Link to the application form

No registration is needed for filling in the application form. You do not have to log in, just open the form and start. Carefully read the instructions at the beginning of the application form.

Personal details

You need to fill in your personal details. Mandatory information is marked with an asterisk. If you do not have a Finnish identity code, you are asked to fill in your date of birth and gender.

Make sure that your email address is typed correctly, and it is your personal email address. Do not use other person’s email address. Email address works as an identification detail together with your name and the date of birth.

Permissions

In the section called “permissions” you need to give your consent for electronic communication, give other relevant permissions and select your contact language. You need to fill in this information in order to submit the application.

Educational background

You also need to fill in your educational background. Select and fill in the information of the education that you have completed. Please note, that you cannot apply in the Direct Application if you have not completed a degree which gives eligibility to apply to higher education studies.

You will be asked to upload attachments regarding your educational background. You cannot send your application form if have not uploaded all necessary documents to your application form.

Additional questions

You might be asked additional questions depending on those study programmes you have selected on the application form.

After filling in the application form you must submit it so that Savonia UAS Admission Services can see your application. Application forms cannot be saved as drafts. However, you can fill in the form by answering at least to all mandatory questions marked with an asterisk (*).

You can check the missing information by clicking “Check x answers” at the top of the page (Under Submit application button).

After checking and adding the missing information, you can preview the application by clicking “Preview”. Carefully preview the information. Pay attention to your email address.

After previewing the information, submit the application by clicking “Submit application”.

Note that you can only submit one (1) application form in Direct Application. If you submit several application forms, only the first one will be taken into consideration and all others will be deleted. Savonia UAS will not inform applicants about deleted applications.

After you have submitted your application form, you will receive a confirmation email.

In the confirmation email you will find a link, which you can use to access your application form. Please note that the link is personal! Giving it to someone else means that they can make changes to your application.

You can make modifications to your application form during the application period and save modifications, e.g. change study options if there are several available.  Your contact information can be edited throughout the application process.

If you have online banking codes from a bank in Finland, a Finnish mobile certificate or Finnish electronic ID-card, you can use them to log in to the My Studyinfo -service to make changes.

You will be asked to upload attachments to y our application form based on degree programmes you have applied to and answers you have given on the application form.

You must upload attachments as you are filling in the application form. You cannot send your application form without required attachments.

Some tips for attachments

Scan all the pages of the required document or take good quality pictures. Make sure that the pictures/scans are legible. Combine the pages of the same document into one file. For example, an educational certificate should be in one file that can include several pages. Check that the documents are all positioned in the same way upright.

Recommended file formats are: PDF, JPG, PNG and DOCX.

Name the attachment file(s) in the following way: Lastname_First name_description/name of document. For example, Smith_Mary_highschooldiploma.

Some attachments may be asked multiple times on the application form. In this case, you are required to upload the same attachment in multiple sections on the application form.