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TAMK Student’s Guide

Tampere University of Applied Sciences

Instructions for outgoing cross-institutional students

TAMK offers plenty of options for TAMK degree students to enroll for courses offered by other UASes and universities.  The most significant collaboration networks offering courses to TAMK degree students are Tampere Universities Cross-Study Network and CampusOnline networks. Students can enroll for cross-study courses through Pakki.

Your degree program may also be involved in field-specific networks which are targeted specifically to your degree programme. 

Student, please always confirm in advance, if a cross-institutional course can replace or be accredited into your degree. Check this with the teacher responsible for a corresponding TAMK course. A course with the same name at another university will not automatically replace a course of your own TAMK degree program. Otherwise, you may end up studying a course that cannot be placed as part of your degree. 

You can include cross-institutional studies into your elective studies, if there is space for them in your degree.

Courses of Tampere universities inside your Pakki

In Tampere higher education cross-studies, you will find courses offered by Tampere University and the Police University College. In this network, both online, blended, and contact teaching courses are available. Study attainments are automatically transferred to Pakki. In addition to degree students, enrollment for these studies is also available to TAMK’s exchange students, professional teacher education students, and open UAS path students.

Enroll for cross-institutional studies through Pakki

The cross-study enrollment functionality is available inside TAMK's Pakki study administration system. TAMK degree students, Open UAS path students and Professional teacher education students can enroll for courses offered by other universities and UAS:s. 

When TAMK students enroll for cross-study courses in Pakki, there is no course fee - the courses are free of charge. Please note that if you enrol for the same course via another route, e.g. open UAS, open university or Opin.fi service, the course is usually subject to a course fee for you.

In case you enrolled through Pakki, after completing the course the study attainments from the organizing university will automatically be transferred into your personal study plan (HOPS) - without a separate credit transfer application.

Study carefully the cross-study instructions for TAMK students:

List of cross-study networks in the study guide

The cross-study networks and courses that require enrollment through Pakki can be found in the TAMK study guide under the section Cross-Institutional Studies.

However, please note that your degree program may not be involved in all the networks mentioned in the study guide. Your fellow student may have a different set of courses available in their Pakki, if they are studying in a different degree programme.

Tampere University's cross-study courses for TAMK students can also be found as a listing in the university's student guide. Please note that not all modes of study may be available for TAMK students.

Cross-institutional studies through another route

Other websites offering studies or courses have their own practices and conditions.  

Credit transter for studies not having enrollment through Pakki

If you have completed courses in another way outside of TAMK, you can apply for credit transfer by using the Credit Transter Application function in Pakki. You can also apply for credit transfer of courses completed at international universities.

Credit transfer of other study attainments: 

  • Verify your studies through the My Studyinfo > My completed studies (Oma opintopolku) service, retrieve the link of your completed course from the service, and make a credit transfer application in your Pakki system.

Credit transfer for studies and competence

Published: 26.2.2019
Updated: 18.6.2026