Education and training in the social welfare field


There are two higher education pathways to social welfare professions:

• to social work by completing a second-cycle university degree including major subject studies in social work (Master of Social Sciences),
• to social instruction by completing a polytechnic degree in the field of social services (Bachelor of Social Services and Bachelor of Social Services and Health Care).

Postgraduate degrees are offered by polytechnics (second-cycle polytechnic degree) and universities (professional licentiate degree, scientific licentiate degree, doctoral degree).

For more detailed information on university studies in social work you can contact the universities providing degree programmes in social work or visit the web site of the Finnish National University Network for Social Work: www.sosnet.fi.

Polytechnics and Arene, the joint web site of Finnish polytechnics, provide further information on polytechnic studies: www.arene.fi

In matters concerning education and training in the social welfare field, please contact
Special Adviser Mervi Tolonen, mervi.tolonen@talentia.fi, tel. 020 111 2722