The Early Bird tuition fee is 7760 euros for the 1^st academic year and the student is entitled for it in case he/she

• confirms the study place within 7 days of being accepted as a student and
• pays the whole amount 7760 euros within 14 days of being accepted as a student

The tuition fee is 9700 euros for the 1^st academic year in case the student

• confirms the study place within 7 days but does not pay the Early Bird tuition fee within 14 days of being accepted as a student
• confirms the study place after 7 days of being accepted as a student

For those who pay 9700 euros for the 1^st academic year, the deadline for paying the tuition fee is determined from the date of being accepted as a student

• for those who have been accepted as a student in April or May the deadline for paying the 9700 euros is 31 July 2027
• for those who have been accepted as a student in June, July or August the deadline for paying the 9700 euros is 15 August 2027

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Early Bird tuition fee EUR 7760

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In the Direct application, the tuition fee for the 1st academic year is the same as Early Bird tuition fee in the Joint application, 7760 euros.

The tuition fee for the 1^st academic year must be paid within 14 days of being admitted to Savonia UAS.

Pay the tuition fee with Flywire

Savonia UAS has partnered with Flywire to accept payments from international students worldwide. Paying tuition fee with Flywire is safe, fast, and convenient.

Flywire provides a secure global payment network that simplifies paying your fees from your home country and countries around the world. Payment options can include bank transfers, credit cards, e-wallets and more, typically in your home currency for most countries.

Follow the simple steps below to submit your payment:

1.Start by clicking the Flywire payment link: Tuition fee EUR 7760

2.Please, select country or region, your payment amount will be set automatically.

3.Select the payment method: Review the payment options provided and select your preferred method. Options may include bank transfer, debit/credit card in your home currency, electronic payment, or other local options.

4.Please, provide the details of the person whose card/bank account will be used to pay.

5.Enter your own details: first name, last name, date of birth, email address and study programme.

6.Review and confirm payment information.

7.Make your payment: Follow the instructions provided to send funds to Flywire via your selected method.

8.Track and confirm: Track your payment by logging into your Flywire account at any time. Receive text and email status updates each step of the way, including confirmation when your payment has been delivered.

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If you cannot use Flywire to make your tuition fee payment, please fill out the form to ask for bank transfer details.It is not possible extend the deadline for paying the tuition fee. Also, it is not possible to pay the 1st years’ tuition fee in instalments, it must be paid at once. If the student fails to pay the tuition fee by the set date, she/he will lose the study place.

In the Separate application, the tuition fee for the 1st academic year is the same as Early Bird tuition fee in the Joint application, 7760 euros.

If your study right starts from the beginning of the spring semester, you will be charged half of the Early Bird tuition fee, 3880 euros. It is not possible to split the tuition fee for less than one semester.

The tuition fee for the 1^st academic year / semester must be paid within 14 days of being admitted to Savonia UAS.

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Savonia UAS has partnered with Flywire to accept payments from international students worldwide. Paying tuition fee with Flywire is safe, fast, and convenient.

Flywire provides a secure global payment network that simplifies paying your fees from your home country and countries around the world. Payment options can include bank transfers, credit cards, e-wallets and more, typically in your home currency for most countries.

Follow the simple steps below to submit your payment:

1.Start by clicking the Flywire payment link

• If you start your studies in autumn semester: Tuition fee EUR 7760
• If you start your studies in spring semester: Tuition fee EUR 3880

2.Please, select country or region, your payment amount will be set automatically.

3.Select the payment method: Review the payment options provided and select your preferred method. Options may include bank transfer, debit/credit card in your home currency, electronic payment, or other local options.

4.Please, provide the details of the person whose card/bank account will be used to pay.

5.Enter your own details: first name, last name, date of birth, email address and study programme.

6.Review and confirm payment information.

7.Make your payment: Follow the instructions provided to send funds to Flywire via your selected method.

8.Track and confirm: Track your payment by logging into your Flywire account at any time. Receive text and email status updates each step of the way, including confirmation when your payment has been delivered.

Download your own payment receipt from Flywire portal after you have completed the payment.

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If you need further assistance, you can get in touch with Flywire multi-lingual 24/7 support team or contact support@flywire.com.

If you cannot use Flywire to make your tuition fee payment, please fill out the form to ask for bank transfer details.It is not possible extend the deadline for paying the tuition fee. Also, it is not possible to pay the 1st years’ tuition fee in instalments, it must be paid at once. If the student fails to pay the tuition fee by the set date, she/he will lose the study place.

The tuition fee for the 2^nd and upcoming academic years is 9700 euros per academic year and it is charged in installments, autumn semester and spring semester separately.

Savonia UAS will not grant scholarships for the 1^st academic year. The possibility to apply for scholarships begins on the 2nd academic year.

The annual tuition fee is paid in two installments, in the autumn semester and in the spring semester. Autumn semester tuition fee is paid fully, without scholarship deductions. Scholarships are being applied during autumn semester, and they are deducted from spring semester tuition fee.

There are two types of scholarships to apply:

• If the student has completed at least 60 credits during the previous academic year without confirmed plagiarism or cheating, he/she can apply for a scholarship of 1900 euros.
• In addition, the student can apply for a scholarship of 1000 euros two times during his/her studies at Savonia UAS based on his/her Finnish language proficiency. When applying for the additional scholarship of 1000 euros, the student must have completed at least 60 credits during the previous academic year without confirmed plagiarism or cheating and the student must prove his/her Finnish language proficiency with the National Certificate of Language Proficiency (YKI) test.
  • The student may apply for this additional scholarship the first time, when he/she has completed all four (4) subtests of the YKI test on basic level.
  • The student may apply for this additional scholarship the second time, when he/she has completed all four (4) subtests of the YKI test on intermediate level.
  • Savonia UAS covers the cost of the first YKI test attempt for both test levels (basic and intermediate). If the test is failed, the student is responsible for paying for the next attempt themselves.
  • More information on the YKI test.

Savonia UAS grants only partial scholarships and only for the tuition fee. Full scholarships and scholarships based on financial needs are not granted.

The scholarship can only be granted for the statutory study time. If you continue your studies after the statutory study time, the tuition fee to be paid is 9700 € per academic year.

Statutory study times for different extents of study programmes are:

• 210 credits Bachelor’s degree – 3,5 years
• 240 credits Bachelor’s degree – 4 years

• have a European Union Blue Card in Finland
• have a permanent residence permit (type P) in Finland
• have a continuous residence permit (type A) in Finland, for purposes other than studies *
• are under temporary protection in Finland
• have a long-term resident’s European Union residence permit issued to third-country nationals (type P-EU permit) in Finland
• have a EU Family Member’s Residence Card in Finland.

• If your first residence permit in Finland was granted for the purpose of studying, you are required to pay tuition fees, even if you later obtained a continuous residence permit (type A) on other grounds.
• If you have a continuous residence permit (type A) based on family ties, and your family member originally came to Finland on a residence permit granted for studying, you are also required to pay tuition fees.

However if your continuous residence permit (type A) is based on family ties in Finland, and your family member is a Finnish citizen or is staying in Finland with a permanent residence permit, you will be exempted from tuition fees.

Please note, that the residence permit in another EU/EEA country is not sufficient grounds for exemption, only residence permits in Finland can be considered.

The residence permit must be valid when the study right begins (1 August).

Fees and costs – Study in Finland

Migri – Studying in Finland (Finnish Immigration Service)

Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences make the decision whether you are required to pay fees or not based only on the Finnish Immigration Service’s residence permit decision, which is checked from the copy of your residence permit card attached to your application documents.

If you have applied for residence permit but have not received the decision by the date when the tuition fee is due, you will have to pay the fee.

In all refund cases, Savonia University of Applied Sciences will deduct an administrative fee of 15% from the refundable tuition fee.  

This refund policy below applies to those students, whose study right begins on or after 1 August 2027.

Tuition fee can be refunded in the following cases:

• If the student gets a negative residence permit decision before the study right has started, that is by 31 July, the study place is cancelled and the paid tuition fee for the first academic year will be refunded.
• If, at the beginning of the studies, the student has not registered as present or absent for the academic year by 31 August 2027, the study place will be cancelled and the tuition fee paid for the first academic year will be refunded. Registration as present must be completed either in person on campus or online by authenticating through the Candour service. Registering as absent must be done according to the instructions on our website.
• If, during the first academic year, the student has registered as present but has not received a residence permit and arrived in Finland by 25 October 2027, the study right will end on 25 October 2027. The tuition fee paid for the first semester will not be refunded. Only the tuition fee paid for the following semester will be refunded.  
• If the student resigns during their studies, for example, to transfer to another university or university of applied sciences, before the next semester begins and has already paid the tuition fee for the next semester, that fee will be refunded.  
• If the student graduates before the next semester begins and has already paid the tuition fee for the next semester, that fee will be refunded.  

Tuition fee cannot be refunded in any other circumstances. For example,

• If the student resigns during either the autumn or spring semester, for example, to transfer to another university of applied sciences, the tuition fee paid for the current semester will not be refunded.  
• If the student’s enrolment status is changed to absent after the fee has been paid, the fee will not be refunded but will be transferred to the next academic year.  
• If the student has received a residence permit for Finland and is able to travel to Finland, but one or more family members receive a negative residence permit decision, the student is not entitled to a refund. If the student then decides to resign or not to register, any refund will be determined in accordance with the conditions above.  

Notifications:

• If the student’s study right ends after 1 August 2027 due to legislation concerning one study place, any refund will be determined in accordance with the conditions above. The tuition fee paid for the current semester will not be refunded, but any tuition fee paid for the following semester will be refunded. 
• If the student needs to apply for a visa to another country in order to apply for a residence permit for Finland and does not receive the visa, this refund policy also applies.  

In all refund cases, Savonia University of Applied Sciences will deduct an administrative fee of 15% from the refundable tuition fee.  

This refund policy below applies to those students, whose study right begins on or after 1 January 2027.

Tuition fee can be refunded in the following cases:

• If the student receives a negative residence permit decision before the study right begins, that is, by 31 December 2026, the study place will be cancelled and the tuition fee paid for the first semester will be refunded.
• If, at the beginning of the studies, the student has not registered as present or absent for the academic year by 15 January 2027, the study place will be cancelled and the tuition fee paid for the first semester will be refunded. Registration as present must be completed in person on campus. Registering as absent must be done according to the instructions on our website.
• If the student resigns during their studies, for example, to transfer to another university or university of applied sciences, before the next semester begins and has already paid the tuition fee for the next semester, that fee will be refunded.
• If the student graduates before the next semester begins and has already paid the tuition fee for the next semester, that fee will be refunded.

Tuition fee cannot be refunded in any other circumstances. For example,

• If the student resigns during either the autumn or spring semester, for example, to transfer to another university of applied sciences, the tuition fee paid for the current semester will not be refunded.
• If the student’s enrolment status is changed to absent after the fee has been paid, the fee will not be refunded but will be transferred to the next academic year.
• If the student has received a residence permit for Finland and is able to travel to Finland, but one or more family members receive a negative residence permit decision, the student is not entitled to a refund. If the student then decides to resign or not to register, any refund will be determined in accordance with the conditions above.

Notifications:

• If the student’s study right ends after 1 January 2027 due to legislation concerning one study place, any refund will be determined in accordance with the conditions above. The tuition fee paid for the current semester will not be refunded, but any tuition fee paid for the following semester will be refunded.
• If the student needs to apply for a visa to another country in order to apply for a residence permit for Finland and does not receive the visa, this refund policy also applies.

The tuition fee entitles the student to study and to use the normal support services available for students.

In addition to the amount of the tuition fee, Finnish Immigration Service requires International students coming from outside the EEA and EU countries are required to prove that they have EUR 9,600 per year in their bank account when they submit the residence permit application.

Finland is a relatively expensive country to live in, so while the official minimum requirement set by Finnish Immigration Service Migri is €800 per month, we recommend you reserve a bit more for your living expenses, approximately €900 – €1200 per month, depending on the location. Students have to buy books (if not available in the library) and other educational material themselves. In addition, students must also have their own laptop. Students must also get insurance as well as take care of their own travelling and living costs (accommodation, food, clothing, leisure activities).