Studying

How to make a personal study plan and what courses to choose. Find instructions for the artistic activities of your own academy.

Compile a personal study plan (PSP)

All students of Uniarts Helsinki compile a personal study plan (or PSP for short, HOPS in Finnish) that defines their course of studies.
How to credit transfer studies or prior learning

You can apply for the credit transfer of previously completed studies or prior learning as part of your degree (recognition and validation of prior learning). As a rule, you do not need to study things that you already know at Uniarts Helsinki.
Important dates for the academic year

Teaching periods and registration schedules.
Individual study arrangements and accessibility

A student’s disability, challenge or obstacle that affects their academic performance can be taken into consideration through various individual arrangements. The arrangements depend on the case-specific situation, needs and subject of studies.

Studies according to the 2024–2030 curriculum

Students who start their studies in autumn 2024 complete their studies according to the 2024–2030 curricula. If you have started your studies before 1 August 2024, you will transition to the degree structure following the new curriculum by 1 February 2026 at the latest. The titles and scopes of the degrees will not change.
Study guide

Curricula, course descriptions and information on courses offered each academic year.
Pedagogical studies

You can work as a teacher after you have completed teachers’ pedagogical studies. At the Sibelius Academy, major subject studies may also include pedagogical studies of different scope that do not provide general pedagogical qualification.
Language and communication studies

All bachelor’s degrees include mandatory language and communication studies. On this page you’ll find information about completing them.

Sibelius Academy individual teaching

Your degree programme at Sibelius Academy includes studies in which you receive individual teaching (one-to-one teaching). These instructions describe the Academy’s common principles, according to which you can receive individual teaching during your studies.
Guidelines of independent artistic work at the Academy of Fine Arts

Independent artistic work is work that the student plans and carries out independently; either alone or as a part of a group. Help and support is provided by teachers and technicians.
Academy of Fine Arts instructions for organising exhibitions

How to participate in the Master’s and Bachelor’s exhibitions, and information on the exhibition and event spaces available to students.
Sibelius Academy’s instructions for productions and artistic level performance examination

How to apply to artistic level performance examinations.
Theatre Aacdemy productions

Information about product planning, resources, communications and ticket sales.

University decision-making bodies and influencing

How official decisions are made within the university, what the highest decision-making bodies are and how students can personally influence decisions that concern them.
Student appeals and rectification rights

What kind of decisions does the university make concerning students and how can I request rectification of decisions that concern me?
University regulations and legislation

Learn more about the documents that steer our operations, such as the Uniarts Helsinki Regulations and the university legislation.
Uniarts Helsinki’s ethical guidelines for education and studies and procedures for misconduct and disciplinary cases

Ethical guidelines for studying, information on good study practice and examples of violations of these practices. Procedures for suspected misconduct and disciplinary cases.

Plan your studies