How to apply: Joint Master's Degree Programme in Action Neuroscience

Learn how to apply to the English-taught Joint Master's Degree Programme in Action Neuroscience.

Timetable

Application period opens	7 January 2027 at 8.00 a.m. (UTC+2)
Deadline for submitting the application	28 January 2027 at 11.59 p.m. (UTC+2)
Deadline for application attachments	4 February 2027 at 11.59 p.m. (UTC+2)
Online interviews (if applicable)	TBA
Applicants are informed of the results at the latest	15 April 2027
Deadline for accepting your study place	13 July 2027 at 11.59 p.m. (UTC+3)
Deadline for certified copies of your educational documents (if conditionally admitted)	Paper copies: 15 July 2027 at 3.00 p.m. (UTC+3) Electronic documents: 15 July 2027 at 11.59 p.m. (UTC+3)
Studies begin	Late August 2027

Admission criteria for the Joint Master's Degree Programme in Action Neuroscience

Application process step by step

1. Start getting ready early! Familiarise yourself with the admission criteria. Start acquiring the required documents in advance. Book and take a language test as soon as possible, if necessary.

2. Submit your online application form on Studyinfo.fi during the application period: Make sure to set aside enough time to do it. If you are not a citizen of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland, you may need to pay the application fee. Check your email (including the spam folder) often throughout the application process.

3. Upload the necessary attachments to your application form by the given deadline: Submit your attachments well in advance of the deadline to avoid the last-minute rush. Late submissions will not be considered.

4. Wait for news about the next step: After all the applications have been processed, you may be invited to an online interview. Once you receive your interview invitation, you will only have a few days to confirm your time slot. In case your application is deemed ineligible or will not proceed to the next phase, we will notify you.

5. Wait for the admissions decision: The University will make the admissions decisions in accordance with the admission criteria. You will be informed of the results via email by the given date.

6. Submit the required documents for verification if your admission is conditional: You must provide officially certified paper copies or electronic documents that meet our requirements. Please begin acquiring these documents right away if you have not already; this could take several months depending on the country/institution. If the required documents are not received by the deadline, your admission will be cancelled.

Who is eligible to apply

This section describes the general eligibility requirements for our English-taught master’s degree programmes. Please check the admission criteria for the exact requirements.

To be eligible, you must also submit a complete application. If any of the necessary attachments are missing, we will not be able to process your application.

You must hold (or complete by the given deadline) a bachelor's degree or equivalent from a recognised institution of higher education. Please see suitable fields of previous degree from the admission criteria of the programme.

As a rule, if your previous degree qualifies you for master’s degree studies in the awarding country, it also gives you general eligibility for our master’s programmes. However, if your degree is significantly less extensive than a Finnish bachelor’s degree (180 ECTS credits, which is equivalent to three years of full-time study), you may not be eligible.

If you already hold a master’s degree that gives you eligibility for doctoral studies in Finland, we recommend applying for a doctoral programme instead.

Every applicant, including native English speakers, must prove their English proficiency using one of the given methods at the time of application. Depending on your educational background and the programme(s) you are applying to, you may be required to take one of the approved language tests. This requirement cannot be waived.

English language requirements in the Action Neuroscience programme

We do not consider any test report forms received after the given deadline. For this reason, please book and take one of the approved tests as soon as possible, if required. To book your test, please visit the website of the test organiser.

If you are a final-year student and the degree proving your eligibility is incomplete at the time of application, you can be admitted on the condition that you graduate and submit the relevant educational documents in time to meet the given deadline (15 July 2027). If you fail to do so, your admission will be cancelled. If you graduate after our deadline, please wait until 2028 to apply. If you graduate by the deadline but the degree certificate is not yet awarded to you, JYU offers a Degree verification form, which your university can fill in and submit to us.

You will apply in the same manner as those who have already graduated, with the exception that you are not required to submit a degree certificate with your application. You must, however, submit a transcript of records of studies you have completed by the time of application (and all other required attachments listed in the admission criteria) by the given deadline.

If you use your unfinished degree as proof of your English skills, it must be the same degree as the one proving your general eligibility.

Where to apply?

You will submit your application through the Studyinfo.fi website during the application period. The link will be added here once available.

You can submit your application only during the designated application period on Studyinfo.fi.

You must send in your application form before the application period ends. Even if you started filling out the form on time, you will not be able to submit it after the deadline. Filling out the application form could take a while, and we recommend starting well in advance.

Please also take note of the following:

You are only allowed to submit one application form! If you submit multiple forms, only the most recent one will be considered; the others will be cancelled.
Please use your personal email address. Do not use a school or corporate email that you may lose access to after graduating or changing jobs.
You cannot save your application form as a draft. If you close the form without sending it, your information will be lost.
Once you have sent in your application form, you will get an email with a personal link that you can use to go back and make changes until the application period closes.

If you are not a citizen of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland, you must pay an application fee (EUR 100) when applying to programmes that lead to a higher education degree in Finland (excl. doctoral programmes and Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters programmes). You are not required to pay the application fee if you hold a specific type of residence permit in Finland.

You only need to pay the application fee once, provided that the studies begin in the same academic term (autumn 2027).

Please visit the following web page to learn more: Do I have to pay the application fee? (Studyinfo.fi)

How to submit your attachments

You must submit all the necessary documents for your application to be considered. You can find a full list of all the required attachments in the programme-specific admission criteria. We kindly ask you not to send any other documents, as these cannot be considered and only slow down the processing of your application.

When applying, you must upload the required attachments to your application form on Studyinfo.fi by the given deadline (the exact time will be announced soon). We do not consider any attachments received after the deadline. The documents must be fully uploaded and submitted before this deadline.

Before submitting your educational documents, please make sure that all the required information is included. Our detailed document requirements will be published later this autumn.

Before you can be fully admitted, the University must verify the authenticity of your educational documents. If your degree was still unfinished at the time of application, we must also be able to verify that you have graduated.

For these reasons, you must submit officially certified paper copies or official electronic documents that meet our requirements. There may be country-specific requirements you must follow. These documents must reach the University by the given deadline (15 July 2027, the exact time will be announced soon). Otherwise, your admission will be cancelled.

The detailed instructions will be published at a later date.

Information regarding online admission interviews

As a part of the application process, you may invited to participate in an online admissions interview. The interviews are conducted on the video conference platform Zoom.

Please note that due to regulatory reasons, Zoom services are restricted in the following countries or regions: Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Ukraine (Crimea, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia regions). Please see further details at Zoom support website.

If an applicant resides in one of these countries or regions, and they are invited to an online admission interview, it is the applicant's responsibility to arrange participation to the interview, for instance by travelling to a country or region where the service can be used.

Individual arrangements

Individual arrangements are practical adjustments the University makes to remove or reduce a disadvantage related to the applicant's disability. You may require special arrangements if you have a diagnosed disability or medical condition that affects your ability to participate in the admission process, such as hearing impairment or dyslexia.

The instructions on how to apply for individual arrangements will be published here later this autumn.

After receiving the admission results

If you are offered a study place, you must formally accept it on Studyinfo.fi by the given deadline (see Timetable). Otherwise, you will lose it.

One study place per term provision

Accepting a study place is a binding choice, and you cannot cancel or change your choice later. Your admissions letter will include further instructions.

You may accept only one offer of admission to a study programme leading to a higher education degree in Finland in education that begins in the same academic term (1 August – 31 December).

This applies to:

bachelor's and master's degrees awarded by Finnish universities of applied sciences
bachelor's degrees and master's degrees awarded by Finnish universities
licentiate and doctoral degrees awarded by Finnish universities

When you accept a study place, all your other study rights that would start in Finland during the autumn semester of 2027 will be automatically cancelled.

The provision does not apply to study places awarded by educational institutions outside of Finland.

For more information, please see: One study place per term provision (Studyinfo.fi)

After accepting your study place, you will be directed to register at the University and pay the Student Union membership fee (i.e., the registration fee). If you are liable to pay tuition fees, you can register only after you have paid the tuition fee for your first academic year. You also cannot register while your admission is conditional.

Further instructions will be provided to you along with your admissions letter.

You may submit a written request to rectify the admissions decision if you believe the University of Jyväskylä has made a mistake, such as applying the admission criteria incorrectly or miscalculating your admissions score.

Do not request rectification just to get feedback or more information on your application; only request rectification if you believe the University made an error in handling your application.

How to request rectification?

How to apply: Joint Master's Degree Programme in Action Neuroscience

Timetable

Application process step by step

Who is eligible to apply

Previous degree

Language proficiency

Applying with an unfinished degree

Where to apply?

When and how to apply?

Do I need to pay an application fee?

How to submit your attachments

During the application phase

If admitted

Information regarding online admission interviews

Individual arrangements

After receiving the admission results

Accepting your study place

Annual registration

Rectifying an admission decision