University of Tampere (UTA)

The University of Tampere offers many interesting courses, also from guest lecturers. Unfortunately the Finnish state has chosen to cut the funding of public education for many years and the choices for courses have reduced, for example in different languages for beginners. In previous years one could study Polish, Japanese, Arabic and probably also other interesting languages for the beginner's level, but not anymore. The Faculty of French (for more advanced speakers) is closing in a few years, which I find very unfortunate. But there are still many courses being offered in Spanish (for more advanced speakers), but who knows for how long.
The two universities of Tampere merged starting from beginning of the year 2019. Thus the University of Tampere and the Tampere University of Technology are one organization called Tampere University. This new organization is also the major shareholder of the Vocational school of Tampere (=Tampere University of Applied Sciences), hence creating a totally new operational model in Finland. Although the PR campaign of the business oriented people praises these new changes, many believe that the project is doomed to fail in more than one way. The consultant-class have managed to get their project through, but will this project be a long-lived try or will it fail sooner than people might think? Only time will tell.

The school is of a high stantard. It is not the most modern school there is but it has a low-stress quality to it which is good for studies. This includes the casual vibe of the other students as well as moderate sized class sizes. The city is beautiful and connections are excellent.