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Faculty office:
Unioninkatu 37 (P.O. Box 54)
00014 University of Helsinki
phone +358-(0)9-1911 (University)
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How to apply compare studies
The so-called transfer procedure is somewhat difficult, because you should try to somehow transfer your credits into Finnish credits so they would be comparable.
If you have been studying in a university at the EU, you ought to be able to obtain a transcript from you studies in ECTS-credits (also those countries that are members in the Socrates student exchange-programme, EU-countries, Estonia, Czech Republic, Turkey etc), and since the conversion can be done between ECTSs and Finnish credits with basic rule 1 Finnish credit = 2 ECTS, the conversion ought to be rather simple. If you can not obtain a transcript that uses the ECTS-credits but some other grading scheme or credit-system, you ought to explain the system used in your application papers.
The best way one can do in a case that totally differs from the Finnish system is that you take the amount of local credits (hours/courses) required for a BA and then divide that in such way that it amounts to more or less 120 credits (or units).
- One has to take a look at the study-guide of that subject one wishes to become a student of, for instance economics. Their study-guide (know as the ECTS-guide) is available from this site. All the study-guides of different departments of the faculty are available from here
- One should try to show as well as possible that the studies you´ve taken this far match the ones you would have taken had you studied here. The way to do that is simple: on a separate sheet, you take all the study-units (in this case of economics starting from KA1 etc.), and you explain which one of your previous studies would be equalling to that one. Please see the the model
An example (Economics):
- KA1 is equivalent to the course EEC1 of your previous studies (what these equivalences are, you can tell from the books and the contents of the course and the amount of i.e. UVs and our credits) - KA2 is equivalent to EEC 2 and EEC 12 etc.
- All those courses that fit the realm of economics should be handled this way, and if you have another clearly definable minor subject(s), you should put all those credit together to get a minor etc.
- Please note that the Faculty has some courses that are compulsory for all the students wishing to obtain a degree from this Faculty, those including: 10 Finnish credits (20 ECTS) in Finnish or Swedish language, the orientation course for foreign students (1 credit, 2 ECTS), and the text comprehension in English (1 Finnish, 2 ECTS). If you have taken these studies, please put those separately under the section "Other studies".
- Naturally, there will be quite a few "blanks" in the outcome, since seldom your previous studies cover all of the contents of the course. In the example of economics, this problem arises quite early, since already the second block is "Introduction to the Finnish and World Economics", and hardly anyone has been studying Finnish economics abroad, but should you have a rather similar course, say "German and World economics", you can propose that one instead.
- Also your courses might be larger than our study-blocks, and thus it can happen that you have to divide one of your courses into several of our study-blocks, say, your course in economics might be worth 30 ECTS, and contain both microeconomics and macroeconomics. In such case you must "tear" your course apart and put it as covering both our sections, micro- and macroeconomics. Naturally, the amount of credits (etc.) must be equally divided.
- Of course, quite a few of the courses might not fit anywhere at our degree structure, but those have just to be added to the section "other studies".
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