University of Turku

The University of Turku is Finland's third-largest university by student enrollment, after the University of Helsinki and Tampere University. It is located in Turku, in southwestern Finland. It began operations in 1920 and now has locations in Rauma, Pori, Kevo, and Seili. The Coimbra Group includes the university.

Turku's present university was established in 1920. The intelligentsia of Finland desired a fully Finnish university, the first of its type in the country. The fund-raising campaign received 22,040 contributions. The University's motto, "A free people's gift to free science", reflects the newly achieved independence and the struggle. The University has called its specifically manufactured liqueur "22 040" in honor of these donors. The liqueur, created by the University's own food chemists, pays homage to some of Finland's most distinctive fruits: cloudberry, rowan, and sea buckthorn.

In 1974, the University was designated as a public university. Approximately 20,000 students attend the university, with 5,000 postgraduate students having achieved their MSc or MA. The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Science and Technology are the two main faculties.

Phone: +358 2 33351
Address: 20500 Turku, Finland
Website: https://www.utu.fi/en