University of Vaasa

Today we had interresting information meeting about University of Vaasa for exchange students. I got knowledge about it and I decide to publish it.

The University of Vaasa have four faculties:

• Faculty of Business Studies - they focus on business finance, financial markets, consumer behaviour, leadership, international economics, european integration and so on;
• Faculty of Technology - their area of research is about dynamic mathematical modelling, energy technologies and new information processing methods;
• Faculty of Humanities - taking interest in culture, literature, intercultural communication, language for special purposes, multilingualism, translations, multimedia systems and so forth;
• Faculty of Public Administration - they concetrate on comparative public policy, public management, evaluation and welfare state and profitability of public services.

I offer you some historical informations:
The university was established in 1966 as School of Economics and Business Administration in Vaasa by Council of State. In 1977 the school became a state institution. Then in 1980 started education in Humanities and in 1983 studies in Social Science. Technology studies began in 1990 with cooperation with Helsinki University of Technology. In 1992 the school was organised into four faculties like now. In 1994 the school moved to new place on Palosaari.

Concerning to university campus:
The new campus is in the neighbourhood of Palosaari near by old cotton mill. Each building have own name. Such as main bulding - Tervahovi, academic library - Tritonia, univestity laboratory - Technobotnia or reconstructed old cotton mill - Fabrikki. The campus is near sea an full of park areas.

Map of University of Vaasa (you can use draging to move the map)