University of Helsinki
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The University of Helsinki (in Finnish Helsingin yliopisto, Swedish Helsingfors Universitet ) is the largest university in Finland. In addition to the University of Helsinki, there are six other universities in the city, including the Aalto University.
Study
The University of Helsinki is bilingual with the languages Finnish and Swedish. In addition, many courses in English are offered. The university has about 38,000 students and 7,600 employees. About 4,200 degrees recorded annually. The proportion of women among students is 64 %. The University is a member of the League of European Research Universities, the Utrecht Network and the Europaeum.
The study at the University is free, currently the students have to pay only 80 euros per year for membership in the fraternity. According desires are the study places: go alone from abroad per year 1400 applications were received. The acceptance rate is about 10 %. Is selected in the application process only through entrance test. In addition, the University as part of the EU-funded Erasmus program to exchange places.
Across the campus, as at the other universities also originally regionally structured student associations ( osakunnat ), but which are equivalent with respect to function and membership structure rather with the German student bodies than with fraternities.
History and Development
The institutional predecessor was founded in 1640 in Turku as the Royal Academy of Turku and relocated in 1828 after the local major fire on Russian influence back to Helsinki. The main building at the Senate Square was built in 1828-1832 by Carl Ludwig Engel and 1936 expanded structurally. North of the main building is also planned by the angel, belonging to the University of National Library of Finland (not to be confused with the Helsinki University Library ). The National Library has the largest collection of Slavic art in the Western world. It has about 1.5 million volumes and 2000 manuscripts. The university has four campuses in Helsinki ( center, Kumpula, Viikki and Meilahti ) and has offices in 20 other locations in Finland.
Faculties
The university currently houses twelve following faculties:
- Faculty of Biosciences
- Faculty of Humanities
- Agriculture and Forestry Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Medicine, on the campus in Meilahti is also the Research Biomedicum
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Law
- State and Social Science
- Faculty of Theology
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Faculty of Behavioral Sciences
Attached, but equipped with special status, is still the Swedish School of Social Sciences.
Famous people
As by far the largest and up into the 19th century also the only university in the country, the University of Helsinki alma mater for a large part of the area made famous in science and other areas of life Finns. Also, the fact that it is a comprehensive university, causes a relatively large versatility of its researchers and alumni. Even from the time of the Academy at Turku both natural scientists such as the astronomer Anders Johan Lexell (1740-1784) or the mineral chemist Johan Gadolin (1760-1852) as well as scholars such as the historian Henrik Gabriel Porthan (1739-1804) could be called.
To fame came scientists who have been trained at the University of Helsinki or have worked there, for example, the biochemist Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (1895-1973), who in 1946 received the Nobel Prize for chemistry, or the neurophysiologist Ragnar Granit ( 1900-1991 ), the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded. Other well-known natural scientists are, for example, the botanist Alexander von Nordmann (1803-1866), after which the Nordmann Fir is named, or the physicist Gunnar Nordström ( 1881-1923 ). In mathematics, the University of Helsinki has with researchers such as Lars Ahlfors (1907-1996), Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870-1946), Karl Sundman (1873-1949) and Rolf Nevanlinna (1895-1980) point to several famous personalities. The same is true for the humanities; for example, were Julius Krohn (1835-1888), Kaarle Krohn (1863-1933) and Antti Aarne (1867-1925), the founder of the so-called Finnish school of narrative research. Matthias Alexander Castrén (1813-1852) is considered the founder of the Uralic. Other internationally famous scholars, for example, the philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright (1916-2003) and Jaakko Hintikka (* 1929).
The University of Helsinki is also consistent with the cultural life of Finland in close contact ever since. So were the people who contributed in the 19th century to the great development of the Finnish culture, many connected with the University of Helsinki, for example, acting as Johan Vilhelm Snellman Professor of Philosophy ( 1806-1881 ). The composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) had been enrolled as a student of Law and the writer Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888-1964), who in 1939 received the Nobel Prize for literature, science had studied at the University of Helsinki. Also be found in other areas of life, many alumni of the University of Helsinki; currently known personalities are about Linus Torvalds (born 1969 ), the initiator of the free operating system Linux; Jorma Ollila ( born in 1950 ), under whose leadership Nokia rose to the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world; as well as numerous politicians, including the former President of the country, Tarja Halonen (* 1943).