The academic year consists of two terms. The autumn term begins in August and ends a few days before Christmas. The spring term runs from January to May. Intensive teaching, project working or independent studying weeks are from 14 October to 20 October 2013, week 42 and from 24 February to 2 March 2014, week 9.

More detailed information is available at http://www.saimia.fi/en-FI/studies/studying-at-saimaa-uas/academic-year

Students at Saimaa University of Applied Sciences in Imatra will be able to use the services of the Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) from the beginning of January 2013. At present, these services are available only to students of universities of applied sciences in Lappeenranta. The change means all students at Saimaa University of Applied Sciences will have equal opportunities to use the services of FSHS.

Peter Becker from Stone-Ideas.com will lecture about "What the stone can and what it can’t" at an open seminar in Lappeenranta at 15th of November, 2012. The stone branch has many beautiful materials but only a small variety of products. This is the starting point for Peter Becker, editor of Stone-Ideas.com, in his lecture about new product ideas with stone and about how they can be found and developed.

The new Application guide 2013 has published: http://www.saimia.fi/en-FI/files/docs/brochures/application_guide_2013.pdf.  The next joint application period for Bachelor's Degree Programmes starts on Monday 7th January 2013.

This list includes the names of accepted students, who gave permission to announce their names on this www page. All accepted students will be contacted personally.

This list includes the names of accepted students, who gave permission to announce their names on this www page. All accepted students will be contacted personally.

Spring Event will be arranged at April 20th - 21st 2012, 10 am - 4 pm in the Lappeenranta Fortress. Event is organized by 1st year marketing students of the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences.

1st Skinnarila Game Summit will be arranged at 18 April in Skinnarila campus (Ylioppilastalo, address: Laserkatu 10, Lappeenranta).  Events theme is: Connecting entertainment and usefulness – How to develop fun and entertaining games while at the same time creating useful results? Read more information.

The studia generalia lecture series Russia, Russia, Russia! organized by the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences (Saimaa UAS) continues in February-April. The first lecture out of three is held on Thursday 7 February 2012 at 6 pm by Ph.D. Sanna Turoma from the Aleksanteri Institute. Ms Turoma will give a lecture on the significance of literature and culture in the former Soviet Union and Russia. In the other lectures, Principal Lecturer Ph.D. Olga Shustrova from the Faculty of Arts at Saint-Petersburg State University discusses the meaning of fine arts and art education from the Soviet-era to present-day Russia. Furthermore, Ms Shustrova will present some of the art museums and galleries in St. Petersburg.