Studying in Science and Bioengineering

Our education is based on freedom coupled with personal responsibility. The programme is organized into modules which each include optional components so the degree can be customized to suit the needs of individual students.

As most of our teaching staff also conduct research, the education is coupled with research undertaken at Tampere University of Technology. The learning outcomes of the programme are:

• Students attain the competency to work as experts within the fields of modern molecular and instrumental technologies.
• Students attain the competency for scientific postgraduate education in the field of measurement technology related to modern bio- and nanotechnologies.
• Students learn to recognise, manage, and use the scientific and professional concepts of the major (bioimaging, biomeasurements, biotechnology, information technology for health and biology, or nanotechnology) as well as manage the basics of the minor(s).
• Students attain the ability to apply scientific methods to current and concrete assignments in the field of their major.
•  Students acquire language skills and learn communication and cooperation skills required in working life.

Choose your major and top it up with a minor

The total extend of the degree is 120 ECTS credits of which 90 credits are composed of course work and 30 credits of the master’s thesis. Each credit represents an average workload of 27 hours including lectures, assignments, independent learnng and an examination. Students are expected to earn around 60 credits per academic year and thereby complete the degree in two years.

The degree comprises the following modules:

• Common programme studies (20 cr)
  • ensure that students will have the necessary theoretical skills to follow courses in the major and minor studies
• Major (30-35 cr) and the master's thesis (30 cr)
  • the main subject of the degree
  • the master's thesis is written on a topic connected to the major
  • is chosen from five alternatives :
    • Bioimaging
    • Biomeasurements
    • Biotechnology
    • Information Technology for Health and Biology
    • Nanotechnology
• Minor (25 cr)
  • chosen from set of alternatives that support the major and personalize the degree, in 2012-2013 minors are:
    • Biomaterials
    • Biomeasurements
    • Biomedical engineering
    • Biotechnology
    • Computational systems biology
    • Industrial Management
    • Mathematics
    • Nanotechnology
•  Optional studies (0-15 cr)
  • any courses from the TUT course catalogue that students select to learn specific skills that are not part of the major or minor modules. It is also possible to apply for the right to complete courses or one entire minor at another Finnish university through the so-called flexible study right system .