Demonstrating English language proficiency for Master’s programmes
All applicants including native speakers are required to provide proof of English language proficiency in the application process. Please see below for all accepted ways of proving your language skills for University of Lapland’s Master’s programmes. Language skills can be proven with a standardized test or with prior education. There are no exceptions to the requirements below.
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Language tests
Please find below the approved language tests for demonstrating proficiency in English language, as well as document instructions and requirements. All language test results must arrive at University of Lapland by the application enclosure deadline. It is always the applicant’s responsibility to make necessary testing arrangements and to make sure the test results arrive on time.
Please note that the test results are valid two (2) years from the test date, and the test result must be valid throughout the entire application period.
TOEFL-testi vähintään tuloksella 78 (IBT-testi)
Please note that the test results are valid two (2) years from the test date, and the test result must be valid throughout the entire application period.
Please note that the test results are valid two (2) years from the test date, and the test result must be valid throughout the entire application period.
C1 Advanced vähintään tuloksella C
C2 Proficiencyvähintään tuloksella: Level C1
Please note that only tests taken after 2005 are accepted.
Other ways of proving language proficiency
Kielikoetta ei tarvita, mikäli hakija on suorittanut kandidaatin-1, maisterin-, lisensiaatin-tai tohtorintutkinnonenglannin kielellä EU-/ETA-maassa tai jossain seuraavista maista:Australia, Antigua ja Barbuda, Bahama,Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Dominica, Eritrea,Eswatini,Etelä-Afrikka, Etiopia, Filippiinit, Gambia, Ghana,Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong, Intia, Iso-Britannia, Jamaika, Kamerun, Kanada, Kenia, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi,Namibia, Nigeria, Ruanda, Saint Kitts ja Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent ja Grenadiinit, Sambia, Sierra Leone,Singapore, Sveitsi, Tansania, Trinidad ja Tobago, Uganda, Uusi-Seelanti, Yhdysvallat, Zimbabwe.
You can prove your language skills with a degree completed in a Finnish university or university of applied sciences if you have demonstrated foreign language proficiency in the English language in accordance with the Government Decree on University Degrees (794/2004) or University of Applied Sciences Degrees (1129/2014).
Document needed: Copy of transcript of records of the degree studies AND copy of your degree certificate. The documents must clearly state that the language skills in the degree have been demonstrated in accordance with the Government Decree on University Degrees (794/2004) or University of Applied Sciences Degrees (1129/2014).
Incomplete degrees: the course that meets the foreign language proficiency requirement must be included in your transcript of records by the deadline for submitting application enclosures. If your transcript does not state that the language skills have been demonstrated in accordance with the Government Decree, an additional statement/document from the institution confirming this is required.
Document needed: Copy of the transcript of records from your degree studies completed in English in a Finnish higher education institution.
Nordic Countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden
Document needed: Copy of the transcript of records from your exchange studies.