The University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts Helsinki) provides the highest level of education in music, fine arts, and the performing arts in Finland. Uniarts Helsinki is an internationally appealing meeting place for art, education, and research.

Uniarts Helsinki carries out acclaimed academic and artistic research that has societal impact. The special nature of the research carried out at the university is based on direct and rich interaction between research and art.

Uniarts Helsinki invests in research particularly within its three profile areas, which are music history, artistic research and arts education. Researchers and doctoral trainees from different fields form an internationally unique research community that works together with a global network.

International cooperation is an integral part of the university’s functions as a means to guarantee a high level of education and research and to convene the best teachers and students from all over the world.

Our faculty consists of international artists, educators, and researchers with a high level of expertise.

With its 2,100 students, Uniarts Helsinki is an international community that values courage, pluralism, and equality. The university employs both full-time and part-time personnel; their combined work input is the equivalent of approximately 600 full-time employees.