Regis­tra­tion and Study Fees

Regis­tra­tion and Study Fees

Enrol­ment

1) Enrol­ment for indi­vid­ual courses

  • Enrol for courses two weeks before the course begins
  • Go through the list of current Open Studies courses
  • Fill in the required infor­ma­tion and pay online.
  • Remem­ber to enrol sepa­rately for each course.

If you need help with the regis­tra­tion, please contact avoinamk@karelia.fi or visit the Student Services Office on Tikkarinne campus.

Course enrol­ment is always binding in terms of the payment. Thus, failure to start studies or inter­rup­tion of studies is no excuse for refund or neglect of payment.

Students are admit­ted to courses in the order of regis­tra­tion. About one week before the course begins, the partic­i­pants will receive a confir­ma­tion by email. The course will only be carried out, if there are enough partic­i­pants. In case of cancel­la­tion, the partic­i­pants will be noti­fied by email.

2) Enrol­ment for Study Path Programmes

Regis­tra­tion periods for Study Path Programmes are in August and in November/December.

The next Study Path Programme in Inter­na­tional Busi­ness will begin in Autumn 2020. Regis­tra­tion for Study Path Programme in Inter­na­tional Busi­ness starts 10th August at 9.00 a.m. here For more infor­ma­tion, please contact Student Coun­sel­lor Ms Riikka Kaasi­nen, riikka.kaasinen(at)karelia.fi.

The next Study Path Programme in Indus­trial Manage­ment will begin in Autumn 2020.Registration for Study Path Programme in Indus­trial Manage­ment strats 10th August at 9.00 a.m. here. For more infor­ma­tion, please contact Student Coun­sel­lor Mr Jukka Tulonen, jukka.tulonen(at)karelia.fi.

3) Enrol­ment for Indi­vid­ual Study Plan courses

Please contact Student Coun­sel­lor Ms Riikka Kaasi­nen, riikka.kaasinen(at)karelia.fi for more infor­ma­tion about ISP in Degree Programme in Inter­na­tional Business. 

Study Fees

During autumn term 2020 there is no study fees, enroll­ment is free of charge.

1) Indi­vid­ual Courses and ISP (indi­vid­ual study plan) students

  • 1 credit = EUR 10
  • 2 credits = EUR 20
  • 3 credits = EUR 30
  • etc.
  • 12 credits or more = EUR 120/semester The fee of EUR 120 enti­tles you to take any number of Open Studies courses during one term (autumn and spring periods).

2) Study path programme students

  • EUR 240 per acad­e­mic year

Students paying Open UAS fees will be charged with degree educa­tion tuition fees as they have the eligi­bil­ity to apply for degree studies (pathway students), i.e. as they have fully completed one year of studies.

Accord­ing to the legis­la­tion from 1 January 2016 Univer­si­ties of Applied Sciences are to charge tuition fees from students who are not citi­zens of coun­tries of the Euro­pean Union (EU) or the Euro­pean Economic Area (EEA), and who start­ing their studies 1 August 2017 and onwards. The law on tuition fees applies to the degree programmes in English. If you are a Finnish citizen, you are not required to pay tuition fees. At Karelia UAS, in the Degree Programme in Inter­na­tional Busi­ness the tuition fee is 5 500 euros for a study year. The tuition fee for the completed 3.5-year’s bachelor’s degree is 22 000 euros. Further infor­ma­tion on tuition fee.