Editing Turku (section)

==Education==
[[File:Turun yliopisto.jpg|thumb|right|The main building of the [[University of Turku]]]]

Turku has a longer educational history than any other Finnish city – the first school in the city, the [[Katedralskolan i Åbo|Cathedral School]], was founded along with Turku Cathedral in the late 13th century. The first university in Finland, the [[Royal Academy of Turku]] (now [[University of Helsinki]]), was established in the city in 1640. In 1820, the first school in Finland conforming to the [[Bell-Lancaster method]] was founded in Turku with the aim of making primary education more inclusive to the lower classes.

Turku is home to about 40 000 higher education students.<ref>{{cite web |title=Opiskelijakaupunki Turku -info |url=https://www.turku.fi/opiskelijakaupunki/info |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127165650/https://www.turku.fi/opiskelijakaupunki/info |archive-date=27 January 2023 |access-date=22 September 2023 |website=Turku.fi |url-status=live }}</ref> There are two universities and several "[[University of applied sciences (Finland)|polytechnics]]" in the town.

The Finnish [[University of Turku]] is the fourth largest<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 May 2023 |title=Yliopisto-opiskelijoita 163 700 vuonna 2022 |url=https://www.stat.fi/julkaisu/cl8k4bzgmcuu40dut7esfla54 |access-date=22 September 2023 |website=www.stat.fi |language=fi |archive-date=15 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015103953/https://www.stat.fi/julkaisu/cl8k4bzgmcuu40dut7esfla54 |url-status=live }}</ref> university in Finland (22,300 students in 2022), as measured by student enrollment, and one of the oldest as well, having been founded in 1920. Approximately 9% of all students are international students.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Opiskelijamäärien tilastot |url=https://www.utu.fi/fi/opiskelutilastot/opiskelijamaarat |access-date=22 September 2023 |website=www.utu.fi |language=fi |archive-date=15 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015170648/https://www.utu.fi/fi/opiskelutilastot/opiskelijamaarat |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Åbo Akademi]], founded 1918 as the second university of Finland, is one of Finland's two Swedish-language universities. [[Turku School of Economics]] merged with The University of Turku in 2010, and Åbo handelshögskola, its Swedish counterpart, with Åbo Akademi 1980. The central hospital of Turku, [[Turku University Hospital]], is affiliated with the university and it is used as a teaching hospital.

[[Turku University of Applied Sciences]] (TUAS) is the second largest [[Institute of technology#Finland|polytechnic]] in Finland (12,000 students in 2022<ref>{{Cite web |title=Turun ammattikorkeakoulu |url=https://www.turkuamk.fi/fi/turun-amk/tutu/esittely/ |access-date=22 September 2023 |website=Turun Ammattikorkeakoulu |language=fi |archive-date=22 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722054056/http://www.turkuamk.fi/fi/turun-amk/esittely/ |url-status=live }}</ref>) after Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. TUAS consists of six campus buildings in Turku and one separate campus in town of [[Salo, Finland|Salo]]. Bachelors of Business Administration, Social Services and Health Care Nursing study at Salo IoT Campus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Salo IoT Campus |url=https://www.turkuamk.fi/fi/turun-amk/yksikot-ja-kampukset/iot-campus-salo/ |access-date=22 September 2023 |website=Turun Ammattikorkeakoulu |language=fi |archive-date=15 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015104142/https://www.turkuamk.fi/fi/turun-amk/yksikot-ja-kampukset/iot-campus-salo/ |url-status=live }}</ref> TUAS offers Bachelor and Master studies in over 70 fields of education.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tutkinnot |url=https://www.turkuamk.fi/fi/tutkinnot-ja-opiskelu/tutkinnot/ |access-date=22 September 2023 |website=Turun Ammattikorkeakoulu |language=fi |archive-date=15 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015103935/https://www.turkuamk.fi/fi/tutkinnot-ja-opiskelu/tutkinnot/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Also [[Novia University of Applied Sciences]] and [[Diaconia University of Applied Sciences]] have campuses in the town.

Turku is one of only two cities in Finland to have an established international school (the other city being Helsinki). [[Turku International School]], located in the eastern district of [[Varissuo]], has been operating since 2003. By an agreement signed between the city of Turku and the [[University of Turku]], [[Turun normaalikoulu]] takes care of the teaching in the international school.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tnk.utu.fi/index.php?id=1389&news_id=125&archive= |title=Turku International School |publisher=[[University of Turku]] |date=15 January 2006 |access-date=31 October 2008 |archive-date=26 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226054046/http://www.tnk.utu.fi/index.php?id=1389&news_id=125&archive= |url-status=live }}</ref>