Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki

the reformation of the doctoral education at the university, the postgraduate education at the department is organised through the DoCS programme, established in 2014. The department was elected a national centre of excellence in university education twice in a row, in years 2007-09 and 2010-12. The department participates in three Finnish Academy centres of excellence (the CoE of Cancer Genetics CoECGR, the CoE of computational inference COIN, and the CoE of inversion problems). HIIT, the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, a joint research institute for the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, partially operates at the department. In 2014, 168,7 person years were completed at the department, along with 26,684 credits, 51 Master's degrees and 8 Doctoral degrees.The total funding of the department was 12.19 MEUR, of which sum 5.42 MEUR consisted of external funding. The Department of Computer Science is situated at the Kumpula campus, the leading concentration of know-how in exact sciences in Finland.