Personal Study Plan - PSP

A personal study plan (PSP) based on the student´s degree programme curriculum is a plan that students inspect and edit for themselves.

What is the PSP?

A personal study plan (PSP) is a plan that you inspect and edit for yourself. It contains the contents, extent and duration of your studies. The degree structure of a student's degree programme is used as the basis of this study plan. The PSP helps you stay on schedule and advance in your studies. The plan must be updated as your studies progress.

When inspecting and editing your personal study plan, it is useful to write down your hopes and goals regarding your studies and professional skills. The PSP helps you personalise the degree and choose minor subjects and optional studies to accompany the compulsory studies.

Familiarise yourself with the study guide early on in your studies and think about the course selections and schedules in the long term. When planning a PSP, long-term thinking stresses the relevance of the overall study programme and helps you realize the time required to complete a degree.

Course pre-requisites and the different tasks (lectures, exercises, projects, exams, etc.) required for successful completion of courses should also be taken into account when editing a PSP. Other matters potentially affecting the progress of studies (family, hobbies, work, etc.) should also factor into the PSP planning process in big picture.

PSP tutoring

You get PSP tutoring from your personal tutor teacher or other PSP tutors appointed by the faculty. You can also contact your education designers for help.

PSP on Peppi

Peppi PSP action allows you to design a personal study plan for your entire degree, based on degree structures on Peppi. The Peppi PSP allows you to see your completed and upcoming courses, which makes it easier for both you and your advisors to follow PSP progress. You can also monitor the progress and the weekly workload of your studies on Peppi. You find the monitoring tool on your own student desktop under the heading Study attainments under Progress in studies.

For you

Oulu Business School

Business School student must have a valid personal study plan (PSP). Student will receive help and support for preparing the RSP from master’s programme coordinator.

Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

All students must have an approved PSP in Peppi. Without the approved PSP, the student can not graduate. The degree is compiled according to PSP, so it is mandatory that PSP is up-to-date. PSP will make study and graduation process easier and faster.

If there are course modifications in the original PSP, it needs approval again. If you have questions about PSP, please contact your named Tutor Teacher or Education Designer at study.itee@oulu.fi.

The updated PSP must be sent:

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering: International students must send PSP to Anabela Goncalves Berenguer, Finnish students must send PSP to named Tutor Teacher (or Education Designer, study.itee@oulu.fi).
  • Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering (BME): Students must send PSP to Tapio Seppänen.
  • Master's Programme in Electrical Engineering: Students must send PSP to named Tutor Teacher (or Education Designer).
  • Master's Programme in Information Processing Sciences: Students must send PSP in the Peppi-system to the named Tutor Teacher (or Education Designer).
  • Master's Programme in Wireless Communication Engineering (WCE): Students must send PSP to Kari Kärkkäinen.
  • Digitalisation, Computing and Electronics (DICE):
    • 2021-2023 started students study@itee.fi
    • 2024 started DICE students
      • Computer Science and Engineering: Anja Keskinarkaus and Teemu Tokola
      • Electronics: Marko Neitola and Jari Hannu
      • Information Processing Science: Leevi Rantala

Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

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Faculty of Science

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Faculty of Education and Psychology

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Health Sciences

In health sciences, the student’s PSP is accepted by the tutor teacher.

English

All the students majoring in English produce their personal study plans at the beginning of their studies. The plans are updated and discussed with teacher tutors in the course of the studies.

Checkpoints for Personal Study Plans (PSP=HOPS, Henkilökohtainen opintosuunnitelma)
  1. At the beginning of the studies
  2. At the beginning of the Bachelor's Seminar and Thesis course
  3. At the beginning of the Master's studies

Process and Environmental Engineering

Study option infos are arranged during the orientation week and study option is confirmed when divided into groups at the beginning of studies.

Tutor teachers in Environmental Engineering Master's Degree Programme are



Sustainable Energy Systems: Eva Pongracz

Industrial Environmental Engineering: Mika Huuhtanen

Water and environmental engineering: Pertti Ala-aho

Digitalisation, Computing and Electronics

DICE -programme change 1.8.2024

The Bachelor’s Programme in Digitalisation, Computing and Electronics (DICE) has three tracks in
the programme: Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Commucations Engineering,
Information Processing Science. The courses for these tracks were provided jointly by the three main programmes of the Faculty, namely the degree programmes in Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering, and Information Processing Science. In the year 2024, the Bachelor’s Programme in Digitalisation, Computing and Electronics will be merged into the three main programmes.


Students admitted to the DICE programme during the years 2021-2023 have the option to change to the main curriculum and continue their studies based on the main degree programme’s curriculum (see additional details and the get application form below). Starting in 2024, all new students accepted into DICE programme will follow the degree structures of the main degree programmes.

Completing your studies in DICE-programme

Students admitted during years 2021-2023

You can complete your degree either following the curriculum of your year of enrollment or change to the main degree programme to follow the latest curriculum of the main degree programme. Therefore, you have two options:

a) You can complete your degree studies according to the curriculum of your first year of enrollment. You should note that curriculum changes may occur annually, meaning not all courses listed in your study plan may be available in subsequent years. In study guidance, you will get information on which course can replace the discontinued one.

b) You may change to the main degree programme and complete your degree studies according to the curriculum of the academic year 2024–2025 (or newer), based on the field of study for which you were originally accepted into.

More information on Programme change here.

The application form

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Geography

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Biology

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Physical Sciences

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Subject Teacher training, FSci

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Computational biology and data-analysis

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Mathematical Sciences

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Chemistry

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Civil Engineering

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Archeology

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History

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Information Studies

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Literature

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Cultural Anthropology

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Logopedics

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German language and culture

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Swedish Language

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Finnish Language

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Saami Culture

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Science Communication, MA

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Saami Language

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History of Sciences and Ideas

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Subject Teacher training

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Learning Sciences

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Primary Teacher Education

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Psychology

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Learning, Education and Technology

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Special Education

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Intercultural Teacher Education

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Early Childhood Education

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Education and Globalisation

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Business Analytics MSc (Tech)

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Electronics and Communications Engineering

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Biomedical Engineering

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Information Processing Science

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Computer Science and Engineering

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Medicine

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International Business Management (MSc EBA)

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Financial and Management Accounting (MSc EBA)

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Business Analytics (MSc EBA)

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Marketing (MSc EBA)

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Finance (MSc EBA)

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