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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.
The process within universities began with merger of the University of Kuopio and the University of Joensuu into the University of Eastern Finland in 2010. [51] In Helsinki , three local universities, namely Helsinki University of Technology , Helsinki School of Economics and University of Art and Design Helsinki , merged to a new Aalto ...
Pages in category "Universities and colleges in Finland" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2012, the University of Eastern Finland was ranked among the leading 300-350 universities in the world by Times Higher Education. In 2023, the University of Eastern Finland was ranked in the 601-800 universities in the world, with all indicators reflecting a poorer performance. [24]
The first predecessor of the university, The Cathedral School of Åbo, was presumably founded in 1276 for education of boys to become servants of the Church.As the university was founded in 1640 by Queen Christina of Sweden (1626–1689) in Turku (Sw. Åbo), as the Åbo Kungliga Akademi (Latin: Regia Academia Aboensis), the senior part of the school formed the core of the new university, while ...
The university of applied science (UAS) (Finnish: ammattikorkeakoulu (AMK); Swedish: yrkeshögskola), is a Finnish higher vocational institute offering tertiary level education. In English, the institutes were called polytechnics before 2006. Unlike universities, the UAS focus on R&D by
The university's primary facilities are in Pasila, Helsinki. It has other premises in Haaga , Malmi (all in Helsinki), and in Porvoo and Vierumäki . Haaga-Helia offers Bachelor and Master level courses in business, information technology, sport and leisure education, hospitality, tourism and event management, journalism, and vocational teacher ...
The Polytechnic (University of Applied Sciences since 2006) is a higher education vocational institute in Finland.There are 24 different universities of applied sciences across the country.