Degree Programme in Tourism

We are back from the holidays with a new post! Hope you all had a relaxing holiday and a great start for the year 2016.

As promised, I'm going to tell you a bit about our Degree Programme in Tourism where Linh and I study. After 3,5 years of studying you should gather 210 ECTS and graduate as a Bachelor of Hospitality Management (in Finnish restonomi). The intake is 30 students per year and studies are located in Rovaniemi at MTI campus. Half of the students are Finns and half foreigners. Our group is quite small with only 15 students. You can find more information by visiting our webpage from here. From there you can find groups curricula and interesting student stories!

Studying in English is a great way to practice the language. People (at least in Finland) are often too shy about their language skills, but that's usually unnecessary. It is actually not that common that there are native English speakers in the international groups, so no one is perfect. The first semester is the hardest, but when you get past that phase, you soon realize how difficult it is to study even in your mother tongue.  Besides, you get to know people from different countries and cultures! :)

Picture: Essi Koski

Linh and I are in the same group, now in the third year of our studies. Thesis project is starting and graduation is getting more serious! So what have we been actually doing the last two and half years??

We do have normal lectures and exams (sometimes). But mostly we do group works, presentations and write reports. However, we have organized several events where we students have planned and implemented the whole thing right from the beginning. We have also visited lot of local companies and learned about their operations. There are two training periods included into our degree and also a field work during the first year. The field work is done in SantaPark as an elf! 

Studying is not just boring lectures from eight in the morning till four in the afternoon (at least not always). It is so much more and the school can give you so much if you just take the chances. The best thing about University of Applied Sciences compared to University is to learn by doing and at least that is the best way to me. 

Got interested? Great! You can apply to English degree programmes untill 27th of January!

- Anni