The University of Helsinki - the leading university in Finland
The strengths of the University of Helsinki are internationally acclaimed scientific research and the teaching based on it.
The University of Helsinki is the biggest and most multidisciplinary university in Finland, providing higher education in all disciplines excluding business and technology.
The high standard of teaching and the traditions dating back centuries offer an unsurpassable framework for studying.
Eleven faculties - theology, law, medicine, humanities, natural sciences, behavioural sciences, social sciences, agriculture and forestry, veterinary medicine, bioscience and pharmacology - are all top of their league even in international comparison.
The strengths of the University of Helsinki are internationally acclaimed scientific research and the teaching based on it. The University provides opportunities both to complete professionally oriented degrees and to develop general skills suited to a great variety of tasks at all levels of society.
Experts in all disciplines who hold degrees of a high standard from the University of Helsinki are the best and most eloquent testimony to the University's prowess. The University of Helsinki is the alma mater of, for example, seven of Finland's eleven presidents, Jorma Ollila, former CEO of Nokia, and Linus Thorvalds, the brain behind the Linux operating system.
Using many indicators, the University of Helsinki is the most internationally oriented of Finland's universities, and it is a member of the League of European Research Universities, LERU.
In 2007, the University of Helsinki had nearly 40,000 students. Some 4,500 degrees are taken every year, ten per cent being doctorates. There are 1,500 international degree students and 1,200 exchange students annually.
Every year, some 32,000 people apply to the University of Helsinki. Almost one in five is admitted.
Links:
The University of Helsinki website How to Apply?
Text: Liisa Lähteenmäki
Photo: Ida Pimenoff
Translation: Valtasana Oy
