65 Healthcare Degree Programs in Finland

Bachelor of Health Care, Public Health Nurse As a Public Health Nurse, you can promote the health, functional capacity, and well-being of people and families of different ages in a wide range of areas. You can identify clients and their families who are part of risk groups. You support and help them and guide them to the necessary help resources.

Meet people from around the world, learn about different cultures and at the same time study to be a competent nurse! You will learn to plan, implement and develop health-promoting, preventative, healing and rehabilitative work in health care. You can work in basic health care, social welfare or specialized health care, private companies, organizations, international positions in the field or as an entrepreneur. This school offers programmes in nursing, business, game business, tourism, ICT, and logistics.

After having completed the nursing studies you will be a competent and skilled nursing expert. You will have extensive knowledge of nursing; you will master the required concepts, methods and skills to enable critical assessment and decision-making in changing and unpredictable nursing situations. After graduation, you will be an expert in nursing patients and have an ability to apply your knowledge and skills when solving complex and unpredictable nursing problems.

The Vocational Qualification in Social and Health Care, Practical Nurse (top-up) Program in Finland offers an accelerated pathway to becoming a certified practical nurse for students with prior education. Lasting just one year, this intensive program focuses on essential nursing skills and clinical experience. Graduates receive a Finnish vocational qualification in Social and Health Care upon successful completion, marking their readiness to enter the nursing profession.

The Master of Social and Health Care, Emergency Care Systems Development and Leadership Health care crises have made it clear that our emergency care systems and acute care pathways are experiencing a fundamental change in perspective. The need for major systemic change is evident, for both better person-centered care and the well-being of our health care professionals.

Gain your expertise and qualification in nursing at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences. As a Registered Nurse, you are an expert in delivering the highest standards of quality care in primary health care and specialised medical care. You are highly competent in caring for diverse groups of clients and patients of different cultural backgrounds in a multidisciplinary team. You are equipped with leadership and management skills in fast-paced work environments and have broad evidence-based and organizational skills needed in nursing.

As a paramedic, you will help trauma patients or people who suddenly fall ill and need urgent care, both in and out of the hospital. You recognize and anticipate situations that threaten the patient's life and know how to act as the situation requires. In addition to alert tasks, your job will include non-urgent care: examining patients, mapping situations, and planning follow-up care. You will make nursing decisions and also be able to lead a team.

People's need for more tailored and cost-efficient implants, devices, and health informatics solutions is growing. The biomedical engineering industry is an increasingly important, global high-tech sector. In Finland, the health tech industry is especially strong. With the emergence of numerous small enterprises, the fields of biomedical sciences and engineering are rapidly expanding and offer diverse career options.

People's need for more tailored and cost-efficient implants, devices, and health informatics solutions is growing. The biomedical engineering industry is an increasingly important, global high-tech sector. In Finland, the health tech industry is especially strong. With the emergence of numerous small enterprises, the fields of biomedical sciences and engineering are rapidly expanding and offer diverse career options. This program provides you with a solid understanding of the challenges related to biomedical and health sciences.

Interested in becoming an expert in Public Mental Health? Gain the intellectual foundation and specialized skills you need to become an expert on mental health service systems, prevention, and interventions for children, adolescents, and families. There are enormous unmet needs in mental health provision both in developed and developing countries. There is a need for public mental health research on health service systems, interventions, and prevention. Remote, digital, and new technology-assisted interventions are needed to address the global challenges to provide evidence-based solutions.

Aging society and increasing interest in well-being require new solutions for more personalized and precise healthcare from novel imaging to reliable, remote monitoring of patients as well as wellness devices to support prevention and rehabilitation. The biomedical engineering industry is an increasingly important, global high-tech sector. In Finland, the health program industry is especially strong. With the emergence of numerous small enterprises, the fields of biomedical sciences and engineering are rapidly expanding and offer diverse career options.

Master’s Degree Programme in Materials Engineering: Health Technology Materials trains professionals in materials engineering with a particular focus on developing biomaterials to the needs of health technology applications.

Arcada's Nursing TopUp bachelor's degree programme is aimed at you who already have a previous Nursing degree completed outside of Finland, work experience in the field, as well as Finnish and English language skills.

The biomedical engineering industry is an increasingly important, global high-tech sector. In Finland, the HealthTech industry is especially strong. With the emergence of numerous small enterprises, the fields of biomedical sciences and engineering are rapidly expanding and offer diverse career options.

At the crossroads of human physiology and digital technology, the program in Health Technology invites you into a world of exciting challenges with purpose. Human sensing, big data, machine learning, and more – let’s make solutions for a better life!