Country: Finland
Duration: 3 - 4 Years
Program Level: Bachelors
Country: Finland
Duration: 3 - 4 Years
Program Level: Bachelors
Bachelor’s Programme in Socially Sustainable Societies focuses on the topical and pressing challenge of building socially sustainable societies. This future-oriented programme offers a unique deep dive into social sciences including public health. If you are interested in policies and institutions that generate health and wellbeing for all during the era of increasing environmental concern – this could be just the right choice for you.
Contemporary societies face wicked problems more and more frequently. Innovative service solutions are needed to overcome the financial burden of an aging society. Cross-disciplinary thinking is necessary when tackling social issues related to climate change.
In the Bachelor’s Programme in Socially Sustainable Societies (SOS), the ideas and building blocks for wellbeing and health — from the past and present — are examined for designing sustainable societies of the future. We define social sustainability as the social dimension of sustainability and how societies function with an emphasis on resilience, equality, and inclusion. The programme introduces the Nordic perspectives on social sustainability, the welfare state, and intersectoral action, as well as addresses the broader historical, global and socio-political determinants of health and wellbeing.
In this programme you will tackle topical questions related to socially sustainable societies:
The wide provision of courses and teaching is built upon the topical research conducted by the faculty. You can also choose free-choice studies from other degree programmes and thus enjoy added opportunities to learn about crossover themes from several study programmes.
The programme prepares students to continue their studies in master’s programmes. All accepted students are automatically given the right to continue their studies in the Master’s Programme in Social Science Research which includes specialisations such as Public Policy Analysis or Comparative Social Policy and Welfare.
Tampere University also offers several other relevant English language master’s programmes such as the Public and Global Health programme (admission every second year) as well as multidisciplinary programmes such as Sustainable Digital Life.
The programme teaches historical roots and importance of social policy and public health also from the global angle, and acknowledges the increasingly important role of the environment as a condition of social sustainability.
Our students will develop competencies to critically assess and compare different modes of welfare services, and social and health policy options. Moreover, they will gain an understanding of the means to reduce social and health inequality, learn methods for assessing social and health impacts, and intersectoral action.
Graduates will have a solid knowledge base and the necessary theoretical and methodological skills needed to become professionals in designing and building socially sustainable societies.
Whether you are interested in building your career on a local, regional, national, or global level, this Bachelor’s Programme equips you with cross-disciplinary academic competencies and practical skills to begin your journey. Combining the Bachelor’s Programme with the Master’s Programme in Social Science Research gives you a degree with cutting-edge knowledge and skills needed to become a transdisciplinary professional who knows how the future society works. You will be ready for positions in the public sector, in corporations, or in non-governmental organizations at national or international level.
The Master’s Programme in Social Science Research equips its graduates with academic capabilities ready to solve scientific and policy-relevant problems. The graduates will acquire the theoretical and methodological competencies needed for possible doctoral studies.
Advisory board of the programme:
Mikko Perkiö, University Lecturer, SOS programme director
Salla Atkins, Professor
Salla Jokela, University Lecturer
Ali Qadir, Professor
Lina van Aerschot, University Lecturer
Eveliina Permi, Education Specialist
two student representatives from the SOS programme
You can apply for admission if you have completed or will complete one of the following qualifications in the spring 2025:
Or:
If you are an applicant in the final semester of your upper secondary education, you are also eligible to apply. The previous degree must be completed before studies in the programme begin.
If you hold refugee status or similar, please visit our website for more information.
As set out in the Degree Regulations of Tampere University (chapter 4, section 11), a student may, at any one time, hold only one right to study towards a specific bachelor’s or master’s degree, or towards a specific scientific, artistic, or professional post-MSc degree at Tampere University. An applicant may not be granted a new right to study towards an equivalent degree for which they already hold the right to study or they have already completed, unless otherwise stipulated by the admission requirements of the faculty in question.
When applying to a bachelor’s programme at Tampere University, you must submit proof of your English language proficiency. You have two options for demonstrating this: tests or previous studies.
SAT Test
If admission is based on SAT scores, you will not be required to separately demonstrate your language proficiency.
TOEFL iBT
78 overall with minimum 20 on Writing
IELTS Academic
6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 on Writing
PTE Academic
54 overall with minimum 42 on Writing
C1 Advanced, previous as CAE
C
C2 Proficiency, previous as CPE
C1
Finnish National Certificate of Language (YKI), Proficiency (English)
Proficiency level 4 on all the subtests (reading, writing, listening, and speaking).
An exemption from submitting a language test score is possible only based on the studies specified and listed by Tampere University. Studies not mentioned in the criteria are not accepted.
€10,000.00 Approx.
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| Living Costs | $11,200 - $13,350/Year |
| Application Fee | $50 - $150 |
| IELTS Requirement | 6.0 - 7.0 |
| Work Opportunities | Yes; post-study residence permit available |
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