Programs offered by Universities and Polytechnics of Finland for 2010 intake

If you are looking for program browser to find out which universities or polytechnics have offered which programs for 2010 or what are the universities or polytechnics which are offering a particular program, follow the following link:


Programs offered by Universities:
http://www.nepal-finland.com/program-browser/program-matrix

Programs offered by Polytechnics:
http://www.nepal-finland.com/program-browser/programs-offered-by-polytechnics

Admission Process for Bachelor Level

Application Period: 11 January 2010 - 12 February 2010 For Degree programs applying through Joint Application System.

Apply Through: Joint Application System at https://www.admissions.fi/ for Bachelor's Degree and polytechnic programs.

Important Update: IELTS bar is raised this year to 6.0 minimum for students applying Bachelor's Degree.

If you are applying for Bachelor Level, I would suggest you following simple steps:

Admission Process for Master's and Post Graduate Level

Application Period: December 2009 - February 2010 for University programs depending upon the particular university calendar.

Apply Through:

• University Admissions at http://www.universityadmissions.fi/ for affiliated University Programs.

• Individual college or university address for rest of the institutions.

Basic Requirements:

• IELTS bar is raised this year to minimum 6.5 for Master's Degree. However some particular programs may also need more than 6.5.

• Motivation Letter or Statement of Purpose (SOP) depending upon the program or university.

• Minimum Two Letter of Recommendations, at least one from academic institution of your previous degree or thesis or final year project supervisor.

• Business related programs will have assigned tasks on college websites. So, these tasks should be also completed and submitted while applying.

• Post Graduate studies requires Concept paper of your intended research of Research outline.
  

Programs offered by Universities of Finland for 2010 intake

	Institution	Program
	Åbo Akademi University	Chemical Engineering
	Åbo Akademi University	Electronic and Mobile Commerce
	Åbo Akademi University	Embedded Computing
	Åbo Akademi University	International Human Rights Law
	Helsinki School of Economics	Information and Service Management
	Helsinki School of Economics	Finance
	Helsinki School of Economics	Economics
	Helsinki School of Economics	Entrepreneurship
	Helsinki School of Economics	International Business
	Helsinki School of Economics	International Business and Communication
	Helsinki School of Economics	Logistics and Service Economics
	Helsinki School of Economics	Marketing

Discrimination and Racism cases are rising in Finland

These days, I am getting several emails and phone calls about students sharing their experiences on how they are discriminated or face the racial attack against International Immigrants. I am sharing some of those incidents:

In a Polytechnics college in Helsinki, a teacher was teaching in English medium. Meantime, he asked a question in Finnish to students which have international students as well. A South Asian student who can not understand Finnish, asked the teacher to translate that question in English if it is study related, it would be useful for him as well. Teacher did not hear it. Then, the Finnish student also replied the answer in Finnish. Then, a Finnish-African guy who can understand Finnish translated that question answer happened in Finnish language. Hearing this, teacher scold the Finnish-African guy, asking why he translated it. Teacher also told, "Because of these foreigners, our country getting worse". Finnish-African guy protested about this comment along with South Asian guy. Teacher left the class saying, "If it could be done by my decision, I would have blocked admission for international much before because why should we teach them for free with our resources?".

Is Finland good destination for you ?

I have been asked this question many times, is Finland good destination for studies? Jobs? Overall study environment? Is Finland a good place for me? It really confuse me how much of detail should I explain them because for every place there will be good and bad and it always depends upon the individual how they proitize their preferences and good and bad comes relatively depending upon their preferences.

Is Finland good destination for studies?
YES. Because, it allows you to enjoy full freedom in terms of quality education, resources and facilities for you as much as you can grab as a student.

Good

• Full Flexibility on the study environment and interest.
• Customizable study plans so that you decide for your own what you want to study and what not.
• Your involvement on courses are more important rather than 'parrot' examinations. So, assignments, home works, projects, presentations and discussions carry more importance rather than examinations alone.
• FREE EDUCATION !! There is no any kind of tuition fee, exam fee, application fee or enrollment fee for Finland.

72,598 pageviews from 33,243 visits during intake 2009 (Sep 2008 - Aug 2009)

I am very much excited to report you that http://www.nepalfinland.com/ got 72,598 pageviews from 33,243 visits during Sep 1st 2008 to 31st August 2009.

 

As you can see, nepalfinland.com got 62.64% (that is 20,825 in value) of the total traffic through Search Engines, 28.62% (that is 9513 in value) through Direct traffic who typed www.nepalfinland.com on their address bar  to reach here and 8.74% (that is 2905 in value) through Referring Sites.

What you should include on your luggage for Finland? (Shopping List '09)

At the moment, you all might be wondering what to buy and what not to bring to Finland. So, I have prepared a shopping list for you all by including the stuffs what you must bring.

SHOE AND SOCKS

1. Snow Shoe - 1 Set
2. Sports and Warm Shoes like HiTech shoes - 1 Set
3. Light casual shoes like Summer shoes - 1 Set
4. Summer Sandal - 1 Set
5. Socks (Very Warm) - 5 Set
6. Socks (Medium) - 5 Set

10 Questions that everyone wants to know about Nepal-Finland?

1. Why aren't you publishing the queries and their replies on website this year?
Only few of the friends who sends me the query would like to publish their queries and replies on website. Though I never published their name on website, but still they believe that with their writing style, at least their friends can recognize them. So, respecting their privacy, I reduced publishing queries and their replies on the website. I am publishing hardly 1/2 queries per month this year, that also only after tweaking their writing style or composing entirely new post addressing their issues. If you want your query to be published on web, please mention it in email explicitly.

List of UAS organizing Entrance in Nepal

Following Polytechnics (University of Applied Science) will organize Entrance Examinations in Nepal for 2009 Session. The entrance will be valid for the respective polytechnics and their cooperating polytechnics:

• Arcada UAS for International Business and Plastic Technology
• Central Ostrobothnia UAS
• JAMK UAS
• Kajaani UAS
• Kemi-Tornio UAS
• Lahti UAS
• Laurea UAS for Tourism, Business Management and Business Infomation Technology
• Mikkeli UAS
• Novia UAS only for Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Another victim of Fraud Consultancy

Moi !
I would like to thank you very very much for your effort to help Nepalese students. I have some experience about coming to Finland which i think you can share with other people to make them know about these things.

I came here by applying through a friend's consultancy which said me that it will offer free service to me. but when i get confirmation letter it asked me 1200 euros. so, after that i decided to contact my college in Finland about re-sending that letter to my own address via email. But i never expected it would come..amazingly it came to my home address but i recieved it 3 days late after the deadline of the letter to be sent back. I should mark study preference and send back the letter to my college where it should have reached by September 1 2008, which was the deadline. but i received the letter on 3rd of September.

Then i went to one consultancy thinking that i can't make it anymore by my self. the consultancy agreed to charge me 10,000 which i thought at that time was very cheap. the consultancy just sent an email to college and grabbed my 10,000. I was so fooled that time as college accepted me even though the deadline was over. Then I realized that i paid 10,000 just to send one email. how fool was i ..

now after coming here.. the agent from previous consultancy tried to contact me n threaten me saying he will cancel my visa or he will do this n that..but till now he hasn't been able to come to me. and i don't afraid of such people.. i know they can't do anything as long as i stay in my position.

still i would like to ask you that is there any way he can do so that i will not be able to renew my visa this year? he said that if he complains about me to the police about being fraud or something then i can't renew my visa. is it possible? just not by coming through his consultancy can i be a fraud here? i know he can't do anything but just like to share my ideas with u so that u can share that with others..


>> You don't worry about anything. They can't do anything to you. Whatever they do, it won't effect you.


i know this Nepal-Finland is also in Facebook.. how can i find it there?

>> Here is the link of the Facebook profile. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=1398993815

My experiences with Nepal-Finland

I started the blog with the motive to share the information that I know about Finland. In fact, I still remember how much of hours I spend on Internet when I was thinking about Finland. I spend hours and hours surfing a number of websites to solve the query of my mind. So, I started www.nepalfinland.com after coming here thinking that this blog will somehow help those who are seeking information about Finland.

I started the blog with awareness to students for avoiding consultancy services. Though I did not process through any consultancy, I knew some of my friends being victim of Consultancy. Consultancy charged them about 1500 euro just for posting the application. They use to say they can influence the admission process. They say, they have some 'internal link' with admission officer of the university and also on the embassy for visa. A student is forced to believe that since agent of colleges are common in Kathmandu for other countries like Australia. The more dangerous stories is about jobs. They use to say, some XYZ started earning 2000 euro after 2 months and now they are sending back very handsome amount and earning 2000 is normal since it is the minimum payment scale for most of the jobs. Some alert students can easily validate this information. But, we Nepalese, believe people so easy and do not bother to validate those information. Also, they use to say, you just need draft to show to embassy and you can cancel the draft before departure which is actually a suicide attempt and completely illegal since it would be checked by border police while entering Finland. I use to work on a daily newspaper in Nepal, so all these information were known to me easily. So, these all fake stories by Consultancy ignited me to start an awareness campaign against Consultancies.

When I started Nepal-Finland, I had no intention to be anonymous. I started blogging with my real name. Later, when consultancies of Nepal and some of their agents in Finland started threatening me, I started blogging anonymous. It is not that I got afraid from them, but I became anonymous since I don't want any kind of trouble here in Finland since I came here for studies and just want to focus on my studies. So, I preferred to be anonymous. But, being anonymous did not stop threatens.

Some threats were bit polite, some were dirty, some were rough and some life-threats as well. Some came from Nepal by email and phone numbers as well. Some from different cities of Finland by agents of those consultancies. I really wonder how they came to know my identity and got my phone numbers. Only very few persons and authorities have my real identity. Till today, I am getting in average of a threat in a week. These people never get tired by threatening me, and I am never scared to expose them and aware more students.

During last academic season, I was very much active and use to reply about 50-100 emails per week. When the entrance was over, I thought, now the flow of email will reduce. But not, it remained constant since after that students started asking preparation, shopping, flight and other related issues. This process did not end even after August since after arriving here same persons started asking about various aspects of jobs, academic issues and career options.
This year, after October, I became bit selective on answering queries since I explored a large volume of students started emailing me even without reading a single post on www.nepalfinland.com. A sample email:

Hi Nepal Finland,
I would like to apply for Finland, tell me more about courses, jobs and admission issues.

Regards,
ABC

I did not find any logic on answering those emails since they are not specific enough and did not bother to explore the contents of www.nepalfinland.com. So, even if I answer them in detail about all issues, I am not assured they would read my email. First about a hundred of such emails, I replied by saying, please be more specific about your query. Later, I just stopped replying such emails and focused on specific queries.

I have already posted much information on various posts itself. Since that is a blog, all contents does not seem visible at once. So, I request you to run the search from the search button located on right-top, before submitting any query.

These days, I am replying about 100 emails per week. Today only, I replied about 90 emails. Being a student, sometimes it becomes very difficult for me to manage time for replying such a massive amount of emails. So during that period, some emails kept pending even for a month since I will reply some, but again new email comes, so the older one always piles up. I always try my best to manage enough time for it, but does not happen all the time. Effort of a single person is always less when it comes about helping thousands of people.