Individual arrangements for applicants

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

These arrangements depend on your specific needs and could include, for example:

• extra time for tests with a time limit
• accommodated methods of completion
• assistive devices
• personal assistant

Individual arrangements do not impact your admission score. You may not receive point credit on the grounds of requiring individual arrangements.

Individual arrangements will not be granted on the basis of insufficient language proficiency level.

If you have needs that should be considered during the admission process, you must submit a written request for individual arrangements and the necessary attachment(s) to the JYU Admission Services within seven days after the application period has ended.

This means that if you are applying for an English-taught bachelor's or master’s degree programme in 2026, the following documents should reach the University by 28 January 2026 at 3:00 p.m. UTC+2:

• Application form for individual arrangements (docx)
• An expert statement (e.g., a medical certificate) that specifies the kind of recommended individual arrangements and the grounds for granting such arrangements. If the document is issued in a language other than Finnish, Swedish, or English, you must submit an official translation along with the original language version. Please see further requirements for the expert statement below in the section "Application attachments".

Submit your application form by the given deadline, even if you cannot acquire an expert statement in time. You may send the necessary attachment(s) later. If you intend to do so, please state it in your application. The University will consider late expert statements whenever possible.

The University will make efforts to accommodate late applications but is not obliged to do so. It is possible that individual arrangements cannot be made if the application is received too close to the date of examination, or the requested individual arrangements are otherwise impossible to arrange.

You must submit an expert statement (e.g., a medical certificate) that specifies the kind of recommended individual arrangements and the grounds for granting such arrangements. The document must clearly indicate:

• the grounds for individual arrangements (possible diagnoses and other grounds)
• what kind of individual arrangements are recommended
• the applicant's personal informal
• the name of the person issuing the statement and their occupation or expert position
• issue date

If the document is issued in a language other than Finnish, Swedish, or English, you must submit an official translation along with the original language version.

If individual arrangements have been previously recommended to you for higher education studies, please note that the same statement may not suffice for admission purposes.

Professional competence of the person issuing the statement

The person issuing the statement must have sufficient competence to assess your functional impairments and your need for individual arrangements.

Injury or sickness: You must submit a medical statement issued by a doctor.

Hyperactivity or inattention disorder (ADHD or ADD): You must submit a medical statement issued by a doctor or psychologist.

Reading and writing difficulties: You must submit a statement issued by a special education teacher, psychologist, speech therapist, or a medical specialist (e.g., a paediatric neurologist, neurologist, or a speech pathologist). A decision made by the Finnish Matriculation Examination Board (ylioppilastutkintolautakunta) can also be accepted if:

• the document clearly indicates that you have been granted individual arrangements for a matriculation exam due to a reading or writing difficulty
• you are applying for these same recommended arrangements

Period of validity

The period of validity will be determined on a case-by-case basis, depending on the permanence of your injury, illness, or learning difficulty. The expert statement should state if the impairment is permanent. If the disadvantage is not permanent, the statement should be issued for a fixed period. The University may demand a more recent statement if the document does not have a validity period or does not specify the permanence of the injury, illness, or the functional defect.

A statement regarding dyslexia will be considered if it was issued to you when you were sixteen or older.

You can submit the application form and the necessary attachment(s) to the JYU Admission Services either via secure email or by mail.

Secure email:

Please do not use regular email to submit sensitive information!

Send the email to idp-attachments@jyu.fi using our secure email service.

Please mention “individual arrangements” in the subject line. Leave the GSM field empty.

Mailing address:

Please do not send us any original documents, as they will not be returned!

Bachelor's/Master’s programme admission
Admission Services 
P.O. Box 35 (Building T) 
FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland

We may contact you for further information regarding the arrangements after we have received your application.

The requests for individual arrangements are assessed on a case-by-case basis. The University will inform you about the outcome and any arrangements you have been granted by email as soon as possible before the examination. The decision is exam-specific and valid only in that particular examination.

The University may decide not to grant individual arrangements if, for example, they cannot be arranged within the given time constraints. 

If you are dissatisfied with the individual arrangements you have been granted, please contact the JYU Admission Services without delay. You can submit a formal request for rectification after the results of student selection have been published. You will receive more detailed instructions for doing so along with your result.

If you have questions, please contact the JYU Admission Services at idp-attachments@jyu.fi. Please mention “individual arrangements” in the subject line.

If the message contains sensitive information, please use our secure email service. Make sure to leave the GSM field empty.