Smart, Original, Adventurous and Creative

If these descriptions sound familiar, you should consider studying at the University of Lapland. You will combine academic freedom and quality education with state of the art facilities and support services. Not to forget the conditions that will definitely challenge you away from your comfort zone!

Sustainable Art and Design

In the Master's Degree Programme in Sustainable Art and Design, service design and applied visual arts are used by our students to work with clients and community groups to identify problems and create solutions – It's creative collaboration.

The degree aims to develop professional expertise at the intersection of art and design practice as well as competence in interdisciplinary working with business and community groups. Students will achieve advanced skills in project design and management, research and evaluation skills in art and design.

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Northern Tourism

Master's Degree Programme in Northern Tourism offers a comprehensive and international approach to tourism and reflects on the growing global influence and relevance of change in the north – It's responsible tourism futures.

Programme in Northern Tourism is based on a joint 30 credits component organised by the University of the Arctic (UArctic) Thematic Network on Northern Tourism. It brings together researchers and students from the northern universities, with an interest to steer the development of the Arctic towards a more sustainable direction.

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Tourism, Culture and International Management

Tourism, Culture and International Management (TourCIM) programme is based on the belief that the sociocultural dimension is essential in fully understanding and implementing responsible tourism – It's contemporary, innovative management.

The two-year programme gives you the opportunity to advance your knowledge and understanding of contemporary tourism and responsible business practices and strategies. It is run by one of the leading tourism research and education centers in the Nordic countries: the Multidimensional Tourism Institute (MTI).

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Arctic World Politics

The Arctic is deeply entangled with world politics and the large global challenges of our time. It is crucial to examine whose experiences and what kind of knowledge are valued in political decisions and policymaking, and for what purposes that knowledge is used.

The two year MA degree programme in Arctic World Politics addresses these issues from a critical, multidisciplinary perspective that centers local-to-global connections and Indigenous knowledge, combining Politics and International Relations, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Anthropology and Gender Studies. In addition to power relations, conflicts and systems of governance involving states, the programme highlights the central role of multispecies relations and Indigenous knowledge and worldviews.

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Arctic Indigenous Cinema

The Arctic Indigenous Cinema Master's Programme responds to the need for competence building and bringing new talent into the field of Indigenous storytelling, particularly within higher education, in the scope of audiovisual media.

In this two-year master`s degree programme, students engage in studies that intersect theory, practice and a strong working-life orientation in the field of cinema and moving images. The student's commitment to the process of creating and gradually developing their storytelling skills is central to the programme, supported by a diverse range of academic content from multiple perspectives. The studies combine practical screenwriting, production-based project work, variations in film studies and academic research.

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Service Design Strategies and Innovations (Erasmus Mundus)

Service Design Strategies and Innovations (SDSI) is a jointly organized Erasmus Mundus master's programme with a focus on service design, management and leadership. 

We will help you become a versatile service innovator who can enable change in public and private organisations through strategic design, management and creative leadership. Graduates will be awarded with a multiple Master's degree, one from the Art Academy of Latvia, one from the University of Lapland, and one from the Estonian Academy of Arts.

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Exchange studies

For those smart at heart and wild by nature – apply to go on an exchange to the University of Lapland and combine one of the best educational systems in the world with adventure unique to the North.

Explore your future in the fields of Education, Law, Art, Design and Social Sciences, or immerse yourself in Arctic studies, right on location.

Doctoral studies

Sharpen your expertise and hone your unique insights with doctoral studies at the University of Lapland.

Doing a doctorate is a solid choice for anyone dedicated to doing research: ULapland Doctoral School and the faculties are here to help you along the way.

How to apply for doctoral studies