Finland: number of new students by university 2021

Around 27,100 new students were admitted to universities in Finland for the academic year 2020/2021. University of Helsinki welcomed the largest number of new students 4,202, followed by Tampere University with 3,520 new students.

University of Helsinki was the largest university in Finland in 2021. Tampere University was established on 1 January 2019, when the University of Tampere merged with Tampere University of Technology.

Number of new students registered at university in Finland for the academic year 2021, by university

Characteristic	Number of students
University of Helsinki	4,202
Tampere University	3,520
Aalto University	3,139
University of the Arts Helsinki	2,838
University of Turku	2,838
University of Eastern Finland	2,765
University of Jyväskylä	2,513
University of Oulu	2,452
Lappeenranta University of Technology	1,685
Åbo Akademi University	1,080
University of Vaasa	951
University of Lapland	777
Hanken school of Economics	491
National Defence University	315

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Release date

May 2022

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Region

Finland

Survey time period

2021

Special properties

Academic year 2021 to 2022

Supplementary notes

The academic year in Finland starts on the 1st of August and ends on the 31st of July.

The figures are represented according to the national classification of education 2016.

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