Admissions criteria - Rolling admission, Master of Health Care, Sports Medicine and Exercise Physiology, part-time studies

Applying to Xamk through Rolling admission

• Students in the Rolling admission process are admitted in the order of submitted, complete applications. Applications are processed continuously. The invitation to the last phase of the admission process in this master's degree programme, an interview, is generally sent within two weeks *) from the submission of a complete application. The application is complete when it includes the required documents and the pre-task.
• You can apply to one degree programme at Xamk in the Rolling admission procedure. Choose your programme carefully!
• Required documents and the pre-task are uploaded to the application before submission - have all documents ready before filling in the application form.
• If any of the compulsory attachments is missing, your application will not be considered.

*) Xamk reserves the right for a longer processing time for applications if needed for the eligibility check, or during the Christmas break 21 December 2024-12 January 2025, or during the winter break 24 February-2 March 2025.

To be invited to the interview, you must

• meet the eligibility requirements for the studies,
• submit your application with the required documents on Studyinfo service,
• complete the pre-task successfully.

Language requirements

Applicants to this master's programme are not required to have a certificate of English language skills when applying. The language skills are evaluated as a part of the student selection process.

Eligibility requirements for Sports Medicine and Exercise Physiology (Master)

You can apply to this master's degree programme if you have

• a Bachelor's degree in naprapathy, nursing, paramedics, physiotherapy, podiatry, public health nursing or sport studies completed in a university of applied sciences in Finland, or a corresponding degree awarded by a higher education institution outside Finland, and
• at least two years of work experience in a relevant field after completing the higher education degree.

Work experience

Only work experience obtained after completing the degree used for applying can be considered: work experience must have been gained after the date of issue of the qualification giving the eligibility to apply and by 31 July 2025. As a relevant field is regarded both the field being applied to and the field of the degree used for applying.

If you have previously completed post-secondary level vocational qualification in Finland (opistoaste in Finnish) in any field of study and then later gone on to complete a degree in a university of applied sciences after a period of work, you are required to have at least two years of work experience after post-secondary level vocational education.

You must provide a work certificate written by the employer as proof of employment. The work certificate must be confirmed with the employer's signature and/or stamp and include the following information: the date when the employment has started and ended, contact information for the employer, tasks and work hours in case of part-time employment. If the employment is continuing, a temporary work certificate (including a date when signed) must be provided.

If the original work certificate has been written in any other language than Finnish, Swedish or English, you must in addition upload a copy of an authorized translation of the work certificate in one of the before-mentioned languages to your application form.

In addition, please note that

• Work contracts, offer letters or pay slips are not acceptable work certificates.
• Entrepreneurship is accepted as work experience if you can produce a certificate attesting that you have been covered under the statutory YEL or MYEL pension scheme in Finland. Enterprising activities abroad should be substantiated with comparable official documents.
• Work experience is counted in full months. Part-time work is converted into its full-time equivalent: 150 hours or 20 working days lasting at least 7 hours per day correspond to one month of work.
• Work experience does not have to be continuous or obtained working for the same employer. The amount of work experience considered for simultaneous employments may not exceed the amount considered for full-time employment.
• Military or non-military national service, women’s voluntary military service or child-care leave will not be counted towards work experience.