Helsinki Profile: The Capital City of Finland

Helsinki Profile:

Helsinki, The capital of Finland flourishes you with enormous opportunities to drive in. The most Populous city of Finland is nominated as the ‘World’s 7th most livable city ‘.(The Economist’,2011). Helsinki has higher employment rate and is located in the ‘Uusima region’, which holds hundreds of job vacancies every day (mol.fi). Helsinki is tagged as ‘World design capital 2012’. Each year Helsinki attracts tens of thousands of tourists, students, entrepreneurs, employee, researcher, artists, etc. Helsinki is occupied with 7 universities, 4 Polytechnics and hundreds of comprehensive schools offering varieties of English courses available.

Vocational college Helsinki:

Helsinki business college is a private vocational college currently offering only Business courses in English. Note: Vocational colleges are different from universities and admission/ visa criteria might alter from normal universities.

Helsingin Metropolitan area:

Pääkaupunkiseutu or greater Helsinki region consists of two more cities Espoo and Vantaa that shares borders of Helsinki.

Population:

596,233 (31 January 2012)          
Finnish (84.3%) Swedish (6.1%) Other (9.6%)

Helsinki in Google Map:

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Universities in Helsinki:

• University of Helsinki
• Aalto University (Also in Espoo)
• Hanken School of Economics
• Academy of Fine Arts
• Sibelius Academy
• Theatre Academy
• National Defence University

Polytechnics in Helsinki:

• Haaga-Helia University Of Applied Sciences
• Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences  ( Also in Espoo)
• Arcada University of Applied Sciences
• Diaconia University of Applied Sciences

Research Institute:

• TT Technical Research Centre of Finland
• Industrial clusters and networks
• Helsinki Business and Science Park Ltd (HBSP)
• Technopolis Ventures Ltd
• Design, Media & Art Business Centre Arabus
• New Business Center (NBC)
• TE Centre for Uusimaa
• Uusimaa Regional Venture Capital Fund Ltd
• Foundation for Finnish Inventions
• Sitra - The Finnish National Fund for Research and Development
• Licentia Ltd
• Finnish Industry Investment Ltd
• Technology Programmes of Tekes - Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation
• Business angels
• Venture Cup Finland

For the corresponding links of Universities & Universities of Applied Sciences visit our study section.