Highlights

The University of Helsinki is one of the 20 members in the League of European Research Universities (LERU) sharing the values of high-quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research.

The Department of Computer Science is one of the few national Centres of Excellence in University Education.

The Department hosts a Finnish Centre of Excellence on Algorithmic Data Analysis (Algodan), selected by the Academy of Finland as a premier research and researcher training unit that is at the international cutting edge of research in its field.

The Department is the home of Linux: this is where Linus Torvalds studied while developing the Linux kernel.