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By being exposed to and integrating various disciplinary perspectives, you will develop broadly useful meta-skills alongside specific disciplinary skills. These meta-skills include interdisciplinary contextualization, analysis, problem-solving, and critical thinking.

These abilities will make you highly adaptable in the future, a skill necessary in today's job market. You will also be able to analyse new situations, contextualising them based on your existing knowledge. Additionally, you will be capable of learning new information needed to address these situations using the same meta-skills.

You don't need to know your exact career path at the start. The programme structure allows you to explore various disciplines but also ensures graduating with a coherent expert profile.

The specialisation options include:

• Data science,
• Digital humanities,
• Ecology and Adaptation,
• Economics of Natural Resources,
• Resource Management of Global Forests and
• Social Data Science.

What is Liberal Arts and Sciences?

Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) education is generally seen as an approach to higher education that emphasises an interdisciplinary curriculum, encompassing various disciplines, to cultivate critical thinking, communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and a deep understanding of the world.

As one of the world's top 1% multidisciplinary universities, the University of Helsinki provides an excellent basis for a Bachelor's Programme in Liberal Arts and Sciences. The core of the programme lies in interdisciplinary collaboration across six faculties, integrating natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. It also allows students to develop expertise and continue to Master’s programmes in the humanities, data science, social sciences, life sciences and agricultural, environmental and forest sciences. 

Students do not need to know their exact interests at the start. Many disciplinary modules fit into multiple specialisations, and there is space for optional studies. The programme design allows exploring and finding areas of interest when joining the programme, while ensuring a coherent expert profile at the end of the studies, instead of graduating with a mix of disconnected pieces of knowledge.

Why apply:

In the Bachelor's Programme in Liberal Arts and Sciences, the education is rooted in the interdisciplinary study and application of the natural sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Through being exposed to, and needing to integrate disciplinary outlooks, students will learn, alongside disciplinary skills, broadly useful meta-skills of interdisciplinary contextualisation, analysis, problem-solving and critical thinking.���

The structure of the programme is designed in a way that allows a lot of exploration of different options and results in a broad education. At the same time, the multiple sets of structured choices make the students end up with (inter)disciplinary expert profiles, useful in both looking for jobs, as well as providing direct pathways to multiple master's level study options both at the University of Helsinki and elsewhere.

Liberal Arts and Sciences programmes have been proven through research to provide skills useful in both today's as well as tomorrow's job market. As evidenced by further research, these skills are also valued by employers, leading to good job-market outcomes for graduates.

Career options:

Graduating from any Bachelor's programme provides the eligibility to apply for positions that require a first-cycle academic degree.

More specifically, ample studies show that LAS curricula are efficient in providing skills highly valued both at present by a wide variety of employers and especially as a response to the increasing long-term dynamism and uncertainty in the job market. Regarding immediate employability, which is affected not only by the skills learned but also societal expectations, research shows about equal immediate employability after graduation between LAS and monodisciplinary programmes even before the long-term benefits of a LAS education kick in.

Additionally, the Helsinki Liberal Arts and Sciences Bachelor's programme has been specifically designed to deliver not only these highly-sought general skills, but also the basis of an (inter)disciplinary expert profile, through which a graduate can either seek more targeted employment, or pursue an (inter)disciplinary Master's programme, which opens plenty of new opportunities in positions both in Finland and internationally.