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The Åbo Akademi University is a Swedish language university in Turku, Finland, the Swedish-language Åbo name is. It is not to be confused with the historic Academy of Turku, the predecessor of today's University of Helsinki. The Finnish-language University of Turku is not connected to the Åbo Akademi, although cooperation exists.

History

The Åbo Akademi was founded in 1918 as the second Finnish university after the University of Helsinki. The Swedish has always been the only one in the Finnish academic world spoken language. However, after the course of the 19th century, gained ground, the Finnish language in the framework of the Finnish language dispute and eventually displaced the Swedish in the position of a minority language, placed the creation of a purely Swedish-speaking university a backlash against the Swedish-speaking minority represents the university was to 1981 in private hands and was transferred this year in state hands.

Faculties

Today in Åbo Akademi consist of seven faculties, two of which are not resident in Turku, but in Vaasa:

• Faculty of Humanities (founded in 1918)
• Faculty of Science (1918 )
• Faculty of Engineering (1920 )
• Faculty of Theology (1924 )
• Faculty of Education (1974 ), Vaasa
• Economics and Political Sciences Faculty (1980 )
• Corporate and pflegewissenschftliche Faculty (1992 ), Vaasa

Furthermore, the education faculty has an institute in Jakobstad.

At Åbo Akademi currently studying approximately 7950 students, and it has a staff of about 1200., Students are only with proof of sufficient knowledge of the Swedish language in the corresponding freshmen admitted. For international students, the Akademi pleased under various exchange programs popular. Furthermore offered Master programs both in Swedish and in English.