LAB Rolling Admission for bachelor's degrees

Degree Programmes in LAB Rolling Admission

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Eligibility criteria

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Academic performance is calculated as a percentage on a scale of 0–100%, based on the applicant’s overall grade average and the highest possible grade in the degree.

The applicant must meet the direct admission threshold for the programme.

Threshold requirements for academic success:

• All other programmes: 75%
• Bachelor of Health Care: 85%

Additional requirement for AI and Digital Infrastructure Engineering: In addition to meeting the 75% threshold, the applicant’s completed qualification must include successfully completed mathematics studies.

Upper secondary qualifications completed in Afghanistan provide general eligibility to apply for Bachelor's programmes. As the qualifications cannot currently be verified, applicants are also required to provide results from an accepted standardized test, such as the ACT or SAT.

The following qualifications completed in Finland are accepted in certificate-based admission:

• Finnish Matriculation Examination
• International Baccalaureate (IB)
• European Baccalaureate (EB)
• Reifeprüfung (RP) / Deutsche Internationale Abitur (DIA)
• Vocational Upper Secondary Qualification completed on or after 1 August 2015 (excluding competence-based qualifications)

Minimum requirement for Matriculation Examination

• 93 points out of 198 in the national UAS scoring models.
• Additional requirement for AI and Digital Infrastructure Engineering: a minimum grade of M in the basic syllabus mathematics or a minimum grade of C in the advanced syllabus mathematics.

Minimum requirements for Vocational upper secondary qualifications

Vocational Upper Secondary Qualifications are assessed using the national UAS scoring models.

To be eligible for admission, applicant must meet all of the following requirements:

• Communication and interaction competence: at least 15 points out of 20
• Skills in mathematics and natural sciences*: at least 15 points out of 20
• Weighted grade average of the qualification: at least 42 points out of 90

* Applies only to Engineering programmes.

IB, EB and RP/DIA qualifications

• 93 points out of 198 in the national UAS scoring models.
• Please check the “International qualifications” section further down on this page for more detailed IB/EB requirements.
   

The following qualifications are not considered in certificate-based admission:

• Specialist vocational qualifications
• Further vocational qualifications
• Vocational upper secondary qualifications completed before 1 August 2015
• Vocational upper secondary qualifications completed as competence-based qualifications (näyttötutkinto)
• Older vocational qualifications under the previous system
• Post-secondary vocational qualifications (opistoaste)

Applicants holding one of these qualifications may meet the admission criteria with an SAT score.

International A-levels (Cambridge/Pearson)

• At least three (3) subjects at A-level or six (6) AS-levels. Two AS-level subjects correspond to one A-level subject.
• A-levels average threshold requirement C. Two AS-levels with a grade of A correspond to an A-level grade of C.
• Additional requirement for AI and Digital Infrastructure Engineering: a minimum grade of C in Mathematics A Level or a minimum grade of B in Mathematics AS Level.
   

International Baccalaureate

• Three (3) HL and three (3) SL courses
• IB Diploma awarded
• 93 points out of 198 in the national UAS scoring models. 
   

• Additional requirements for AI and Digital Infrastructure Engineering: 

  • 24 or more total points

  • At least grade 5 in one humanities or natural sciences subject

  • In Mathematics

    • a minimum grade of 4: Analysis and approaches HL/SL, Applications and interpretation HL, Further Mathematics, Mathematics HL/SL or Mathematical methods, or

    • a minimum grade of 5: Applications and Interpretation SL or Mathematical Studies
       

European Baccalaureate

• A completed European Baccalaureate Diploma
• 93 points out of 198 in the national UAS scoring models.
   

• Additional requirements for AI and Digital Infrastructure Engineering: 

  • A passing grade in Mathematics in the Advanced syllabus, or

  • A minimum grade of 7.00 in Mathematics in the Basic syllabus (3 hours).
     

French Baccalauréat

• The overall grade average for the degree must be at least 12/20.
• Additional requirement for AI and Digital Infrastructure Engineering: a minimum grade of 13/20 in Mathematics

Applicants who hold a relevant upper secondary-level diploma granting eligibility for higher education are eligible to apply based on either an SAT (Suite of Assessments Test) or an ACT.

When applying with SAT or ACT, there is no additional requirement for proving your proficiency in English or your mathematics skills in any other way. Only tests taken after 1 January 2025 are accepted.

SAT test threshold requirements:

• Evidence-Based Reading and Writing 550
• Math 550
   

Verifying your SAT results

LAB University of Applied Sciences only accepts SAT test scores submitted directly by the test organizer, College Board. When registering for the SAT, please select LAB University of Applied Sciences as a score recipient. The institution code for LAB University of Applied Sciences is 7191.

If not having chosen LAB University of Applied Sciences as a score recipient while registering for the test or, applying with earlier test results and wish to make them available to LAB University of Applied Sciences, you need to order additional SAT Score Reports.

The SAT results must be received by LAB University of Applied Sciences / Admission Services directly from College Board and be available by 30 May 2027.
 

ACT test threshold requirements:

• ACT English & Reading 25
• ACT Math 25
   

Verifying your ACT results

LAB University of Applied Sciences only accepts ACT test scores if an official score report is received directly from the test organizer ACT. 

To get your test results submitted to LAB University of Applied Sciences, please choose LAB University of Applied Sciences as a score recipient when registering for the ACT tests.

All following language tests are accepted by LAB University of Applied Sciences. These language test results must meet the minimum score and validity requirements mentioned below. 

If the results need to be verified via the test organiser’s webpage, remember to verify the results before applying. If we cannot verify your language test results online, the results cannot be used as proof of your English language skills. The results of language tests are valid for two years from the date of the test.

*LAB accepts IELTS One Skill Retake results.
**LAB accepts TOEFL iBT MyBest® scores.

You do not need to submit a language test result in English if you meet any of the criteria below.

Finnish matriculation examination and vocational qualification

• Finnish matriculation examination with a minimum grade of M in English (Advanced syllabus).

• Finnish vocational upper secondary qualification in which the points awarded for the Communication and interaction competence -module are at least 15 points.
   

International matriculation examinations

• International Baccalaureate (IB):

  • completed in English, or

  • completed in another language, at least:

    • 2 in English A1,

    • 5 in English A2,

    • 2 in English A (literature/language and literature/language and performance) , or

    • 5 in English B.
       

• European Baccalaureate (EB):

  • an accepted grade in English L1, or

  • at least 7 in English L2/L3.
     

Secondary-level diplomas from selected European countries

A diploma formally equivalent to the Finnish matriculation examination, completed or in progress in one of the following countries, with the required minimum grade in English:

• Bulgaria: Gimnazii - Diploma za Zavurcheno Sredno Obrazovanie, English grade at least 5.5/6
• Estonia: Gümnaasiumi Lõputunnistus, B2 or C1 English grade at least 3.5/5
• Hungary: Gimnáziumi Érettségi Bizonyítvány & Technikum/Szakgimnázium, Advanced english grade at least 4/5
• Latvia: Atestāts par Vispārējo Vidējo Izglītību, English grade at least 8/10
• Lithuania: Brandos Atestatas, English grade at least 8/10
• Poland: Świadectwo Dojrzalości in progress English grade at least 4.5/5.5 or completed English (matura) 70%
• Romania: Diploma de Bacalaureat, English grade at least 8/10
• Slovakia: Vysvedčenie o Maturitnej skúške, English grade at least 2/5
   

Qualifications completed in English

• Upper secondary qualification or a higher education degree completed in English in the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, or New Zealand.

• Upper secondary qualification or a higher education degree completed in English at an educational institution physically located in an EU/EEA country or Switzerland and administered or supervised by that country.
   

International English-language qualifications 

• Cambridge/Pearson International A-Levels

  • completed in English, or

  • completed in another language, at least B in English A
     

• GCSE or Cambridge International IGCSE

  • English as First language, syllabus 0500 and 0990: minimum grade C

  • English as Second language, syllabus 0510: minimum grade B
     

Standardised tests

• ACT: combined score of at least 49 in the English and Reading sections; test taken on or after 1 January 2025.

• SAT: at least 550 in the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing. The required sections of an accepted SAT test must have been taken on or after 1 January 2025.