Q: How I can as a non-European citizen get a residence permit to Finland?
A: Detailed instructions are given in the material package that you have received with the acceptance letter.
Q: How I can get an apartment in Oulu?
A: International students can rent furnished rooms from the PSOAS housing association. You can ask more information from PSOAS. It is highly recommended that you reserve your apartment before arriving Oulu.
Q: How I can get information concerning practical issues of living in Oulu and in Finland?
A: You have received the information package. You can also ask, for example, your personal student tutor. You will get his/her contact information by email in June at the latest.
Q: How I can establish a bank account in Oulu? Are there banking offices in the campus area?
A: Your personal student tutor that you will contact after arriving Finland will help you to establish a bank account that is valid in Finland.
Q: Is it possible to find a chance to work as a part-time research assistant at some research group of the DCE department besides studies?
A: We do occasionally recruit master students as research assistants, but we naturally cannot hire all WCE students. Typically we want to see some local study progress in the WCE program here in Oulu, besides to see the content and grades of your previous studies, and C.G.P.A. of your B.Sc. degree, before inviting to join our research groups at the Department of Communications Engineering (DCE), or at the Centre for Wireless Comminications (CWC). Therefore, we recommend that you will send a complete application at the end of first semester of the first study year after getting a good start in your studies herein, if you want to apply part-time work.
Q: What is needed in order to prepare a complete application for a part-time research assistant at the CWC?
A: If you want to joint to the CWC, you need to fill in the following application form. The web-form ia a centralized channel for CWC recruitment. Please do not send by email your inquiries concerning part-time work possibilities direclty to professors of the DCE department, or to WCE administration officers before, or after enrollment!
Q: If I get sick, what do I do?
A: See the information package you have received with the acceptance letter. Student tutors will advice you how reach those health care and dentist services.
Briefly told:
- 1) In an emergency case needing ambulance, call emergency number 112
2) In a non-urgent (not needing an ambulance) case Mon-Fri, 8-16: contact YTHS. Student fees include non-urgent medical and dentist care at YTHS-foundation. Contact YTHS.
3) During weekends and night time contact
Q: Are there any international communities in Oulu region, or in Finland?
A: Yes, there are some. To get more information.
