The more detailed schedule for the orientation week along with other orientation materials will be sent to you by email in August, so please read all of them carefully.

Orientation week will take place from 26-31 August 2024. Please note that participation in the orientation week is mandatory during the daytime on 26-30 August 2024. In addition, the student organization Probba organizes activities on evenings and during the weekend after that. Part of the o-week program is required for the Orientation to University Studies course (1 cr). In case you have informed us that you will come to Mikkeli, but you cannot arrive in Mikkeli on time for the orientation week, after all, please contact us by email to negotiate about the issue: [email protected]. The first business course Global Business Environment will begin on Monday, 2 September 2024, with mandatory attendance.

The orientation week starts on Monday, August 26, 2024, at 9.15 am in the School of Business Mikkeli Campus lobby (Lönnrotinkatu 5) with registration. Please note: You are required to bring the following with you to the registration:

1. an ID with a picture to proof your identification
2. 1 passport sized photo (with your whole name written on the back)

3. a receipt of the paid invoice of the mandatory Student Union AYY fee

   If you have paid the AYY payment through the OILI-service OR have already delivered us the original receipt of the AYY payment, you do not need to bring a receipt with you to the Orientation Week.

4. the original diploma and a transcript from your upper secondary school (e.g., an original Finnish Matriculation Examination Certificate or a foreign diploma).
5. a pen and a calculator – those you need during the week.

Your student tutor will contact you in August. Your contact information will be given to your tutor. Tutors are senior students who help new students during orientation week and at the beginning of their studies. Each new student is assigned a student tutor who has completed tutoring training. Tutoring is carried out in cooperation with tutors, University personnel and student organizations. The tutors introduce students to the campus, student organization activities (KY & AYY) and student life in general. You will also find the contact information for your tutors in the tutor letter sent to you by email in August. You can and should contact your tutors with any questions you might have or just get to know them.

The Computer Applications sessions (schedule and requirements below) are a mandatory part of the Orientation to University Studies (1 cr) course. These sessions include 5 lectures on Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as a test session. The purpose of the test is to evaluate if the student knows how to use these three software on a sufficient level.

The students can participate in the pre-test session on the orientation week Monday, 26 August, if they think they have the necessary skills to pass one or all the exams without participating in the teaching sessions.

More information on the schedule and the test requirements can be found here below.

To get off to a swift start with your studies, you should familiarize yourself with the contents of your studies and other practicalities during the summer. During your studies, the university provides you with services that support you both in your studies and life management. You can access our pre-orientation page on MyCourses Pre-Orientation 2024-25 by following the instructions below.

How to get started with Aalto Mikkeli Pre-Orientation in MyCourses? 

1. After activating your Aalto credentials (possible from 1 July onwards), log in to MyCourses (mycourses.aalto.fi). Go to Aalto Mikkeli’s Pre-Orientation’s syllabus (Summary of Aalto Mikkeli campus, Pre-orientation 2024-25 | MyCourses) and follow the instructions to enroll yourself to the Pre-Orientation’s MyCourses workspace. 
2. After self-enrolment, click Course button to go to the Pre-Orientation’s front page Start here!. 
3. Go through the short introduction. 
4. You are ready to start! On the menu bar at the left side of the page, you now should be able to see the sections Start here! and Welcome! as well as six other numbered sections. Please start with the section Welcome!. 

If you run into problems with Aalto Pre-Orientation, please contact us at [email protected]. Title the message MyCourses Pre-Orientation.

Other useful links

The student organization of the BScBA students Probba organizes events throughout the academic year.

The Mikkeli Campus is located in the centre of Mikkeli on Lönnrotinkatu 5 (see map below). The travel time to Helsinki is approximately 2.5 hours by car. You can look for public transportations options on the websites of VR (train tickets), Onnibus (long-distance bus tickets) and Savonlinja (long-distance bus tickets).