Hanken School of Economics

Student life is largely a function of structure, and structure is something you can ask about precisely. Find out how your programme is timetabled and how much of the work is independent. Find out whether group and project work is central, since that shapes both your week and how quickly you get to know people. Find out how student organisations are constituted here, whether membership is automatic or a separate step, and what the student union runs as distinct from what the institution runs. Ask about your programme rather than the institution in the abstract; the answers often differ between programmes under one roof.

Language is worth establishing carefully and neutrally. Confirm which language your teaching is delivered in, which language student administration and official correspondence use, and which languages student organisations operate in. These are three separate questions with potentially three separate answers, and they are simply facts to establish about your own situation. Helsinki is where the institution's activity here is based, and how a city works day to day is best described by people living in it. Student services can put you in touch with the student union. Our general material on the anatomy of a student week and how students build a circle around them gives you a checklist to work from, and adjusting to different teaching conventions covers what tends to surprise people.

Start on accommodation early, because it usually runs on a calendar of its own that does not wait for your admissions result. Establish who houses students here: the institution, a separate student housing organisation, the private rental market, or some combination, and which of those routes is actually open to you. Establish whether an offer of a study place carries any accommodation with it, since assuming it does is a common error and an expensive one to correct late.

Then get specific about terms. What period a contract covers, what is furnished, what deposit or advance is normally required, what is included in the rent, how the address relates to where you will be taught, and what notice applies if your plans change. Ask the accommodation office what students who arrive without a confirmed place usually do, because that tells you how much slack there is. Written answers are worth more than forum impressions. Read our housing overview and the practical steps in finding student housing abroad before you make contact, so your questions are precise, and look at what shared student accommodation usually involves if that is the likely route. Managing money while studying abroad covers the deposits and advances that tend to land first.

An applicant arriving from another country is dealing with several systems at once, and each has a different owner. Permission to enter and remain sits with the relevant national authority, and only that authority can tell you what applies to your circumstances. Recognition of your existing qualifications sits with the institution, which will explain how it reads certificates issued elsewhere and whether independent evaluation is expected. Language sits in two parts: instruction and administration. Confirm each separately.

Then the arrival list, which is a set of separate errands with separate owners: registration with local administration, healthcare arrangements, opening a bank account, and any identifier residents are expected to obtain. Anything about working alongside study, or about staying on afterwards, is again a matter for the relevant authority. Take none of it as settled until the responsible body has told you directly. Use the international student office as your point of entry: it will know the sequence students commonly follow and can direct each question to the correct authority, which saves considerable time. Make contact well before you need to, keep written records, and re-check anything if your situation changes. Preparation notes and knowing when to ask for help cover what applies wherever you go.

No requirements, deadlines, tests or selection figures appear on this page. That is a rule we hold to rather than an oversight. Admission conditions are set per programme, per level and per intake, and they are revised; restating them here would create a copy that could be wrong precisely when someone depended on it. The institution's own admissions pages are the authoritative and current version, and the official website is on this page so you can reach them.

Do three things before you read them. Fix on the exact programme and level you want, since that is what requirements attach to. Establish which application route applies and whether it runs through the institution directly or through a shared application service. Then work through documentation: what is required, in what format, and whether translations or third-party certification are expected, because that step consistently takes longer than applicants allow for. If anything in your background sits outside the standard description, write to the admissions office with your specifics rather than reasoning from the general case. Our notes on comparing institutions systematically and on how study decisions connect to what follows are worth reading while you narrow the list.

This page carries no fee figure. Fees differ by programme and level, are published per intake, and change over time. A number republished on a third-party page tends to outlive its accuracy, and a reader budgeting from a stale figure is worse off than one who was pointed to the source in the first place.

Read the official figures with one caution in mind. Whether a student is charged at all may depend on the category the institution places them in, and a scholarship arrangement may alter what is actually paid. Do not assume either applies to you, and do not assume neither does. Ask the institution to confirm in writing which category it assigns you and on what basis, and ask separately whether a scholarship or reduction exists in your case, what it covers, what conditions attach and how long it lasts. Ask too what charges fall outside the headline figure and what the payment schedule looks like.

Then take your figure from the institution's own fee pages for the year you would actually start. Checking official fee information carefully, how scholarship and support arrangements generally work and setting fees against living costs describe the checking process rather than the amounts, and our sources and methodology explains why this page stops where it does.