Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Helsinki

Overview

The University of Helsinki Liberal Arts and Sciences programme joins diverse fields of knowledge, leveraging three strengths of the University of Helsinki: research-based teaching, high quality, and breadth.

By integrating natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, you’ll develop skills in contextualisation, analysis, problem-solving and critical thinking. These meta-skills enable you to analyse new situations, relate them to your existing knowledge and identify what you need to learn to address the issues you face.

Career options

Graduating from any Bachelor's programme provides the eligibility to apply for positions that require a first-cycle academic degree.

More specifically, ample studies show that LAS curricula are efficient in providing skills highly valued both at present by a wide variety of employers and especially as a response to the increasing long-term dynamism and uncertainty in the job market. Regarding immediate employability, which is affected not only by the skills learned but also societal expectations, research shows about equal immediate employability after graduation between LAS and monodisciplinary programmes even before the long-term benefits of a LAS education kick in.

Additionally, the Helsinki Liberal Arts and Sciences Bachelor's programme has been specifically designed to deliver not only these highly-sought general skills, but also the basis of an (inter)disciplinary expert profile, through which a graduate can either seek more targeted employment, or pursue an (inter)disciplinary Master's programme, which opens plenty of new opportunities in positions both in Finland and internationally.