Tampere University of Applied Sciences

TAMK offers students extensive services, from on-campus libraries, shops and cafés to a dedicated social counsellor for international students. Your studies at TAMK are facilitated throughout by highly educated and dedicated staff, who will all aim at securing the best possible future for you. Study counsellors in TAMK schools will assist in planning your personal path through studies, career services will work with you to secure training placements and preparing your CV for entering the workforce.

In Tampere there are several student housing associations, which handle all incoming students from all over Finland and abroad. Students can choose to share a flat to save costs (rent approx. 300€/month/person). The rent includes electricity, hot water, and the use of sauna and laundry facilities. The rooms assigned to new foreign students are usually furnished with a bed, a mattress, a table and a chair. Most flats have an Internet connection, and the usage fee is often included in the rent. If you get an unfurnished room, TAMK's social councellor can help you acquire basic furniture after you arrive in Tampere.

Our library is an open library with the primary goal of serving TAMK students and staff. In addition to the traditional function of lending books, the staff will also guide you by hosting workshops on a variety of themes on and around information and research. The library serves you on all campuses, with a specialized collection and staff dedicated to the specific study subjects in the lead role on campus

TAMK follows a BYOD policy (bring your own device) so you should have a personal computer for studies. All key online services can be used with a web browser and mobile-friendly user interfaces are co-created with students on a daily basis. TAMK offers MS Office ProPlus free of charge and F-Secure SAFE inexpensively (5 eur / year). On campus you have free wi-fi and mobile printing.

All TAMK students are entitled to use general student health care services, whether they are degree students or exchange students. Using specialist medical services can be extremely expensive in Finland; therefore, TAMK strongly recommends that every foreign student should obtain personal health insurance.