- Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, operating in the Greater Helsinki Area, is Finland’s largest university of applied sciences. It trains experts and developers in the fields of culture, business, health care and social services, and technology.
- Metropolia forms a community in which different people and worlds meet, creating insight and expertise for working, and wellbeing for life.
- Metropolia is a responsible partner and reformer of higher education, cooperating to find new solutions and to build a better future.
Metropolia in brief
- 15,000 students
- 1,800 Bachelor’s and 130 Master’s graduates in 2009
- Staff 1,100
- 66 degree programmes of which 12 in English
- 700 foreign degree students, over 70 nationalities
- Budget in 2010 EUR 111 million
- Operating premises in 20 locations
- Owned by: Helsinki 42%, Espoo 27 %, Vantaa 26%, Kirkkonummi 4%, Kauniainen 1%
- R&D&I total volume in 2009 about EUR 7.2 million
Vision for 2014
Metropolia will be Finland's most valued university of applied sciences and the most dynamic learning environment.
Objectives
- Finland’s best graduation rate in target time
- Customer-oriented and efficient processes
- Best teaching in Finland
- Best working place in higher education
- Sough-after partner
- Experts with new ideas in the Helsinki region
- Financial independence
Values
Expertise – our passion | High quality – our target |
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Community spirit – our source of strength | Transparency – our operating policy |
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