Admission criteria for Industrial Design Engineering

Read more about the programme at Master's programme in Industrial Design Engineering.

• Bachelor of Science in Technology Tekniikan kandidaatti
  Completed in a University
  For example, fields such as Industrial Engineering and Management as well as Business Technology included.  
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Design or Industrial Design
  Completed in a University 

Applicants who have completed or are completing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering (konetekniikan diplomi-insinööri) before starting the LUT studies are not eligible to apply. 

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University in a field other than Mechanical Engineering are eligible to apply but only when applying with the Bachelor's Degree. 

Applying with a Master's Degree in a field other than Mechanical Engineering completed in a University is accepted only if the Master's Degree having been completed before the two-tier degree system when there were no separate Bachelor's Degrees awarded. 

• Bachelor of Engineering Insinööri (AMK)
  Completed in a University of Applied Sciences 
  For example, fields such as Industrial Engineering and Management as well as Business Technology included.  
• Bachelor's Degree in Design or Industrial Design
  Completed in a University of Applied Sciences 

Applicants who have completed or are completing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering in a university (konetekniikan diplomi-insinööri) before starting the LUT studies are not eligible to apply. 

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University of Applied Sciences are eligible to apply but only when applying with the Bachelor's Degree. 

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University of Applied Sciences with no prior Bachelor's Degree while the prior degree having been completed on a higher secondary or secondary level are not eligible to apply. 

• Bachelor of Science in Technology 
  Completed in a University - All countries
  For example, fields such as Industrial Engineering and Management as well as Business Technology included.  
• Bachelor's Degree in Design or Industrial Design
  Completed in a University - All countries 

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University are eligible to apply but only when applying with the Bachelor's Degree. 

Applying with a Master's Degree completed in a University is accepted only if the Master's Degree having been completed before the two-tier degree system when there were no separate Bachelor's Degrees awarded. 

Applicants who have completed or are completing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering in a university in Finland (konetekniikan diplomi-insinööri) before starting the LUT studies are not eligible to apply. 

Applying with a combination of a 2-year Bachelor's + 2-year Master's Degree completed in certain countries is accepted when the combination of these two degrees is equivalent only to a Finnish Bachelor's Degree. 

• Bachelor of Engineering
  Completed in a University of Applied Sciences - EU/EEA countries and Switzerland
  For example, fields such as Industrial Engineering and Management as well as Business Technology included.  

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University of Applied Sciences are eligible to apply but only when applying with the Bachelor's Degree. 

Applicants who have completed or are completing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering in a university in Finland (konetekniikan diplomi-insinööri) before starting the LUT studies are not eligible to apply. 

Applicants who have completed a Master's Degree in a University of Applied Sciences with no Bachelor's Degree while the prior degree to the Master's having been completed on a higher secondary or secondary level are not eligible to apply.  
 

Requirements for the Bachelor's Degree

• The degree must be equivalent to a corresponding Finnish Bachelor's Degree regarding the number of academic years and ECTS credits.
• The degree must provide eligibility for applying to university level Master's studies in the country where the degree was awarded in.

Requirements for the degree-awarding university

• The university must be recognized by the national education system in the country in question
• The university must be listed on the World Higher Education Database WHED by International Association of Universities

To be eligible to apply to the programme, the arithmetic GPA for the degree you have to apply with must be

• a minimum of 3.00 
  on the scale of 1.00 - 5.00

The arithmetic GPA will be first checked and verified by LUT University. In case the original grading scale not being on a scale of 1.00 - 5.00, the arithmetic GPA will be converted by LUT University on this scale during the evaluation process. Finally, the arithmetic GPA with two decimals will be evaluated.

The arithmetic GPA evaluated in the LUT selection process is

• an arithmetic average of grades for all the individual courses and for the grade for the Final Thesis included in the degree you have to apply with 
  • that have been completed at the time of applying
  • that have been evaluated on a numerical, verbal or on a letter-based grading scale
  • that are listed on an official Transcript of Records

What is excluded from the arithmetic GPA?

• Courses evaluated with 'pass' or 'fail' 
• Courses evaluated with a grade corresponding to a failed grade
• Courses without a related study unit such as ECTS credit, credit, credit hour etc. 
• Combined modules including only a single grade for all the courses included in the module unless the individual courses having been evaluated separately
• Courses not included in the degree you have to apply with
• Courses not included in the degree you have to apply with that have been credited or compensated unless the degree-awarding university having evaluated them on a numerical, verbal or on a letter-based grading scale

You must prove your proficiency in English with one of the following:

• one of the accepted language tests
• a degree in higher education completed in English in an EU/EEA country or in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, United Kingdom or the United States of America
• a degree in higher education completed in Finnish or in Swedish in Finland

More information: How to prove your proficiency in English

Before starting your application process, have a look at the basics on applying at

• Applying to Master's Programmes through Regular Admission
  
  >> Application process

where all the important information regarding to applying in general is given.

When filling in your application form

While filling in your application form, you must indicate the cumulative number of original study units completed for the Bachelor's Degree you are applying with. 

If applying with an unfinished Bachelor's Degree, you must indicate the cumulative number of original study units expected to be completed for being able to graduate. 

If having completed a combination of degrees that together correspond to a Bachelor's Degree, you must indicate the cumulative number of original study units for all the related degrees.

Requirements for the Transcript of Records 

The Transcript of Records for the Bachelor's Degree you are applying with must include the cumulative number of original study units (credits, credit hours etc.).

If the cumulative original study units not included on the Transcript of Records, an official statement on them issued in English by the related university must be uploaded. You may also upload an official brochure for the programme issued by the university instead of the official statement if the cumulative original study units indicated in the brochure. 

What is an unfinished Bachelor's Degree?

• You have not yet graduated = you have not been awarded your Degree Certificate or the Provisional Degree Certificate

Having completed all your studies does not mean that you have graduated unless having been awarded the Degree Certificate or the Provisional Degree Certificate.

If not being able to upload your Degree Certificate or the Provisional Degree Certificate by the supplementary deadline, you must identify your status on the application form as "not yet graduated".

When applying

• Indicate the estimated date of graduation on your Application Form
  • No official statement for the date required from the home university
• Upload your latest Transcript of Records to your Online Application Form
  • plus the official translation (when required)
  • The Transcript of Records must include the name of the degree to be awarded.
    • If not included, an additional statement issued by the awarding university about the name of the degree must be uploaded to your Online Application Form.

If admitted

If admitted, you must be able to

• Graduate by 31 August 2025
• Provide us with the following documents by 31 August 2025 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
  • Scan for your original Degree Certificate
  • Scan for your original Transcript of Records
• Provide us with the following documents by 5 September 2025 at 15:00 (UTC+3)
  • Scans for the official translations in English for both the documents (when applicable)
  • Official translations required, if the original documents are not issued in English, Finnish or Swedish.

The documents must be provided according to the given instructions despite of the country the degree was awarded in.

If not being able to meet with both the requirements by the given deadlines, your right to study in the programme will automatically be cancelled and you will lose your place without a possibility to claim it back.

Academic success (max. 10 points)

• Arithmetic GPA for the degree you must apply with (max. 5 points)
   
• Arithmetic GPA for relevant studies supportive to the Master's programme included in the degree you must apply with (max. 5 points)

Points given for academic success for the degree you have to apply with are

• equivalent to the arithmetic GPA on a scale of 1.00 - 5.00
  for the degree you have to apply with

For example:
The arithmetic GPA converted to a scale of 1.00-5.00 is 3.67
>> the points for academic success are 3.67

The minimum required arithmetic GPA is 3.00 a scale of 1.00 - 5.00.

Please see further information on the arithmetic GPA under the section 'Arithmetic GPA evaluated in the process'.

Practical experience (max. 10 points)

• Experience and practice in Industrial Design or in another field of creativity (max. 5 points)
  • Please provide detailed information on your previous studies, internships or other experience related to Industrial Design and/or other fields of creativity through the following documents:
    • CV (compulsory)
    • Letter of Motivation  (compulsory)
    • Portfolio (optional) 

In case of either CV or Letter of Motivation or them or both are missing, the application will remain an incomplete one and will not be forwarded to academic evaluation.
 

• Other experience or areas of competence related to the programme (max. 5 points)
  • Please provide detailed information on your work related experience or other achievements related to the Master's programme through the following documents:
    • work certificates
    • other related certificates
    • academic publications
    • competitions
    • related diplomas 

No compulsory documents - but if you have experience, you must also be able to prove it through the relevant documentation.
 

The applicant must follow the practices of scientific writing: documents related to the application process must be written and made by the applicant. It must not present other people's ideas, information, words or other material without a sufficient reference. Artificial intelligence is not a source of scientific text. The applicant must ensure that the source entries are correct.

On the second stage of the admissions process, a limited number of applicants are invited to an interview in the order of the points reached on stage 1. 

The applicants invited to an interview will all start from the same level zero as the points for stage 1 will no longer be considered.

The following elements will be evaluated in the interview:

• Motivation
• Commitment to the studies
• Possibilities for successfully completing the studies
• Language and communication skills in English

The final selection will be completed among the interviewed applicants based on

• points for the interview only

Only a limited number of applicants will be admitted.
 

The applicant must follow the practices of scientific writing: documents related to the application process must be written and made by the applicant. It must not present other people's ideas, information, words or other material without a sufficient reference. Artificial intelligence is not a source of scientific text. The applicant must ensure that the source entries are correct.