What are path studies?
Path studies in Social Services include the first academic year courses of the Degree Programme in Social Services, as stated in the curriculum. Completion of path studies takes two semesters.
The study format is day-time studies, including contact teaching on campus, online learning, and independent study. Studies progress according to the schedule. The schedule is available in Schedule Machine from May 6th 2024 onwards, with the group id SXG24S1. The schedule is released for the entire semester at a time, but please note that changes are possible.
At the beginning of your studies, you will make a personal study plan with a tutor teacher from the degree. Your studies will follow the path of the Open University of Applied Sciences, but you can make a few individual choices if you want to study early childhood education and care studies or need Finnish language tuition.
After you have completed the path studies, you can apply for the degree programme via the separate application process.
Target Audience, to whom?
Path studies are right for you if
- your goal is a study right in a degree programme
- you want to take advantage of the intermediate year by studying purposefully
- you are ready for full-time studies
Language and other requirements
Higher education studies require you to have strong self-organisation, time management and collaboration skills, an ability to comprehend wide-ranging areas of study, and effective communication skills both orally and in writing. In addition to scheduled teaching, you must also reserve plenty of time for independent study. The language of tuition is mainly English. Most course materials are in English, but courses are implemented in a language-aware manner and students will be introduced to relevant Finnish vocabulary as well.
The student is responsible of possessing sufficient language skills for studies in higher education in English. Applicants will be tested on their English language skills on 12.8.2024 8.30-10.30 am at Myllypuro Campus, room MPD1002. Applicants will receive a separate invitation for the language test.
Read more about language skills and other requirements.
Price
900 €
Enrollment to path studies
Students are selected either in the order of enrollment or through a pre-test.
Enrollment for path is in the Metropolia open UAS enrollment system
Enrollment 5.8.2024 klo 10.00 - 6.8.2024 klo 23.59.
Below you can find the important information about 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
More information
Study content and implementation
Contact information
- Study advisor Paula Lindqvist, +358405272824, Paula.Lindqvist [at] metropolia.fi (Paula[dot]Lindqvist[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)