Bilingual University

University of Helsinki is bilingual by law. University offers education in Swedish in a variety of subjects. Students studying subjects with no Swedish teaching and with Swedish as their first language are entitled to write exams and course work in Swedish although teaching would be in Finnish.
University of Helsinki is the only university in Finland who is responsible for education in Swedish in the fields of Law, Medicine, Social Work, Social Psychology, Veterinary Medicine, Agronomy and Geography. University is also the only university in Finland who offers academic education in Journalism in Swedish.

For more information about the different fields of education in Swedish, see Faculties, Departments and Independent Institutions.

Bilingual University in a Nutshell

• University of Helsinki is bilingual by law
• Education in Swedish is offered in the fields of science with Swedish professorships
• 42 Swedish speaking professors and more than 100 teachers teach in Swedish
• Students are always entitled to write exams and course work in Swedish
• At the Swedish School of Social Science at the University of Helsinki all education is in Swedish
• More than 2600 students with Swedish as their first language study at the University of Helsinki

Office for Swedish Affairs

We at the Swedish Affairs at the university’s Central Administration co-ordinate and develop university’s bilingualism. This means that we create new initiatives to enhance university’s bilingual activities and promote bilingual interaction with the society.

Office for Swedish Affairs

Every campus have their own Swedish campus coordinator who co-ordinate and develop bilingualism at the university's four campuses: Centrumcampus, Campus Kumpula and Viikki and Campus Meilahti.