Tuition fees for Master's degree studies

All Bachelor's or Master's degree students who are not citizens of an EU/EEA country or a citizen of Switzerland and attends their studies in English in Finland are required to pay tuition fees. For EU citizens university education is free of charge.

Tuition fees

The fee for non-EU/EEA students at Hanken is

• Master's degree studies: 15 000 EUR/academic year
   

The tuition fee is to be paid as following:

• First year students: the full annual tuition fee is to be be paid by 15th June, if studies are to start in August that same year, as it is mandatory in Finland to register as present for the full first year of enrolment.
• Second+ year students: the tuition fee invoice for the Autumn semester is due on 1st of August (the day the academic year starts). You can choose whether you pay the tuition fee only for the Autumn semester or for the whole academic year at once. The tuition fee invoice for the Spring semester must to be paid by 30 November.
  • Note! You have the option to pay the tuition fee invoice already by 15th June if you e.g. need to be able to register as present in order to renew your residence permit or your housing contract. You cannot register as present without either having paid the tuition fee, received a scholarship or one of the residence permits listed below.
  • The tuition fee invoice is always delivered via e-mail to students liable to tuition fees no later than May for the Autumn semester and beginning of November for the Spring semester.
• If a student does not pay the tuition fee timely (or register as absent*), they have neglected the annual registration and will lose their right to study at Hanken. Students however have the right to apply for re-matriculation if they pay the tuition fees and an additional re-matriculation processing fee of 35 euros.

* First year students are only allowed to register as absent due to legal reasons.

Residence permits exempting from tuition fees

Tuition fees will not concern those non-EU/EEA students who possess:

• a EU Blue Card in Finland
• a EU Family Member's Residence Card in Finland 
• a Continuous residence permit card in Finland, Type A permit (not applicable when issued based on studies)
• a EU residence permit for third-country citizens with long-term residence permit card in Finland (Type P-EU)
• a Permanent residence permit card in Finland, Type P permit
• Proof from the Finnish Immigration Services that I have registered, or applied to register, my EU right to residence in Finland (UK citizens)
• SEU-sopimuksen 50 artikla = Right of residence under the withdrawal agreement (UK citizens)
• P SEU-sopimuksen 50 artikla = Right of permanent residence under the withdrawal agreement (UK citizens)

Validity and requirements concerning the residence permits

In order for a permit to be accepted as a ground for exemption from tuition fees, the residence permit needs to be valid on

• 1st August for the Autumn semester and on
• 1st January for the spring semester. 

Note! It is not sufficient to have a card renewal in process, but the student need to hold the sufficient residence permit on the above listed dates.

How is the permit's validity checked?

• Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences make the decision whether you are required to pay fees or not based only on copy of your residence permit card (both sides of the card) attached to your application documents upon admission. 
• If you have applied for residence permit but have not received the residence permit card by the date when the tuition fee is due (see above), you will have to pay the fee.
• First year students must register as present for the whole first academic year which means that if their residence permit exempting from tuition fees submitted with their application for admission, expires before the 1st of January the first year of enrolment, they must either renew their residence timely so that they have received the residence permit card before the deadline for the payment of tuition fees (15th June the year they are offered admission) or pay the tuition fee before the deadline since one cannot register as present otherwise.
• If your residence permit is expiring before 1st January the first year of enrolment and you are not sure if you will receive your renewed residence permit card before the deadline for paying tuition fee (15th June), we recommend that you apply for a scholarship as part of your admission application.
• It is always the student's responsibility to provide Hanken with a copy of a residence permit exempting from tuition fees - the copy should be delivered as soon as the student have received the card, however, no later than 1 month after gaining access to the residence permit card to the address admissions@hanken.fi.

More information concerning the exemptions to the requirement of tuition fee is found in the national application portal StudyInfo.

Important aspects if you plan to renew your residence permit exempting from tuition fees

•  If you are renewing your residence permit exempting from tuition fees during the spring/summer the Finnish Immigration Services normally require you to be registered as present for the upcoming academic year in order to renew your permit.

• However, as a student liable for tuition fees, you cannot complete the required annual registration before one of the following applies if your residence permit expires before 1st August when the academic year starts:

  • You have received scholarship exempting from tuition fees (possible for students finishing their first year of studies) or/and

  • You have paid the tuition fee for the upcoming academic term/year/ (invoice expiration date for payment is 1.8 (or 15.6 if you need to register as present earlier e.g. due to renewal process of residence permit - note! payments will not be checked before that date)