Tuition fees

Tuition fees 2024-2025

• Bachelor’s degrees 10 700 euros / academic year
• Master’s degrees 13 500 euros / academic year

The scholarship scheme includes

• the Early Bird scholarship: a 10% discount on the tuition fee for the first study year
• the scholarship based on study progress: a 20% discount on the following year’s tuition fee with good study progress
  • Xamk award: raise your discount on the following year’s tuition fee from 20% to 25-35% with creditable integration and active participation in the local community
  • Studies in Finnish language and culture: get additional deductions on the following year’s tuition fee by completing studies in Finnish language and culture.

Please find details on the scholarship scheme below.

Early Bird

The Early Bird scholarship is a 10% discount on the tuition fee of the first study year at Xamk.

You can get the scholarship if you:

• accept the offer of admission from Xamk within 7 days from the admission notice, and
• pay the tuition fee within 21 days from the admission notice.

Please note that the Early Bird scholarship may not be available in all separate applications. The availability of the Early Bird scholarship and the exact deadlines are informed in the offer of admission.

Study progress

During the studies, you can apply for a scholarship at the end of each study year and get a 20% discount on the following year’s tuition fee by progressing in the studies well.

Sufficient progress for the scholarship means completing 55 ECTS credits during the academic year, except in the degree programmes beginning in January where you need 27 ECTS credits from the first semester to qualify for the scholarship. Studies (credits) completed during the academic year are considered in the scholarship.

You are offered at least 60 ECTS credits of studies per academic year (1 August – 31 July), or 30 ECTS credits per academic semester (1 August – 31 December, 1 January – 31 July).

Xamk award

To encourage to be part of the Finnish society, students who qualify for the scholarship based on study progress, can raise their discount on the following year’s tuition fee to up to 35% by being active in their local community.

During your studies you can perform various activities, such as being part of a locally operating association as a hobby instructor or part of a hobby group, voluntary work, Talent Boost (your local support network for finding opportunities in Finland) events, community activities, student union activities, and regular work.

For each activity you will get a certificate based on which the scholarship is awarded. You will get one point for 10 hours or participation in one activity, such as being part of a hobby group in a locally operating association. Maximum number of points for one activity is 4 (40 hours).* Points and scholarships are counted per academic year (1 August – 31 July).

* Tutoring for Student Union Kaakko includes 108 hours of work. Therefore, by being a tutor you can complete 108 hours from one activity.

When you qualify for the scholarship based on study progress, and accumulate

• 10 points: your scholarship is a 25% discount + bronze award certificate
• 20 points: your scholarship is a 30% discount + silver award certificate
• 30 points: your scholarship is a 35% discount + gold award certificate

If you started your studies in January, you qualify for the Xamk award by accumulating 6, 8 or 12 points accordingly.

For more than four months of work, a minimum of 10 hours per week per average, you will be awarded five extra points. The workplace must be located in South Savonia or Kymenlaakso region. For work outside these regions, you will be awarded based on the standard formula.

All activities must be done in Finland.

The students who have collected the highest number of points will be publicly rewarded in an event organized annually.

Xamk reserves the right to make changes and adjust the criteria. The total available scholarship will not change. Xamk reserves the right to verify the authenticity of each certificate of participation.

Studies in Finnish language and culture

Additional deductions for the following academic year’s tuition fee are available also for studies you complete in Finnish language and culture. If you qualify for the scholarship based on study progress, you can also apply for scholarship based on the Finnish language and culture studies (studies completed during the academic year in question).

The additional scholarship you can apply for after each study year is worth 200 euros / 5 ECTS credits of studies completed in Finnish language and culture during your studies at Xamk.

Students in Bachelor’s programmes are generally offered 5-10 ECTS credits of Finnish language studies during their 1st and 2nd study years. These studies start from the beginner’s level and aim for the basic language proficiency levels A1 and A2. Also students in Master’s degree programmes can add Finnish language courses into their personal study plan.

If you reach the proficiency level intermediate B1 in Finnish language during your studies, you can get a 5000-euro scholarship upon graduation. Reaching this proficiency level requires you to be active in learning the language also outside the studies at Xamk.

You receive this scholarship upon graduation, when you have completed a national certificate of language proficiency (YKI) in Finnish language on the required proficiency level and attach a copy of the certificate to the scholarship application. Please see further information on the national certificate of language proficiency and the proficiency levels on the website of the Finnish National Agency for Education.

The YKI system is the official language proficiency test of Finland and the certificates serve a variety of purposes, for example to demonstrate your language skills to apply for a job in Finland.

Scholarship for humanitarian reasons (Ukrainian citizens)

Higher education institutions may grant, by their own decision, scholarships for humanitarian reasons, and the scholarship can be used to offset the tuition fee, meaning that the fee does not need to be paid.

Xamk offers a scholarship for humanitarian reasons for the citizens of Ukraine for the academic year 2024-2025. The scholarship is an exemption from the tuition fee for the mentioned academic year.

You don’t have to apply for the scholarship separately, it is granted automatically based on proof of citizenship on your application form (passport ID data page). On the application form on Studyinfo, you inform if you have a document that exempts you from the tuition fee. The question is common to all universities and the answer “I don’t have any of the above mentioned documents” will not cause any problems with the scholarship for humanitarian reasons at Xamk.