Warm welcome to Jyväskylä! Aside official guides and this page you can familiarize yourself with an alternative study guide for STEM students, known as VOpas. This document is soon partially out of date, and is written entirely in Finnish.
“VOpas is perhaps the most significant – in any case most successful book, that Jyväskylän University’s STEM faculty has ever published. Even though it contains encertainties, old-fashionednesses and full-on contradictions, it has provided an irreprodicble aid in new students' lives, who are thrown amidst higher education while while fumbling the very threads of their lives.”
Brief reminders
Remember:
- if you are eligible pay the FSHS-payment and apply for social benefits in OmaKela
- apply for student accomodation from KOAS or Soihtu
- apply for a student ID (Frank/Slice/Kide.app/Pivo/physical)
In the beginning
Your studies will begin in late August with a roll call in Agora. The week following this is the so-called orientation week filled with JYU’s, as well as student organistions’ activities specifically to assimilate you into the world of academia.
What student association?
Student associations are organisations comprised of each science’s students, advocate for student’s rights, organise various culture, worklife and recreational events as well as work to improve the field of study’s communality and employment.
Linkki Jyväskylä ry (better known as Linkki) is the very own advocacy and recreational association for Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral students, who are studying Computer Science, Mathematical Information Technology and Education Technology in any capacity. Joining Linkki is free of charge, and joining provides you access to advocacy, events, discounts from our partners. with the Linkki-sticker, as well as free coffee in kattila. The link to the application form can be found on the front page.