Application Enclosures

Here you find the required application enclousres descriebed when applying to MSc studies in English.

Submit the following enclosures with your application:

 

  1. Copy of your Bachelor's and/or Master's degree certificate/diploma + possible official translations if you have graduated. You may also apply before graduating.
  2. Official transcript of records + possible official translations (or MyStudyinfo/OmaOpintopolku link for degrees completed in Finland)
  3. Diploma Supplement (if available) + possible official translations
  4. Official GMAT or GRE test taker's score report (if applicable)
  5. Official Certificate of GPA (if applicable) 
  6. Certificate of English language proficiency
  7. Photo copy of the applicant's passport/EU national identity card (not required of Finnish citizens)
  8. Copy of your residence permit if it exempts you from the tuition fee requirement
  9. Mandatory motivational questionnaire + voluntary CV in English (main admission only)
     

 

  • No other enclosures are needed nor will be taken into consideration.
  • Note! The  enclosures should be attached as high quality scanned pdf-files.
  • The motivational questionnaire is a integrated part of the application form for the main admission and the questions are found below
  • If you attach a MyStudyinfo/OmaOpintopolku link to your application, you do not need to submit neither a degree certificate, a transcript of records or diploma supplement.

Instructions concering the enclosures:

Degree Certificate

A degree certificate is a document issued by an institution to a student who has successfully completed all studies included in the degree. The student has graduated. The degree certificate should include the name of the institution awarding the degree, the date of issue, and the name of the person to whom the degree certificate has been issued and which title/degree the person has been awarded.
 

Temporary (Provisional) Degree Certificate

A temporary (provisional) degree certificate is accepted if it was issued no more than five years earlier. The five-year validity period begins from the date on which the degree was conferred and must not expire prior to the application deadline. In other words, a temporary degree certificate is not accepted if it was issued more than five years ago. In such cases, the applicant must present his or her final degree certificate. The graduation date/date of award stated on the certificate needs to be no later than 31th July the same year as offered admission.

A temporary (provisional) degree certificate is a document issued by an institution to a student who has been awarded or conferred an academic degree. The temporary degree certificate is issued as a replacement for the actual degree certificate e.g. in case the actual degree certificate cannot be given to the student immediately after the studies have been completed due to technical or administrative reasons.

The temporary degree certificate must include:

  • the name of the institution awarding the degree
  • the date of award/conferral of the degree
  • the name of the person to whom the temporary degree certificate has been issued
  • which academic title/degree the person has been awarded.

It is important to note that a document stating only that the student has completed all the courses is not sufficient as a temporary degree certificate.

    The transcript of records must include:

    Name of course units
    If the transcript of records does not include the full names of the study units, an additional document explaining these is required. This can be, for example, a syllabus. The document should be officially certified by the awarding institution.

    Completion time of study units
    If your transcript of records does not include information on the completion times of the study units, a separate document explaining this is required. You must submit an officially certified document issued by the awarding institution that states either the completion times of the individual study units or your overall time of study at the institution. Please note that information on the usual duration of the programme is not sufficient.

    Grades
    If the transcript of records does not include the grades obtained, you are required to submit an officially certified document issued by the degree-awarding institution providing these.

    Credits
    If your transcript of records does not include information on the credits awarded for individual study units, please submit a separate officially certified document issued by the institution indicating this. If your institution uses a system different from the credit system, please submit an officially certified document issued by the awarding institution where the extent/scope of the study units is shown. This can be indicated, for example, as study hours required to complete the individual units.

    Grading scale
    The grading scale must include all the grades and marks that appear on the applicant’s transcript of records. The description should include the grades in relation to each other and clearly depict the highest and lowest grade, as well as which grades are passing grades and which are a fail.

    The information should be included in the transcript of records. If it is not, a separate official document describing the grading scale is required. The document should be issued and officially certified by the awarding institution, or compiled by the applicant and officially certified by the awarding institution.

    If your educational documents are issued in a language other than English, Finnish or Swedish, official translations of them to one of these languages are required. 

    An official translation must be one of the following:

    1. Issued by the awarding institution
    2. An officially certified copy of a translation issued by the awarding institution
    3. Translated by an official translator (original document)
    4. An officially certified copy of a translation made by an official translator

    Each page of an official translation must bear the translator’s stamp and/or signature. Official translations must be exact translations of the original documents. Translations done by the applicant him- or herself are not accepted.

    Please note that if you choose to apply to 2 different Master's degree programmes at Hanken, you must also fill out the motivational questionnaire twice.

     

    You must answer the following questions in English in the application form: 

    1. Why do you consider this particular programme to be the right one for you? (750 characters with spaces)

    2. How do see that your previous experiences (if any) and background contribute to the programme? (750 characters with spaces)

    3. Which courses (visible on your transcripts) do you consider relevant for the programme you chose to be considered for?

    List the courses you wish that Hanken takes into consideration in the evaluation of your educational background. Include te following info:

    • The course title (amount of credits)
    • Main economic subject that the course belongs to*
    • Describe briefly in bullet points the main topics or themes covered in the course

    *Choose from the following: Accounting, Commercial Law, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Logistics, Marketing, Management or Other: specify. 

    Please note that it is the academic programme staff who complete the evaluation and your statement is only support material for the evaluation.

    4. Here you can list courses which you will still complete before 1 August 2023. Please use official course names and state each course credit amount.

    Note! These courses cannot directly be taken into consideration in the evaluation, but can support the evaluation of your educational background.

    If you are a refugee or asylum seeker or have a refugee-like status in Finland and cannot prove your eligibility for higher education by documentation, you still apply for admission.

    You are required to provide reliable explanation of the qualification that gives you eligibility to apply, additional information on the lack of requisite documentation as well as an official decision on your refugee status (decision on being granted asylum or a residence permit based on need for international protection or a certificate of a pending application for asylum). You must submit a copy ofh this decision to the Admission Services before the deadline for submitting application attachments has ended. You must also submit an application like all other applicants and prove that you fulfill the language requirement for admission and attend required tests. Hanken can also request the applicant to attend an entrance exam or similar. The university will determine the applicant’s eligibility based on the additional information provided by the applicant.