Turku School of Economics (Finnish

Finnish language

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 Turun kauppakorkeakoulu) is a faculty of the University of Turku

University of Turku

The University of Turku , located in Turku in southwestern Finland, is the second largest university in the country as measured by student enrollment, after University of Helsinki. It was established in 1920 and also has faculties at Rauma, Pori and Salo...

 located in Turku

Turku

Turku is a city situated on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River. It is located in the region of Finland Proper. It is believed that Turku came into existence during the end of the 13th century which makes it the oldest city in Finland...

, Finland

Finland

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. It was established as an independent higher education business school

Business school

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 in 1950, until it was acquired by the state in 1977. It was the second largest school of its kind in Finland, with approximately 2,000 graduate

Graduate school

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 and 250 postgraduate students and a staff of 350. In January 2010, Turku School of Economics became the seventh faculty of the University of Turku

University of Turku

The University of Turku , located in Turku in southwestern Finland, is the second largest university in the country as measured by student enrollment, after University of Helsinki. It was established in 1920 and also has faculties at Rauma, Pori and Salo...

. Its former rector, Professor Tapio Reponen, is now a vice rector of the University of Turku.

In addition to teaching a wide variety of economic and business related subjects, the faculty conducts research on matters relating to its field, and offers consulting services to businesses. Teaching is mainly carried out in Finnish

Finnish language

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, but there are also a number of courses available in English

English language

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.

As a higher education institution

University

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, Turku School of Economics had been one of the most efficient universities in terms of masters

Master's degree

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 per professor

Professor

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.

Organisation of Turku School of Economics

Main departments

• Department of Management
  • Management and Organization
  • Information Systems Science
  • Entrepreneurship
• Department of Accounting and Finance
  • Accounting and Finance
• Department of Marketing
  • Marketing
  • International Business
  • Economic Geography
  • Economic Sosiology
  • Logistics
• Department of Economics
  • Business Law
  • Economics
  • Quantitative Methods in Management

Auxiliary units

• Business Research and Development Centre
  • Small Business Institute
  • Pan-European Institute
    Pan-European Institute
    The Pan-European Institute is a Finnish research centre which observes the developments within the European economy and business throughout the whole continent...
    
    
  • Innomarket
  • Institute for Executive Education
  • Media Group
  • Institute for Competition Policy Studies
  • Centre for Responsible Business
• Finland Futures Research centre
• Pori Unit
• Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS)