Turku School of Economics ( Finnish ''Turun kauppakorkeakoulu'') is a unit of the

University of Turku The University of Turku (, shortened ''UTU'') is a multidisciplinary public university with eight faculties located in the city of Turku in southwestern Finland. The university also has campuses in Rauma and Pori and research stations in Kevo ...

located in

Turku Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ...

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

. It was established as an independent higher education

business school A business school is a higher education institution or professional school that teaches courses leading to degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, s ...

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 and 250

postgraduate Postgraduate education, graduate education, or graduate school consists of academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications usually pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate (bachelor' ...

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

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

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

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per

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Organisation of Turku School of Economics

Main departments *Department of Management **Management and Organization **Entrepreneurship *Department of Accounting and Finance **Accounting and Finance **Business Law **Quantitative Methods in Economics *Department of Marketing and International Business **Marketing **International Business **Economic Geography **Information Systems Science **Economic Sociology **

Supply Chain Management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) deals with a system of procurement (purchasing raw materials/components), operations management, logistics and marketing channels, through which raw materials can be developed into finished produc ...

*Department of Economics **Economics Auxiliary units *Business Research and Development Centre **Small Business Institute ** Pan-European Institute **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) At the Turku School of Economics, you can study two international master's degree programmes in English
Global Innovation Management

Futures Studies

External links

Turku School of Economics

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