Degree Programme in Information and Communication Technology

General Requirement

You are an eligible applicant for Bachelor-level studies if you have or will complete one of the following qualifications by August 2026:

• the Finnish matriculation examination
• The International Baccalaureate (IB)
• The European Baccalaureate (EB)
• Reifeprüfung/Die Deutsche Internationale Abiturprüfung in Finland
• any other comparable upper secondary educational qualification that provides eligibility to University-level Bachelor’s studies in the country in question
• An applicant with a degree higher than those mentioned will also be considered eligible.

Please also note that in order to be admitted, you will also need to fulfill programme-specific requirements. For this programme, an SAT is required for all applicants applying with any other qualification except the Finnish matriculation examination, the International Baccalaureate (IB), the European Baccalaureate (EB), or Reifeprüfung/Die Deutsche Internationale Abiturprüfung in Finland. For more details about the SAT requirements, please refer to the Programme Specific admission requirements.

Language Requirements

Applicants must have excellent English language skills and a certificate that proves those skills. All applicants must provide proof of language skills according to the requirements of the University.  You can indicate your language skills by taking one of the internationally recognized English language tests, or in some cases, with your previous degree.

If the applicant is selected on the basis of an SAT, they do not have to provide a separate certificate of English language proficiency.

No exceptions will be made on the language requirements. Read more about the language requirements here.

Limitations in applying and study rights

If you already have a Bachelor’s (or higher) Degree in the field of Information and Communication Technology or Computer Science from a Finnish University or University of Applied Sciences, you are not eligible to apply.

It is not possible to have more than one Bachelor’s or Master’s study right at the same Faculty. Therefore, when accepting an offered study place, the student will forfeit any previous BSc or MSc study rights at the Faculty of Technology of the University of Turku.

If your study right has expired or been moved to the passive register, you cannot apply for a new, similar study right. Instead, you must then apply for an extension to your study time or a reactivation of your study right. You will not be granted a new, similar study right to pursue a degree or course of study that you are already pursuing, or have already completed, within the same field or a corresponding subject, unless stated otherwise in the admission criteria of the faculty.

Before you start preparing your application, always read the full admission requirements on the application portal Studyinfo.fi

Admission groups

The admission quota for the programme is 30.

There are two admission groups for gaining admission:

Admission group I (60 %): admission is based on the results of the SAT. Required test sections are 

• Evidence-Based Reading and Writing
• Mathematics.

The minimum score is 600 for Mathematics and 1150 for the total. Applicants are ranked based on the total score of the mentioned sections. The test result may not be more than two years old.

Information about the SAT Tests can be found at https://www.collegeboard.org/

Admission group II (40 %): certificate-based admission - based on the admission score, which is calculated based on the grades achieved in the Finnish matriculation examination, International Baccalaureate, European Baccalaureate, or Reifeprüfung/Die Deutsche Internationale Abiturprüfung in Finland.

The scoring is based on points obtained in the Finnish matriculation examination Technology and engineering - Yliopistovalinnat.fi. The minimum accepted grade in advanced mathematics in the Finnish matriculation examination is C or a comparable grade in the other tests.

All applicants are automatically considered for the groups to which they are eligible. As there is a limited number of study places available, achieving the minimum score does not guarantee admission.

Deadlines

The application period is 7 January - 21 January 2026 (the first joint application period).

All required attachments must be provided by 28 January 2026, 15:00 (Finnish time). If any compulsory attachments aren't submitted according to instructions, the application will be rejected.

SAT results must be delivered directly by the test organiser to the University of Turku by January 28, 2026, at 15:00 (GMT +2). You must also attach a copy of the official SAT result report to the application form by the same deadline. Test results delivered after the deadline or solely by the applicant or test organiser are not accepted.

Publication of results

• Admission group I: 26 March 2026
• Admission group II: 27 May 2026

All admitted applicants are required to provide their original documents to the University of Turku by 31 May 2026 (if the applicant has not graduated by the time of the application, the deadline is 11 August 2026). The offered study place must be accepted by July 9, 2026, and the tuition fee must be paid by July 31, 2026. Conditionally admitted applicants must submit their final certificates by August 11, 2026.

The orientation days for new students are organized in late August, and we recommend everyone to arrive around mid-August to get settled by the start of the studies.

How to apply

The application is done online in the Studyinfo portal (www.studyinfo.fi). A link to the application form will be available on the website of each programme, both at utu.fi and at studyinfo.fi, during the application period. In the joint application, you may apply to a maximum of six (6) programmes, three (3) of which can be offered by the University of Turku. You may only apply with one application in the joint application. If you submit more than one application, only the last one will be considered.

The application period ends on January 21, 2026, at 15:00 (Finnish time), after which new applications cannot be made. Enclosures can be added to or removed from any application for one week after the application period, i.e., until 28 January 2026 at 15:00 (Finnish time).

You may be offered more than one study place, but you can only accept one, which will lead to a higher education degree in Finland during one academic term (August 1 - December 31 or January 1 - July 31).

Required documents

Attach to the application form the following documents as scans of the original documents:

• Documents proving eligibility for higher education
• If applying based on SAT results: the SAT result report (in addition, the official test results must be submitted to the University of Turku by the test organiser).
• Proof of English language skills (The applicants applying based on the SAT can prove their language skills with the SAT)
• Passport or other ID
• Residence permit card (if applicable)

Any documents not listed above will not be considered in the evaluation process.

The University of Turku requires the original documents (in the original language) AND an English, Finnish, or Swedish translation of the documents. The translations must be made by an official translator or by the awarding education institution.

The international Bachelor’s Degree in ICT (Technology) consists of common studies, major studies, language studies and studies in transferable working life skills and minor studies. The studies will equip the students with a solid background for basic skills needed in the working life and in lifelong learning. The Degree is module-based and every module has specific learning outcomes.

The preliminary structure of the Degree Programme (180 ECTS) is the following:

• Major subject studies in ICT (including Bachelor’s thesis)
• Minor subject studies (for example entrepreneurship)
• Polytechnic studies (mathematics, physics, information technology and business studies)
• Language studies

Does this page answer your questions about the programme's content and academic matters? If not, contact infoscitech@utu.fi.

Our research in the field of ICT is targeting the future technologies needed  to improve our digitalised society, to help solve today's major societal and environmental challenges, and to explore new and emerging horizons of the ICT field. The central themes in our research are digitalisation, software engineering, machine learning, autonomous and intelligent systems, cyber security, and health technology. The development of our ICT curriculum is driven by the output from research in these themes, and students benefit from gaining first-hand knowledge on the newest research results. Our mission is to create ICT solutions to global and future challenges, thus contributing to building a sustainable future with top research and education.

The Bachelor’s thesis is a personal dissertation project. The students prepare for the thesis project by practising source material use, scientific writing and presentation of  their results in written and oral form. The thesis is mainly based on scientific literature. Theses made in collaboration with companies or other organizations outside the university are also possible.

As a degree student you can complete part of your degree abroad. During your studies, you can go abroad as an exchange student or for an internship, which will give you valuable international experience.

After completing this programme, the graduate:

• Has good programming skills and basic skills in designing embedded systems
• Knows and is able to apply the implementation methods of a wide range of software engineering solutions and knows how to apply them to various execution platforms, knowing all aspects of the layer structure of software solutions
• Is able to participate in the design of software systems and in finding solutions to software problems
• Knows software production methods, tools and development processes, and understands the importance of the parts of agile development processes and knows how to apply them, working as part of a development team
• Understands how electronic systems and their components work and communicate
• Understands the structures and operating principles of microprocessors and the basics of operating systems
• Understands the most common network technologies and protocols used on the Internet
• Understands the basics of cyber security technology and knows the key tools
• Understands the basics of artificial intelligence systems

Students graduating from the programme, may work, for example, as:

• Software Engineer
• Software Architect
• Project Manager
• System Specialist
• Information Security Specialist
• ICT Consultant

After completing the Bachelor’s Degree programme studies the students have the right (without a separate admission process) to continue their studies in the international Master’s Degree Programme in ICT at the Department of Computing. The students will select their major among the existing tracks in the programme. Current tracks in the programme are: Cyber Security, Data Analytics, Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Software Engineering.

Students are also eligible for Master’s degree studies in other universities in Finland or abroad.