Helsinki city
Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Myyrmäki Campus
Campus for
Sustainable Technology and Business
Metropolia’s Myyrmäki campus in Vantaa is where Industrial Technology meets International Business.
The campus is a multicultural hub where people work in close collaboration with companies, at the forefront of sustainable development.
The number of students and the size of the campus were doubled in August 2018, when the extension of the campus was finalized. The first part of the campus, Building A, was built in 1988 and Building B in 2002.
There are now 3500 students and 230 staff members operating on the campus in the fields of Industrial Technologies and International Business.
First piles of the extension of the Myyrmäki Campus were driven in April, 2016, and the building phase started in September 2016.
A four-storey new building is located on a former parking lot of the older part of the campus, and is integrated to the buildings A and B, which were in use throughout the construction phase of the extension.
The new building includes various technical facilities used by Automotive, Mechanical, Electrical and Automation Engineering Degree Programmes. The campus restaurant and the library are located in the new part of the campus to meet the increasing demand.
HOAS
They offer affordable rental housing for students in the capital region of Finland. Hoas has nearly 19 000 tenants and over 10 000 apartments near study institutions in Helsinki, Vantaa, Espoo and Kauniainen. Hoas is a non-profit foundation that works in cooperation with the student unions of the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, as well as 10 other university and polytechnic student unions.
The majority of the furnished apartments are shared apartments. Communal living in shared apartments creates opportunities to meet new people.
In shared apartments, the student rents a private room within a shared apartment. When applying for a single room in a shared apartment, Hoas will place the applicant with other exchange students randomly. Usually 2-8 persons share the whole apartment together. Each tenant has their own lockable room. The kitchen, toilet and bathroom are shared. There are separate shared apartments for female and male tenants.
Each academic year, Hoas provides 944 exchange students with a furnished room or apartment. The service has been developed in close cooperation with universities and universities of applied sciences in the Helsinki metropolitan area, and each school has a certain quota reserved for their students. Hoas rents the apartments based on information provided by the schools.
