Finland's oldest and largest university is the University of Helsinki. The school focuses on research, and according to the school's website it is routinely ranked among Europe's top 15 research universities. The school awards more than 450 doctorates annually and university researchers publish close to 10,000 scientific articles or monographs each year.
The University of Helsinki has departments of art, agriculture and forestry, biological and environmental science, behavioral sciences, pharmacy, social sciences, law, medicine and theology.
University of Helsinki
P.O. Box 3
Helsinki, Finland
FI-00014
+358-9-191-22604
helsinki.fi
Situated in the city of Rovaniemi on the Arctic Circle, the University of Lapland is the northernmost university in the EU; it was founded in 1979. Because of its location, the school has a strong emphasis on Arctic issues as well as global climate change and environmental law. The University of Lapland also instructs students in areas of tourism, law, education, social sciences and art and design. According to the university's website, its Arctic Centre is home to internationally acclaimed research on people and the Arctic, which it displays in its Science Centre.
University of Lapland
P.O. Box 122
FIN-96101 Rovaniemi, Finland
+358-16-341-341
ulapland.fi
Turku is a city on the southwest coast of Finland. The University of Turku plays host to 21,000 students and 3,000 employees, according to the school's website. The University of Turku has departments of humanities, mathematics and natural sciences, social sciences, medicine, law, economics and education. The school was founded in 1920 and even has its own specialty liqueur called "22040." It was created by food scientists at the university and contains fruits specific to Finland such as the cloudberry, the rowan and the sea buckthorn.
University of Turku
FI-20014 Turku
Finland
+358-02-333-51
utu.fi