Accept your study place

Accept your study place and fulfill conditional acceptance requirements

To start your studies, you must accept the offered study place online on Studyinfo by the deadline specified in your Letter of Accptance. Use the unique link sent automatically from the Studyinfo service  to the e-mail address provided on your application. If, for some reason, you are unable to accept the study place online, please contact the Admissions Services at admissions.tau [at] tuni.fi (admissions[dot]tau[at]tuni[dot]fi) for further instructions. 

If you wish to take advantage of the early bird offer, or have been awarded a Tampere University scholarship during the admission process, the deadline to accept the study place is earlier than mentioned below. Please check the deadline in the early bird offer letter or the  scholarship letter sent as an attachment to the acceptance email. Read the terms and conditions carefully and note the deadline for accepting both the early bird offer/scholarship and study place.

The final deadline to accept the study place, in both our bachelor's and master's programmes is 9 July 2026 at 15:00 (UTC +3). If you do not accept the study place by the given deadline, you will forfeit your place in the programme. 

Information on conditional acceptance for new master’s degree students

If your offer is conditional, as an offer holder you are required to submit the officially certified (attested) or legalised copies of your educational documents, listed below, to Tampere University Admissions Services using one of the approved submission methods after the student selection results have been announced, or the conditional acceptance will expire. Instructions on submitting documents can also be found in the Letter of Conditional Acceptance.

An exemption on having to submit the officially certified (attested) and legalised copies applies if your degree has been completed in a Finnish University or University of Applied Sciences whose degrees and studies Tampere University can verify using a national database, with two exceptions stated in the country-specific requirement for Finland.

Educational documents to be submitted:

1. An officially certified or legalised copy of the bachelor's degree certificate in the original language.

2. An officially certified or legalised copy of the official transcript of records of the bachelor’s degree in the original language.

3. Official translation of the bachelor’s degree certificate AND of the transcript of records unless issued in English, Finnish or Swedish.

NB: If you have applied for an exemption from submitting a language test based on previous studies other than those that provide your eligibility for admission to the master’s programme, you must additionally submit:   

4. Officially certified or legalised copies of these educational documents in addition to the documents listed above.  

Requirements of conditional acceptance

• Applicants accepted based on a previously completed degree must submit the documents specified in the Letter of Conditional Acceptance, so they reach Tampere University Admissions Services no later than 29 May 2026 at 15.00 UTC+3.  If necessary, the officially certified or legalised copies of educational documents proving the English language proficiency must also be submitted by the deadline.
• Applicants in the final year of their bachelor's degree due to graduate in the spring of 2026 and who have received an offer of acceptance must graduate and deliver officially certified copies of educational documents no later than 17 August 2026 at 15.00 UTC+3.
• Additionally, the programmes leading to a Master of Science (Technology) have set a minimum GPA for the bachelor’s degrees completed in a University of Applied Sciences (AMK) or a University in Finland. Applicants in their final year of bachelor’s degree must have met the minimum cumulative GPA when applying and the admission will be withdrawn if their final GPA falls below the minimum requirements.

Admissions Services will send you confirmation by e-mail once your acceptance is no longer conditional. If you have questions, please contact us at admissions.tau [at] tuni.fi (admissions[dot]tau[at]tuni[dot]fi).

If you do not submit required educational documents to Tampere University by the given deadline, your conditional acceptance will expire.

Additional information for new bachelor’s degree students

For applicants in the final year of IB/EB education

All applicants who apply during their last semester of IB/EB education and have submitted a Predicted Grades document need to upload a copy of the final diploma including final grades to the application form by 9 July 2026 15.00 (UTC +3). For applicants who have completed an IB diploma, it is possible to share the final grades electronically through IBIS online system. 

Your admission points for admission group II are recalculated based on the final grades. The admission is revoked if the scores calculated based on the final grades no longer meet the minimum requirements, or the applicant no longer meets the admission threshold score admitted to the programme. For applicants who have completed an IB diploma, please note that you are also required to deliver the certified copy by according to one of methods stated below unless you deliver the final results through IBIS.

On conditional acceptance

If your offer is conditional, you must deliver certified copies of graduation certificate or other official educational documents. Also, if the documents are not in English, Finnish or Swedish, official translations into one of these three languages are required.

To fulfill the requirements for officially certified documents, the documents should be one of the following 

• electronically verifiable documents
• submitted directly from the awarding institution by email as a high-quality pdf file
• officially certified paper copies delivered by post

For instructions on officially certified copies and how to submit them, see the Publication of student selection results for bachelor's programmes webpage. 

Your acceptance is conditional until you deliver the documents. For exemptions and detailed information, please see below.

We kindly ask you to submit the documents as soon as possible after the student selection, as they need to arrive by 17 August 2026 15.00 UTC+3 at the latest. Registration for the studies is only possible after the documents have reached our Admissions Services.

You will be sent a confirmation by e-mail once your acceptance is no longer conditional. In case of any questions, please contact us at admissions.tau [at] tuni.fi (admissions[dot]tau[at]tuni[dot]fi).

Exemptions and additional information:

• Finnish matriculation examination
  Applicants who have taken the Finnish Matriculation Examination after 1990 do not need to submit any educational documents to Tampere University, as the grades in the matriculation examination will be transferred to Tampere University electronically. This applies to applicant on the final year of their studies as well. If you have competed the matriculation examination before 1990, you must deliver the certified copies according to one of the accepted methods mentioned above.
• International Baccalaureate degree
  For applicants who have completed an IB diploma, instead of posting the certified copies to Tampere University, it is possible and recommended to share the results electronically through IBIS online system.
• Applicants on the final year of any other comparable upper secondary educational qualification which provides eligibility for university-level bachelor’s studies in the country in question.
  You will need to graduate and deliver the certified copies of educational documents according to one of the accepted methods mentioned above by 17 August 2026 15.00 UTC+3 at the latest.

Questions about accepting your study place or delivering the documents?

Please contact Tampere University Admissions Services.