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Finlandia University was founded as Suomi College on September 8, 1896, by J. K. Nikander (b. 1855, Hämeenlinna, Finland, d. 1919). [7] [9] During the 1880s, large numbers of Finns immigrated to Hancock, Michigan to labor in the copper and lumber industries.
This is a list of the universities in Finland.Institutions of higher education are designated as universities by Finnish legislation. [1] Only universities have the right to confer degrees in the categories of alempi korkeakoulututkinto/lägre högskoleexamen (bachelor's degree) and ylempi korkeakoulututkinto/högre högskoleexamen (master's degree) and doctoral degrees.
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Finlandia Hall, a concert hall in Helsinki, Finland; Finlandia Prize, a Finnish literature award; Finlandia University, a private university in Hancock, Michigan; the Finnish Labour Temple, also known as the Finlandia Club, a cultural and community centre in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada; Finlandia (candy), fruit marmalade candy produced by Fazer
The Finnish abitur gives the right to wear the student cap. The Finnish Matriculation Examination (Finnish ylioppilastutkinto, Swedish studentexamen) is the matriculation examination taken at the end of secondary education to qualify for entry into university. In practice, the test also constitutes the high school's final exam(s), although ...
Arcada University of Applied Sciences: Arcada Helsinki [1] 1996 (prov.), 1998 [1] 2 234 [2] Education in Swedish, with a few English programmes [1] Centria University of Applied Sciences: Centria Kokkola, Ylivieska, Jakobstad, Haapajärvi [3] 3 098 [2] Education in Finnish, Swedish and English [3] Diaconia University of Applied Sciences: Diak
One of the competitive advantages in Finland has been their ability in foreign languages. All students learn at least two languages in addition to their mother tongue, mainly English and obligatory Finnish or Swedish, up to high school. A citizens' initiative to remove obligatory Swedish from education reached parliament in 2014, but failed to ...