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Programmes

Studying at Aalto University not only gives you the opportunity to obtain a world-class education, but it also gives you the chance to experience Finnish culture.

Please note that Bachelor level studies in the fields of Art & Design and Technology are only available in Finnish and in Swedish.

Doctoral studies

The application schedules and more detailed information on how to apply for doctoral studies at Aalto University are available on Into Student Portal (into.aalto.fi).

Application period 2012

Bachelor’s programmes:
5 March - 3 April 2012

Master’s programmes:
2 January - 15 February 2012


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Why Aalto University?

At Aalto University you will receive a world-class education in science, technology, business and industrial arts or a combination of these. As the boundaries of these disciplines blur, we look to the future to see where technology, business and design will take us and our students. This is where we want to be. By becoming a student in this newly formed, forward-thinking university, you will be expected to challenge the rigidity of traditional disciplines and be required to think outside the box!

Art & Design

Master's Programmes

  • Applied Art and Design
    The programme aims to prepare students to work independently as design professionals in the fields of culture, art promotion and concept marketing.
  • Art Education, Curating, Managing and Mediating Art
    The purpose of the programme is to develop comprehensive and innovative professional expertise in curating, managing and mediating art, and it binds especially curating and mediating, i.e. working with audiences, into a tight package.
  • Creative Business Management
    The Master’s Degree Programme in Creative Business Management offers a viewpoint into the latest developments in the creative economy.
  • Creative Sustainability
    The main aim of the programme is to develop competences and skills in the areas of project management, design, cross-disciplinary operations and activities, systematic sustainable design and sustainable business.
  • Design for Theatre, Film and Television, Costume Design
    The aim of the studies is to produce visionary costume designers with artistic and technical expertise, or take postgraduate studies in the area.
  • Design for Theatre, Film and Television, Production Design
    The specialisation in Production Design allows students to improve their professional abilities in movie and television scenography and to add new variations to their own artistic expression.
  • Design for Theatre, Film and Television, Scenography
    Scenographers are artistic designers responsible for the visual, spatial and functional elements of an artistic team production.
  • Environmental Art
    This programme challenges students to develop their artistic and conceptual skills in diverse issues related to spaces.
  • ePedagogy Design
    The programme offers students an interdisciplinary approach that embraces visual knowledge building, interactive media, communication theory and practice, and learning processes and semiotics.
  • Fashion and Clothing Design
    The core competences in the programme are artistic expression, entrepreneurship, functional design, trend forecasting and research.
  • Film and Television, Documentary Film
    The studies place importance on the students’ independent work, on honing their creative expression in planning and creating the Master’s thesis, and on developing theoretical thinking in film aesthetics.
  • Film and Television, Screenwriting for Film and Television
    The objective is to prepare students for visionary artistic work and practising their own personal screenwriting methods.
  • Fine Arts
    The central principle behind the Master’s Degree Programme in Fine Arts is the interaction between art and science, and between fine art, design and visual culture.
  • Furniture Design
    The programme teaches students to visualise and design industrially produced, sustainable and durable furniture that strongly expresses an artistic philosophy, using contemporary methods.
  • Graphic Design, Media Concept Design
    In the specialisation area Media Concept Design students gain experience in magazine design and implementation for different platforms and are trained in visual design tasks in the field of media.
  • Graphic Design, Visual Communication Design
    The aim of the specialisation area Visual Communication Design is to deepen and apply design skills in multidisciplinary productions.
  • Industrial and Strategic Design
    Students of Master's degree programme in Industrial and Strategic Design learn to understand the significance of design in the business world, as well as its social and cultural impact.
  • International Design Business Management
    The IDBM program aims to train skilled professionals for key roles in global design business.
  • New Media
    The course emphasizes projects – hands-on with minds on - and both practice and theory are combined.
  • New Media, Game Design and Production
    Offering know-how in game design, analysis and understanding of game structure, the programme includes both theoretical and practical coursework with real-life projects and guest lecturers from world-class companies in the field.
  • Photography
    The main goal of this programme is to improve the expressive skills and artistic vision of the students and to help them cultivate their individual strengths.
  • Sound in New Media
    This unique Master’s Degree Programme combines art, design and media driven aspects of sound design in the digital era, covering a wide range of disciplines from concept design to live performance and from storytelling to programming.
  • Spatial Design
    The education emphasises the students’ analytical and innovative ability to solve demanding problems in spatial and environmental planning.
  • Textile Art and Design
    The degree programme’s focal points are collection design and management, functional design and new materials, entrepreneurship and business competence, trend forecasting and trend research, artistic expression and research.
  • Visual Culture
    Visual culture is a cross-disciplinary and multiartistic experimental subject that investigates new forms and contexts in art and the media, as well as operating methods and changes in visual culture.

Business

Bachelor's Programmes

  • Accounting, Finance and Business Law
    Finance provides capabilities to understand the basic principles of financial markets and their implications to company activities.
  • Business Technology
    Program provides you with an overall view of different business functions and their interdependence, good analytical skills, a strong theoretical background and the ability to apply theories to real-life business problems.
  • Economics
    Program provides a comprehensive insight into the functioning of economies and the environment in which companies operate.
  • International Business, Mikkeli Campus
    The BScBA Degree Program – taught entirely in English – is international in every respect.

Master's Programmes

  • Accounting
    Program in Accounting provides students with in-depth expertise in issues concerning the production and use of financial information of business firms and other organizations.
  • Creative Sustainability
    The main aim of the programme is to develop competences and skills in the areas of project management, design, cross-disciplinary operations and activities, systematic sustainable design and sustainable business.
  • Economics
    Studying economics develops both analytical thinking and academic insights in addition to promoting the ability to apply economic theory to a wide range of economic phenomena.
  • Entrepreneurship
    Program offers the students an outstanding opportunity to learn how to behave entrepreneurially and create new ventures in a global context.
  • Finance
    Program in Finance offers high quality teaching that is directly applicable both to strategic decisions and to day-to-day management of the firm.
  • Information and Service Management
    Interdisciplinary education with a wide perspective on managing global and increasingly electronic business operations.
  • International Business
    The objective of the program is to provide students with competences and tools to analyze, plan, manage and work for international organizations.
  • International Business Communication
    Program focuses on the strategic role of communication in the global operations of multinational companies and other internationally operating organizations.
  • International Design Business Management
    The purpose of the IDBM program is to develop world-class expertise in global design business management through multidisciplinary research and learning that cuts across the areas of business, design and technology.
  • Management
    The new Master’s programme in Management is multidisciplinary and academically challenging. It aims to provide the business world with active, responsible and creative professionals.
  • Marketing
    Program in Marketing provides students with conceptual tools and analytical skills for identifying customer needs and for building long-term customer relationships that provide value for all parties involved.
  • Strategy
    M.Sc. in Strategy

Technology

Master's Programmes

  • Bioinformatics (MBI)
    MBI programme offers a unique combination of bioinformatics, methodological sciences, biosciences and medicine.
  • Bioproduct Technology
    The most important objective of the programme is to train professionals who can utilize biomass in an economically and ecologically sustainable manner and.
  • Brain and Mind
    This new programme emphasizes multidisciplinary understanding of mind from various perspectives, such as neuroscience, computational analysis and modelling, psychology, sociology, physics, and culture.
  • Communications Ecosystem
    Programme in Communications Ecosystem covers areas ranging from technology to the business aspects of communications networks and services.
  • Communications Engineering
    Programme in Communications Engineering focuses on the development of communications systems for the wireless and wired networks of the future.
  • Creative Sustainability
    The main aim of the programme is to develop competences and skills in the areas of project management, design, cross-disciplinary operations and activities, systematic sustainable design and sustainable business.
  • Electrical Engineering
    The programme provides the most up to date knowledge of electrical engineering research and business.
  • Foundations of Advanced Computing
    The programme provides the students with fundamental conceptual tools for the modelling, design, and analysis of advanced computing systems.
  • Geoinformatics
    Programme in Geoinformatics is technically and mathematically oriented and focuses mainly on spatial analysis and modelling methods.
  • International Design Business Management
    The IDBM program aims to train skilled professionals for key roles in global design business.
  • Machine Learning and Data Mining (Macadamia)
    Macadamia programme gives students fundamental expertise in some of the hottest topics in modern computational data analysis and data mining.
  • Managing Spatial Change
    Programme strives to enhance integration between housing, spatial planning, land use, transportation, industry and ecology.
  • Mechanical Engineering
    During programme students will receive technological education of the highest international standard in product development, mechanics of materials, digital design and manufacturing, mechatronics or innovative structural design.
  • Micro- and Nanotechnology
    This programme focuses on the technologies involved in the miniaturisation of electronic and optical devices.
  • Mobile Computing - Services and Security
    The courses in the programme address network applications, services, information security, and mobile networking from several aspects.
  • Physics of Advanced Materials
    The programme provides students with a strong education in the physics of materials from the viewpoint of present-day research with emphasis on either theoretical/computational or experimental aspects.
  • Process Systems Engineering (PSE)
    The studies in the Programme cover process control and automation, chemical engineering and plant design as well as computer science and industrial chemistry.
  • Radio Science and Engineering
    Programme in Radio Science and Engineering covers topics in radio science, electromagnetism, space technology, and circuit theory.
  • Real Estate Investment and Finance
    Programme strives to provide a Master’s degree of international standards and quality that give the students the required knowledge to work both in the fields of property market and financial intermediation.
  • Service Design and Engineering
    Enabling global information technology engineering, innovation and management.
  • Service Management and Engineering
    Programme provides students with the knowledge and skills required to become successful managers, developers, and buyers of services in a business-to-business context.
  • Strategy
    The goal of the programme is to train and develop experts in strategy, apt to thrive in today’s constantly changing and increasingly complex business environment.

Nordic Master's Programmes

  • Applied and Engineering Mathematics
    This double degree programme introduces you to the study of mathematics and problem solving in two Nordic universities.
  • Innovative and Sustainable Energy Engineering
    The purpose of the programme is to provide state-of-the-art education in the fields of conventional and renewable energy sources.
  • Maritime Engineering
    The program is based on the expertise of the participating universities within naval architecture, offshore engineering and maritime engineering.
  • Sustainable Urban Transitions
    The Nordic Master Programme in Sustainable Urban Transitions (NMP SUT) provides integrated knowledge development and capacity building to young professionals in the field sustainable urban transitions.

Degree Programmes

  • Architecture
    The art and science of designing and erecting buildings and other physical structures
  • Bioinformation Technology
    BioIT is a multidisciplinary programme where the teaching is organized in three different Aalto University engineering schools (School of Electrical Engineering, School of Science, School of Chemical Technology).
  • Engineering Physics and Mathematics
    The core skills of the Degree Programme of Engineering Physics and Mathematics are based on sound mathematical natural science training and its application to the rapidly changing problems of industrial and economic life.
  • Geomatics
    Geomatics observes and surveys land areas and the environment. Everything taught within the programme is related to the environment, its visualization and the application of gathered information.

Erasmus Mundus Programmes

EIT ICT Labs Master School

  • ICT Innovation
    This new double degree programme binds together solid technical courses in computer science and software engineering and business development skills.