Organisation
The university consists of twelve departments:
The faculty area of Arts:
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Education (located mainly in Vaasa)
- Faculty of Theology
- Department of Psychology and Logopedics
The faculty area of Social Sciences:
- School of Business and Economics
- Department of Social Sciences (located partly in Vaasa)
- Department of Political Science (located partly in Vaasa)
- Department of Law
The faculty area of Natural Sciences:
- Department of Biosciences
- Department of Information Technology
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Department of Natural Sciences
In addition, there are several other units and joint programs, such as:
- MediaCity (located in Vaasa)
- Language Centre
- Centre for Continuing Education
- Institute of Human Rights
- Turku PET Centre (jointly run by Turku University, Åbo Akademi and the Turku University Hospital)
- Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS) (in co-operation with Turku University, among others)
- Turku Centre for Biotechnology (in co-operation with Turku University, among others)
When the university was turned into a public institution the foundation Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi remained. Besides maintaining many of buildings of the university, it is also a significant donor. With a new law on higher educations, the universities in Finland are planned to be turned into semi-private institutions.
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