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tallinn UniversitY
tallinna Ülikool www.tlu.ee/en
hiStory
Tallinn University (TU) is a public institution of higher education. It was established in 2005 as a merger of:
- Academic Library of Estonia (1552/1946) - Baltic Film and Media School (1992/97) - Estonian Institute of Humanities (1988) - Institute of History (1947)
- Tallinn Pedagogical University (1919/52/92)
The university has also accommodated former research institutes of the Academy of Sciences:
- Institute of Estonian Demography
- Institute of Ecology
- Institute of International and Social Studies
Tallinn University is the third largest univer- sity in Estonia. Its main strengths lie in the fields of humanities and social sciences as well as a notable tradition of teacher training and educational research, but it also has a strong and constantly growing component of natural and exact sciences.
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At present, Tallinn University has around 10 000 students, as well as more than 500 faculty members and research fellows.
Internationalisation is of one of the key issues in the university’s development plan for the coming years. There were 760 international students (304 exchange students and 456 degree students) from more than 50 countries in the academic year 2014/2015. This makes more than 7% of the entire student body. Exchange students come mostly from Germany, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic and degree students from Finland, Latvia and Russia.
In exchange programmes Institute of Political Science and Governance, Baltic Film and Media School, and Institute of Germanic-Romance Languages and Cultures had the majority of international students.
In degree programmes Baltic Film and Media School, Law School and Institute of Political Science and Governance had the majority of international students.
Tallinn University maintains over 50 inter-uni- versity agreements with universities from around 30 countries, Russian, Japanese and Chinese universities being the most represented coopera- tion partners, as well as more than 500 Erasmus+
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