Tampere University - TUNI
speciality: Computer Science

I had a very positive experience at Tampere University. The programme was well-structured and offered a good balance between theoretical knowledge and practical applications. The professors were knowledgeable, approachable, and supportive throughout my studies.

The university provides excellent facilities, modern campuses, and a welcoming international environment. I especially appreciated the opportunities to collaborate with students from different backgrounds and participate in research and project-based learning.

While some administrative processes could occasionally be slower than expected, the overall academic experience was excellent. I would definitely recommend Tampere University to students looking for high-quality education, a friendly atmosphere, and strong career development opportunities.

Quality of teaching has gone down a bit since the universities in Tampere combined. It’s been challenging times due to uni reformation and covid at the same times. However, there maybe a new hope along with the new head teacher from another Finnish university.

Never have I felt this much like being at home. I have spent the best years of my life studying in TUT, and can most definitely recommend the TUT experience to everyone interested in developing themselves in a modern, high-quality university with the feeling of belonging to the student family! The studies encourage a lot of team work, which increases the social aspect of studies and lets the students get to know each other very well. The student organizations, on their behalf, do also support the social side of studies by offering an unbelievably large variety of events and activities from very academic and professional all the way to pure networking. See you at TUT! 🙂

TUT is a modern technology center with a lot of companies and industry collaboration to be found from the campus. The campus area is very compact and offers some of the best working facilities that I’ve seen in Europe (with a 24/7 access!). Education is of high quality even by Finnish standards and students can modify their studies pretty freely which allows the assembly of a very valuable personal skillset.

TUT is a very large complexity of various fields of studies for anyone who is little interested in anything about technology. They have many, very experienced lecturers who are really into what they are teaching. The quality of most of the courses is very high. You can always get help when you need it. A little minus for using such old technologies in these basic programming courses as I’m using a lot more advanced technologies in my work which could be used in TUT for teaching and it would be more convenient.

I was in exchange here for one year in 2016. During that year I was welcomed by other teekkaris (technology students). There were all kinds of clubs and organisations to help me enjoy my stay. Local ESN INTO did a super great job by organising us different kind of events.
The university itself is located approximately 8km away from city centre. Luckily you didn’t have to go there often since there are shops and accommodation nearby. University is 24/7 open for its students and you can study there even in the middle of the night. I only slept at my accommodation since everything was so comfy at TUT.
Lecturers were really nice, they answered all our questions and didn’t mind that we used their first names. I even drank coffee with one lecturer and discussed about algorithms! Finnish universities themselves are so different to ours that this doesn’t even feel like studying. I strongly recommend applying there at least for your exchange!