Cross-institutional studies give you an opportunity to complete studies in another domestic higher education institution. Study flexibly and benefit of versatile learning opportunities from other higher education institutions as well!
Cross-institutional studies give you a possibility to expand your learning opportunities by completing studies in another domestic higher education institution and to include them in your own degree.
In order to complete cross-institutional studies, you must have a valid study right at your home institution, and you must be registered as a attending student. You will be granted a temporary study right at the destination institution for completing the cross-institutional studies you have been accepted to. With the right to study, you can only complete the cross-institutional studies of your choice.
On this page, you can find information about our cross-institutional study offerings and instructions for cross-institutional study students enrolling to Metropolia UAS. If you are a student of Metropolia, check enrollment instructions for enrolling to another Finnish higher education institution in the Study Guide of the OMA online service.
It is great that you are interested in Metropolia UAS's course offering!
We offer versatile, network-specific offerings based on agreements between Metropolia UAS and other domestic higher education institutions. The cross-institutional study networks offerings often focus on a specific field of study.
Find out more about what cross-institutional study networks have to offer in your home institution's study information system and enroll!
3AMK is a higher education alliance of Haaga-Helia, Laurea and Metropolia, which offers joint courses for those who are interested.
CampusOnline portal offers online courses from more than 20 Finnish universities of applied sciences throughout the year. Studies are available in different scopes and fields, which you can choose the most interesting studies from. Check CampusOnline studies available for you on your UAS's study management system!
The Basic Nursing examinations (hope) network offers collaborative studies between four universities of applied sciences for future nursing professionals. The network includes Metropolia, Centria, Lapland University of Applied Sciences and Kajaani University of Applied Sciences.
Please read carefully instructions below:
Enrollment for Metropolia's studies take mainly place on your home institution's PSP via the cross-institutional study service. When examining cross-institutional studies, you will see the studies you are entitled to enroll for. Please note that you can only enroll for studies at the level of your degree.
Enrollment period is higher education institution specific and you can check it for each course in the course details in study management system of your home institution. You can also find a course description, teaching methods and any prerequisites in the course details.
Make sure to agree on completing the studies with your degree programme before enrolling. Not all cross-institutional studies are applicable to complement your degree.
Check enrollment practices below. When registering for Metropolia's courses via cross-institutional study service, please note that you must register for each course separately.
Depending on the cross-institutional study network you can enroll for studies on the following ways:
Enrollment for 3AMK studies of Metropolia takes place via cross-institutional study service in your home institution with the exception of open university of applied sciences students who enroll either via cross-institutional study service, by filling a separate registration form or in the open open UAS enrollment system. Check enrollment practices at 3AMK website.
If you are enrolling as an open UAS student, please check the registration instructions below.
Enrollment for Metropolia's CampusOnline studies takes place via cross-institutional study service in your home institution. The studies are free of charge for degree, open path and exchange students from the UAS participating the cooperation, when the course is suitable for the degree being completed.
Enrollment for Metropolia's Hope network studies takes place on PSP of one's home institution. The studies are targeted for students studying nursing and health care degrees (bachelor level) in Finnish or English. In addition, students of open university of applied sciences who are studying pathway studies in these degree programmes can enroll for these studies.
Studies available for everyone are published in the enrollment system of Metropolia's open university of applied sciences. Please note, that degree students of Metropolia who have enrolled for attendance may not participate in Metropolia's open UAS studies. Information on open UAS's studies can be found at Metropolia's Open University of Applied Sciences- website.
Enroll to open UAS studies in enrollment system!
Please note, that the courses often have a separate quota for cross-institutional study students, so we recommend to enroll as soon as possible to secure your study place. A separate quota is used for open UAS studies and the study places are announced in the course details in enrollment system.
After your enrollment has been accepted, you may activate your student account of Metropolia (for more information see "User ID and services").
As your enrollment has been approved, activate your user ID at https://password.metropolia.fi/. This van be done with banking credentials or a mobile certificate. If you have neither one, you can collect a one-time password to activate the user ID from Metropolia’s Student and Admission Services’, by presenting an official identity card to them during their opening hours.
With the user ID, you can access to the following services:
Once your study right is valid activate your Metropolia user ID and follow your metropolia.fi -e-mail. You can log in by e-mail at mail.metropolia.fi with your username. E-mails related to the studies is sent to the metropolia.fi e-mail. Only a automatic message sent from the system will come to the e-mail address of your home institution.
All courses have their own workspace in the OMA service. The workspaces are listed in OMA at the top of the front page, below the house icon. Student is automatically a member of the workspaces for the courses he or she has enrolled and accepted in.
Teachers use workspaces for informing students about current matters, course materials and literature. The emails from the workspace are sent to the students' Metropolia email address.
If some other e-learning platform (e.g. Moodle) is used on the course, information about this will be found in the workspace. The same OMA user ID also works in Moodle, but the teacher usually needs to give the key to the Moodle workspace if it's not an open one.
Please also read the general announcements on Metropolia's OMA-intranet.
Instructions for the completion of a 100 % virtual courses can be found from the course description and in most cases from the course workspace in OMA. If you need a course key to log in to a course, you can check it in the course workspace. If needed, you'll get more information from the teacher.
Please check your schedule either in Tuudo or in Lukkarikone.
You may download the Tuudo mobile application from the app store to your mobile device free of charge. Tuudo is available for Android and iOS operating systems. Log in to Tuudo with your educational institutions’ user ID. You may check the educational institutions that use Tuudo on their website.
While completing cross-institutional studies, instructions and rules of the higher education institution organizing the course apply. The studies are completed using method(s) described in the course description. In the description you will also find information about the content of the studies, teaching methods and evaluations.
For questions related to completion or the content of the studies, please contact the course teacher.
The following competence scale is used in evaluation:
excellent (5)
very good (4)
good (3)
very satisfactory (2)
satisfactory (1)
fail (0)
or optionally just pass or fail (H/0)
Teacher will give the grade within four weeks after the end of the course and course components or other separate performance.
Assessed studies will automatically transfer to your home institution in a situation where you have been enrolled for the studies on Student´s desktop. The performances of the parts of the course will not transfer and they can be checked on your transcript at the destination institution.
If you enrolled some other way, check the accreditation process of your home institution.
If you are dissatisfied with the assessment you have received, you may present a verbal or written rectification request to the teacher who performed the assessment within 14 days of being informed of the assessment. If you are dissatisfied with the decision on the rectification request you can lodge a written appeal with Metropolia’s Examination Board within 14 days of having been notified of the decision. Instructions for this can be found on Metropolia's website.
If you wish to cancel your registration to cross-institutional studies, you may do so within the enrollment period at your home institutions' ePSP. Otherwise the cancellation will be informed to our Student and Admission services at studentservices [at] metropolia.fi (studentservices[at]metropolia[dot]fi). In the email, inform your name and studies the cancellation concerns.
All cancellations regarding open university studies must be notified by email to avoinamk [at] metropolia.fi (avoinamk[at]metropolia[dot]fi).
More information about our campuses can be found on our websites:
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Student and Admission services
studentservices [at] metropolia.fi (studentservices[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
p. 040 712 5100
Please check the opening hours of customer service on the website of Student and Admission Services.
In questions regarding studies and evaluations please contact the teacher of the course.
