Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences is one of Finland’s largest business polytechnics (“ammattikorkeakoulu” in Finnish). It is an open University of Applied Sciences, owned by a foundation run by Helsinki’s business community. This Institution is fully supervised and accredited by the Finnish government through the Ministry of Education and Culture. The school’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 courses in business, information technology, sport and leisure education, hospitality, tourism, management assistant education, vocational teacher education programmes, journalism, marketing, and in languages. It has about 10,500 students and about 630 employees, of whom nearly 400 are full-time teachers.

Research and Business Development Centre

Helia’s Research and Business Development Centre is producing training services to associations and companies. The training is tailored to meet the needs of the individual company by a variety of short-term courses and longer programmes for business operations development, sales training and IT training. The majority of the programmes are executed in cooperation with customers.