Optional and elective studies for degree students

Guide for planning and choosing the optional and elective studies in your degree.

When selecting optional studies, consider your own goals, areas of interest, and how the optional courses support your degree as a whole. Also, take into account the needs and demands of the working life when considering optional and elective studies. Through the extensive range of optional studies offered by the University of Jyväskylä, as well as various collaborative networks, you have access to versatile options so you can focus and personalise your degree the way you want.

To help the planning of studies, the structure of some Master’s degree programmes contains recommendations for optional studies and study modules. In some degree programmes, there is a specified mandatory set of courses in another subject defined in the curriculum.

In general, you have the right to choose optional and elective studies at JYU. This means that you can select a study unit or a study module for your personal study plan, and complete it according to the instructions in Sisu. Please note that certain studies may require an application, while others may involve a selection process based on an aptitude test, and in some cases, there may be other valid reasons for restricting the right. Check the study guide to see whether there is a open completion right or an application process for the studies.

If you need help with planning your studies, please contact your study advisor or education coordinator. You can verify from the education coordinator if the studies made elsewhere can be included in your degree.

If you are doing doctoral studies, please contact your faculty's education coordinator regarding the planning of your studies and studies completed elsewhere.

In addition to the our university's own offering, various opportunities for optional studies are available, for example, through collaborative networks.

Sisu guide: adding optional studies to your study plan

Optional and elective studies at the University of Jyväskylä

The right to study minor/elective study modules is unrestricted at the University, excluding subjects with an entrance examination, an aptitude test or other justified reason to limit the number of students in the subject. If the right to study a study module is not unrestricted, students must apply for the right to study from the faculty of the subject in question.

Optional and elective studies in the Study guide

Faculties' elective and optional studies

From the menu below, you can explore the elective and optional studies offered by the department or faculty. Select the field of study you want more information about.

Further instructions

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Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics

Here is a list of study modules delivered in English that suit our international master's degree programmes. Please note that you are encouraged to consult with your study advisor about the electives studies of your degree. JSBE master's programmes do not require the completion of an elective study module. The study modules delivered in English are open for all students.

JSBE Study modules

Basic Business Studies (25-28 ECTS)
Basic Studies in Entrepreneurship (25 ECTS)

Please note that JSBE course admission is based on study rights and prerequisites (background study requirements), not on the time of your registration. So we do not use the "first come, first served" method at JSBE. Therefore, even if the course seems to be full and you are on the waiting list, if you are a JSBE student, you will have priority to JSBE courses over the students from other faculties.

Study modules from other faculties