Number of university students 2020, by university

University of Helsinki was the largest university in Finland in 2020, with over 31 thousand registered students. The second largest university was Tampere University, which was established on 1 January 2019 when the University of Tampere merged with Tampere University of Technology. Aalto University, located in the capital region and offering education in fields such as art, business, and engineering, had over 20 thousand students in the same year.

Most university students were women in 2020
In the academic year of 2020, starting on the 1st of August, over 20 thousand of registered students at the University of Helsinki were women, while only 11.3 thousand were men. Out of the largest universities, only Aalto University had the opposite gender distribution, with 11.9 thousand male students and six thousand female students.

Over six thousand women completed their degree in the University of Helsinki 2020
The University of Helsinki was leading in the number of completed qualifications and degrees during the academic year of 2020, with six thousand women and 2.9 thousand men completing their qualification or degree. In the academic year 2018/19, roughly six percent of students in Finnish universities discontinued their studies.