Year of establishment: 1925
A well-respected multidisciplinary research University, The University of Tampere (UTA) offers 16 English-taught Masters programmes and is one of the largest and most popular universities in Finland.
The University of Tampere (UTA), with its nine schools and 15,000 degree students, is one of the largest and most popular universities in Finland. The university is a host to a vibrant community of over 1000 international students, including 30 Indian students, and 1500 academic experts. In its research, the university addresses the central issues in contemporary society. By providing critical knowledge and education, the university helps people and societies to improve their health and their cultural, social and economic well-being. The basic values of the University are academic freedom, creativity and social responsibility.
The University of Tampere is a multi-disciplinary research university with nine Schools – BioMediTech, School of Communication, Media and Theatre, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Information Sciences, School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, School of Management, School of Medicine and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. In terms of practicalities, housing for students in Tampere is administered by TOAS, the Tampere Student Housing Foundation, which maintains and rents out student accommodation and has a quota of furnished reserved for international students. Monthly rents range from €200 to €400. The cost of living in Finland is on average comparable to the rest of Northern Europe, with rental, food, transportation, personal and leisure expenses costing around €700-900 per month.
Programmes and courses: UTA offers 16 Master’s programmes taught in English:
• Biotechnology
• Comparative Social Policy and Welfare
• Computational Big Data Analysis
• Human-Technology Interaction
• Internet and Game Studies
• Software Development
• Russian and European Studies
• Media Education
• Media Management
• Health Sciences
• Global and Transnational Studies
• Quantitative Social Research
• Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research
• Cultural Studies (from 2016)
• Teacher Education (from 2016)
The University participates in one Erasmus Mundus Master Course: Master’s Degree Programme in Research and Innovation in Higher Education. The University also offers 16 Doctoral programmes. The Master’s programmes and Doctoral programmes are all open to international applicants, and the application is open once year for Master’s programmes (December-January) and usually two times a year for Doctoral programmes http://www.uta.fi/admissions/; UTA does not charge tuition fees – although from 2016 non EU/EAA students will pay a Euro 100 application handling fee, and there is a small membership fee for the Student Union, which entitles students to a variety of student discounts.
