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About JAMK

JAMK University of Applied Sciences is an international higher education institution with expertise in 8 different fields of study.

Quality

At JAMK quality management is seen as an essential tool for developing all its operations. Quality management is also a shared issue: it is jointly implemented by the staff, students, customers and partners. Moreover, it is considered important that the quality of JAMK's activities and achievements are visible both to the academic community itself and its external stakeholders.

International

Become international with us! Make use of our extensive international partnership network and expertise to enhance your competitiveness

Job Opportunities

JAMK is a multidisciplinary, internationally oriented employer. We operate at the heart of a dynamic economic area and employ over 700 people.

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The School of Business

The School of Health and Social Studies

The School of Technology

Teacher Education College

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Main campus: Rajakatu
Lutakko campus
Institute of Bioeconomy
Finnish Music Campus

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A high rate of JAMK graduates find employment. Two in three students completing a bachelor’s degree at JAMK have a job at the time of graduation.

The employment situation at the time of graduation is particularly good for, among others, students graduating from the degree programmes in service management (83 %) and logistics (78%) and from the Nursing degree programme in English (82%). A total of 71% of graduates have found employment in Central Finland and 3% abroad.

A total of 5% or 52 graduates continue or start as an entrepreneur immediately after graduation. For the Team Academy, this proportion is as high as 42% (16) of all graduates. This is a top result even on the national scale.

JAMK’s working life cooperation shows in the feedback from graduates. A total of 84% think that JAMK has helped students establish working life contacts well. Among those particularly satisfied are students of media engineering, social services, Team Academy and the English-language International Business programme. Students are employed in positions that correspond to their education, as 87% agreed that they can make use of the competence gained at JAMK in their work.

Immediately after graduation, 12% have worked in supervisory positions and 31% in specialist positions. The proportion of supervisory positions is high among graduates from, for example, the degree programmes in logistics, civil engineering and service management.

Source: OPALA, the joint national student feedback survey for those completing a bachelor’s degree at a university of applied sciences in 2014. The response percentage was 99% for JAMK’s bachelor’s degree graduates in 2014 (a total of 1,121 graduates).

Annual report 2014

In 2014, JAMK University of Applied Sciences operations showed powerful growth in the bioeconomy sector and featured renovation and entrepreneurship growth. New openings were launched in cyber security: cyber security education was increased and diverse cooperation with different operators was deepened. In the joint application procedure, JAMK’s appeal increased and the Teacher Education College was, again, the most popular in Finland.

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