According to the Universities Act 794/2004, students are required to complete a maturity essay (i.e. abstract) as part of the thesis. The maturity essay demonstrates competence in the study field of their thesis and the student's language skills. 

The abstract of your master’s thesis will serve as the maturity essay (except for IEM students; in addition, you must complete the maturity test, instructions are here). When you submit your thesis with the abstract(s) in the required languages, the maturity essay is considered done. When your supervisor submits a statement approving the thesis, also the maturity essay is considered approved.

  • Required languages for the abstract: 
    • If your language of school education is Finnish, write the abstracts both in English and in Finnish. 
    • If your language of school education is Swedish, write the abstracts both in English and in Swedish.
    • If your language of school education is other than Finnish or Swedish, the abstract is written in English only.
  • NB! Students who received their general or upper secondary education in Finland but completed their bachelor’s degree abroad
    • Students who have not demonstrated their language proficiency in national languages during their bachelor’s degree must do so when submitting their master’s thesis. In practice, this means that Student Services will send the abstract of the master’s thesis in Finnish or Swedish (koulusivistyskieli) to language evaluation by the Language Center.
    • To avoid delay in the graduation process and to get feedback from the Language Center before submitting the thesis, students belonging to this small group should contact Student Services (studentservices@aalto.fi) early in the master’s thesis process.


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