What are path studies?
Open UAS Path studies are an alternative route to becoming a degree programme student. You study with the Degree student group via the Metropolia Open UAS for the duration of the first semester from September to December 2024, having the opportunity to complete the first 20 ECTS of the Master’s Degree Programme in Osteopathy. You follow the same curriculum as the Degree students.
Target Audience, to whom?
Open UAS Path studies are suitable for you if:
- you would like to obtain a Master’s Degree in Osteopathy, but did not apply during the Joint Application in January 2024
- your goal is to become a degree programme student
- you enjoy studying purposefully
- you are ready for full-time studies
- you want to continue directly to Master’s degree studies right away after a bachelor's degree (before fulfilling the work experience requirement set for the joint application process)
Realisation and content
Studies take place solely online. The language of the studies is English. The studies consist of interactive online contact sessions, group work and independent studies on the learning platform including professional literature, pre-recorded lectures etc. Flipped learning is often used.
The lecturers are permanent members of the Metropolia staff or outstanding international experts in the field of osteopathy and osteopathic research such as Robert Shaw, Jorge Esteves, Jerry Draper-Rodi, Oliver Thomson and Hazel Mansfield.
There is no need to travel to Finland for the studies, but the students are responsible for their own internet connection and other IT facilities as prerequisites for successful online studies. There are mandatory synchronous online sessions that require the students’ presence. Communication, collaboration and networking between the students and their lecturers is an important part of the study experience!
Open UAS Path studies during the autumn of 2024 consist of 20 ECTS:
- Research Methods and Skills (5 ECTS), studyguide
- Advanced Quantitative Research Method Skills (5 ECTS), studyguide
- Psycho-emotional Aspects in Osteopathic Professional Practice (5 ECTS), studyguide
- Physiology of Tissues (5ECTS), studyguide
Language and other requirements
Open UAS Path studies require an appropriate degree acquired prior to starting the studies. Degrees are checked before the start of the studies. Here is a list of eligible degrees:
- Finnish Bachelor of Health Care degree, Osteopath (i.e. osteopaatti AMK)
- Foreign bachelor's degree in osteopathy at EQF 6/ 240 credit points (ECTS) in accordance with the requirements of the CEN standard (EN16886:2015) / Benchmarks of osteopathic training guidelines
- Bachelor's degree in social and health care combined with a professional degree in osteopathy that meets the requirements of the CEN standard (EN16886:2015) / Benchmarks of osteopathic training guidelines
- Foreign Bachelor's degree in the field of social and health care at EQF 6 / 240 credit points (ECTS) level combined with a professional osteopathic qualification that meets the requirements of the CEN standard (EN16886:2015) / Benchmarks of Osteopathic training guidelines. The level of education is verified when enrolling.
- Work experience is not required for Path studies. If you apply to become a degree student on the basis of your path studies, two years' work experience is required, completed after acquiring your Bachelor's degree in Osteopathy.
Read more about language skills and other requirements.
Price
300 €
Enrollment to path studies
Students are selected in the order of enrollment.
Enrollment for path studies is via the Metropolia open UAS enrollment system.
Enrollment 3.6.2024 at 10.00 - 11.8.2024 at 23.59.
See below for the important information on studying in Metropolia’s Open UAS
Check out Metropolia Open UAS and enroll to the studies in our enrollment system.
Contact Information for Open UAS in various situations
Applying to degree student
Once you have completed your Open UAS Path studies, you can apply to become a Metropolia degree student. This is done via a separate application: “Application on the Basis of Metropolia’s Open UAS Studies”. Once you have been admitted as a degree student, the completed will be accepted as part of your degree studies, and you will continue your studies seamlessly with the same group.
Please note, however, that completing Path studies does not offer a direct acceptance to the degree.
More information
Study content and implementation
Contact information
- Head of Degree programme Laura Lee Calonius, LauraLee.Calonius [at] metropolia.fi (LauraLee[dot]Calonius[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
- Study advisor Outi Pyrhönen, outi.pyrhonen [at] metropolia.fi (outi[dot]pyrhonen[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
Open UAS: Payments, benefits, services, studying
- Terms of Payment and Cancellation
- Open UAS studies and enrollment
- Studying in Open University
- Guidance: avoinamk [at] metropolia.fi (avoinamk[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
Applying to degree student
Guidance: admissions [at] metropolia.fi (admissions[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
How to start path studies at Metropolia
Welcome to study path studies at Metropolia!
Read below all the common instructions for Metropolia's path students as well as the instructions for your own group.
When you start as a new student at Metropolia, you need to activate your user ID. Activate your user ID by using Netbank User ID or Mobile Certificate, or by using activation password. See instructions how to activate you user ID.
If you have enrolled for Open UAS studies without using strong identification, you must visit the Student and Admission Services customer service point for strong identification. Only after that, you can activate your user ID.
You will receive your study schedules at the beginning of the studies. You can use the Schedule Machine to see the up-to-date schedules. You can also check the schedules in Tuudo app.
Open UAS students do not enrol for the courses themselves but you have already been registered for the courses.
Communications concerning your studies takes place in OMA intranet workspaces and in your Metropolia e-mail, which you can use once you activate your user account. Please follow actively your metropolia.fi email! You can access your e-mail at mail.metropolia.fi.
Lecturers mostly send their messages through the courses' OMA workspaces. If other learning management platforms are used, such as Moodle, the lecturer will inform you of this. Please also read the general announcements on Metropolia's OMA intranet.
Metropolia has arranged a separate meal benefit for Open Path students because Open UAS students are not entitled to the degree students’ meal subsidy.
The price of the meal is restaurant-specific. The meal benefit is not applicable at Arabia campus.
Tuudo mobile app’s student card or meal certificate, which you can either pick up at the Student and Admission Services customer service point or order by e-mail from studentservices [at] metropolia.fi (studentservices[at]metropolia[dot]fi) at the beginning of your studies, entitles to a meal benefit.
Tuudo is a mobile app with which you can use various Metropolia web services easily on your smart phone.
In Tuudo you can also check announcements, your schedule, study attainments, and cafeteria menus.
Get Tuudo on your phone from the app store for free and start using it!
If you have selected invoicing as the payment method for your studies, the studies will be invoiced in two installments. The first invoice is sent at the beginning of the studies and the second invoice four months after the start of the studies.
Please also see Open UAS terms of payment and cancellation.
If your address changes during your studies, please notify us by e-mail avoinamk [at] metropolia.fi (avoinamk[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
If you wish to complete other studies in addition to those in your study path or module, you can enroll for the Open UAS courses in the enrollment system. Please make sure that your additional studies do not overlap with the studies included in the path or module.
Path students are also entitled to complete some of the CampusOnline.fi courses offered by other universities of applied sciences.
After completing Open UAS path studies, you can apply for a degree programme on the basis of Metropolia’s Open UAS Studies.
Make sure to read the instruction for Open UAS students.
Contents and completion of courses: lecturers
Application on the Basis of Open Metropolia’s Open UAS Studies and other matters concerning applications: Student and Admission Services, admissions [at] metropolia.fi (admissions[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
Other general help, refunding of payments and financial support applications: Open university of applied sciences: avoinamk [at] metropolia.fi (avoinamk[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
IT problems: helpdesk [at] metropolia.fi (helpdesk[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
How to start Osteopathy Master's path studies
Open UAS Path studies are scheduled for the autumn of 2024, finishing at the end of December. We will start with two Orientation days that are held on the 2nd and 3rd of September 2024 together with the Degree students.