Aalto University - Shaping a Sustainable Future
Aalto University is founded on high-quality research, education, impact as well as shared values of responsibility, courage, and collaboration. We solve global challenges by bringing talent together across science, art, technology, and business.
Aalto University is the leading university in Finland. With 6 schools, over 13,000 full-time degree students, 400 professors, and around 4,500 other faculty and staff, it is one of Finland’s largest universities. The university holds the Triple Crown of accreditations – AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS – an accolade shared by only 1% of universities worldwide.
Aalto University is strongly future-oriented, while building on the combined 300-year history of three highly-regarded universities. The university was created in 2010 through the merger of Helsinki University of Technology (established 1849), Helsinki School of Economics (established 1904), and the University of Art and Design Helsinki (established 1871).
Aalto University is an internationally unique combination of fields where science and art meet business and technology. The university strengthens Finland's competence base and creates conditions for innovations, economic growth, employment, and wellbeing, now and in the future.
The university is named in honor of Alvar Aalto, the prominent Finnish architect, designer, and entrepreneur. Aalto’s achievements in technology, economics, and art exemplify the spirit of integrated knowledge which is the foundation of Aalto University. Alvar Aalto is a renowned alumnus of the former Helsinki University of Technology, and was instrumental in designing a large part of the university's main campus in Otaniemi.
Aalto University main campus is located in the city of Espoo, in the Greater Helsinki area in Finland. The core is a park campus more than 50 years old, which urban plan was the work of Alvar Aalto, and which contains individual buildings designed by him and other celebrated Finnish architects.