Entrance Examination Model Questions for Bachelor Degree Program in Finland

All eligible applicants will be invited to the entrance examination.

In the examination, the applicants' logical and mathematical thinking and the knowledge of English will be tested.

The written part (excluding the mathematics-logical part) in the entrance examination will be based on the below mentioned themes and links:

Entrance examination for Degree Programme in Business Management/ International Business:

The questions and essay in the written part will be based on three different pre-reading materials which can be found through the following links:

A set of articles called:

Doing good - Business and the sustainability challenge http://a330.g.akamai.net/7/330/25828/20080208191823/graphics.eiu.com/upload/Sustainability_allsponsors.pdf

A set of two articles:

When fortune frowned http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12373696

Charting a different course http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12373772

A publication by SITRA:

Cleantech Finland - improving the environment through business http://www.sitra.fi/en/Publications/programme/ymparisto/environmentpub.htm or http://www.sitra.fi/julkaisut/muut/Ympäristöraporttiengl.pdf?download=Download+pdf

2008 Entrance Examination Model for Business Management/International Business

Theme 1: Current topics in Global Business (Finance and Development IMF September 2007)

The Urban Revolution, link 1: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/09/bloom.htm

China's Export Boom, link 2: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/09/amiti.htm

Helping Global Economy Stay in Shape, link 3: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/09/cottarel.htm

Theme 2: Copyrights in Global Business

Link 1: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_06/b3919001_mz001.htm

Link 2: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_06/b3919010_mz001.htm

Link 3: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_06/b3919011_mz001.htm

Link 4: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_06/b3919012_mz001.htm

Link 5: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_06/b3919013_mz001.htm

Theme 3: Finland in Global Business

Link: http://www.virtual.finland.fi/Economy/

If the applicant fails any single part of the entrance examination, or if the overall points received in the examination are lower than 30, the applicant cannot be accepted to the programme.

If applying with a non-Finnish certificate the original certificates or diplomas and originals of any additional documentation used for the application must be presented for inspection in connection to the entrance examination.

The exact date, place and other important information will be announced in the invitation letter if you will be invited.

Applicant who is a citizen of an EU/EEA-country: Polytechnics/UAS evaluate applicants' language skills in a language test included in the entrance examination. An applicant who fails the language test is withdrawn from admission. An applicant can be exempted from the language test, if he or she has provided a certificate of his/her language skills to his/her first-choice polytechnic/UAS. You will find the minimum language skills requirement at Joint Admission website.