Tampere University is a Finnish university that was established on 1 January 2019 as a merger between the University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology. The new university is also the major shareholder of Tampere University of Applied Sciences.
Organisation
Faculties
Tampere University comprises the following faculties:
- Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
- Faculty of Management and Business
- Faculty of Education and Culture
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology
- Faculty of Built Environment
- Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
- Faculty of Social Sciences
Other units
- Language Centre
- Library
- Tampere University of Applied Sciences (87%)
- Teacher Training School
- Tampere University Hospital, a teaching hospital affiliated with Tampere University
Academics
Studies
A total of 20,600 degree students studied at the Tampere University in 2017, including 9,300 students in bachelor’s degree programmes, 7,600 students in master’s degree programmes, and 2,400 students in doctoral degree programmes. Additionally 1,400 students are training as medical specialists. In 2019, the university received 28,265 applications of whom 2,977 were enrolled for an admission rate of 11%. During that same year, the university was the second most applied university in Finland only bested by the University of Helsinki