Open UAS Courses

Sharpen your professional profile by taking Open UAS courses! It is a flexible way of exploring a new field, deepening your knowledge or trying our university-level studies.

The Open UAS, gives everyone interested, regardless of study background or age, the opportunity to take selected courses at Arcada, allowing you to broaden or deepen your expertise in subjects that interest you. 

Open UAS courses can be partly completed alongside work. Teaching is offered during both daytime and evening hours, featuring a mix of lectures, assignments, project work, independent reading, online studies, and exams.
 

Course Offerings

Our course calendar provides all the details on current course offerings, including duration, content, prerequisites, objectives, credits, and teaching methods. Registration periods for individual courses are also listed.

If you don’t find what you’re looking for in the course calendar, you can also explore our degree program courses and express your interest for a course via our Open UAS registration form. When possible, we offer available spots in regular courses.

Studying at Open UAS

  • Open UAS courses are subject to a course fee.
  • Some courses have prerequisites that you need to meet before registration is possible.
  • The courses are at university level and require academic study skills.
  • In some courses, you will study alongside Arcada’s degree students.
  • Open UAS courses do not lead to a degree, but if you register for a degree program later on, it may be possible to transfer credits from previous Open UAS studies.
  • If you are already a degree student at Arcada, you cannot be registered as an Open UAS student at the same time.
     

 Do you have questions? Find answers to frequently asked questions here. 
 

Ulla Nyberg

Career Counsellor

0294 282 553

Ulla Nyberg

Registration and fees

Please find more information about Open UAS application and registration, as well as fees and payment below.

Application and registration

You can apply and register for courses through Arcada’s course calendar.

For courses with prerequisites, a separate application process may be required. Your application will be reviewed by the teacher, who has the right to assess whether your prerequisites and language skills meet course requirements. If they are insufficient, participation may be denied. The application needs to be approved by the teacher before you can register for the course.

Please note, that your registration becomes binding upon payment of the course fee.

Some UAS courses have limited spots. In such cases, students are admitted in order of registration.
 

Fees and Payment

Open UAS courses are subject to a course fee, which is specified in the course description. The fee varies between 0–45€ per credit, in accordance with the Finnish Government Decree on Fees Charged by Universities of Applied Sciences (1440/2014, Section 1 ).

The fee is paid upon registration to the course.

Your place is confirmed once the fee is paid, and your registration becomes binding.

The fee includes registration, teaching, exams, and a transcript of records.