Hecse - Helsinki Graduate School in Computer Science and Engineering

Hecse
Applications 2010
Admission (general information)
Students
Alumni
Supervisors
Support teams

Autumn School 2010
Courses and Events
Travel stipends

Organization
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Student admission to Hecse

Hecse admits new students roughly once a year. Students are accepted to pursue their doctoral degree full-time in four years.

Funded vs. adjunct positions

Hecse has 20 funded positions. The number of vacant funded positions varies yearly. Positions without funding (adjunct positions) are also available and entitle the student to participate in Hecse events and to apply for Hecse travel funds. Students with already guaranteed funding (holding a research position or employed by university research projects) are encouraged to apply for these adjunct positions.

Why apply for a adjunct position?

If you are not accepted for a funded position (or if you already have other funding), you might still be accepted for an adjunct position. Both as an adjunct student and a funded student, you can

apply for travel stipends for conference trips, summer schools, research visits
attend Hecse courses and summer/winter/spring/autumn schools
attend Hecse gettogethers
get your own support team
but you also have to report about your studies to Hecse

Eligibility

The applicants are expected to have a Master or Licentiate degree, as well as an interest in scientific research and the work of a researcher. The applicants, if accepted, are expected to engage themselves in full-time research and study for a maximum of four years. They are also expected to participate in the events organized by the graduate school. The progress of the research has to be reported periodically to the school.

Note that a student can only belong to one graduate school at a time.

Location

The positions are located either in the premises of the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki (UH) or in the Department of Information and Computer Science, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, or the Department of Media Technology of the Faculty of Information and Natural Sciences at Aalto University (Aalto, previously TKK).

Salary

The salary for a funded doctoral student is based on levels 1 - 4 of the demands level chart for teaching and research personnel. With the salary component based on personal work performance the overall salary range is 1 608 - 3 209 euro per month.

Previous application calls

Applications: 2010 for positions starting from 1 Jan 2011 or later
- The deadline for applications was on 14 September 2010
- Hecse received 32 applications (10 out of which are already adjunct students in Hecse)
  - 10 applications were from students who would be supervised at UH and 22 applications from students who would be supervised at Aalto
  - 4 applicants were female, 28 male
  - 16 applicants had a foreign citizenship, 16 were Finnish
- See application information for this
Applications 2009 for positions starting from 1 Jan 2010 or later
- Pre-applications, deadline 15 May 2009
  - Hecse received 15 applications
  - Supervisors started negotiations (for preparing a full application) with 4 applicants who all submitted an application for the call for full applications
  - See application information for this call
- Full applications
  - The deadline for full applications was on 18 September 2009
  - Hecse offered 7 funded positions
  - Hecse received 53 applications (17 out of which are already adjunct students in Hecse)
    - 13 applications were from students who would be supervised at UH and 40 applications from students who would be supervised at TKK
    - 7 applicants were female, 46 male
    - 23 applicants had a foreign citizenship, 30 were Finnish
  - Hecse accepted 8 students for funded positions (one more than the number of positions offered) (2 at UH and 6 at TKK) and 41 students for adjunct positions (out of which 17 already have an adjunct position). Four applicants were rejected. The number of students in Hecse will there fore increase with 32.
  - See application information for this call
Applications 2008 for positions starting from 1 Jan 2009 or later
- The deadline for applications was on 19 September 2008
- Hecse offered 9 funded positions
- Hecse received 41 applications
  - 11 applications were from students who would be supervised at UH and 29 applications from students who would be supervised at TKK and one did not specify
  - 9 applicants were female, 32 male
  - 10 applicants had a foreign citizenship, 31 were Finnish
- Hecse accepted 10 students for funded positions (one more than the number of positions offered) (3 at UH and 7 at TKK) and 28 students for adjunct positions (out of which 7 already have adjunct positions). Two students were not accepted for either position. One application was rejected.
- See application information for this call

Applications 2007 for positions starting from 1 Jan 2008 or later
- The deadline for applications was on 28 September 2007
- Hecse offered 8 funded positions
- Hecse received 38 applications
  - 10 applications were from students who would be supervised at UH and 28 applications from students who would be supervised at TKK
  - 5 applicants were female, 33 male
  - 10 applicants had a foreign citizenship, 28 were Finnish
- Hecse accepted 8 students for funded positions (2 at UH and 6 at TKK) and 23 students for adjunct positions (of these 23, 8 already had adjunct positions). Six students were not accepted for either a funded or adjunct position.
- See application information for this call
Applications 2006 for positions starting from 1 Jan 2007
- The deadline for applications was on 29 September 2006
- Hecse offered 20 funded positions
- Hecse received 67 applications
- Hecse accepted 20 students for funded positions (7 at the UH and 13 at TKK) and 30 students for adjunct positions
- See application information for this call

Next application call

The next application call will open during 2011.

The application

A typical application would include

Application form properly filled out and signed
Letter of Introduction
Research and study plan
Curriculum Vitae
Officially confirmed copies of all relevant diplomas
Transcript of studies
Financing plan
TOEFL certificate
Copies of publications
Letters of recommendation

Detailed information about how the application should look like is given separately for each application call. Introduction and recommendation letters should be addressed to the Board of Hecse and the whole application (including the letters) should be sent to the Coordinator for Hecse.

The applications and appendices are not returned. The applicant may be invited to an interview.

This file was last modified on 22 Sep 2010.