Contact information of the Finnish open universities of applied sciences (UAS)

Open Studies are open for everyone regardless of education and age. Open Studies offer teaching that is carried out based on the higher education institution’s own syllabus. Open Studies are offered in daytime, evenings, weekends and on the web at most higher education institutions all across Finland. You can study according to individual study units or bigger study modules.

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Open Studies are for you if

  • you wish to improve the know-how required in working life
  • you plan on applying to a higher education institution, or
  • you wish to improve your general knowledge on topics that interest you.

Open Studies are mainly available for those who already live in Finland. Open Studies are not full-time and do not lead to a qualification – it is therefore not possible to get a long-term student residence permit based on Open Studies.

Studies can be carried out as contact teaching, blended teaching or e-teaching.

Studying at open UAS online courses make possible to complete courses conveniently regardless of time and place – wherever best suits you. Blended teaching uses both contact teaching and e-teaching, but this form of studying also allows you to study alongside work.

Open studies are subject to a charge. Find out more from the higher education institution’s own website.

Centria University of Applied Sciences

Diakonia University of Applied Sciences

Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences

HUMAK University of Applied Sciences

HAMK University of Applied Sciences

Högskolan på Åland

Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences

XAMK University of Applied Sciences

Kajaani University of Applied Sciences

Karelia University of Applied Sciences

LAB University of Applied Sciences

Lapland University of Applied Sciences

Laurea University of Applied Sciences

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

Oulu University of Applied Sciences

Satakunta University of Applied Sciences

Savonia University of Applied Sciences

Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences

Tampere University of Applied Sciences

Turku University of Applied Sciences

Vaasa University of Applied Sciences

Yrkeshögskolan Arcada

Yrkeshögskolan Novia