Admissions
Apply to the programme if you are an international or domestic applicant.
We are no longer accepting applications for the 2024/25 academic year. Applications for entry in the 2025/26 academic year will open in February 2025.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- Application submitted through Dream Apply (for international applicants) and SAIS (for Estonian applicants and applicants who have Estonian ID-card) between February 1st and March 4, 2024
- 60€ application fee (paid via bank transfer)
- Copy of your bachelor’s degree certificate or equivalent, and its translation into Estonian or English (both the copy and translation have to be attested)
- Copy of your transcript of records, and its translation into Estonian or English (both the copy and translation have to be attested)
- English language proficiency certificate, please check the requirements HERE
- Copy of the data page of your passport or ID-card
- Tuition fee: 1900 euros per year
- CV (max 3 pages)
- Sample of your previous work
- architecture/urban design portfolio (single PDF document, max 20 pages, max 12 MB)
- or writing sample (single PDF document, max 6000 words)
- or a combined sample of your design and written work
- Motivation letter (max 500 words) should explain how you understand the terms “city,” “urbanism,” and “urbanization”. How does your education/experience prepare you for the programme? How would you benefit from, and contribute to, the programme? Discuss.
Suitable MSc candidate has a bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in architecture, landscape architecture, geography, construction, art history, sociology, urban planning, political science, or other arts & humanities fields.
The selection process has two rounds. First, the candidates are evaluated on the basis of their CV, previous study performance, motivation letter, and architectural/urban design portfolio or/and writing sample. An application should demonstrate the applicants intellectual curiosity and an imaginative grasp of the urban question. We require that the candidates have a strong academic record, and a clear idea how their education and experience have prepared them for the urban studies program. They will display that they can think independently and work collaboratively, and pursue studies across urban theory and design. It is necessary to have a good command of the English language.
Shortlisted candidates are then invited for an interview.
In the second round, in-depth interviews are conducted with prospective candidates.
Depending on their previous education/experience, the candidates present an architecture/urban design portfolio, or/and a writing sample (realized/published work is not required, but is an advantage) in a field relevant to urban studies (architecture, urbanism, urban planning, geography, sociology, political sciences, art history, etc.).
