University of Turku

The University of Turku, located in Turku, southwestern Finland, is the third largest university in the country by student enrollment, after the University of Helsinki and Tampere University. It was established in 1920 thanks to a fundraising campaign raised by 22.000 individuals. Its multidisciplinary strengths in research are: biofuture, digital futures, cultural memory and social change, children, young people and learning, drug development and diagnostics, sea and maritime studies. In 2010, the Turku School of Economics merged with the University of Turku, forming a seventh faculty of the university. The university is a member of the Coimbra Group and can count on students from over 100 countries and exchange partners in over 80 countries.