Espoo is the 2nd largest city in Finland. It is an urban municipality with over 200,000 residents. It is home to Aalto University and a branch campus of Helsinki University of Technology.

The formal higher education system of Finland is the 7-3-2-2 pattern. The university takes two years in vocational or technical education and finally two-year pre-tertiary education. Finland also has several public as well as private universities that have enabled accessibility of higher education to students.