An education in transportation engineering may help students develop and hone the skills needed to work effectively on designing, building and maintaining highways, ports and other transportation assets. Those seeking a career as a highway engineer, a railroad engineer or port engineer may benefit from this focus.

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.