Finnish students at universities and other institutions of higher education start their studies at the average age of 21 - a fairly high age by European comparison.
(explained by the military service)
The average age to begin studies in Finland is higher than in Britain, Spain, and France. Beginning students in Finland are younger on average than those in Germany and Norway. Finnish and German students earn a masters’ degree at a relatively late age - about 27 - after studying for more than six years.
A Finnish masters’ degree takes just over five years in net studying time. Only in France and Britain do students complete their masters’ degrees more quickly than in Finland. Experts say that British and French degrees do not require as much work as those in other countries.
An exceptional number of Finnish university graduates already work when they graduate. Getting work was easiest in Finland of all of the countries that were compared. However, the differences were fairly small. Meanwhile, the professional status of Finnish polytech graduates is more modest than those in Germany and Switzerland.
Finns with masters’ degrees from universities earn an average 25 per cent more money than those with a polytech education. A masters’ degree itself boosts pay by about ten per cent, regardless of position, task, demands of the job, and even gender. The impact of a degree on earnings varies considerably from one field to another. In Finland, the pay boost of an academic degree is considerable in business and administration, and the risk of unemployment is much smaller.
One counterintuitive result was that in all of Europe, those who have studied economics are the least likely to go into business for themselves,
whats counterintuitive - they are the ones who can calculate their odds
Shortcomings in Finnish degrees include a lack of training of social skills, language skills, and presentation.
*thats* news
