Karelia UAS collaborates with education agents in international student recruitment to Finland. They are organisations that provide support to applicants. They help the applicants to choose universities and programmes, submit applications and provide support on the applicants’ path.
Using services of an education agent is voluntary and the applicant can choose to use or not to use the services provided by education agents. The admission process in Finland is strongly based on equality among all prospective students. The use of education agents will never favor prospective students in terms of eligibility criteria, student selection processes or immigration processes. Agents cannot guarantee admission. Karelia UAS makes the final admission decision.
The application process to Finnish HEIs takes place at Studyinfo.fi.
Regarding student residence permit applications, Finnish HEIs do not charge any fees from the applicants and the fee should be paid to the Finnish Immigration Service. More information can be found on the Finnish Immigration Service website.
The Ministry of education and culture is preparing changes in legislation considering application fees for applicants to degree programmes in higher education. The application fees are to be introduced for applications starting 1st January 2025 and onwards, when applying for degree programmes beginning on or after 1 August 2025.
Feedback on our agents?
Feel free to share your experience with our education agents by answering a short questionnaire. If you want to, you can remain anonymous.
Ethics and responsibility
Education agents are expected to act ethically and in the best interests of prospective students and HEIs.
Agents should market products and services ethically. This means providing correct and truthful information about educational institutions and programs. Marketing should always be transparent and honest, never misleading. The agents should always work in the best interest of their clients.
Karelia UAS follows National Code of Conduct. We require that our partners work according to the ethical guidelines.
Interested in cooperation with Karelia UAS?
If your agency would like to represent Karelia UAS, please fill in an enquiry above. We go through the enquiries every now and then, and contact the potential partners in order to start our collaboration provided that the agency’s experiences and target areas match with Karelia UAS student recruitment goals.
Karelia UAS:
- support our agent partners with information and materials
- organize online meetings and information sessions, and
- host our partners at our campuses on their visits.
We look forward to working with you!
Contact
International Student Recruitment Officer
Ms. Kha Trinh (Katri) Truong
+358 504730750 (WhatsApp, Zalo)
[email protected]