University of Lapland

The University of Lapland (Lapin yliopisto), located in Rovaniemi, Finland, is the northernmost university in the European Union, founded in 1979. The university comprises four faculties—Education, Law, Art and Design, and Social Sciences—and offers bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees. It has a strong international profile with approximately 230 international mobility agreements and 250 partner universities. The university is a founding member of the University of the Arctic (UArctic), a member of Arctic Six, and participates in European networks including AcrossEU. Doctoral education is coordinated by the university's doctoral school, which supports two doctoral programmes: a discipline-specific programme and the cross-disciplinary Arctic in a Changing World programme. The main campus is on Yliopistonkatu 8 in Rovaniemi, the capital of the Lapland region.