Application for extension to the right to study
Application for extension to the right to study
Please read first the general instructions of extension the right to study of Aalto.
Application for extension to the right to study
Generally, if your Aalto username still works and can log in to Sisu, you should use it to apply for an extension.
Do not use Sisu to submit an extension application in the following cases:
You cannot apply for an extension at all if:
If your right to study will expire at the end of the ongoing academic term, Sisu’s frontpage will display a notification and a link to an extension application. If you click on the link, the system will guide you to make:
You should not use Sisu to send in any other documents related to your application. Send them to the university outside Sisu.
If your right to study is going to expire within the ongoing term, Sisu’s front page will display the following notification: ‘If you are unable to graduate before your study right expires, you must apply for an extension.Also make sure you have time to have your graduation processed.’
Note: If you are going to graduate in July or December, you do not need to apply for an extension, even if your study right will expire on 31 July or 31 December.
If your right to study has expired, Sisu’s front page will no longer display a notification. You can still apply for an extension through the ‘Study rights’ tab in the ‘My profile’ section.
You may have lost your right to study because it has expired (in other words, the maximum duration of your studies has elapsed) and you have not applied for or been granted an extension. In this case, you only need to apply for an extension to your study right.
Alternatively, you may have lost your right to study because you failed to enrol as an attending or non-attending student and the maximum duration of your studies has elapsed. (The terms for which you fail to enrol as attending or non-attending will count against the time you have left to complete your studies.) In this case, you need to apply for an extension to your right to study.
Please note: if you fail to enrol as an attending or non-attending student for an academic term, the term still counts towards the maximum duration of your studies.
To apply for an extension to your right to study, you do not need to create a new study plan. You can simply update your existing plan. The status of your study plan should be ‘Selections done’.
If your study plan contains one or several study drafts, they must comply with the rules of the study plan:
If necessary, use the Free edit mode to apply for approval.
If you have not scheduled your courses by adding them to your timeline, Sisu will ask you to do so.
If a course you took in a past period is still missing the completion mark (a garland icon) in your study plan, Sisu displays the following notification: ‘There are courses in your plan that you have not completed and that are timed in the past on the timeline. Please correct the timing.’ If you want to submit your extension application immediately, do one of the following:
After you have put your study plan in order and scheduled your studies, it is time to make the actual application for an extension to your right to study.
The upper part of the application displays the details of your study right, the terms you have spent as an attending or non-attending student, your statutory absences, any past failures to enrol as a student, the credits you have earned so far, the credits you still need to earn, and the average number of credits you have earned per term.
The ‘Spent terms’ section lists the academic terms included in your right to study that you have already used. The section also indicates whether you were enrolled as an attending or non-attending student for each term and the number of credits you completed.
In the ‘Planned studies’ section, you can see your timeline in the form of a list. You can click on each term to see the courses you have scheduled for it. The sum total of the planned and missing credits is displayed at the bottom. The timing of your study drafts is also displayed, if you have any.
You can apply for an extension of a maximum of four terms (two academic years) at a time. Your application also needs to explain the reasons why your studies have been delayed and include a plan on how you are going to finish them.
Then select the way you wish to be informed when your application is approved or rejected.
After you submit your application, any updates you make to your study plan and/or timeline will not be reflected in your application. If you need to edit your application, cancel it and send a new application that contains the necessary edits.
You can find the application in ‘My profile’, under the tab ‘Applications and requests’.
Note:
Send the necessary attachments to Aalto University using channels other than Sisu.
How to send us health information (for example medical certificates) or other sensitive information in an encrypted email:
If the attachments contain sensitive information, use your aalto.fi email address to send them to school specific confidential email.
School-specific Student Service's e-mails when sending a secure message:
If the attachments contain sensitive information, use your aalto.fi email address to send them
If you are using an email address other than your aalto.fi address, do this: First, sign in to the portal at https://securemail.aalto.fi. Then follow the instructions in the portal to send your attachments.
Other attachments should be sent to [email protected].
If you want to submit attachments as printed versions, bring or send the documents to the learning services of your programme:Find your programme page and click Contact Information
When your application for an extension has been processed, you will receive a message on Sisu.
Appealing against the decision:
The front page of Sisu instructions for students