From Open UAS to degree student

Before you start your degree studies, you can request the study certificate from the Student Office.

After your study right has started, you can upload an official study certificate and transcript of records yourself from the Peppi study information system. To log in to Peppi, you need to activate your Turku UAS user ID.

You can find the documents in Peppi by selecting “Orders” in the navigation bar.

• Select the document you want to order.
• Select the language and press order.
• Go to the Documents tab, where you will see the document you have ordered and can download it for yourself.

If for some reason you do not receive a study certificate as a self-service from Peppi, you can also order a study certificate by e-mail from the Student Office once your studies have started.

Do you need other forms? If you need a confirmation from Turku UAS, for example on a TE Office form, please fill in your own information to form and send it to the Student Office. Write in the email that you are a new student and the degree programme to which you have been accepted to.

Once you have been accepted for a Bachelor’s degree your degree study right starts at the beginning of the next semester as follows:

• 1 August when the application period was in spring, with the open UAS study right ending on 31 July.
• 1 January when the application period was in autumn, with the open UAS study right ending 31 December.

Once you have been accepted for a Master’s degree, your degree study right begins as you have chosen on the application form. The degree study right either at the beginning of the month following your admission or at the beginning of the next semester.

• If you have selected on the application form that your right to study will start immediately at the beginning of the month following the admission, your open UAS study right expires on the last day of the month of your admission.
• If you chose to start your degree study right at the beginning of the next semester, your Open UAS study right expires at the end of the current semester (31 July / 31 December).

For those selected as degree students in June, the degree study right starts on 1 August, with the open UAS study right ending on 31 July.

If you completed your Open UAS studies at Turku UAS, your Open UAS study right ends when degree study right begins. You do not need to resign from the open UAS studies.

If you completed your Open UAS studies at another higher education institution, please check the Open UAS study right guidelines with the higher education institution where you completed your Open UAS studies.

If you have been accepted as a degree student, you can postpone the start of your studies by registering as non-attending. As a first-year degree student you can only do this for a statutory reason.

Read more about registering as non-attending

Degree students at universities of applied sciences and universities pay a health care fee to Kela. As a degree student at a higher education institution, you can use the services of the Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS).

Find out more about FSHS services

The student healthcare fee is part of the overall funding for healthcare for university students. You have to pay this fee even if you do not receive student financial aid form Kela, use occupational health services instead of the FSHS, or have taken a private health insurance to satisfy the requirements for obtaining a residence permit, for example.

Read more about the health care fee

If you have social security coverage from another EU or EEA country, Switzerland or Great Britain and Northern Ireland, you do not have to pay the healthcare fee. However, you can use the services of the FSHS. Find out what you need to do on the Kela website.

Payment of the healthcare fee

The healthcare fee must be paid for each semester. Kela does not send a separate invoice for the fee, but you must remember to pay it yourself.

The due date for the healthcare contribution depends on when you register as attending.

See Kela’s website for more detailed payment instructions and due dates.

Your student ID number will change when you continue your studies as a degree student. You can see your new student ID number in Peppi by clicking on your name in the top right-hand corner of the home page.

Your user ID for Turku UAS systems will remain the same. However, you will need to reactivate your user ID when your degree study right starts:

• Register your user ID at https://id.turkuamk.fi
• Activate multi-factor authentication (MFA) after re-registration. Read the instructions.

Note: When your study right is about to change from Open UAS student to degree student, you will receive an automatic message about the expiry of your Open UAS user ID. There is no need to react to this message and your data will not be lost when you reactivate your user account according to the instructions above.

If you have problems activating your user ID or MFA, or if you do not have a Finnish ID or online banking credentials, please contact IT Services.

Data preservation

In principle, all the data you have stored in the various Turku UAS information systems will remain unchanged when you change from a path student to a degree student and reactivate your user ID at the latest at the start of your degree study right. For example, the contents of your email inbox or OneDrive folders will not be lost. The folders of the e-learning platforms of the courses you have completed with your Open UAS student number will also be saved.

However, we recommend that you keep important data and files to yourself. Even in incomplete implementations, lost folders cannot be recovered in itsLearning. In principle, data in e-learning environments will be lost within 31 days after the open UAS study right has ended.

Continuation of studies

Your studies will continue as a degree student, usually in the same group as a Open UAS path student.

The group code and tutor teacher remain the same. For the upcoming courses in the semester, you will enroll with your new student number in Peppi.

If you have any questions about the group or the planning of your ISP, you should contact study guidance counsellor before the start of your degree studies.

For questions related to study rights, study documents and other study administration, students can contact the Student Services Office.

Note: If you have applied for and received a place to study in a different degree programme than your path studies or you have completed other than path studies at Turku UAS, please contact study guidance counsellor in advance. It may not be possible to continue your studies seamlessly. Your degree studies may therefore start in the first academic year.

Unfinished or ongoing courses

If you have unfinished or ongoing implementations (courses), you can ask the Student Office to transfer you to them with your new student ID number.

See also: data preservation

Accreditation of Open UAS studies

Your Turku UAS Open path studies study attainments are manually accredited to your new degree student ID number. You do not need to apply for their accreditation separately.

The accreditation of other studies, such as other Open UAS studies or previous studies, please contact the study guidance counsellor or the person responsible for the program.

Please note that we accredit your open UAS studies during the semester. They will not be immediately transferred to the new degree student ID number.

Your new role will be visible in Tuudo about a week after you start your degree studies and you’ll be able to use the degree student’s card in Tuudo.

If you are a member of the Student Union TUO or have other student cards, remember to update your details on them too, if necessary.

As a degree student, you are entitled to Kela’s meal subsidy, and you can buy a student-priced lunch at the student restaurants. You also get a student discount on travel tickets from companies such as Matkahuolto, VR and Föli. You can get these discounts with the Tuudo student card or a student card for TUO members.

If you need a paper Kela meal subsidy card, you can pick one up at the Student Office upon presentation of your ID. If you do not have Tuudo or TUO member’s student card, you can also obtain a FöIi student discount application from the student office.