Master's Programme in Life Science Technologies

Student Guide

Master's Programme in Life Science Technologies

For Aalto students

This site contains the student study guide for the Master's Programme in Life Science Technologies. Here you will find the programme curriculum as well as detailed guidelines for planning your studies. All the materials and instructions are for all the majors of the programme. If you are interested in applying to the programme, follow the links at the bottom of the site to the application page.

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Master's Programme in Life Science Technologies is jointly organized by the School of Science, the School of Chemical Engineering, and the School of Electrical Engineering. The programme is coordinated by the School of Science.

This site contains the student study guide for the master’s programme with materials and instructions on all the majors available in the programme. Here you will find the programme curriculum as well as detailed guidelines for planning your studies.

Technological innovations have become an essential part of modern healthcare, well-being and bioeconomy. Therefore, both in academic research and industry there is an increasing need for people who can deal with today's increasingly complex biomedical problems.

Master's Programme in Life Science Technologies offers a multidisciplinary curriculum focusing on important aspects of current biomedical research, covering fields such as biological data analysis and modeling, advanced biomaterials and bioelectronics, biomedical engineering and neuroscience. The program draws on fundamental and applied knowledge on these fields and is closely linked to research conducted in the participating Schools and Departments.

The programme offers six majors:

Bioinformatics and Digital Health (SCI)
Biomedical Engineering (SCI)
Biosensing and Bioelectronics (ELEC)
Biosystems and Biomaterials Engineering (CHEM) NOTE: The major will be withdrawn as of 1 August 2028. Students may select the BioSM major or minor until 31 July 2026, and they have until 31 July 2028 to complete it.
Complex Systems (SCI)
Human Neuroscience and Technology (SCI)

Continuing studies in Master's Programme in Life Science Technologies: Instructions for Bachelor students at Aalto University

Here you can find information on how to continue to this Master's programme:

Changing your master’s programme in the School of Science

If you are a student of School of Science and want to change your master’s programme, first check whether you meet the criteria for starting studies in the programme. The criteria for transferring to the programme must be met in bachelor's degree.

You may change your master’s programme if your study right for Bachelor’s degree has begun on or after 1.8.2016 and you have study time left at the time of the change (Amendment to the criteria, valid as of 1 August 2024).
You may change your master’s programme once during your master’s studies. After the change, you cannot return to your original programme.
You may change your master’s programme within the School of Science.
You may not change into a master’s programme that requires a separate admission process (e.g. Master’s Programme in ICT Innovation, Master’s Programme in Security and Cloud Computing, the major Game Design and Development of the Master’s Programme in Computer, Communication and Information Sciences).
You may change your master’s programme only if you were originally granted a study right for both bachelor’s and master’s degree at Aalto.
If you were granted a study right for a master’s degree only, you cannot change your master’s programme. However, you can apply for the desired programme in the separate Aalto admission round for master’s studies.
You may not change your master’s programme if, after you have you completed your bachelor’s degree at Aalto, you accept an admission offer for a master’s programme for which you have applied for in a separate admission round.
If you were granted a scholarship for your master’s studies, the scholarship will continue in your new programme. Changing your master’s programme will not affect the duration of your scholarship.

Create a new version of your personal study plan (HOPS) in Sisu for your desired master’s programme.
Schedule your studies. You must be able to complete all studies of the new programme within the study time that you have left.
Apply for the change by contacting the planning officer of your desired master’s programme. You can find their contact information on the programme’s Contact page.
The planning officer checks that you meet the criteria and notifies you.
A decision of the change will be made by the dean of the School of Science.

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Studies Published: 10.6.2026

From theory to practice: students enhance an accessible MRI scanner

Master’s students Teemu Rauha and Elias Viitanen designed new filters for an accessible magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner, aiming to reduce interference and improve image quality. The technology, developed within a research project, could one day accelerate diagnoses of conditions such as stroke.

Studies Published: 9.6.2026

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Respondents’ overall satisfaction with the services of campus student and staff restaurants remains at a good level, with no significant changes in the results compared to last year.

Studies Published: 5.6.2026

Open call for ELEC & SCI students: Study/research visit to India with a TFK-project

Aalto ELEC is part of the TFK-project: ICT4AID - Information, Communication and Data Processing Technologies for Response Management in Case of Natural Disasters. The project can offer 2 students (PhD/MSc) a chance to visit one of the Indian partner universities.