Pre-DP applicant with a foreign certificate
Are you relocating or residing in Finland with your family? Have you studied in English before? Will you complete 9th grade this year? If yes, this is for you.
Pre-DP applicant with a foreign certificate
Pre-DP (year 10) is for those who were born in 2009-2011 and who will have been in school at least nine years in August 2026. Every applicant must go through the Finnish national secondary level application procedure (Studyinfo.fi) between 17 Feb - 17 March, 2026. When filling in the online form at Studyinfo, do NOT choose Finnish school leaving certificate if you don’t have one. Instead, apply as a discretionary applicant (=harkinnanvarainen).
In addition, the applicant sends their latest school report and their application form as a pdf document via email to ib.admissions@vantaa.fi by March 17, 2026. The name of the pdf file should include applicant's first name and last name. The subject field should include “Application form”.
Pre-DP applicants with a foreign certificate do not attend the entrance exam unless they have applied to both pre-DP and to DP1. Tikkurilan lukio has no quota for students applying with a foreign certificate but every applicant is individually considered.
International applicants should note that we cannot admit underaged students who wish to move to Finland on their own without their families. We will assess the applicants’ need for a study place in Vantaa when we make admission decisions regarding international applicants. We cannot admit students whose language profile is not compatible with the requirements of the IB Diploma programme. Tikkurilan lukio IB is not an upper secondary school for adults, and preparatory year students should be 15-16 years of age at the start of their studies.
Study costs
The students pay for all material they need (such as schoolbooks and a laptop computer), unless they are entitled to receive upper secondary education free of charge. The right to upper secondary education free of charge applies to students who are required to attend compulsory education by Finnish law, typically those who finish comprehensive education in Finland.
Language requirements
IB Diploma always requires two languages: a native language and a foreign one, or two native languages. We offer English and Finnish at both levels. If you don’t have any command of Finnish, you can apply in case your native language is one of the languages listed below and you have sufficient skills to study your native language independently for final exams.
Independently studied literature programs
Albanian A, Amharic A, Arabic A, Belarus A, Bosnian A, Bulgarian A, Catalan A, Chinese A, Croatian A, Czech A, Danish A, Dutch A, Estonian A, Filipino A, French A, German A, Hebrew A, Hindi A, Hungarian A, Indonesian A, Italian A, Japanese A, Korean A, Latvian A, Lithuanian A, Macedonian A, Malay A, Modern Greek A, Nepali A, Norwegian A, Persian A, Polish A, Portuguese A, Romanian A, Russian A, Serbian A, Sesotho A, Sinhalese A, Slovak A, Slovene A, Spanish A, Swahili A, Swedish A, Thai A, Turkish A, Ukrainian A, Vietnamese A, Welsh A
