Bachelor’s Programme in International Business
Applications
Exemptions from required language studies and maturity test
The application form to request for exemptions from language requirements is found here. Send the form to mari.syvaoja@aalto.fi.
Swedish Business Communication is required of those who have had Finnish as their language of education in comprehensive (grades 1–9) and upper secondary (grades 10–12) school in Finland. Those who have had Swedish as their language of education in comprehensive and upper secondary school in Finland, will complete a special advanced course in Swedish language. For others, the missing 3 cr can be earned by taking other language and communication courses.
If you have got your upper secondary education in Finland in any other language than in Finnish or Swedish, and you do not have sufficient knowledge in Swedish, you can request to be exempted from doing the Swedish Business Communication course. In case you get the exemption, you need to complete the missing 3 credits either by taking other language courses or other additional IB courses in the field of business communication.
Finnish Business Communication is required of those who have had Finnish or Swedish as their language of education in comprehensive (grades 1–9) and upper secondary (grades 10–12) school in Finland. Other students are required to complete the course Finnish for Foreigners.
If you have got your upper secondary education in any other language than Finnish or Swedish, and you do not have sufficient knowledge to complete the Finnish Business Communication course, but you know enough Finnish so that the Finnish for Foreigners is too easy for you, you can request to be exempted from doing Finnish Business Communication or Finnish for Foreigners. In case you get the exemption, you need to complete the missing 3 credits from other courses.
Once the Bachelor’s Thesis is completed, all candidates for the BScBA degree must complete and pass the Maturity Test. The test is to show that the student is familiar with the area or field in which the Bachelor’s Thesis is written and to demonstrate proficiency in Finnish or Swedish (if a Finnish citizen).
If you have got your upper secondary education in any other language than Finnish or Swedish (if Finnish citizen), and you do not have sufficient knowledge to complete the test in Finnish or Swedish, you can apply for the exemption to write the Maturity Test in English.
You can get a grant based on your study performance
The Ilkka Kontula Foundation awards incentive scholarships for academic excellence to top-performing students who are pursuing a Bachelor of Science (Economics and Business Administration) and have earned at least 80 credits in their first three academic terms as an attending student. The recipients of the Ilkka Kontula Foundation scholarship receive a certificate of award and 1000 euros.
Academic performance is determined on the basis of the weighted grade average of the credits earned in the first three academic terms in which the student has enrolled as an attending student. Only study attainments graded on a scale of 1 to 5 are included in the calculation of the weighted average grade. Study attainments graded Pass are not counted towards the average grade, but they are counted towards the total number of credits earned in the first three academic terms.
The study credits for the third attendance term must be registered by the end of February, and the student has to apply for credit transfers by the first week of February at the latest. Please note! The processing time for credit transfer applications is three weeks.
The incentive scholarships of the Ilkka Kontula Foundation are awarded in May-April annually.
The dean of the School of Business wants to encourage students to graduate with excellent grades in the target time set for their degree. To this end, the school publishes a Dean’s List in a special event every October. Students on the Dean’s List will receive an incentive scholarship of 1000 euros and a certificate of award.
To make it to the Dean’s List, students must finish their degree within the target time set for the degree and rate among the top 3% in academic performance among the students who began their studies in the same year. Students do not need to apply for inclusion on the list: the school checks the eligibility of all its graduates at the end of each academic year.
Academic performance is determined on the basis of the weighted average grade of all the studies towards the degree.
The target time (or the normative duration of studies) is
- no more than 10 academic terms as an attending student for those pursuing both a bachelor’s and master’s degree at the Aalto University School of Business.
- no more than 4 academic terms as an attending student for those pursuing only a master’s degree at the Aalto University School of Business.
- no more than 6 academic terms as an attending student for those pursuing only a bachelor’s degree at the Aalto University School of Business.
The target time does not include terms that the student has been enrolled as a non-attending student.