There are three Faculties of Law in Finland, at the University of Helsinki, the University of Turku and the University of Lapland. Since the faculty has national responsibility for legal education in Swedish, three professorships and a few other positions are reserved for Swedish-speaking personnel. The Institute of International Economic Law supervises about 20-30 researchers. As law is one of the most popular fields of academic study, the annual intake is limited to approximately 14 per cent of the applicants.
Admission is based on the results of the matriculation examinations and an entrance examination.
On average 230 students graduate each year, about half of whom are women. Partly due to the growing importance of the international aspects of law, the number of postgraduate students has been increasing rapidly and presently exceeds 400. Since the establishment of the programme in 1992, over 30 Finns and 20 foreigners from all over the world have obtained the LL.M. Diploma. The courses have been structured in such a way as to enable students to take the first two years of the Master of Laws degree in Vaasa and finish their degree in Helsinki. The instruction in Vaasa, which is located in a bilingual region on the western coast, is mostly in Swedish.