Admission requirements
Minimum eligibility criteria
- Bachelor’s degree in forestry or related field with good grades issued by an internationally recognised university.
- Good command of English language. Please see the requirements below.
Application form
The on-line application form (available only when the call for applications is open) must be filled in and the required enclosures need to be attached (in pdf format, except the photo can be submitted as jpeg) with the on-line application. At the application state we require only scanned enclosures attached (uploaded) to the application form. Paper copies are not required during the application period. Please see further instructions and how to submit your application documents.
Application enclosures
Certificates
- Bachelor’s degree certificate (and an official English translation of it if needed)
- An official transcript of academic records (and an official English translation of it if needed)
- English language certificate
- A certificate of name change (if applicant’s name has changed after receiving the previous degree)
Other
- A motivation letter (applicant is required to answer a set of questions specified, see below)
- Curriculum vitae
- One passport-size photograph
- A copy of passport / ID
All enclosures are compulsory for the selection process.
In the motivation letter, the applicant is required to reply to a set of questions:
1. Why do you want to study in the MSc EF programme?
2. If you have already completed one Master’s degree, why would you like to complete another MSc degree in the MSc EF programme?
3. Why should you be selected to the MSc EF programme?
4. What kind of research interests would you have related to MSc EF programme’s academic content?
5. What kind of hopes and wishes would you have related to your future career after graduation from the MSc EF programme?
Applicants are allowed to use generative AI when making the motivation letter. The letter should be maximum one A4 page.
Admission requirements
1. Degree requirements
A previous Bachelor’s degree in forestry or in related field corresponding to at least 3 year’s of full time academic studies from an institution for higher education is required from all Master’s degree applicants. The degree must be awarded by an internationally recognised university. Applicants who have a previous Bachelor’s degree in forestry or in related field from a recognised university of applied sciences or polytechnic are also eligible.
Admission is conditional if the applicant applies to the programme with a degree that is not finished during the application period. In that case, the applicant must deliver officially certified copies of the final degree certificate and the transcript of academic records to the programme coordinator by 30 July 2026.
Requirements for the educational documents and their translations
2. Language requirements
Applicants must either (1) meet the language proficiency criteria (see below), or (2) reach the minimum required language test results to be considered eligible to the programme. No exceptions will be made and no waivers to the language proficiency requirements are given.
(1) Applicants who hold one of the following do not have to take an English language test
- A language test is not required if the applicant has completed a Bachelor’s, Master’s or higher degree in English-taught programme in EU/EEA -countries, or in Singapore or in South Africa. The applicants from these countries must prove the language of instruction. The medium of instruction must be clearly stated on the educational documents. If the documents do not explicitly mention English as the medium of instruction, applicants must provide an additional official statement issued by a representative of their educational institution confirming this.
- A language test is not required if the applicant has completed a Bachelor’s, Master’s or higher degree in an English-taught programme in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom or the United States. The applicants prove their language skills with a university degree.
The degree/programme must be taught and assessed entirely in English (at least 50% of the degree must be completed in English). If the applicant verifies language skills with the education degree, the language of instruction must be clearly indicated on the educational documents.
Online studies or studies completed on offshore campuses outside the accepted countries/area cannot be used to indicate language skills, even if the degree-awarding institution is in one of the accepted countries.
(2) All other applicants have to take one of the following language tests
- TOEFL iBT, overall score 92, with a minimum subscore of 22 in writing and in speaking
- IELTS (academic) overall score 6.5, with a minimum subscore of 6.0 in writing and in speaking
- PTE (academic), overall score 62, with a minimum subscore of 54 in writing and 59 in speaking
- C1 Advanced overall score C or 180, with a minimum subscore of 162 in writing
- C2 Proficiency overall score level C1 or 180, with a minimum subscore of 162 in writing
No other degrees or statements of language proficiency will be accepted.
TOEFL, IELTS and PTE certificates are valid for two years from the day they are issued, i.e. the language test needs to be in effect during the application period, from 15 December 2023 onwards.
The language test results must be verifiable from the online verification service of the organiser.