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In total 2,745 new students were admitted to the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ in the second joint admission of 2024 and the separate admission of the open university path. The academic year will start at the end of August with the orientation of new students. Congratulations to all admitted students!

All who applied for a study place in the second joint admission receive information on the admission result by email or mail and in the My Studyinfo service. The admitted applicants must notify by 11 July at 3 pm if they will accept the study place. Admission from the waiting list, if there is any, will continue until 6 August. In the next autumn term, teaching at JYU will start on 2 September and the orientation week for first-year students on 26 August 2024.

The Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ had in total 18,714 applicants in the second joint admission of 2024. Depending on the study option, between 37% and 80% of the places in bachelor’s and master’s programmes were reserved for first-time applicants. The number of applicants to bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes was 15,390, from which the number of primary applicants was 4,181. Master’s degree programmes had 3,363 applicants, 1,999 of them primary applicants. In addition to the admitted students, 270 new students will start in English-medium MDPs in autumn 2024.

In total 147 applicants were admitted outside the joint admission on the basis of earlier studies completed at the open university. The most popular study options of the open university path in this spring were the bachelor’s and master’s degree programme in economics and business administration (106 applicants) and the bachelor’s and master’s degree programme in psychology (66 applicants).
 

The secondary application round for study places not filled in the joint application procedure is from 7 to 12 August.

In August, the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ will again open a secondary application round for study options that start in the autumn but have not been filled in the joint application of the spring. The bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes included in the secondary application round will be published by the start of the application. It is likely that study places will be available in the disciplines of humanities and mathematics and science. The secondary application will start on Wednesday, 7 August and end on Monday, 12 August at 3:00 p.m. 
 

Economics, psychology, class teacher education and sport pedagogy are most popular

The most popular study option at JYU was economics, which had 3,183 applicants. Other popular study options were psychology (3,179 applicants), class teacher education (1,570 applicants) and sport pedagogy (915 applicants). In economics and history, there were over one hundred applicants more than before. The toughest competition for study places was in sport biology, which had 32 applicants per a study place, psychology (30), social sciences of sport (26), economics (25) and social work (24). The Master’s Degree Programme in Security and Strategic Analysis had the most primary applicants per study place (14.1).
Measured in the total number of applicants, the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ was the fifth popular of Finnish universities after the Universities of Turku, Tampere, Helsinki and Eastern Finland. Also in the number of primary applicants, the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ was the fifth after Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Aalto University. The number of applicants who had a study place at JYU as their primary choice was 6,295.
Further information:
Coordinator Maria Kotiranta, tel. +358 40 805 4926, maria.j.kotiranta@jyu.fi, numbers of applicants and questions related to applicant guidance
- Other additional information: viestinta@jyu.fi