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  • The School of Arts, Design and Architecture opened its doors at the beginning of 2012

    The School of Arts, Design and Architecture is an institution of higher education for design, media, architecture, motion picture, art education and art. The new school, formed in a merger of the School of Art and Design and the Department of Architecture of the School of Engineering, will carry forward the internationally recognised expertise created by its predecessors.

    The new school combines the areas of design and implementation of human-oriented environments as well as areas of research and teaching based on humanistic and cultural traditions. Cooperation and interaction between the different disciplines of the school challenge technology-driven thinking and put greater emphasis on a human and user-centred approach in the creation of environments.

  • The capital and largest city of Finland, Helsinki is a dynamic sea-town with a harbor at its heart. Once the main point of contact to the outside world, it was established as a trading town in 1550 and only really started to boom after the 1952 Olympic Games.

    Today the city is a quirky with its own brand of humour, the locals cool and collected and the city’s offerings many for those wanting to have a good time, enjoy the beautiful surrounds or sit at the harbor and watch the world go by.

  • The university is named in honour of Alvar Aalto, a prominent Finnish architect, designer and alumnus of the former Helsinki University of Technology.

Academics

Main areas of study

The listed areas of study are not necessarily exhaustive and other fields of study might also be available at the partner institution. Moreover, names for fields of study may be different overseas.

A discipline being listed does not in indicate the suitability of the program, nor does it indicate that the discipline is taught in English.

Approval to study particular subjects at any institution is always at the discretion of the departmental/discipline and faculty advisors at RMIT University and subject to available places at the host institution.

  • Design (industrial, textile, fashion, graphic, furniture, interior)
  • New Media
  • Photography
  • Environmental Art
  • Fine Art
  • Civil Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Spatial Design (for Architecture students)
  • Corporate Communication
  • Marketing
  • International Business

Special requirements

English/Finnish

Courses

Similiar partners

  • All
  • By location
  • By discipline

  • Oulu

  • KTH

  • Lund

Full time load

Minimum

ECTS

Maximum

ECTS

Living

Accommodation

Available through Student Housing Foundation.

TAIK international student counsellors will advise in applying for it.

Health insurance

Obligatory (EU directive) insurance policy should cover the costs of medical treatment up to 165 000 AUD.

Living cost

A number of external services provide comprehensive overviews of global living costs

Funding

OS-Help Loan Scholarship

Key information

Visa

When a foreign student has been accepted as a student at a Finnish educational institution, he or she must usually also apply for a residence permit. For information on residence permits, please see the section Non-EU citizens.

If the studies last for less than three months, no residence permit is needed.

The student can then conduct his or her studies within the period of validity of his or her visa or while an agreement on the abolition of visas is valid. For further information on applying for a visa, the validity periods of visas and visa application fees, as well as a list of countries whose citizens do not need visas, see the website of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (section Services > Foreign nationals arriving in Finland).

Further information is available at here.

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