Aalto University

Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. We build a sustainable future by creating novel solutions to major global challenges. We value responsibility, courage, and collaboration.

By merging three leading Finnish universities in 2010, Aalto was founded to work as a societally embedded research university. In a short space of time, we have since become a forerunner in our key areas. We are renowned for our sense of community and culture of entrepreneurship and innovation.

Aalto University students at Aalto Party during the opening of the Academic Year. Photo by Aalto University / Aino Huovio

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We have over 11 000 students (FTE, full-time equivalent degree students). More key figures of 2019.

The QS 2021 Top 50 under 50 ranking listed Aalto University as #9 in the world among young universities. Read more about rankings.

38% of our academic faculty is international. More key figures of 2019.

Aalto University has more than 4 000 employees, including 400 professors. More key figures of 2019.

Aalto as an employer

We are an international community of 20 000 bold thinkers, working on top research, art and education. Join us in changing the world!

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Careers at Aalto University

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Tenure track career system

Strategy and values

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Aalto University. Shaping a sustainable future.

Rankings

Aalto University has improved markedly in rankings specific to science, art, technology and business. We also place high in ranking lists comparing young universities.

Schools, departments and units

Scientific research, artistic activities and teaching are carried out at Aalto's six schools and their departments and units.

School of Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Department of Civil Engineering

Department of Built Environment

School of Business

Department of Management Studies

Department of Accounting

Department of Marketing

Department of Finance

Department of Economics

Department of Information and Service Management

The Center for Markets in Transition (CEMAT)

Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research (CKIR)

School of Chemical Engineering

Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems (Bio2)

Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

Department of Chemistry and Materials Science

School of Science

Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis

Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering

Department of Applied Physics

Department of Computer Science

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

School of Electrical Engineering

Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering

Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation

Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics

Department of Communications and Networking

Micronova Aalto Nanofab

Metsähovi Radio Observatory

School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Department of Film, Television and Scenography

Department of Media

Department of Design

Department of Art

Department of Architecture

Campus

Aalto University's campus in Otaniemi is the home of an innovative community.

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Dipoli Kaleva Image: Tuomas Uusheimo / Aalto University

Our strategy

In 2019 we prepared a new strategy together with our community. The new strategy will come into effect on 1 January 2021. In our living strategy approach, our purpose, values, and way of working define our long-term direction while our choices are proactively and continuously re-evaluated.

Our strategy: Shaping a sustainable future

Strategy 2016-2020

Undergraduate centre / Photo by Tuomas Uusheimo

Organisation and governance

We are a multidisciplinary and international university comprising of six schools. The university is foundation-based, and President Ilkka Niemelä is in charge of its operations.

Schools and departments Organisation Board Management team

Code of conduct Key figures and annual reports Statements and comments Governance

Sustainability

We are committed to promoting sustainable development through research and education as well as in our campus development and other daily practices.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Aalto

We aim to provide a non-discriminatory, gender-equal and accessible environment in which employees and students with diverse backgrounds and duties receive equal treatment and are free to participate without discrimination in university activities.

Kuvassa eri-ikäisiä ja erimaalaisia ihmisiä työskentelemässä yhdessä. Kuva: Aleksi Poutanen

Aalto University Undergraduate Centre Otaniemi, image: Tuomas Uusheimo

History

Aalto University was established in 2010 as three leading Finnish universities, the Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki University of Technology and the University of Art and Design Helsinki, were merged.

Machine Learning Coffee Seminars continue with a great lineup of speakers

MLCS gathers together people from different fields of science who have at least one thing in common, interest in machine learning

Research & Art, University Published: 14.9.2020

Professors Markus Linder and Tapani Vuorinen invited to the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

Professor of Biomolecular Materials Markus Linder and Professor of Wood Chemistry Tapani Vuorinen from the School of Chemical Engineering at Aalto University have been elected as new members of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

Dekaani Kristiina Kruus ja professori Jouni Paltakari koulun edessä kasvomaskien kanssa.

Cooperation, University Published: 10.9.2020

UPM offers 10 000 surgical masks to the School of Chemical Engineering

UPM has actively acquired face masks due to the COVID-19 epidemic, and also contributed them to purposes of general interest. “The School of Chemical Engineering educates professionals in the fields of sustainable use of natural resources and new materials, and therefore contributing to the continuation of teaching is important to UPM,” says Pirkko Harrela, Executive Vice President, Stakeholder Relations, UPM.