The University of Tampere (UTA) (, ) was a

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Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

, Finland that was merged with

Tampere University of Technology Tampere University of Technology (TUT) () was Finland's second-largest university in engineering sciences. The university was located in Hervanta, a suburb of Tampere, Finland, Tampere. It was merged with the University of Tampere to create the ...

to create the new

Tampere University Tampere University (, shortened TAU) is a multidisclipinary public university located in the city of Tampere, Finland. It is the second largest university in the country by student enrollment. The university was established on January 1, 2019, a ...

on 1 January 2019. The university offered undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes with 20,178 degree students and 1,981 employees as of 2016. Founded in 1925 in

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as the Civic College () and from 1930 onwards known as the School of Social Sciences (), the institution relocated to Tampere in 1960 and was renamed as the University of Tampere in 1966. In 2016, its budget was

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184.6 million of which 59% was government funding.

History

The institution was established in 1925 as the Civic College in Helsinki teaching

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, organisation management and

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with an inaugural intake of 72 students. In 1930, a total of 195 students were enrolled at the college and its name was amended to the School of Social Sciences. Similarly, the institution's vocationally oriented bachelor's degrees were expanded into municipal administration, public law, child protection, and civic education as well as a master's degree in

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. The first faculty, the Faculty of Social Sciences, was established in 1949 and the number of students steadily increased from 227 in 1940 to 661 in 1950. The programmes offered by the school grew, such as degrees in social and youth work, librarianship and economics as well as a prison officer's diploma. The first doctoral degree was completed in 1955 and in 1956, the City of Tampere and the School of Social Sciences agreed on relocating the school to Tampere. By 1960, the number of students had increased to 933 and the School of Social Sciences moved to its new Päätalo main building, designed by

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, at Kalevantie 4, Tampere. After the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration were established in 1964 and 1965, respectively, the School of Social Sciences was renamed as the University of Tampere in 1966. A programme, called Tampere3, to merge the university with Tampere University of Technology and Tampere University of Applied Sciences was started in the spring of 2014. The merger was approved by

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in December 2017 and came into effect on 1 January 2019. The new foundation-based interdisciplinary

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institution was named Tampere University after the proposed name of Tampere New University faced criticism.

Academics

A total of 14,712 degree students studied at the University of Tampere in 2016, including 11,810 students in

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and

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programmes and 1,646 doctoral students. Likewise in 2016, the university received 17,482 applications of whom 1,418 were enrolled for an admission rate of 8.1%. It hosted four centres of excellence in research, such as on

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and in

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, as of 2016. As of 2017, a tuition fee of approximately 10,000 euros was charged in general from non-

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citizens studying in the English-taught master's degree programmes with 50% or 100% cover scholarships available. Other students, such as exchange or doctoral students, were exempt from fees. The university was ranked 201–250 on the

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2018. Likewise, it ranked 551–600 on the

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2018 and 101–150 on its Communication and Media Studies category.

Organisation

In 2016, the total budget of the university was 184.6 million euros, of which 108.8 million was core funding by the

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and 67.49 million was external endowments. In addition to its independent units, Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD), Laboratory Services, Language Centre and Library, the university was organized into six faculties as of a 1 January 2017 reorganization: * Faculty of Communication Sciences (COMS) * Faculty of Education (EDU) * Faculty of Management (JKK) * Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences (MED) * Faculty of Natural Sciences (LUO) * Faculty of Social Sciences (SOC)

Rectors

The following people served as rectors of the University of Tampere: * 1925–1932

Yrjö Ruutu Yrjö Oskar Ruutu (until 1927 Ruuth; 26 December 1887 Helsinki – 27 August 1956 Helsinki) was a Finnish social scientist and politician. Ruutu was the first principal of the School of Social Sciences (current University of Tampere) 1925–19 ...

* 1932–1935 Eino Kuusi * 1935–1945

* 1945–1948 Urpo Harva * 1948–1949 Antero Rinne * 1949–1953

* 1953–1954 V.J. Sukselainen * 1954–1956 Tuttu Tarkiainen * 1957–1962 Armas Nieminen * 1962–1968 Paavo Koli * 1969–1974 Jaakko Uotila * 1975–1976

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* 1976–1981 Reino Erma * 1981–1987 Jarmo Visakorpi * 1987–1993 Tarmo Pukkila * 1993–1996 Jarmo Visakorpi * 1996–1997 Uolevi Lehtinen * 1998–2004 Jorma Sipilä * 2004–2009 Krista Varantola * 2009–2015 Kaija Holli * 2016–2018 Liisa Laakso

Campus

The University of Tampere had two

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es in Tampere: the main campus in the centre, near the

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, and the Kauppi campus next to the

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. The main campus hosted most of the faculties and comprised the Päätalo, Pinni, Linna and Virta buildings while the Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences and Laboratory Services are located at the Arvo building in the Kauppi campus. The Päätalo building was completed in 1960 and served as the university's first premises at Tampere. The Pinni complex was completed gradually during the 1990s and 2000s and the Linna and Virta buildings were ready for use in 2006 and 2009, respectively. The medicine-focused Arvo building was built in two separate phases reached in 2009 and 2016. The floor area of the university's facilities totaled 130,134 m² as of 2016. Instead of dormitories at the campuses, the Tampere Student Housing Foundation rented apartments to students around Tampere.

Notable people

Jyrki Katainen Jyrki Tapani Katainen (born 14 October 1971) is a Finnish politician who served as the European Commission's Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness from 2014 until 2019. Katainen was previously prime minister of Finland f ...

Aki Kaurismäki Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (; born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning '' Drifting Clouds'' (1996), '' The Man Without a Past'' (2002), ''Le Havre'' (2011), '' The Other Side of Hope'' (201 ...

* Elina Hemminki *

Sanna Marin Sanna Mirella Marin (; born 16 November 1985) is a Finnish former politician who served as prime minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023 and as the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) from 2020 to 2023. She was a Member of Pa ...

Oiva Paloheimo Oiva Aukusti Paloheimo (2 September 1910 – 13 June 1973) was a Finnish author who wrote novels, short stories, poems and aphorisms. His best-known work is the children's book ''Tirlittan'' from 1953. Life Oiva was born under the surname Piet ...

Liisa Rantalaiho Liisa Rantalaiho (born 25 January 1933) is a Finnish sociologist, fandom activist, and professor emerita in the fields of sociology of health and gender studies. She writes and performs filk songs. Early life and education Liisa Rantalaiho was bo ...

* Pekka Sillanaukee * V. J. Sukselainen * Ulla Vuorela *

Raili Kauppi Raili Kauppi (1920–1995) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Tampere, and an internationally recognized scholar of Leibniz and intensional logic Intensional logic is an approach to predicate logic that extends first-order logic, ...

References

External links

minedu.fi/en - Ministry of Education and Cultureoph.fi/english - Finnish National Agency for Education
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