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The University of Turku was the most popular university in this spring’s second joint application round for the Finnish-language degree programmes which ended on 27 March 2024. The total number of applicants to the University's Finnish-language degree programmes was 31,824, which is also the highest number of applicants ever to the University of Turku. The previous applicant record from 2021 (31,511) was broken in the last hour of the application round.

In the first joint application round of 2024, the international Master’s degree programmes of the University of Turku received a total of 10 239 applications. The number of applications grew by 72 percent compared to the number of applications in 2023.

The proposed scoring model would ease the pressures on general upper secondary students and allow them to focus on subjects interesting them. The new scoring model for certificate-based admission will be published in autumn 2023.

The universities will decide on the reform of the scoring model for certificate-based admission in 2023. The new model will be introduced in 2026. The aim is also to increase collaboration related to entrance examinations among universities. Relief for applicants will be provided by a timetable reform aimed at making it unnecessary for those admitted through the certificate-based admission procedure to prepare for entrance examinations from 2025 onwards.

The application round to Finnish-language degree programmes in Finnish universities ended on 30 March 2022. For the first time, the University of Turku was the most popular higher education institution in Finland in the number of applicants. Altogether 29,504 prospective students applied to the University of Turku.

The University of Turku has a total of 16 international degree programmes open for applications during the joint application round on 5–19 January 2022. Three of the 14 Master’s degree programmes are available for the first time, offered by the new Faculty of Technology.