Faculty of Management and Business

In the Faculty of Management and Business, we combine three fields of study: administrative studies, business studies and politics. We are determined to cross borders in both teaching and research. We educate young professionals who are able to understand the continuously changing world and are willing to change it.

All three of our degree programmes are further divided into bachelor’s and master’s level studies. On the bachelor’s degree level, we introduce the students to their academic field through a wide-ranging combination of academic subject areas. The studies in the bachelor’s degree programmes are produced by these subject areas that will also form the specialisation options students will have when they study for their master’s degree.

In their master’s degree studies, students choose one of the specialisation options introduced to them on the bachelor’s degree level. The specialisation options in our three degree programmes are listed below:

Degree Programme in Administrative Studies

• Administrative science
• Environmental policy and regional studies
• Local and regional governance
• Public financial management
• Public law

Degree Programme in Business Studies

• Accounting
• Business law and tax law
• Economics
• Insurance and risk management
• Management and organisations
• Marketing             

Degree Programme in Politics

• International relations
• Political science

The main language of instruction in our degree programmes is Finnish while we offer some of our courses also in English every year.

The Units of Information and Knowledge Management and Industrial Engineering and Management have a main role in providing teaching in the following degree programmes in Finnish, managed by the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences:

• Degree Programme in Industrial Engineering and Management, MSc (Tech)
• Degree Programme in Information and Knowledge Management, MSc (Tech)

Master’s degree programmes

At present, we offer the following degree programmes in English:

• Master’s Degree Programme in Leadership for Change (LFC)
  • European and Global Politics
  • Governance for Sustainable Change
  • Sustainable Business Management
• Nordic Master’s Programme in Innovative Governance and Public Management (NORDIG)
• Master’s Degree Programme in Research and Innovation in Higher Education (MARIHE)
• Master’s Degree Programme in Security and Safety Management (SAFER)
  • Safety Management and Engineering
  • Security Governance

• Master’s Degree Programme in Management and Information Technology, MSc (Tech), Pori (in Finnish)
• Business and Technology, MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management

Doctoral studies

The Faculty of Management and Business also offers postgraduate degree programmes. The major subjects can be chosen from the following disciplines:

Licentiate of Administrative Sciences & Doctor of Administrative Sciences

• administrative science
• environmental policy
• financial administration and public sector accounting
• local governance
• local public economics
• local public law
• public law
• regional studies

Licentiate of Science (Econ./Business Adm.) & Doctor of Science (Econ./Business Adm.)

• accounting and finance
• business law
• economics
• insurance
• management and organisation
• marketing
• tax law                                                   

Licentiate of Social Sciences and Doctor of Social Sciences

• international relations
• political science

If the doctoral candidate has undertaken appropriate prior studies in a subject not included in the list above, the Faculty of Management and Business may also award them the Doctor of Philosophy degree upon completion of the doctoral studies.

Open University

The courses offered by the Open University consist of separate study units as well as study modules from Tampere University’s degree programmes. The Open University is open for everyone regardless of age and educational background. Teaching is organised in the cities of Tampere, Seinäjoki and Pori. In addition, distance learning is possible in many courses.

It is possible to apply for the Faculty's Finnish-language Degree Programmes via Open University.