The University of Vaasa is a multidisciplinary, business-oriented university in Vaasa, Finland. University of Vaasa is one of the largest business universities in Finland. The university has personnel of around 500 which includes a teaching staff of 180 and 54 professors. Around 5000 students are currently studying in various degree programs at the university.
Campus
The university can be found in the neighbourhood of Palosaari beside the city’s old cotton mill, which also houses part of the university. Each building has its own name, like the main building of “Tervahovi” (English: Pinetar Court) and the governing building of “Luotsi” (English: Pilot). These buildings were finished in 1994 and planned in the spirit of the former county architect Carl Axel Setterberg who planned most of Vaasa’s public buildings in 1860. The part of the university placed in the old mill is called “Fabriikki” (English: Factory). There is also the academic library of Tritonia, which the university shares with the other academic institutions in the city, and the laboratory of Technobothnia, which is shared with the city’s two universities of applied sciences. The whole campus is near the waterfront and surrounded by park areas. It is sometimes called the most beautiful campus in Finland.
Schools
There are fours schools at the University of Vaasa:
- School of Management
- Human Resource Management
- Public Law
- Public Management
- Regional Studies
- Social and Health Management
- Strategic Management
- School of Accounting and Finance
- Accounting and Finance
- Business Law
- Economics
- School of Marketing and Communications
- Communication studies
- International Business
- Marketing
- School of Technology and Innovations
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Electrical Engineering and Energy Technology
- Computer Science
- Production
Education and research
The University of Vaasa is a business oriented and multi-disciplinary university. It offers education possibilities on the following levels:
- Bachelor’s programmes
- Master’s programmes
- Doctoral programmes
- Open University
- Continuing education
- Studies for exchange students
The strategic areas of research are management and change, energy and sustainable development and financing and economic decision making. University of Vaasa has fours schools and three research platforms: Vaasa Energy Business Innovation Centre (VEBIC), Digital Economy and Innovation and Entrepreneurship InnoLab.
Services
- Levón Institute – Centre for Continuing Education
- Linginno – Language Centre
- Tritonia – Academic Library, Vaas
- Technobotnia – Research Centre
- Vaasan Yliopiston Ylioppilaskunta – Student Union of Vaasa University