The University of Helsinki’s 40,000 students and staff members study across 21 locations, four of which are campuses in in the Finnish capital.
Here, students can choose from over 300 subjects taught by professors belonging to 11 different faculties. Founded in 1640, it is one of the oldest universities in the Nordic lands.
The University of Helsinki is involved with over half of the both the Finnish and Nordic Research Centres, and is one of the only Finnish Universities to join the League of European Research Universities.
Its Viikki Campus of Life Sciences by itself has attracted an increasing number of businesses and major branches of the MTT Agrifood conglomerate’s research division, such as the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute and the Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira. The Viikki campus is also home to tropical vegetation.
Helsinki has produced both luminaries and movers and shakers such as Lars Ahlfors, one of the first two mathematicians to be awarded the Fields Medal, Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, the first President of Finland, and Linus Torvalds, the computer scientists who built Linux.
