Renewed Right to Study

Admission Criteria for Renewed right to Study, VAMK

A student can apply for a renewed right to study through a separate application process for the same or equivalent degree in which their previous studies were interrupted.  Based on the following reasons:

  • The student’s previous higher education studies started in Finland have been interrupted, and the student’s original right to study is not at Vaasa University of Applied Sciences.
  • Vaasa University of Applied Sciences students who have given up their study place on their own, (the student has resigned from their studies).
  • The study place has ended after 1.8.2026, due to the regulation of one study place per term provision. The Act will be applied for the first time when applying for education starting in spring 2027.

The admission criteria for the renewed right to study is as follows:

  1. The applicant will continue in the same or corresponding degree programme the studies he/she has started in a Finnish university of applied sciences with the aim to graduate.
  2. The number of uncompleted credits missing from the Bachelor degree is 60 cr, in Master´s degree 30 credits. If student is missing credits more then this, missing credits can be completed through Open UAS.
  3. The application takes place twice a year at Studyinfo.fi 
  • 1.1.-31.5 (studies starting in the autumn)
  • 1.9.-30.11 (studies starting in the spring)

Fill in the application form during the above mentioned application period. Enclose official attachments to the application form by the end of the application period

  • up-to-date transcript of records
  • certificate of the resignation / student certificate

The maximum period of renewed right to study is two semesters (one year). Mainly the renewed study right starts from the beginning of the next semester that follows the application period, starting from 1.8 or 1.1. The right to study can begin in the middle of the semester (the semester when the study right begins is included in the amount of semesters for the study right). Student must have a feasibility of graduation by the end of restored study right.

The student studying with renewed right to study does not have the right to enrol for non-attendance, and he/she cannot apply for discretionary extension to the studies.

In renewed Study right, students from non EU/EEA-countries are liable to pay the tuition fee in the timetable for Vaasa UAS, more information about tuition fees for VAMK .

Social and health care education has health requirements. In the application form, applicants are asked about health factors that may be an obstacle to their studies. An earlier decision to revoke the right to study may also be an obstacle to student admission.

This separate application is included in the one study place per term provision.

Admission criteria enters into force from 1.8.2026.