Separate Applications

Separate Application to Master Degree Programmes in Project Management and International Business Management, spring 2025

• Application period 10.2.2025-25.4.2025 at Studyinfo.fi

Selection method 1

• GMAT (500 points) or
• GRE 150 points in both the quantitative and verbal reasoning sections
  Acceptable GRE tests are the GRE General Test and the GRE Revised General Test. VAMK
  also accepts also GMAT™ Online exam and GRE® General Test at home. GRE Subject Test
  results are not considered in student selection.

Sending GMAT score results to VAMK, please visit: mba.com/exams/gmat-exam/scores/sending-your-score

GMAT and GRE test results must be delivered to VAMK latest by the end of application period (see above). Additional you must submit application at Studyinfo.fi  and meet the eligibility criteria for the master degree studies (bachelor degree in a relevant study field and at least 24 months work experience).

Instructions for Ordering the GRE Score Report:

Test results must be delivered to UAS Admission Services by the end of application period directly from the test center.

• Vaasa UAS GRE designated institution code is 1426. 
• Detailed information about the GRE General Test and GRE Subject Tests, including score use guidelines and score interpretation materials, is available in the GRE Scores section on the GRE website

Selection Method 2

• SAT (550/550 points for both Evidence Based Reading and Writing / Mathematics sections)

Instructions for Ordering the SAT Score Report:

Eligibility

• Project Management (Master of Business Administration) Bachelor or master degree in Business administration or bachelor degree in Hospitality Management completed in Finland or equivalent degree completed outside Finland gives eligibility to apply. Additionally 24 months of work experience required from related field (business or tourism) from the date of award of bachelor degree.
• Project Management (Master of Engineering) Bachelor or master degree in engineering completed in Finland or equivalent degree completed outside Finland gives eligibility to apply. Work experience requirement is 24 months after graduation in the subsequent field.
• International Business Management (Master of Business Administration) Bachelor or master degree in Business Administration or Bachelor in Hospitality Management completed in Finland or equivalent bachelor or master  degree completed outside Finland gives eligibility to apply. Additionally Finnish post-secondary or higher vocational level diploma in corresponding field completed in Finland gives eligibility.  24 months of work experience required from related field (business) from the date of award of bachelor degree or Finnish post-secondary or higher vocational level diploma.

Work Experience

In order to be eligible, applicants must have two years of work experience accumulated as from the date of award of the final degree certificate and obtained no later than 31 July for the spring application period and no later than 31 December for the autumn application period.

Universities of applied sciences also accept work experience obtained after completion of a post-secondary or higher vocational level diploma in Finland (in any field of education) but prior to taking the higher education degree. In such cases, too, at least two years of work experience obtained in a relevant field is required.

Entrepreneurship will be accepted as work experience if an applicant can produce a certificate attesting that he or she is or has been covered under the statutory YEL or MYEL pension scheme (YEL = statutory pension scheme for entrepreneurs; MYEL = statutory pension scheme for farmers, forest estate owners, fishers and reindeer herders and their family members). Enterprising activities abroad should be substantiated with comparable official documents.