Autumn semester begins: over 2 500 new students will roam the campuses

This autumn, around 1 800 new students will start on the Lappeenranta campus and nearly 700 on the Lahti campus. Additionally, there will be 34 new students in Kouvola and 17 in Mikkeli. A total of 300 tutors will be guiding the newcomers.  

Before courses start, an orientation will be held at each location to introduce the first-year students to life in their new city. The orientations fall on the timeline from 19 to 29 August.

“You can see and hear the new students arriving, not only on campus but around town. There's so much energy! And the student population keeps growing every year, especially with more and more international students coming in,” says Tanja Karppinen, project manager of LUT’s First Year Experience.  

The university is introducing four new master’s programmes. In Lappeenranta, the new programmes are in applied physics and electrical engineering. Meanwhile, Lahti will offer new master’s programmes in business and industrial engineering and management, in addition to the newly revised Executive MBA programme (EMBA). The business master's programme in strategic sales and the EMBA programme are part of LUT’s efforts to develop sales expertise, funded by a donation from Jalo and Anja Paananen.

Like all education at LUT, the new programmes support the university’s revised strategy, which focuses on achieving balance between humankind and the environment. The new strategic focus areas are planetary resources, the digital revolution, the energy transition, and business and society.