Become a Registered Nurse with EU competence!
Degree title: Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing (registered nurse)
Extent: 210 credit points (ECTS)
Duration: 3.5 years
Tuition fee: 12 000€ (more information about tuition fees on this page)
Admission: from 8 until 22 January 2025, apply at Studyinfo.fi
Admission quota: 40
Studies begin: autumn 2025
Where to study: Helsinki (contact teaching)
Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Health Care, Nursing
The 3,5-year programme will make you a competent nurse capable of supervising and caring for patients with different levels of health issues.
You will acquire a skill set to operate in a variety of healthcare settings, from open counselling centres to intensive care units.
Based on caring and nursing science, the curriculum includes multidisciplinary elements from natural sciences (such as anatomy and physiology, medicine and pharmacology) as well as social and behavioural sciences.
The studies are conducted in close co-operation with working life through, for example, projects carried out both individually and in groups.
Extension studies enable you to deepen your expertise development in the specialty area of nursing. You can combine both theoretical and practical aspects in areas such as child, adolescent and family nursing or polyclinical care.
The degree will qualify you as a Registered Nurse with EU competence. You can choose to work with children, youth, adults or elderly in Finland, the rest of the Nordic countries or further abroad.
Finnish language requirement
Applicants are required to have skills in Finnish. The minimum requirement is level B1 on the Common European framework for languages. The Finnish skills are assessed in the entrance exam.
Entrance examination
The admission the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Health Care, Nursing is based on an entrance examination organised by Diak.
Curriculum
See the curriculum of the programme.
We reserve the right to make changes to the curriculum.