Aalto University

Aalto University is a multidisciplinary university whose main campus is located in Otaniemi in Espoo, Finland. The institution has six schools with around 15,000 degree students in total and 5,000 staff, 400 of whom are professors.

Courses are offered across fields of arts, design and architecture; business and economics; and technology, engineering and science.

Around 25 per cent of degree students and 50 per cent of academic faculty at Aalto University are international.

The university, which offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes in all its fields of study, describes itself as committed to "identifying and solving grand societal challenges and building an innovative future”.

Aalto University was founded in 2010 from the merger of Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki. 

The three distinct fields form the core of Aalto University, creating an innovative environment for cross-disciplinary studies and research.

The campus and its surrounds are the location for the headquarters of Finland’s largest companies’, as well as smaller enterprises. Otaniemi is also home to around 3,000 students.

Aalto University partners with both local and global companies, as well as research institutions. The Aalto campus is home to one of Finland's largest startup ecosystems.