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The University of Vaasa (Finnish: Vaasan yliopisto, Swedish: Vasa universitet) is a multidisciplinary, business-oriented university in Vaasa, Finland. The campus of the university is situated by the Gulf of Bothnia adjacent to downtown Vaasa. The university has evolved from a school of economics founded in 1968 to a university consisting of four different schools: The School of Accounting and Finance, The School of Management, The School of Marketing and Communications and the School of Technology and Innovations. University of Vaasa is one of the largest business universities in Finland. The university has personnel of around 500 which includes a teaching staff of 180 and 54 professors. Around 5000 students are currently studying in various degree programs at the university.




History


In 1966 the Council of State made the decision to establish a School of Economics and Business Administration in Vaasa, and so Vaasa got its first institution of higher education which the region of Vaasa had worked for since the 1940s. The very next year the first students started their studies; 90 business and 60 correspondence students. The first principal to be chosen for the school was Tryggve Saxén and the first vice principal was Mauri Palomäki, who later would become the longest serving principal the school has seen so far. The lectures were first held in a yard building of Vaasa Commercial College in Raastuvankatu street, but in its second year the school moved into the whole house as the commercial college moved to a new building.
In 1977 the school became a state institution along with all other academic institutions in Finland.
In 1980 education in Humanities (languages) began and so the school became a "School of higher education" (in Finland the term is "Korkeakoulu"). In 1983 studies in the Social Sciences began and in 1990 Technology studies began in connection with Helsinki University of Technology. In 1991 it changed its name to University of Vaasa. In 1992 the school was organised into four faculties; The Humanities, Business Administration, Accounting and Industrial Management, and Social Sciences. In 1994 the university moved into its new premises on Palosaari. The university got the right to award master's degrees in Technology in 2004. In 2010 the university also reorganized its faculties to three, namely Faculty of Business Studies, Faculty of Technology and Faculty of Philosophy which includes previous faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2018 the university reorganized its structure again. Instead of three faculties, the University of Vaasa has four different schools: the School of Accounting and Finance, the School of Management, the School of Marketing and Communication studies and the School of Technology and Innovations.




Campus


The university can be found in the neighbourhood of Palosaari beside the city's old cotton mill, which also houses part of the university. Each building has its own name, like the main building of "Tervahovi" (English: Pinetar Court) and the governing building of "Luotsi" (English: Pilot). These buildings were finished in 1994 and planned in the spirit of the former county architect Carl Axel Setterberg who planned most of Vaasa's public buildings in 1860. The part of the university placed in the old mill is called "Fabriikki" (English: Factory). There is also the academic library of Tritonia, which the university shares with the other academic institutions in the city, and the laboratory of Technobothnia, which is shared with the city's two universities of applied sciences. The whole campus is near the waterfront and surrounded by park areas. It is sometimes called the most beautiful campus in Finland.




Schools


There are fours schools at the University of Vaasa:

School of Management
Human Resource Management
Public Law
Public Management
Regional Studies
Social and Health Management
Strategic Management
School of Accounting and Finance
Accounting and Finance
Business Law
Economics
School of Marketing and Communications
Communication studies
International Business
Marketing
School of Technology and Innovations
Mathematics and Statistics
Electrical Engineering and Energy Technology
Computer Science
Production




Education and research


The University of Vaasa is a business oriented and multi-disciplinary university. It offers education possibilities on the following levels:

Bachelor's programmes
Master's programmes
Doctoral programmes
Open University
Continuing education
Studies for exchange students
The strategic areas of research are management and change, energy and sustainable development and financing and economic decision making. University of Vaasa has fours schools and three research platforms: Vaasa Energy Business Innovation Centre (VEBIC), Digital Economy and Innovation and Entrepreneurship InnoLab.




Services


Levón Institute - Centre for Continuing Education
Linginno - Language Centre
Tritonia - Academic Library, Vaasa
Technobotnia - Research Centre
Vaasan Yliopiston Ylioppilaskunta - Student Union of Vaasa University
University of Vaasa Executive Education -




Rectors


Tryggve Saxén 1968–1970
Mauri Palomäki 1970–1987
Ilkka Virtanen 1987–1994
Ari Salminen 1994–1998
Matti Jakobsson 1998–2014
Suvi Ronkainen 2015–17
Jari Kuusisto 2015–2017 (Acting rector)
Jari Kuusisto 2017–2022
Minna Martikainen 2023–




Honorary doctorates


1988

Heribert Picht
Jaakko Numminen
George Foster
Bengt Holmström
Jaakko Lassila
Mauri Palomäki
Martti Ulkuniemi
1998

Brainard Guy Peters
Vappu Taipale
Joaquim Arnau
Hartwig Kalverkämper
Jean-François Hennart
Matti Ilmari
Baruch Lev
Matti Sundberg
2006

Esko Aho
Christopher Pollitt
Juhani Turunen
Pirkko Nuolijärvi
Sauli Takala
John Vikström
Chris Brewster
Eero Lehti
Robert W. Scapens
Pentti Malaska
Dušan Malindžák
Heikki Miilumäki
2011

György Jenei
Merrill Swain
Paula Risikko
Eva Liljeblom
Klaus G.Grunert
Jorma Ollila
Jouko Havunen
Paul Geladi
Pertti Järvinen
Mikko Niinivaara
2018

Jan Engberg
Leena Niemistö
Pervez Ghauri
Eric von Hippel
Annamaria Lusardi
Timo Ritakallio
Clare Lavelle
Vesa Laisi
Sirinnapa (Mui) Saranwong
2024

Tim Baines
Piotr Bielaczyc
Sari Essayah
Angappa Gunasekaran
Iftekhar Hasan
Katju Holkeri
Anne Korkiakoski
Björn Rosengren
Alexander Stubb
Roberto Verganti
Jacob Wallenberg
Johnny Åkerholm




See also


History of Finland
List of universities in Finland




References






External links


Official website
Research Database of the University of Vaasa
Publications Database of the University of Vaasa
The Student Housing Foundation in Vaasa
Vaasa Consortium of Higher Education

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