SEMESTER DATES FOR EXCHANGE STUDENTS (INCLUDES ORIENTATION) Autumn Semester: 25 August – 18 December 2026

COURSES TAUGHT IN ENGLISH AND COURSE SELECTION Our preliminary Course catalogue for exchange students. Courses for the next academic year will be published in late March/early April. Exchange students need to have sufficient prior academic background in the disciplines taught at the receiving Faculty. One year of completed studies is required from all applicants, see below Faculties/programmes that have stricter requirements.

Highly restricted: Medicine, Psychology, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine. The prerequisite for Medicine is two full years of pre-clinical and one full year of clinical studies. In Psychology, the prerequisite is two full years of university-level studies in Psychology. Access to courses in these fields cannot be guaranteed to exchange students admitted via university-wide agreements.

At least two years of relevant academic studies required: For Life Sciences (the Faculties of Agriculture and Forestry, Biological and Environmental Sciences, and Pharmacy), the prerequisite for studies in Helsinki is two years of completed university studies in the field in question.

Open only for students majoring in the field: When nominating students for the fields of Communication, English philology, Economics, Education, Law, Urban Studies and Planning or Political Science, the student must be studying the discipline as their major at the home university and have completed at least one year of studies in this field.