The Erasmus and Socrates progr ammes include student exchange, teacher exchange as well as intensive courses. In North America, the Department has cooperation with University of Miami, the University of Calgary and with Wayne State University in Detroit, the pioneers in family nursing. Contacts have also been established with the University of Tallinn, Estonia, and with the University of Tel Aviv, Israel. The Department offers postgraduate programmes leading to licenciate and doctoral degrees. Postgraduate students at the Department of Nursing can also study at a national doctoral program in nursing, which is run jointly with bo Akademi and the universities of Oulu, Kuopio and Turku.
Places are available for all doctoral candidates.
Students also have the option of continuing their studies abroad.