minister Juha Sipilä and Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation. After the event, the guests will form a procession and move to an ecumenical service at Helsinki Cathedral. At the same time, a nondenominational event will be held in the Language Centre festival hall.

Following the official ceremonies, at 14.00 the streets and alleyways of the City Centre Campus will become the setting for the opening carnival. The programme will feature a bouncy castle, a science sauna on wheels, pop-up shows put on by students and cheap ice cream in seasonal flavours.

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Welcome Fair – Thank you for visiting and info for exchange students arriving late

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The University of Helsinki Welcome Fair for new international students is once again over for this autumn term.

A big thank you from all of us at the Student Services and International Exchange Services to you who visited and worked at the fair! Once again, an awesome fair!

All in all over 900 new international exchange, visiting and degree students paid the Welcome Fair a visit. Some photos from the fair can be found on the New Students Facebook page.

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Heading home, exchange student?

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Dear exchange student at the UH, most of you are probably soon heading home and we would like to thank you for sharing this experience with us!

We wish that you have enjoyed your studies and student life here in Helsinki and return home with a backpack full of knowledge and great memories!

Important information for returning exchange students

● Check your transcript through WebOodi. Your University of Helsinki username usually works until the end of July.

● If all of your credits have already been registered before you leave, you can collect your official transcript at the Student Services.

● If you are still missing credits on the transcript you can order your official transcript after you have returned home and all your courses are registered in WebOodi. To order: send an e-mail to studentinfo(at)helsinki.fi stating: your student number, your mail address, i.e. your postal address and the language in which you want the transcript (Finnish/Swedish/English).

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Applying to University of Helsinki as an exchange student

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Has your home university selected you for exchange at the University of Helsinki? Thinking about what to do next? Congratulations, the application round for the academic year 2015/2016 just started!

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. Continue reading “Applying to University of Helsinki as an exchange student”

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Welcome Fair – Thank you for visiting and info for those exchange students arriving late

WF_01_2015The University of Helsinki Welcome Fair for new international students is once again over for the spring term. Totally about 300 new international students paid the Welcome Fair a visit.

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!

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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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