Oulu University of Applied Sciences (Oulu UAS) is one of the largest universities of applied sciences in Finland with approximately 9,000 students, including around 150 international degree students. Annually the number of incoming exchange students exceeds 250.
Oulu UAS offers multi-field education in Engineering, Business Administration, Social and Health Services, Natural Resources, Music, Dance, Media and Vocational Teacher Education. All fields have courses in English. In 2009 three of Oulu UAS’s thirty Bachelor’s programmes and two Master’s programmes are taught entirely in English.
Together with local enterprises, Oulu UAS has a strong focus on the applied re-search and development activities in its core areas. These activities ensure high-quality education and constant development of the university of applied sciences.
Education leading to a degree: Bachelor and Master Programmes
Other education: Professional Specialisation Studies, Open University of Applied Sciences Studies, Short-term Supplementary Training, Vocational Teacher Education
Research and Development: Versatile projects to meet the needs of education, industry and business life
Read more about Oulu University Of Applied Sciences: Schools, External Links
Famous quotes containing the words university, applied and/or sciences:
“His role was as the gentle teacher, the logical, compassionate, caring and articulate teacher, who inspired you so that you wanted to please him more than life itself.”
—Carol Lawrence, U.S. singer, star of West Side Story. Conversations About Bernstein, p. 172, ed. William Westbrook Burton, Oxford University Press (1995)
“Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body’s fragility and vulnerability ...”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)
“The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)