A multidisciplinary approach

The University of Helsinki carries out research of an internationally high standard. Research funding, honours and prizes awarded to our researchers are an indication of the wide-spread esteem among the global scientific community.

The University of Helsinki has regularly been ranked among Europe’s 10 to 15 best universities on worldwide ranking lists of research universities. Some 470 doctorates are completed annually and nearly 10,000 scientific articles or monographs are published yearly by the university’s researchers.

The University of Helsinki is committed to provide excellent library and information services to all students and researchers. There are modern libraries on all four campuses, the latest being the award-winning City Centre Campus Library.

The University of Helsinki is among the most active universities in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures projects. The University is a member of 15 ESFRI roadmap projects, covering an extensive range of disciplines from humanities to natural and life sciences.  ESFRI participation and membership in other major international infrastructures, such as CERN, attests the University’s high quality of research and its broad, genuinely multidisciplinary research and teaching profile.