University of Helsinki was the largest university in Finland in 2023, with 31,465 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 almost 20,600 students in the same year.
Most university students were women in 2023 In the academic year of 2023, starting on the 1st of August, almost 20,500 of registered students at the University of Helsinki were women, while only 11,000 were men. Out of the largest universities, only Aalto University had the opposite gender distribution, with 13,054 male students and 7,525 female students.
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