Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) (Finnish: Teknillinen korkeakoulu; Swedish: Tekniska högskolan) is the premier technical university in Finland. It is located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the metropolitan area of Greater Helsinki. The university was founded in 1849 by Grand Duke Nicholas I and received university status in 1908. It moved from Helsinki to Otaniemi campus area in 1966. The university has 246 professors and approximately 15,000 stud...
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Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) (Finnish: Teknillinen korkeakoulu; Swedish: Tekniska högskolan) is the premier technical university in Finland. It is located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the metropolitan area of Greater Helsinki. The university was founded in 1849 by Grand Duke Nicholas I and received university status in 1908. It moved from Helsinki to Otaniemi campus area in 1966. The university has 246 professors and approximately 15,000 students in four faculties and 19 degree programmes leading to master's degrees.
Starting in 2010, TKK will form Aalto University with the Helsinki School of Economics and University of Art and Design Helsinki, becoming one of the new university's constituent schools as Aalto School of Science and Technology.
Much of the university's Otaniemi campus was designed by the world-renowned architect Alvar Aalto.
In 1849, TKK was established in Helsinki by the decree of the Russian Emperor Nicholas I, Grand Duke of Finland as a "manufacture and...
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