University of Vaasa

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University of Vaasa
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founding 1968
place Vaasa , Finland
Rector Matti Jakobsson
Students 5,000 (2011)
Employee 430 (2011)
Networks IAU
Website www.uwasa.fi

The University of Vaasa (fi. Vaasan yliopisto , swe. Vasa universitet ) is a multidisciplinary University in Vaasa, Finland. The campus is located on the Gulf of Bothnia, which borders the city center. The University of Vaasa has four faculties:

The University of Vaasa goes back to a business school from 1966. It was finally granted university status in 1992 after the other faculties were affiliated.

The Faculty of Economics (also known as the Vaasa School of Economics ) is one of the largest in Finland. The university has around 5,000 students and 425 employees, including 180 teachers and 54 professors.

Faculties and Institutes

Faculty of Economics

  • Finance and accounting
  • Economic Laws and Economics
  • management
  • marketing

Philosophical Faculty

  • Languages ​​and communication
  • Communication science
  • English
  • German language and literature
  • Modern Finnish and translation
  • Scandinavian languages
  • French
  • Russian
  • Administrative sciences
  • philosophy
  • Public law
  • Public management
  • Regional science
  • Social and Health Administration
  • sociology

Technical Faculty

  • Math and statistics
  • Electrical and power engineering
  • Computer science and communications engineering
  • production

campus

The university is located on Palosaari (Eng. Brandinsel ). Each building has its own name, for example one of them used to be a cotton factory and is accordingly called Fabriiki (German factory ). The main building is called Tervahovi ( Eng . Teerhof ), another Luotsi ( Eng . Pilot ). There is also the Tritonia library , which the university shares with the other universities in the city, and the Technobothnia laboratory system . It is also available to the other two Vaasa universities of applied sciences.

The entire facility is located directly on the sea and is surrounded by smaller parks.

  • Main entrance

  • Vaasa University Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed July 28, 2019 .