Vesper wrote:really? is the UAS degree valued less than University degree in Finland? I've been wondering about that.
If we look at it from an academic point of view, ie postgraduate study opportunities, it's not so much a question of
valuing the degree (or depends on what you mean by the term) as a question of what the degrees consist of. You see, the universities and polytechnics are two separate sectors of higher education - the first offering higher academic education and the other higher vocational education. This is how the Ministry pages put it
The mission of universities is to conduct scientific research and provide instruction and postgraduate education based on it. Polytechnics train professionals in response to labour market needs and conduct R&D which supports instruction and promotes regional development in particular.
Also if you look at the programmes the two sectors offer, they do not overlap very much - exceptions however include e.g. the engineering programmes and business. You can't study nursing at universities, and you can't become a school teacher if you study at an UAS (although they do have programmes for vocational school teachers)... and so on.
Regarding busines studies, I seem to recollect that in this "common" field the Bachelor's level at the universities (and schools of economics) goes deeper in the theoretical academia than the BBA programmes at the UAS's; in other words they may be on a somewhat different level
academically speaking. But this does not mean that an UAS degree would somehow be by definition inferior IMO, I mean, whether you apply for studies at vocational higher education, or "traditional" academic university education... well isn't it a question of your own choice and interests, of what kind of a degree you want?
This whole "value" question is sort of absurd since it depends on whom you ask. Some people may frown at UAS degrees, while others sneer at pretentious high-brow academia lurking in dusty university corridors. Go figure.
). Could anyone tell me that is that true at all regions in Finland? 
And it sounds not practical to some extent, since competition is tense at the moment even among Finns, without high diploma, working experiences, expertise and Finnish anguage, I could hardly imagine I could find a job concerning that. If we really have to poss 3 years' working experiences, could you give me some advice that how could we get possible jobs? 
