Finn-American Girl Looking to Study In Suomi. Advice?

[Rosamunda]

If you want to study for a Bachelors degree you need to look at the programmes offered by the universities of applied science

I think you can find answers to most of your questions on here:
https://opintopolku.fi/wp2/en/higher-ed ... -sciences/

Selection usually takes place according to the application (a points system) and sometimes an entrance exam.

Both education and translation would normally be Masters degree programmes at an academic university. I don't think you will find any Bachelor programmes in those fields. Oulu university used to offer a couple, but now they are both Masters.

[Pursuivant]

Well, the thing is what you "want" and what you "can have". All those you "want" to study require a fluent level of Finnish to firstly get in and then do a bachelors degree in your selected faculty. Its actually you apply for a "masters degree pipeline", an "university bachelors" degree is a "school dropout" still - any job requiring such a degree assumes a masters.

In English you have available all the UAS's with bachelor degrees - now even they tend to advertise themselves as "practical", they do have some flippy degrees like "international marketing" that are about as useful as pissing in your sock in the winter to keep warm to finding a job in Finland. Theres mainly Engineering, nursing, IT, hotel&tourism, and then a few specialised business areas like multilingual management assistant... I think theres some social degrees but again, the winos speak Finnish, so...

As for life after high school. You can go to college, I think theres a few left, but most are now UAS's. You can go to an UAS for a bachelor degree, or then a "real university" for a masters degree. The main paper entitling you to Uni is the "matriculation examination" with fancy latin grades. For example I have a "magna cum laude approbatur" which back in the day was maybe a "B" in the English scale. With those papers I wouldn't just "go" to an uni. And it kind of depends on what subjects you "write" where you intend to apply.

For the average thick like me, there were the entrance examinations. Depending on the school and faculty you had to read maybe the 1st years course books by heart or have the equivalent knowlege and take a test. For the rich kids theres prep courses, you basically need to go on one to get into law or med school and unless you're a prodigy in maths the engineering as well. UAS examinations are far less stringent, again depending on the school and faculty. I think I did a maths test and an IQ test to get into IT, but I'd actually done the maths for hotel management and that was my 2nd choice... Colleges again they have a test but rather check you can tie your shoelaces and dont lick the windows...

Of course, not everyone goes to a high school, theres an option of a vocational school, a college or a combination. And you can get in to uni from all, it just may be slightly more challenging off a vocational school base.

I don't know if it was you I said this, but one option would be to enroll in eiraedu.fi - its an adult high school, and press through the Finnish matriculation, in Finnish, if you reallyreallyreally "want" to Finnish uni.

[Pursuivant]

but who wants to survive on rice

those whom beans make fart

[Pursuivant]

One way to look at the UAS is www.admissions.fi
They also have a link to each UAS and their "in English" selection...
Some courses have two intakes, some only one. Theres certain UAS that band together so you can take one test and apply to different UASes but theres a few that have thrir own. Also the entrance/tests differ by UAS and the course - some have prerequisite materials.

[betelgeuse]

Ok, looks like you don't need to show means of support if you manage to get an application approved as a Finnish descendant.
http://www.migri.fi/remigration/descend ... sh_citizen

You should probably still keep the above amounts in mind though so that you know what you will need in order to buy rice. Or beans.

Like I said in the other thread the OP started, she will be able to claim benefits like citizens. This means she only needs to cross the border and the state will take care of the rest (as long as the OP is able to find the right offices to fill the paper work).

[Redshift]

Do you have also Finnish citizenship or can you get it? If so, I don't think there's a requirement for a specific amount of savings. And you'll be entitled to Government support once here.

The application process require you to send your high school diplomas and be invited to an entrance exam (exam + interview + other things some times). Then the vacancies are filled according to those scores.