Overview

This Business Information Technology, Developing Digital Services programme at Laurea University of Applied Sciences offers you the opportunity to specialize in Digital Service Development. The programme is suitable for anyone that is interested in studying IT, as well as for career changers or people who are already working in the IT-domain. Studying in this programme deepens your competence in Digital Services Development including Design of Applications, Applications Development and Testing & Quality Assurance. The programme is composed of compulsory core competencies, complementary competencies, job placements and final project/thesis.

This programme is particularly suitable for students who want to study independently, efficiently, and flexibly. Studies require good personal time management skills and target oriented mindset.

Estimated workload is about 25 hours per week at minimum. During studies, you will get to apply diverse learning methods including videos, e-books, articles, webinars, discussions, multiple choice questions, essays, hands-on training, and project work. In practice, studies require daily work. Teachers support your learning process in individual study units and your personal tutor teacher helps you for planning your studies.

Employment and work placements

The studies include practical training (approximately five months), which can be completed in one or two parts. Work placements are an important step towards employment, helping you further enhance your competence in an area of your interest. A work placement can take place in Finland or abroad.The BIT programme provides you with a broad range of possibilities for employment. These include jobs requiring profound technical skills as well as jobs in which more general business expertise is required.

Our graduates typically work as:

IT consultants
application/web/mobile developers
IT specialists
data analyst
ecommerce specialists
agile product owner/scrum master
project managers

Programme Structure

Courses included:

Business Operations
Competence in IT
Sustainability and Business Analysis
Expert in Development and Workplace Innovation
Design of applications

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 42 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-12 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-01-22 00:00:00

Language

English

IELTS

6

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PTE Academic

55

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TOEFL^® IBT

60

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Credits

210 ECTS

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Espoo, Finland

Disciplines

Business Administration International Business Business Information Systems

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

IELTS

6

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PTE Academic

55

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TOEFL^® IBT

60

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Other requirements

General requirements

upper secondary school completed outside Finland

International Baccalaureate (IB) Degree

Reifeprüfung (RP) Diploma/Deutsches Internationales Abitur (DIA)

European Baccalaureate (EB) Diploma

Bachelor or Masters degree certificate completed outside Finland

Finnish Matriculation Examination completed in Finland before year 1990,

Finnish vocational upper secondary completed before 2018

Finnish former higher vocational qualification (opistotason/ammatillinen korkea-asteen tutkinto)

If you are graduating in autumn 2023, you have to upload your latest certificate of studies/transcript of records of your ongoing studies.

an official translation of your certificate if it is not issued in Finnish/Swedish/English.

certificate of English language proficiency

Tuition Fee

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International

9500 EUR/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 9500 EUR per year during 42 months.
EU/EEA

Free

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 0 EUR per year during 42 months.

Funding

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