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QS #=360Oulu, Finland· QS World University Rankings 2027

University of Oulu

University of Oulu, in Oulu, Finland, has 4 undergraduate courses and 16 master's courses listed on StudyPath. International tuition runs from €10,000 to €14,000 a year depending on the course. Oulu publishes its own accommodation prices, from €250 per month. 5 of the 20 publish an application deadline. 2 named scholarships are recorded against these courses. Every figure above was read from Oulu's own published pages and last checked on 26 September 2026.

Courses
20
Fees verified
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Scholarship entries
6
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International tuition across 20 courses

€10,000to€14,000a year

Lowest: Computer Science and Engineering BSc (Tech) and 11 othersHighest: Master's in Architecture Master of Science (Architecture)
Applies everywhere on the site, on this device — change it any time.
Not set — every fee below is the international rate. Home and EU/EEA rates are often far lower.

courses

20 courses

Computer Science and Engineering

BSc (Tech) · 3 years · Computer Science

International tuition

€10,000 per year

~€30,000 for the whole 3 years, at today's fee
Verified

2026/27 · Priced for this course · Non-EU students

This course starts in 2027, but Oulu has only published fees up to 2026/27. Expect the 2027 figure to be higher.

Charged only to students who are not citizens of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland and who hold no Finnish residence permit granting an exemption; the university lists the exempting permit types (permanent type P, long-term EU resident, EU Blue Card, temporary protection, certain employment- or family-based type A permits) on the same page. EU/EEA and Swiss citizens pay no tuition at all. Admission is to a combined 3-year bachelor + 2-year master; the same €10,000 rate is listed for both stages of these programmes. The whole first-year fee must be paid in one instalment (deadline 9 July 2026 for the 2026 intake) — it cannot be split. Note the timing mismatch this table creates: the rate is published for the "2026-2027 intake", while the next open application round (7–21 January 2027) leads to studies starting in August 2027, and no 2027-2028 figure is published yet.

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Intake
August 2027
Source
Taught in
English
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Application deadline
Next application period 7–21 January 2027, through the Finnish national joint application at Studyinfo.fi. Applications cannot be submitted after the deadline.
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What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships2 available

  • Early Bird discount

    30% off the first-year tuition fee, bringing €10 000 down to €7 000

    Eligibility: Available to every new fee-paying student who pays the tuition fee within three (3) weeks of the admission results being published. No separate application; the due date is given in the admission offer. It is the only reduction open to first-year students — Oulu states plainly that there are no first-year scholarships.

    The percentage varies by programme across Oulu’s whole table (5% to 30%); 30% is the figure published for these bachelor’s programmes. The university states elsewhere on the same page that it offers no full scholarships.

    Source

  • University of Oulu Tuition Fee Waiver (from 2nd year of study)

    30% tuition-fee waiver from the 2nd year of study

    Eligibility: Awarded to continuing students on the strength of the preceding year’s study at Oulu: at least 60 ECTS credits completed in line with the approved personal study plan, including 5 ECTS of mandatory Finnish language studies. Not available in the first year.

    Two of Oulu’s own pages state this slightly differently and both are true: this programme page gives a flat "30 % tuition-fee waiver from 2nd year of study", while the central tuition and scholarships page describes University of Oulu Tuition Fee Waivers covering "20-30% of the yearly tuition fee, depending on the degree programme in question" for the 2nd and 3rd year. 30% is this programme’s value within that band. The 60-ECTS and Finnish-language conditions come from that same central page.

    Source
Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades

English language

  • IELTS Academic, 6 overall, minimum score of 5.5 in each sectionPrinted as "Overall score of at least 6.0". Report forms are valid two years; Oulu accepts the IELTS One Skill Retake.
  • TOEFL iBT, 4 overall, minimum score of 3.5 in each sectionRead this one carefully — Oulu publishes two different TOEFL iBT bars on the same row, on two different scales. A test taken on or after 21 January 2026 must reach 4.0 overall with 3.5 in each section (the new TOEFL band scale); a test taken before 21 January 2026 must reach 78 overall. The 4.0/3.5 figures are the ones that apply to any test sat now. Oulu’s institution code is 0229.
  • PTE Academic, 62 overall, minimum score of 61 in Writing
  • Cambridge C1 Advanced, Grade C or higherCambridge C1 Advanced results do not expire.
Source

Admissions tests

  • SAT requiredRequired for anyone whose school-leaving qualification is not one of the four that qualify for Oulu’s certificate-based route (the Finnish matriculation examination, the IB Diploma, the European Baccalaureate, or a Reifeprüfung / Deutsches Internationales Abitur) — which is the position most international applicants are in, hence required: true. Applicants holding one of those four can apply without an SAT. Oulu also accepts the ACT in place of the SAT, and its language-requirements page lists "SAT and ACT" as one of the four ways to demonstrate English proficiency.
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Academic offer

A qualification that confers eligibility for higher education in the country that awarded it — or the Finnish matriculation examination, an IB, EB, RP/DIA or Cambridge AICE diploma, a Finnish vocational qualification, an existing higher education degree, or a Finnish university study right. Applicants still completing the qualification in spring or summer 2027 may apply, but must graduate and submit the final certificate by 13 July 2027. No subject grades are published; SAT-route applicants are ranked on the test score, certificate-route applicants on points from their grades.
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Electronics and Communications Engineering

BSc (Tech) · 3 years · Electrical & Electronic Engineering

International tuition

€10,000 per year

~€30,000 for the whole 3 years, at today's fee
Verified

2026/27 · Priced for this course · Non-EU students

This course starts in 2027, but Oulu has only published fees up to 2026/27. Expect the 2027 figure to be higher.

Charged only to students who are not citizens of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland and who hold no Finnish residence permit granting an exemption; the university lists the exempting permit types (permanent type P, long-term EU resident, EU Blue Card, temporary protection, certain employment- or family-based type A permits) on the same page. EU/EEA and Swiss citizens pay no tuition at all. Admission is to a combined 3-year bachelor + 2-year master; the same €10,000 rate is listed for both stages of these programmes. The whole first-year fee must be paid in one instalment (deadline 9 July 2026 for the 2026 intake) — it cannot be split. Note the timing mismatch this table creates: the rate is published for the "2026-2027 intake", while the next open application round (7–21 January 2027) leads to studies starting in August 2027, and no 2027-2028 figure is published yet.

Show the fee on the university's site
Intake
August 2027
Source
Taught in
English
Source
Application deadline
Next application period 7–21 January 2027, through the Finnish national joint application at Studyinfo.fi. Applications cannot be submitted after the deadline.
Source

What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships2 available

  • Early Bird discount

    30% off the first-year tuition fee, bringing €10 000 down to €7 000

    Eligibility: Available to every new fee-paying student who pays the tuition fee within three (3) weeks of the admission results being published. No separate application; the due date is given in the admission offer. It is the only reduction open to first-year students — Oulu states plainly that there are no first-year scholarships.

    The percentage varies by programme across Oulu’s whole table (5% to 30%); 30% is the figure published for these bachelor’s programmes. The university states elsewhere on the same page that it offers no full scholarships.

    Source

  • University of Oulu Tuition Fee Waiver (from 2nd year of study)

    30% tuition-fee waiver from the 2nd year of study

    Eligibility: Awarded to continuing students on the strength of the preceding year’s study at Oulu: at least 60 ECTS credits completed in line with the approved personal study plan, including 5 ECTS of mandatory Finnish language studies. Not available in the first year.

    Two of Oulu’s own pages state this slightly differently and both are true: this programme page gives a flat "30 % tuition-fee waiver from 2nd year of study", while the central tuition and scholarships page describes University of Oulu Tuition Fee Waivers covering "20-30% of the yearly tuition fee, depending on the degree programme in question" for the 2nd and 3rd year. 30% is this programme’s value within that band. The 60-ECTS and Finnish-language conditions come from that same central page.

    Source
Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades

English language

  • IELTS Academic, 6 overall, minimum score of 5.5 in each sectionPrinted as "Overall score of at least 6.0". Report forms are valid two years; Oulu accepts the IELTS One Skill Retake.
  • TOEFL iBT, 4 overall, minimum score of 3.5 in each sectionRead this one carefully — Oulu publishes two different TOEFL iBT bars on the same row, on two different scales. A test taken on or after 21 January 2026 must reach 4.0 overall with 3.5 in each section (the new TOEFL band scale); a test taken before 21 January 2026 must reach 78 overall. The 4.0/3.5 figures are the ones that apply to any test sat now. Oulu’s institution code is 0229.
  • PTE Academic, 62 overall, minimum score of 61 in Writing
  • Cambridge C1 Advanced, Grade C or higherCambridge C1 Advanced results do not expire.
Source

Admissions tests

  • SAT requiredRequired for anyone whose school-leaving qualification is not one of the four that qualify for Oulu’s certificate-based route (the Finnish matriculation examination, the IB Diploma, the European Baccalaureate, or a Reifeprüfung / Deutsches Internationales Abitur) — which is the position most international applicants are in, hence required: true. Applicants holding one of those four can apply without an SAT. Oulu also accepts the ACT in place of the SAT, and its language-requirements page lists "SAT and ACT" as one of the four ways to demonstrate English proficiency.
Source

Academic offer

A qualification that confers eligibility for higher education in the country that awarded it — or the Finnish matriculation examination, an IB, EB, RP/DIA or Cambridge AICE diploma, a Finnish vocational qualification, an existing higher education degree, or a Finnish university study right. Applicants still completing the qualification in spring or summer 2027 may apply, but must graduate and submit the final certificate by 13 July 2027. No subject grades are published; SAT-route applicants are ranked on the test score, certificate-route applicants on points from their grades.
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Software Engineering and Information Systems

BSc · 3 years · Software Engineering, Information Systems

International tuition

€10,000 per year

~€30,000 for the whole 3 years, at today's fee
Verified

2026/27 · Priced for this course · Non-EU students

This course starts in 2027, but Oulu has only published fees up to 2026/27. Expect the 2027 figure to be higher.

Charged only to students who are not citizens of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland and who hold no Finnish residence permit granting an exemption; the university lists the exempting permit types (permanent type P, long-term EU resident, EU Blue Card, temporary protection, certain employment- or family-based type A permits) on the same page. EU/EEA and Swiss citizens pay no tuition at all. Admission is to a combined 3-year bachelor + 2-year master; the same €10,000 rate is listed for both stages of these programmes. The whole first-year fee must be paid in one instalment (deadline 9 July 2026 for the 2026 intake) — it cannot be split. Note the timing mismatch this table creates: the rate is published for the "2026-2027 intake", while the next open application round (7–21 January 2027) leads to studies starting in August 2027, and no 2027-2028 figure is published yet.

Show the fee on the university's site
Intake
August 2027
Source
Taught in
English
Source
Application deadline
Next application period 7–21 January 2027, through the Finnish national joint application at Studyinfo.fi. Applications cannot be submitted after the deadline.
Source

What you'll study

Not yet added.

Scholarships2 available

  • Early Bird discount

    30% off the first-year tuition fee, bringing €10 000 down to €7 000

    Eligibility: Available to every new fee-paying student who pays the tuition fee within three (3) weeks of the admission results being published. No separate application; the due date is given in the admission offer. It is the only reduction open to first-year students — Oulu states plainly that there are no first-year scholarships.

    The percentage varies by programme across Oulu’s whole table (5% to 30%); 30% is the figure published for these bachelor’s programmes. The university states elsewhere on the same page that it offers no full scholarships.

    Source

  • University of Oulu Tuition Fee Waiver (from 2nd year of study)

    30% tuition-fee waiver from the 2nd year of study

    Eligibility: Awarded to continuing students on the strength of the preceding year’s study at Oulu: at least 60 ECTS credits completed in line with the approved personal study plan, including 5 ECTS of mandatory Finnish language studies. Not available in the first year.

    Two of Oulu’s own pages state this slightly differently and both are true: this programme page gives a flat "30 % tuition-fee waiver from 2nd year of study", while the central tuition and scholarships page describes University of Oulu Tuition Fee Waivers covering "20-30% of the yearly tuition fee, depending on the degree programme in question" for the 2nd and 3rd year. 30% is this programme’s value within that band. The 60-ECTS and Finnish-language conditions come from that same central page.

    Source
Entry requirementsEnglish · tests · grades

English language

  • IELTS Academic, 6 overall, minimum score of 5.5 in each sectionPrinted as "Overall score of at least 6.0". Report forms are valid two years; Oulu accepts the IELTS One Skill Retake.
  • TOEFL iBT, 4 overall, minimum score of 3.5 in each sectionRead this one carefully — Oulu publishes two different TOEFL iBT bars on the same row, on two different scales. A test taken on or after 21 January 2026 must reach 4.0 overall with 3.5 in each section (the new TOEFL band scale); a test taken before 21 January 2026 must reach 78 overall. The 4.0/3.5 figures are the ones that apply to any test sat now. Oulu’s institution code is 0229.
  • PTE Academic, 62 overall, minimum score of 61 in Writing
  • Cambridge C1 Advanced, Grade C or higherCambridge C1 Advanced results do not expire.
Source

Admissions tests

  • SAT requiredRequired for anyone whose school-leaving qualification is not one of the four that qualify for Oulu’s certificate-based route (the Finnish matriculation examination, the IB Diploma, the European Baccalaureate, or a Reifeprüfung / Deutsches Internationales Abitur) — which is the position most international applicants are in, hence required: true. Applicants holding one of those four can apply without an SAT. Oulu also accepts the ACT in place of the SAT, and its language-requirements page lists "SAT and ACT" as one of the four ways to demonstrate English proficiency.
Source

Academic offer

A qualification that confers eligibility for higher education in the country that awarded it — or the Finnish matriculation examination, an IB, EB, RP/DIA or Cambridge AICE diploma, a Finnish vocational qualification, an existing higher education degree, or a Finnish university study right. Applicants still completing the qualification in spring or summer 2027 may apply, but must graduate and submit the final certificate by 13 July 2027. No subject grades are published; SAT-route applicants are ranked on the test score, certificate-route applicants on points from their grades.
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Biomedical Engineering

Master of Science (Technology) · 2 years · Biomedical Engineering

International tuition

€10,000 per year

~€20,000 for the whole 2 years, at today's fee
Verified

2026/27 · Priced for this course · Non-EU students

Charged only to students who are not citizens of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland and who hold no Finnish residence permit granting an exemption, per the same policy already documented for this university's bachelor's programmes. The whole first-year fee must be paid in one instalment (deadline 9 July 2026 for the 2026-2027 intake) -- it cannot be split. New students are entitled only to the Early Bird discount (30% off, bringing the fee to EUR 7,000, if paid within 3 weeks of admission results); there are no first-year scholarships.

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“Master's Programmes (2 years) Architecture 14 000 € 30 % 9 800 € Biochemistry 12 000 € 15 % 10 200 € Biomedical Engineering 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 €”
University of Oulu Tuition Fees and Scholarships for International Applicants | University of Ouluoulu.fi
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Intake
Not verified
Taught in
English
Source
Application deadline
Next application period 7-21 January 2027, through the Finnish national joint application at Studyinfo.fi.
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What you'll study

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Finance

Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration) · 2 years · Finance

International tuition

€12,000 per year

~€24,000 for the whole 2 years, at today's fee
Verified

2026/27 · Priced for this course · Non-EU students

Charged only to students who are not citizens of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland and who hold no Finnish residence permit granting an exemption, per the same policy already documented for this university's other programmes. The whole first-year fee must be paid in one instalment (deadline 9 July 2026 for the 2026-2027 intake) -- it cannot be split. New students are entitled only to the Early Bird discount (30% off, bringing the fee to EUR 8,400, if paid within 3 weeks of admission results); there are no first-year scholarships. Offered by the AACSB-accredited Oulu Business School.

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“Business Analytics (Economics and Business Administration) 12 000 € 30 % 8 400 € Chemistry of Sustainable Processes and Materials 12 000 € 30 % 8 400 € Computer Science and Engineering 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 € Electronics 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 € Environmental Engineering 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 € Epidemiology and Biomedical Data Science 10 000 € none Finance 12 000 € 30 % 8 400 €”
University of Oulu Tuition Fees and Scholarships for International Applicants | University of Ouluoulu.fi
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Intake
Not verified
Taught in
English
Source
Application deadline
Next application period 7-21 January 2027, through the Finnish national joint application at Studyinfo.fi.
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What you'll study

Not yet added.

Master's in Electronics

Master of Science (Technology) · 2 years · Electrical & Electronic Engineering

International tuition

€10,000 per year

~€20,000 for the whole 2 years, at today's fee
Verified

2026/27 · Priced for this course · Non-EU students

Charged to students from outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland. The Early Bird discount (30% off if paid within three weeks of the admission results) brings it to €7,000.

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“Electronics 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 €”
University of Oulu Tuition Fees and Scholarships for International Applicants | University of Ouluoulu.fi
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Intake
Not verified
Application deadline
Not verified

What you'll study

Not yet added.

How Oulu compares

Against the other universities in Finland on StudyPath, using each one's verified international fees and its own published housing prices. Universities are only compared with others charging in the same currency (and, for housing, for the same period), so no figure here has been converted. A ~ marks a year worked out from a per-term or whole-course fee.

Oulu's lowest undergraduate fee for international students is €10,000 a year, for Bachelor's in International Business Management. Of the 3 other universities in Finland we list with undergraduate fees in EUR, 2 charge more at their lowest, 1 charges the same. Their lowest undergraduate fees run from €10,000 (TAU) to €12,000 (LUT).

Student housing. Oulu's own lowest published rate is €250 per month. Of the 3 other universities in Finland we list that publish housing per month in EUR, 1 charges more, 1 charges less, 1 charges the same. Their lowest published rates run from €237 (LUT) to €400 (Aalto).

Living costs. The living-cost figure for a student visa to Finland is €800 per month, on top of tuition (undated figure; read 27 Sept 2026 from migri.fi). The authority attaches conditions that can change this amount; see them in full on student finance.

By subject
SubjectLowest fee hereAgainst other universities in FinlandTheir lowest fees
Computer Scienceundergraduate€10,000Computer Science and Engineering2 of 3 charge more€10,000 to €12,000

Subjects taught at Oulu

Each one opens every course in that subject, at every university we hold, with the same verified fees.

Where these figures come from

13 sentences from Oulu's own site each back several figures above. Each is quoted once here; every course that uses one still opens it and links to its own source page.

  1. Used for application deadline on 5 courses

    “Next application period 7-21 January 2027”
    The same sentence appears on 5 pagesoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026 to 4 Sept 2026
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  2. Used for teaching language on 5 courses

    “The University of Oulu offers over 22 Master’s degree programmes (2 years) and four Bachelor´s and Master´s degree programmes (3 + 2 years) taught in English. Applying to these takes place annually in the first joint application to higher education in Finland.”
    International Programmes | University of Ouluoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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  3. Used for fee on 5 courses

    “Tuition fee is charged from the non-EU/EEA students studying in the English degree programmes and who do not hold a Finnish residence permit that gives the exemption from tuition fees.”
    University of Oulu Tuition Fees and Scholarships for International Applicants | University of Ouluoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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  4. Used for course length on 4 courses

    “Duration of studies 2 years”
    The same sentence appears on 4 pagesoulu.firead 26 Sept 2026
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  5. Used for start dates on 3 courses

    “When do studies begin? Students admitted through either application period will begin their studies in August 2027.”
    Applying to Bachelor's Programmes | University of Ouluoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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  6. Used for scholarship on 3 courses

    “Scholarship 30 % tuition-fee waiver from 2nd year of study”
    The same sentence appears on 3 pagesoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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  7. Used for entry requirements on 3 courses

    “Joint application, January 2027 You can apply if you have completed one of the following qualifications or are completing one in spring or summer 2027: a foreign qualification that provides eligibility for higher education studies in the country where it was awarded an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma a European Baccalaureate (EB) Diploma the Finnish matriculation examination (ylioppilastutkinto)”
    Eligibility | University of Ouluoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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  8. Used for entry requirements on 3 courses

    “IELTS Academic or IELTS Academic online Overall score of at least 6.0, with a minimum score of 5.5 in each section. TOEFL iBT or TOEFL iBT Special home edition Overall score of 4.0, with a minimum score of 3.5 in each section (for tests taken on or after 21 January 2026) Overall score of 78 (for tests taken before 21 January 2026) PTE Academic Overall score of at least 62, with a minimum score of 61 in Writing Cambridge C1 Advanced Grade C or higher”
    Language requirements for bachelor's degrees | University of Ouluoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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  9. Used for entry requirements on 3 courses

    “Can I apply without SAT? Yes. An SAT score is not required if you are eligible for certificate-based selection. You can apply without SAT if you have completed, or are completing, one of the following qualifications: Finnish Matriculation Examination International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma European Baccalaureate (EB) Reifeprüfung (RP) or Deutsches Internationales Abitur (DIA) Applicants with other qualifications should apply through the SAT-based selection route.”
    Applying to Bachelor's Programmes | University of Ouluoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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  10. Used for course length on 2 courses

    “Degree title Bachelor of Science (Technology) and Master of Science (Technology) Study places 33 Duration of studies 3 + 2 years”
    The same sentence appears on 2 pagesoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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  11. Used for international fee on 1 course, scholarship on 1 course

    “Bachelor's + Master's Programmes (3+2 years) Computer Science and Engineering 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 €”
    University of Oulu Tuition Fees and Scholarships for International Applicants | University of Ouluoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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  12. Used for international fee on 1 course, scholarship on 1 course

    “Bachelor's + Master's Programmes (3+2 years) Computer Science and Engineering 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 € Electronics and Communications Engineering 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 € Software Engineering and Information Systems 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 €”
    University of Oulu Tuition Fees and Scholarships for International Applicants | University of Ouluoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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  13. Used for international fee on 1 course, scholarship on 1 course

    “Bachelor's + Master's Programmes (3+2 years) Computer Science and Engineering 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 € Electronics and Communications Engineering 10 000 € 30 % 7 000 €”
    University of Oulu Tuition Fees and Scholarships for International Applicants | University of Ouluoulu.firead 25 Aug 2026
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More about Oulu

Student body

QS's own figures · QS World University Rankings 2027

Students
12,072
International students
1,491
≈12% of the student body (worked out here)
Faculty
1,028
International faculty
31%

These come from QS, not the university's own pages. Unlike every fee and deadline on this site. QS is the primary source for its own rankings and measurements, which is why it is cited here and rejected everywhere else.

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“Total students 12,072 UG students 53.9% PG students 46.1% International students 1,491 UG students 36.6% PG students 63.4% Total faculty staff 1,028 Domestic staff 69% Int'l staff 31%”
University of Oulu : Rankings, Fees & Courses Details | TopUniversitiestopuniversities.com
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About & contact

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No admissions email, phone number, or address verified for this university yet. Not yet collected, not necessarily unavailable.

Accommodation

€250–€550per month

average monthly cost of accommodation in PSOAS student housing — the Oulu region student housing foundation, not university-owned halls — as published in the University of Oulu’s own student budget guide.

The university states the rent includes heating, internet, laundry facilities and, in most locations, water. The same page puts total monthly living costs including this housing at €800–1000, and separately notes the Finnish Immigration Service requires €9,600 in the applicant’s bank account for a student residence permit.

Published by the university itself, not a live listings price. Actual cost depends on room type, availability and when you apply.

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“Living costs (incl. housing) 800-1000 € Estimated monthly living costs per month, including accommodation in PSOAS student housing . Please note that living costs depend highly on your lifestyle, freetime activities, etc. The average monthly cost of accommodation in PSOAS student housing is between 250-550 €. The rent includes heating, internet, laundry facilities, and, in most locations, water.”
Oulu on a Budget | University of Ouluoulu.fi
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After you graduate

Rules read 17 Aug 2026. Check the current rules, this may be out of date

What Finland's own immigration authority currently publishes. Not a ranking, not a guarantee, and not the same as what any agent or forum will tell you. Whether someone actually obtains residence depends on occupation, points, funds and policy that can change between application and graduation.

Money you must prove before the visa

€800per month, to pay for accommodation, food and other needs

Shown as a balance in a bank account. You keep control of it.

Figure published for: no date given on the page

Money for the tuition fee, if it has not already been paid, must be available on top of this.

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✓ Word for wordRead 27 Sept 2026
“You need to have at least 800 euros per month at your disposal to be able to pay for your accommodation, food and other needs. In addition, you need to have enough money to pay the tuition fee if you have not yet paid it.”
Income requirement for students | Maahanmuuttovirastomigri.fi
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Work during study

A student holding a Finnish residence permit for studies may work in paid employment, in any field, for an average of 30 hours per week (raised from 25 hours by a legislative amendment effective 15 April 2022) — equivalent to an average of 120 hours per month or 1,560 hours per year. The weekly figure can be exceeded in some weeks as long as the yearly average stays at or under 30 hours, and a student may work full-time during holidays provided the same yearly average is respected. Diploma work or internships that are a credit-bearing, agreed part of the student's own degree are exempt from the hours limit entirely (unless registered as an internship only after the fact, in which case the 30-hour limit applies).

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✓ Word for wordRead 17 Aug 2026
“A student who has been granted a residence permit for studies is allowed to work in paid employment in any field for an average of 30 hours per week. The number of working hours can be exceeded some weeks, as long as the average working hours are no more than 30 hours per week at the end of the year.”
Working and internships during studies | Maahanmuuttovirastomigri.fi
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Post-study work visa

Residence permit for students and researchers to look for work or start a business . Up to 2 years
Available to someone who has held a Finnish residence permit for studies or for research and does not yet have a job, or has one that doesn't pay enough to qualify for a work-based permit. It must be applied for within 5 years of the study/research permit expiring. A first or extended permit under this route can be granted for up to 2 years in total, and can optionally be taken in up to three separate parts, each at least 6 months long, with the last part ending within 3 years of when the first part started. The permit carries an unrestricted right to work in any field while it is valid, so no new permit is needed the moment a job is found — though a graduate who does find qualifying work should still apply for a residence permit on the basis of that work (e.g. the 'degree completed in Finland' permit) before this one expires. Holding a full 2-year job-seeking permit does not, on its own, count as meeting the residence requirement for a permanent residence permit granted on jobseeking/business-founding grounds specifically — a graduate still needs to separately meet a permanent-residence application path's own requirements.

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“You can be granted a first permit or an extended permit for a maximum of two years”
Application for students and researchers: residence permit to look for work | Maahanmuuttovirastomigri.fi
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Route to permanent residence

A graduate who secures qualifying work can obtain a continuous residence permit (an 'A permit', e.g. the 'degree completed in Finland' work permit, which carries an unrestricted right to work) and, once holding a valid A permit, is on the path toward a permanent residence permit. As of a set of Aliens Act amendments that entered into force on 8 January 2026, the period-of-residence requirement for a permanent residence permit is no longer a flat figure: an applicant must choose an 'application path' with its own required period, and the Finnish Immigration Service's own page uses 6 years (2,190 days) as its example of the current standard continuous-residence requirement — up from the 4 years that applied to applications submitted before that date. 'Continuous residence' does not require physical presence the whole time: a person must have actually resided in Finland for at least half of that qualifying period (e.g. at least 3 years out of a 6-year period), with ordinary travel not breaking continuity as long as absences don't add up to more than half the permit's validity. A separate, faster P-EU (EU long-term resident) permit route, unaffected by the January 2026 change, still requires 5 years.

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“For example, if the required period of continuous residence in Finland is 6 years (2,190 days), you are required to have resided in Finland for at least 3 years (1,095 days) in total during the 6-year period.”
Period of residence requirement | Maahanmuuttovirastomigri.fi
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Route to citizenship

Finnish citizenship is decided by the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) — the same authority that runs residence permits. Following amendments that entered into force 1 October 2024, the standard period-of-residence requirement is 8 years of living in Finland, reduced to 5 years if the applicant already meets the language-skills requirement for citizenship (Finnish or Swedish at least at 'satisfactory,' CEFR-equivalent B1, level) — Migri's own page frames this explicitly as one of several situations where the 8-year figure is reduced, alongside routes for a Finnish spouse, a Nordic citizen, and others. A further amendment took effect 17 December 2025 (chiefly changing income/livelihood documentation), underlining that this is an area under active reform and worth re-checking before relying on it. Finland permits multiple/dual citizenship: Migri's own FAQ states directly that acquiring another country's citizenship does not cause loss of Finnish citizenship, 'Finnish legislation allows multiple citizenship (dual citizenship)' — so becoming a Finnish citizen does not require renouncing an applicant's original nationality.

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“If you have the language skills required for becoming a Finnish citizen, you need to have lived in Finland for the past 5 years.”
Period of residence | Maahanmuuttovirastomigri.fi
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What the government currently prioritises

Finland gates its standard employment-based residence permit with a 'labour market test': an occupation is treated as short of labour — and the employer excused from having to prove no suitable local/EU/EEA candidate exists — when that occupation appears in the relevant regional Economic Development Centre's own work permit policy (classified at the 4-digit ISCO occupation-code level), or when it is designated a 'national labour shortage sector' by the Government's own Labour Force Barometer tool. Outside those listed occupations/sectors, an oversupply reading on the Labour Force Barometer generally blocks a new employment-based permit from outside the EU/EEA. Separately, a graduate who has completed their own degree in Finland can apply for the 'degree completed in Finland' work permit, which does not require a labour market test at all regardless of occupation. StudyPath does not reproduce the specific regional or national shortage-sector lists themselves, which live on affiliated sites (elinvoimakeskus.fi, tyovoimabarometri.fi) outside migri.fi and change periodically.

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“If the main occupation that is stated in an employee's residence permit application is named in the regional work permit policy of the Economic Development Centre, the availability of labour is regarded as reduced in the occupation in question and in the region in question. In such situations, the employer does not need to establish the availability of labour.”
Labour market test | Maahanmuuttovirastomigri.fi
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Read 17 August 2026. Finland is mid-reform on permanent residence: the standard period-of-residence requirement doubled in structure (from a flat 4 years to a 6-year default under a new multi-path system) with the change taking effect only 8 January 2026, so figures published before that date, or on non-official pages that haven't updated, may still say 4 years generally — StudyPath reflects the post-8-January-2026 rule. All figures in this entry are cited to migri.fi (Maahanmuuttovirasto, the Finnish Immigration Service), the sole domain pre-approved for Finland on StudyPath. Collection note: migri.fi sits behind a bot-detection challenge that returns HTTP 403 to both this project's plain-HTTP fetcher and a curl fallback with browser-style headers, so every migri.fi source in this entry was archived via the project's real-browser fallback (a real browser) rather than the normal fetching path, per the documented escalation rule for JavaScript-/bot-protection-gated sources. Finland does not appear on StudyPath's university list yet, so this entry is general country-level context, collected the same way Ireland's, the Netherlands' and New Zealand's were. citizenshipRoute added 17 August 2026: migri.fi sat behind the same Cloudflare bot-check documented above for this country, so its 'Period of residence' page, the standalone 'Language skills' page for citizenship specifically (9705b25155aacd0c — distinct from a similarly-named page under Residence permit that covers permanent-residence-permit language rules instead, a naming collision worth knowing about) and the citizenship FAQ were all archived via a browser capture after the security check cleared, then saved with a browser capture against their real URLs. naturalisationStatus set to 'published-route' on 18 August 2026: the authority already cited under citizenshipRoute publishes criteria a foreign resident could actually follow, which is the only claim this field makes. It is deliberately not a judgement about how attainable that route is in practice. citizenshipTerms records 8 years, the general period-of-residence requirement Migri states first. Migri lists the 5-year period as one of several situations in which the requirement is shorter — it applies where the applicant already meets the citizenship language-skills requirement — so 5 is a reduction from the published general case rather than the general case itself.

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