The students are selected based on
Entrance examination – 80% of study places
- Business Technologies – 24 students
- Leading Business Transformation – 40 students
- Strategising in Organisations – 32 students
- Tourism and Hospitality Business – 24 students
GMAT test selection – 20% of study places
- Business Technologies – 6 students
- Leading Business Transformation – 10 students
- Strategising in Organisations – 8 students
- Tourism and Hospitality Business – 6 students
Application period: 28 August – 11 September 2024 at 15.00 o'clock Finnish time on Studyinfo.fi
Start of studies: Haaga-Helia’s Master Degree Programmes will start with a compulsory orientation in the beginning of January 2024.
The preliminary reading materials, advance assignment and CV template will be published on 28 August 2024 here, on Haaga-Helia's website. Please use Haaga-Helia's own CV template. Attach your CV in pdf/jpg/png format to your application form. If you cannot submit your attachments online, please contact Haaga-Helia's Admission Services. The attachments must be submitted or returned by 18 September 2024 at 15.00 o'clock Finnish time at the latest. Any delayed CVs are not considered.
Every applicant participating in the entrance exam must register for the entrance exam by submitting the advance assignment. In order to be invited to the entrance exam an applicant must submit the advance assignment by 18 September 2024 at 15.00 o'clock Finnish time at the latest. The advance assignment will not be scored separately. The advance assignment will be published on on Haaga-Helia's website on the 28 August 2024.
GMAT test selection
You can apply to Haaga-Helia's Master's degree programmes with the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). It is a standardised test that is used internationally for student admissions to Master's degree programmes. The tests measure analytic and linguistic skills as well as quantitative reasoning skills. Haaga-Helia does not organise GMAT test. In questions concerning the test, contact the test organisers.
The lowest score that the applicant must reach in order to be qualified for selection process is 530 from the GMAT Exam test. Only the Total Score is considered in the admissions.
The GMAT Exam and GMAT Focus Edition will be accepted in the admission process. Both exams are equivalent in master’s admissions, i.e. neither is considered superior to the other.
See the homepage of the test administrator for more information on the test (www.mba.com): GMAT
The scores from GMAT Focus Edition are converted to GMAT Exam result by using the Concordance Table.
The official test result must be delivered directly from the test organiser to Haaga-Helia UAS by 18 September 2024 at 15:00 Finnish time at the latest. Please also take the print screen of your test results and attach it to your application form by 18 September 2024 at 15:00 Finnish time.
Only an unofficial test report submitted by the applicant will not be accepted.
Test times may fill up closer to the application time and it is the applicant's responsibility to book a test time well in advance. Confirm the time taken to deliver the official results from the test organizer.
If the GMAT test result does not arrive by the deadline, or the scores are below the minimum requirement, the application will be rejected.
GMAT Tests: Sending Your Scores
GMAT test results are valid for five (5) years after the test day. For 2024 admissions, the oldest acceptable test day is 22 October 2019. For 2024 admissions, the oldest acceptable test day is 22 October 2019.
You also need to fill in the joint application form at Studyinfo during the application period.
Applicants are accepted in order of best points. There are a limited number of places available.
Entrance examination
The Master’s degree programmes above will use a joint entrance examination. The entrance examination consists of an online multiple-choice test based on pre-materials and a written part (two essays) based on the material provided in the exam. The written part assesses the applicants’ analytical skills and capability to write a text that is coherent, correct, and appropriate for the given task.
Every applicant participating in the entrance exam must register for the entrance exam by submitting the advance assignment. In order to be invited to the entrance exam an applicant must submit the advance assignment by 18 September 2024 at 15.00 Finnish time at the latest. The entrance examination will be held on 22 October 2024, from 17.30 to 19.30 Finnish time at Pasila campus. The address is Ratapihantie 13, 00520 Helsinki, Finland. NB! You must register for the entrance exam between 16.15-17.05 Finnish time in the lobby of Haaga-Helia, Pasila campus. Applicants arriving late cannot participate in the entrance examination. It is not possible to participate in the exam remotely. Haaga-Helia is not responsible for visa-related matters.
All eligible applicants and all applicants whose eligibility may not have been checked will be invited to the entrance exam. The invitations to the entrance examination will be sent via email by 15 October 2024. (Please also check your spam folder. In some cases, entrance examination invitations are automatically redirected to junk mail).
The schedule of the exam:
From 16.15 to 17.05 - Registration in the lobby of Pasila campus.
At 17.10 - The classroom doors will be closed. Make sure that you enter the classroom before that. After 17.10 o’clock it is not possible to enter the classroom.
From 17.30 to 19.30 – Entrance exam
You may leave the entrance exam at 18.00 o'clock at the earliest.
The exam begins at 17.30 o'clock and the exam's duration is 2 hours. The exam will be supervised in the classrooms. There will be two supervisors in the room. The supervisors will record the detected cases of suspected fraud and they may lead to the rejection of the entrance exam. The exam answers must be submitted via the Webropol exam platform no later than 19.30 o’clock.
On the exam day at Pasila campus
The applicant must bring the following things to the exam room:
The applicant may also bring the following things to the exam room:
Everything else, including a closed cell phone, must be put in a bag and left next to the wall in the classroom. The use of protective film for the computer screen is not allowed. Devices using wireless network connections, such as a mouse using Bluetooth connection, keyboards, headphones, smart watches, or activity bracelets must be put in the bag. The applicants can leave their bags and coats next to the walls of the exam room. In the room, there will be paper available for everyone to take their own notes.
Entrance exam points
The multiple-choice test in the entrance exam is checked first and the applicants will be ranked based on the points obtained from the multiple-choice test. If based on the total points of the multiple-choice test section, several candidates have equal points, they will be eliminated based on three different parts (A, B, C) in the test and the points obtained from them. In the case of equal points, part A is decisive. If there are still equal points, Part B will be decisive. If there are still equal points, Part C will be decisive.
Online multiple-choice test based on the pre-material (min. 14 points / max. 70 points):
Part A: min. 6 p, max. 30 p
Part B: min. 4 p, max. 20 p
Part C: min. 4 p, max. 20 p
Based on the results of the multiple-choice test, at least twice the number of applicants' essays in relation to the study places will be evaluated.
-Business Technologies – 48 essays
- Leading Business Transformation –80 essays
- Strategising in Organisations – 64 essays
- Tourism and Hospitality Business – 48 essays
Written part (two essays) (min. 2 x 3 points / max. 2 x 15 points)
Total: min. 20 points / max. 100 points
To pass the entrance exam, the applicant must obtain the minimum points for each section. Failing any part of the exam automatically means failing the whole entrance exam.
Hardware and network requirements
The entrance exam is a digital exam, completed in Webropol on the applicant’s own computer. The exam is designed for computer completion. You cannot complete the entrance exam by your phone or tablet. Errorless completion of the entrance exam by phone or tablet cannot be guaranteed. The laptop must support modern WiFi/WLAN standards and you must be able to connect to the wireless exam network provided by Haaga-Helia with your laptop.
The applicant is responsible for the functionality of the laptop, including its power supply. The university of applied sciences cannot be held responsible for problem situations related to taking the entrance exam, due to the applicant’s hardware or software. The laptop’s battery must be fully charged before coming to the written exam. You must take the power supply of the laptop with you so that it is possible to charge the laptop if necessary. We recommend that you use a mouse to navigate in the exam system instead of the keyboard.
The entrance exam will be completed in a platform called Webropol. Recommended operating systems are Windows 10, macOS 11, and Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS or later. We do not recommend using Chromebook with Google Chrome OS. Webropol supports the following up-to-date browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari. Other modern browsers may also work. Do not use Internet Explorer. Please make sure that you have JavaScript and cookies enabled. Note that JavaScript and cookies are enabled automatically in modern browsers.
Identification
The applicant must show a valid ID when attending the exam at Pasila campus. A valid ID is a passport or a Finnish official ID card or a Finnish Driving License or an EU/EEA country Identity Card. Other types of IDs are not accepted. Without a valid ID the applicant cannot attend the exam.
The following documents are accepted as proof of identity:
passport
Finnish identity card with a photo, issued by police
Finnish driver’s license
another EU/ETA country identity card with a photo
An expired passport or a Finnish ID card is acceptable, if it has expired max. one year ago. We must be able to identify you from the picture on your ID. Without a valid ID you cannot attend the entrance exam.
Individual arrangements in the entrance examination
If you need individual arrangements for Haaga-Helia's entrance exam, please fill in and submit the relevant application to Haaga-Helia by 18 September 2024, 15.00 o'clock Finnish time.
Co-operation with other universities of applied sciences
Kindly note that Haaga-Helia's Master degree programmes accept only entrance examination results gained in its own examination. Scores received in the entrance examinations of other degree programmes in Finland or abroad are not transferrable / accepted to this programme. Also, note that Haaga-Helia UAS does not arrange the Master degree programme’s entrance examination abroad.