Regis­tra­tion

Regis­tra­tion for the Acad­e­mic year 2024-2025

The regis­tra­tion must be done before the dead­line informed in the admis­sion email and on My Study­info. (login required). You must regis­ter for the whole acad­e­mic year 2024 – 2025 either as being present or absent. When regis­tered as present, you can pursue studies and receive student finan­cial aid and other student bene­fits. If you regis­ter as being absent, you can begin your studies in August 2025 at the earliest.

Once you gave accepted the study place on My Study­info a link to regis­tra­tion becomes active on My Studyinfo.

Accord­ing to the Univer­si­ties Act/Polytechnics Act, a first-year student may regis­ter as absent for the acad­e­mic year for the follow­ing reasons only:

  • service under the Conscrip­tion Act (1438/2007), Non-Mili­tary Service Act (1446/2007), or Act on Women’s Volun­tary Mili­tary Service (194/1995)
  • mater­nity, pater­nity or parental leave
  • the student cannot begin studies due to being inca­pac­i­tated by personal illness or injury.

You may regis­ter your absence, but you must prove the legal grounds for your absence. Docu­ments proving the legal grounds for your absence should be sent via email or post, or presented to the Admis­sion Services of Karelia UAS. The docu­ments must be supplied by 14 July 2024 by 3:00 p.m. Finnish time at the latest, at which time docu­ments deliv­ered by post must also be delivered.

If you are granted admis­sion from reserve list, follow the dead­lines mentioned on My Study­info service (login required).

If you already have a right to study for a degree and you have now been granted a new study right, you can regis­ter as absent for the acad­e­mic year 2024–2025only if you have legal grounds for your absence.

Should the legal grounds for your absence apply only to the autumn term (e.g. mili­tary service or mater­nity leave), you must regis­ter as absent for the entire acad­e­mic year.

Should the legal grounds for your absence apply only to the spring acad­e­mic term (e.g. mili­tary service or mater­nity leave begin­ning in January), you can regis­ter as present for the entire acad­e­mic year. In autumn term you can then apply for a change in your regis­tra­tion status for the spring term.

Docu­ments that prove the legal grounds for your absence:

1) service under the Conscrip­tion Act (1438/2007), Non-Mili­tary Service Act (1446/2007), or Act on Women’s Volun­tary Mili­tary Service (194/1995)

  • Call-up order

2) mater­nity, pater­nity or parental leave

  • Kela’s certifi­cate regard­ing mater­nity, pater­nity or parental allowance period or, if the certifi­cate has not yet been received, a medical certifi­cate regard­ing the pregnancy
  • Corre­spond­ing certifi­cates from the author­i­ties of other coun­tries regard­ing statu­tory parental leave

3) the student cannot begin studies due to being inca­pac­i­tated by personal illness or injury

  • Sick­ness allowance deci­sion or, if no deci­sion exists, a medical certifi­cate. The medical certifi­cate must state which illness or injury the student suffers from, and that this condi­tion prevents the student from begin­ning their studies on 1 August 2024.
  • Obsta­cles caused by the prac­ti­cal arrange­ments required by the illness or injury: an adequate clar­i­fi­ca­tion, e.g. a certifi­cate from the student housing foun­da­tion that the student is on the waiting list for an apart­ment required by his or her injury. The student’s own noti­fi­ca­tion is not an adequate clarification.

The docu­ments must be submit­ted in Finnish, Swedish or English.

Contact details for sending documents

admissions(at)karelia.fi (How to send confi­den­tial e-mail to Karelia Admis­sion Services)

Admis­sion Services
Karelia UAS
Tikkarinne 9
FI-80200 Joensuu