University of Tampere

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.