Art & Design

Master's Programmes

• Applied Art and Design
  The programme deepens the design skills acquired by students at BA level and teaches students to set objectives for their design efforts in a wider cultural, business and product development context.
• Creative Business Management
  The programme offers multidisciplinary competence in managing creative processes and conducting business in the creative economy.
• Creative Sustainability
  The main aim of the programme is to develop competences and skills in the areas of project management, design, cross-disciplinary operations and activities, systematic sustainable design and sustainable business.
• Curating, Mediating and Managing Art
  The purpose of the programme is to develop comprehensive and innovative professional expertise in curating, mediating and managing art, and in managing artistic processes and operating models.
• Design for Theatre, Film and Television, Costume Design
  The aim of the studies is to produce visionary costume designers with artistic and technical expertise, or take postgraduate studies in the area.
• Design for Theatre, Film and Television, Scenography
  Scenographers are artistic designers responsible for the visual, spatial and functional elements of an artistic team production.
• Environmental Art
  The MDP in Environmental Art challenges students to develop their artistic and conceptual skills in diverse issues related to spaces.
• ePedagogy Design
  The programme offers students an interdisciplinary approach that embraces visual knowledge building, interactive media, communication theory and practice, and learning processes and semiotics.
• Fashion and Clothing Design
  The aim is to provide students with the opportunity to develop their personalities and artistic expression in an international, pluralistic, critical and entrepreneurial atmosphere, and in interaction with top experts in the field of art and design.
• Film and Television, Documentary Film
  The studies place importance on the students’ independent work, on honing their creative expression in planning and creating the master’s thesis, and on developing theoretical thinking in film aesthetics.
• Film and Television, Production Design
  The aim of the programme is to develop the students’ own artistic expressions and to endow them with technical skills that they can use to produce practical visual solutions for manuscripts and programme ideas.
• Film and Television, Screenwriting for Film and Television
  The objective is to prepare students for visionary artistic work and practising their own personal screenwriting methods.
• Fine Arts
  The programme has a social emphasis; understanding the surrounding society is as important as studies in art history and theory.
• Furniture Design
  The programme teaches students to visualise and design industrially produced, sustainable and durable furniture that strongly expresses an artistic philosophy, using contemporary methods.
• Graphic Design
  The master's degree programme in Graphic Design allows students to deepen and broaden their competence in graphic design, and to specialize in the desired area of the field.
• Industrial and Strategic Design
  Students of the MDP in Industrial and Strategic Design learn to understand the significance of design in the business world, as well as its social and cultural impact.
• International Design Business Management
  The IDBM program aims to train skilled professionals for key roles in global design business.
• New Media
  Specialisation in New Media is a 2‑year area of specialisation focusing on design for interactive digital media.
• New Media, Game Design and Production
  Master’s Degree Programme in New Media, Game Design and Production is a 2‑year area of specialisation focusing on design and production for digital games.
• Photography
  The major subject studies in Photography include courses in photographic technology and expression, visual communication, digital imagery and image manipulation, studies in history and theory, as well as a thesis seminar and the thesis.
• Sound in New Media
  This programme combines art, design and media driven aspects of sound design in the digital era.
• Spatial Design
  The MDP in Spatial Design teaches architecture within the scope of applied art and design.
• Textile Art and Design
  The aim is to produce creative experts in textile art and fashion design who can meet the changing needs of society and industry.
• Visual Culture
  Visual culture is a cross-disciplinary and multiartistic experimental subject that investigates new forms in art, the environment and the media, as well as operating methods and changes in visual culture.

Business

Bachelor's Programmes

• Accounting, Finance and Business Law
  Finance provides capabilities to understand the basic principles of financial markets and their implications to company activities.
• Business Technology
  Program provides you with an overall view of different business functions and their interdependence, good analytical skills, a strong theoretical background and the ability to apply theories to real-life business problems.
• Economics
  Program provides a comprehensive insight into the functioning of economies and the environment in which companies operate.
• International Business, Mikkeli Campus
  The BScBA Degree Program – taught entirely in English – is international in every respect.

Master's Programmes

• Accounting
  Program in Accounting provides students with in-depth expertise in issues concerning the production and use of financial information of business firms and other organizations.
• Creative Sustainability
  The main aim of the programme is to develop competences and skills in the areas of project management, design, cross-disciplinary operations and activities, systematic sustainable design and sustainable business.
• Economics
  Studying economics develops both analytical thinking and academic insights in addition to promoting the ability to apply economic theory to a wide range of economic phenomena.
• Entrepreneurship
  Program offers the students an outstanding opportunity to learn how to behave entrepreneurially and create new ventures in a global context.
• Finance
  Program in Finance offers high quality teaching that is directly applicable both to strategic decisions and to day-to-day management of the firm.
• Information and Service Management
  Interdisciplinary education with a wide perspective on managing global and increasingly electronic business operations.
• International Business
  Program transforms students' understanding, values and knowledge of doing business in different markets, cultures, political and legal environments.
• International Business Communication
  Program focuses on the strategic role of communication in the global operations of multinational companies and other internationally operating organizations.
• International Design Business Management
  The purpose of the IDBM program is to develop world-class expertise in global design business management through multidisciplinary research and learning that cuts across the areas of business, design and technology.
• Marketing
  Program in Marketing provides students with conceptual tools and analytical skills for identifying customer needs and for building long-term customer relationships that provide value for all parties involved.
• Strategy Master's Degree Programme
  The goal of the programme is to train and develop experts in strategy, apt to thrive in today’s constantly changing and increasingly complex business environment.

Technology

Master's Programmes

• Applied and Engineering Mathematics
  This double degree programme introduces you to the study of mathematics and problem solving in two Nordic universities.
• Bioinformatics (MBI)
  MBI programme offers a unique combination of bioinformatics, methodological sciences, biosciences and medicine.
• Bioproduct Technology
  The most important objective of the programme is to train professionals who can utilize biomass in an economically and ecologically sustainable manner and.
• Communications Ecosystem
  Programme in Communications Ecosystem covers areas ranging from technology to the business aspects of communications networks and services.
• Communications Engineering
  Programme in Communications Engineering focuses on the development of communications systems for the wireless and wired networks of the future.
• Creative Sustainability
  The main aim of the programme is to develop competences and skills in the areas of project management, design, cross-disciplinary operations and activities, systematic sustainable design and sustainable business.
• Electrical Engineering
  The programme provides the most up to date knowledge of electrical engineering research and business.
• Foundations of Advanced Computing
  The programme provides the students with fundamental conceptual tools for the modelling, design, and analysis of advanced computing systems.
• Geoinformatics
  Programme in Geoinformatics is technically and mathematically oriented and focuses mainly on spatial analysis and modelling methods.
• ICT Innovation
  This new double degree programme binds together solid technical courses in computer science and software engineering and business development skills.
• International Design Business Management
  The IDBM program aims to train skilled professionals for key roles in global design business.
• Machine Learning and Data Mining (Macadamia)
  Macadamia programme gives students fundamental expertise in some of the hottest topics in modern computational data analysis and data mining.
• Managing Spatial Change
  Programme strives to enhance integration between housing, spatial planning, land use, transportation, industry and ecology.
• Mechanical Engineering
  During programme students will receive technological education of the highest international standard in product development, mechanics of materials, digital design and manufacturing, mechatronics or innovative structural design.
• Micro- and Nanotechnology
  This programme focuses on the technologies involved in the miniaturisation of electronic and optical devices.
• Mobile Computing - Services and Security
  The courses in the programme address network applications, services, information security, and mobile networking from several aspects.
• Physics of Advanced Materials
  The programme provides students with a strong education in the physics of materials from the viewpoint of present-day research with emphasis on either theoretical/computational or experimental aspects.
• Process Systems Engineering (PSE)
  The studies in the Programme cover process control and automation, chemical engineering and plant design as well as computer science and industrial chemistry.
• Radio Science and Engineering
  Programme in Radio Science and Engineering covers topics in radio science, electromagnetism, space technology, and circuit theory.
• Real Estate Investment and Finance
  Programme strives to provide a Master’s degree of international standards and quality that give the students the required knowledge to work both in the fields of property market and financial intermediation.
• Service Design and Engineering
  Enabling global information technology engineering, innovation and management.
• Service Management and Engineering
  Programme provides students with the knowledge and skills required to become successful managers, developers, and buyers of services in a business-to-business context.
• Strategy
  The goal of the programme is to train and develop experts in strategy, apt to thrive in today’s constantly changing and increasingly complex business environment.

Degree Programmes

• Architecture
  The art and science of designing and erecting buildings and other physical structures
• Bioinformation Technology
  BioIT is a multidisciplinary programme where the teaching is organized in three different Aalto University engineering schools (School of Electrical Engineering, School of Science, School of Chemical Technology).
• Engineering Physics and Mathematics
  The core skills of the degree programme of Engineering Physics and Mathematics are based on sound mathematical natural science training and its application to the rapidly changing problems of industrial and economic life.
• Geomatics
  Geomatics observes and surveys land areas and the environment. Everything taught within the programme is related to the environment, its visualization and the application of gathered information.

Erasmus Mundus Programmes

• EMMEP - Erasmus Mundus Minerals and Environmental Programme
  Program for students in Mining / Geotechnical Engineering, Mineral Processing, Recycling and related academic studies.
• Environomical Pathways for Sustainable Energy Systems - SELECT
  Programme offers advanced education in the field of sustainable energy systems for the future.
• euSYSBIO - Erasmus Mundus Master's Programme in Systems Biology
  Programme offers education of high international standard as well as cultural experience from two different European countries and a double degree from two universities.
• Master's Programme in Security and Mobile Computing
  NordSecMob allows students with strong computer science backgrounds to specialize in mobile computing technologies.
• SpaceMaster - Master's Degree Programme in Space Science and Technology
  Objective is to give the students cross-disciplinary extension from laboratory and computer simulation environments to hands-on work with stratospheric balloons, rockets, satellite and radar control, robotics, sensor data fusion, automatic control and multi-body dynamics.

Nordic Master's Programmes

• Innovative and Sustainable Energy Engineering
  The purpose of the programme is to provide state-of-the-art education in the fields of conventional and renewable energy sources.
• Maritime Engineering
  The program is based on the expertise of the participating universities within naval architecture, offshore engineering and maritime engineering.