HOW TO APPLY TO STUDY IN FINLAND: STUDY NURSING IN FINLAND FOR FREE

On the 20^th of August 2017(which fell on my birthday), I finally lived in the reality of studying nursing in Finland. Although I had studied nursing back in my home country Nigeria, I wanted to have a different feel of what studying nursing abroad especially in Finland where I’ve called my new home was about. With so much optimism wrapped with determination, I was ready to start a new chapter of my life.

New Chapters come with uncertainties and unanswered questions yearning for some familiarities and relieving answers and I am pretty sure, YOU ARE HERE FOR THAT!

Grab a chair and sit with me while I give you just that!

I guess by now you must have written your entrance examination and waiting for the time to fly by quickly so you can receive an email informing you the course your destiny will follow.

Whatever that may be, I will like to tell you some of the things you should expect from the nursing admission and the prospect of studying nursing in Finland as one who has gone through that same journey you are about to walk in to and is now practicing as a home care nurse here in Finland.

I am sure that you must have done your research and you’ve found out that students from other parts of the world are also sitting for the same examination and that out of all the students, just a little fraction will be chosen and you’re wondering what criteria will be used to select the candidates. Well, I think we should start from there.

Your entrance examination score is one of the criteria that would be used in deciding if you will be admitted or not.

Hopefully, you did your best! It is imperative that you have 30 out of 70 points. The second way you could get admitted is the order of your preferred institution (If you meet the score for your first choice, you will be admitted and if you don’t you will be transferred to the next preferred institution you chose).

From my research, you should know if you are admitted by the 28^th of June at the latest if you chose Jyvaskyla University of Applied Science (JAMK). I did not get more information from other institutions and I think this must have been communicated to you already.

While waiting for the entrance examination result to come in, keep praying and oh! keep your email ACTIVE AND MAKE IT YOUR BEST FRIEND! This is because the notification of the decision made by the nursing admission board will be communicated to you through email.

Now, Let’s look at the bright side! If you are admitted, you will be given instructions on how to accept a study place and apply for a residence permit. DO IT FAST! For two reasons, the first being that if you don’t accept the study place by the deadline stated, you will lose it to someone on the waiting list since your admission is only conditional and secondly, why delay when you can do it earlier?

If your result is not the answer you desire, do not despair. Next year could be the year for you if you strategically plan for it. If you need me to write a blog or make a video for that, you can comment on one of my videos on YouTube or send me a private message on Instagram.