About Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia and EVTEK University of Applied Sciences will be merging into Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences on 1 August, 2008. The fields of study are: technology, health care and social services, economics and business administration, and culture.
The students will number some 14,000 and staff about 1,100 with 24 engineering programmes. The Bachelor of Engineering degree is 240 ECTS credits and duration of 4 years. The Master’s degree programmes totals 60 ECTS and takes two years to complete, during which the students are usually in fulltime employment.
The related BEng Programmes in English are in Information Technology (IT), Media Engineering, Industrial Management (IM) and MEng programmes in IT and IM have more than 3000 students. The specialisation options of the BEng programmes are Networks and Infrastructure, Software Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering and in Master’s programme Multimedia Communications and Software Engineering.