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University of Tampere
Tampereen yliopisto
Type	Public
Established	1925
Chancellor	Jorma Sipilä
Rector	Krista Varantola
Students	15,400
Location	Tampere, Finland
Website	http://www.uta.fi/

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The University of Tampere is a university in Tampere, Finland. It has some 15,400 degree students and 2,100 employees. It was originally founded in 1925 in Helsinki as a Civic College, and from 1930 onwards it was known as a School of Social Sciences. In 1960 the institution relocated to Tampere, and in 1966 it was officially named University of Tampere.

The university is currently divided into six faculties. Some of the departments are listed under the faculty header.

Faculty of Economics and Administration
- Department of Economics and Accounting
- Department of Law
- Department of Management Studies
- Department of Regional Studies
Faculty of Education
- Department of Education
- Department of Teacher Education
- Early Childhood Education
Faculty of Humanities
- Department of Acting (Theatre)
- Department of History
- Department of Literature and the Arts
- Department of Music Anthropology
- Department of Speech Communication and Voice Research
- School of Modern Languages and Translation Studies
Faculty of Information Sciences
- Department of Computer Sciences
- Department of Information Studies
- Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Philosophy
Faculty of Medicine
- Department of Nursing Science
- Medical School
- Tampere University Hospital
Faculty of Social Sciences
- Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Department of Political Science and International Relations
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Social Policy and Social Work
- Department of Sociology and Social Psychology
- Department of Women's Studies

Moreover studies, The University of Tampere attaches importance to sports. Thus, students and staff can access to diverses sports, from aerobics classes to gym,... Everything happens in Atalpa Building.