Tallinn University of Technology

TTÜ, founded in 1918 is the oldest and biggest university in Tallinn and the second largest in enrolment in Estonia. TTÜ has over 13 000 students and more than 800 academic staff members. TTÜ offers a wide variety of educational degree programmes in the bachelor, master and doctoral level, which include both traditional and new fields of modern technology, economics and business. TTÜ, the only university of technology in Estonia, is committed to high level basic and applied research significant on the global and national scale, implementable in teaching and promotion of innovation.

Reasons to choose TTÜ:

• Public university with 90 years of strong academic history
• The biggest and the oldest university in the capital of Estonia
• Internationally accredited degree programmes
• Modern facilities and up-to-date computer labs
• The best research library in Estonia in engineering and business
• Students from 43 countries
• Internationally recognized professors from abroad

Tallinn

Tallinn has been voted three times into the Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the World. Tallinn has risen from post-Soviet economic ruin to become an economic tiger largely on the strength of ICT. Making creative use of people and funding, Tallinn computerized its schools and deployed widespread WiFi as well as nearly 700 public access kiosks. The city also developed a large-scale digital skills training program, extensive e-government, and an award-winning smart ID card. Through partnerships, it developed several high-tech parks. Tallinn Technology Park – Tehnopol - based on the campus of TTÜ, houses 150 knowledge-based, high-growth companies (including the world-famous Skype) as well as Estonia's biggest business incubator. A new high-tech park, Ülemiste City, provides an energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly home for IT companies. In May-June 2007, Estonia underwent a much-publicized denial-of-service cyber attack that flooded its servers and threatened to bring down Web access and e-commerce. The nation's successful defense led NATO to announce that it would create a Cooperative Cyber Defense Center in Tallinn to conduct research and training on cyber warfare and develop NATO standards and capabilities for cyber defense. Rated #2 worldwide for economic potential by the Financial Times, Tallinn is home to half of Estonia's companies, which receive 77% of the country's foreign direct investment. Tallinn's leaders are now focusing on attracting and fostering talent, building partnerships, internationalization and even faster innovation.