Language Requirements

• TOEFL IBT test or TOEFL iBT® Home Edition Opens in new window : a minimum score of 92 (internet-based test)
• IELTS Academic (also IELTS Online or IELTS Indicator): a minimum score of 6.5
• Cambridge  C1 Advanced Opens in new window : Grade C
• Cambridge C2 Proficiency (previous name CPE): a minimum result of C1 (or C if taken when the test was called CPE)
• PTE Academic: a minimum 62
• The Finnish National Certificate of Language Proficiency YKI test in English Opens in new window : Level 5 proficiency in all sections of the Advanced level YKI test. Results from separate test dates can be combined.
• GMAT™ Opens in new window / GMAT™ Online Exam Opens in new window   ≥  overall score of 550 (all test sections must be completed)
• GMAT™ Focus Edition Opens in new window  ≥  overall score of 515 (all test sections must be completed)
• GRE General Test Opens in new window /GRE General Test at home: ≥ 150 in the Verbal Reasoning section and 3.5 in the Analytic Writing section (all test sections must be completed)

Most test organisations do offer traditional test-taking at local test-centers, please check the websites of the test organisations for more information.

Applicants who fulfill one of the following criteria in English or in Swedish are exempted from the language test requirement:

• Master’s degree fully taught in English obtained from a recognized university or polytechnic in an EU/EEA country
  • In case the degree is a double degree/triple degree/transnational degree/joint
    degree, at least 50 % of the degree needs to have been obtained while the student physically has been studying in an EU/EEA country in order to fulfil the language requirement.
• Master’s degree in English obtained from a recognized university in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom or United States 
  • In case the degree is a double degree/triple degree/transnational degree/joint degree, at least 50 % of the degree needs to have been obtained while the student physically has been studying in the country in question in order to fulfil the language requirement

• Applicants with a Finnish Bachelors or Master’s degree who with their previous education can show that they have obtained the skills required in order to follow the developments in the own area of study and to be active in an international environment according to the Government Degree regarding university degrees (Valtioneuvoston asetusyliopistojen tutkinnoista 794/2004, 6§ mom. 2)

NB! If you do not fulfill any of the criteria mentioned above you need to take a language test.

Swedish

For information on the exemptions from taking a Swedish test, please see the information in Swedish.

When should I take the language proficiency test?

• Register for a test date as early as possible so you can take the test well in advance before the start of the application period.
   
  • Note! You must submit your test taker's copy of the test result with your application.
    • It take up to 20 working days to receive some test results - it is your responsability to check the delivery times for the test results so that you timely can sumbit the test result.
       
• It is your responsibility to find out the test dates and closing dates for registration for the language tests.
• If you already have a sufficient test result, check the validity of your result and make arrangements for a new test well in advance, if necessary.
   
• Remember to request the test organisation to give Hanken access to your test result so that we can verify your result in the test organiser's verification portal.