Tampere University
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| founding | 1925 |
| place | Tampere , Finland |
| President | Mari Walls |
| Students | 20,178 (2016) |
| Employee | 1,981 (2016) |
| including professors | 190 (2016) |
| Annual budget | € 186.4 million (2016) |
| Website | www.uta.fi |
The University of Tampere ( Finnish Tampereen yliopisto ; Swedish Tammerfors universitet ) is a state university in Tampere , Finland . It has around 20,000 students and a good 2,000 employees.
In the 2018 winter semester, more than 22,000 high school graduates applied to the University of Tampere (as part of the joint application process of the Finnish universities), of which around 2,000 were accepted after an entrance examination or on the basis of their high school diploma. More than 1000 Masters and 100 PhDs from the University of Tampere graduate each year.
The University of Tampere offers a wide range of different subjects. The university's graduates are often recruited into both the private and public sectors. There they work as experts and experts in the areas of research, administration, communication and management.
history
Originally founded in Helsinki as a university in 1925 , it was moved to Tampere in the 1960s and recognized as a university in 1966 . In the early 1970s, the university expanded and developed into its present form. Until January 2011 the university consisted of the following six faculties:
- Faculty of Business Administration and Administration
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Information Science
- Humanistic Faculty
- Medical school
At the beginning of 2011, the 30 institutes and the six faculties were merged as today's nine departments.
Departments
There are nine departments:
- Educational sciences
- biomedical technology
- Health science
- Information science
- Cultural and social science
- Management science
- Media and Communication Studies
- medicine
- Linguistics, translation studies and literature
Personalities
Professors
- Joan Acker (1924–2016), Sociology
- Justa Holz-Mänttäri (* 1936), linguist
- Jaan Kaplinski (* 1941), writer, poet, philosopher
- Birgit Pfau-Effinger (* 1953), Sociology
- Mary Snell-Hornby (* 1940), translation scholar
- Vieno Sukselainen (1906–1995), social sciences, later Prime Minister of Finland
- Tatu Vanhanen (1929–2015), political science
Former students
(Selection)
- Jörg Boecker (* 1971), journalist and television presenter
- Hailemariam Desalegn (* 1965), politician
- Toimi Kankaanniemi (* 1950), politician
- Jyrki Katainen (* 1971), politician
- Aki Kaurismäki (* 1957), film director
- Kirsi Marie Liimatainen (* 1968), film director
- Riitta Myller (* 1956), politician
- Hanna Risku (* 1967), translation scholar
- Jürgen F. Schopp (* 1946), linguist
- Tommy Tabermann (1947–2010), writer, poet, musician and politician
- Maija Tammi (* 1985), photographer
- Esko-Juhani Tennilä (* 1947), politician
- Oras Tynkkynen (* 1977), politician
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.tuni.fi/en/mari-walls
- ↑ a b c d Key Facts in 2016. Accessed on August 13, 2018 (English).
- ^ The University of Tampere admits 2,000 new students. Accessed June 28, 2018 .
Universities : Helsinki | Aalto University (Helsinki) | Åbo (Turku) | Jyväskylä | Lapland | Eastern Finland | Oulu | Tampere | Turku | Vaasa
Technical universities : TU Lappeenranta | TU Tampere
Other: University of the Arts Helsinki | Swedish Business School | Defense College
Coordinates: 61 ° 29 ′ 39 ″ N , 23 ° 46 ′ 41 ″ E