The university's statutory duty was to pursue research and give the highest education in its field.

The research, conducted by some 1,800 staff and faculty members, mostly focused on applied science and often has close ties to many different companies (such as Nokia).

Located next to the university campus is a Technology Centre Hermia, including a large Nokia research facility.

In the 1950s, the city of Tampere started actively remedying the situation, first founding a municipal science library in 1955.

This library formed the core for the libraries of the TUT and the medical faculty of the University of Tampere[6] In 1960, city succeeded in persuading the small private university Yhteiskunnallinen korkeakoulu to move to Tampere from Helsinki.

[7] The founding of the Tampere University of Technology was one of the steps of the city and the local business life in bringing higher education to the region.

The new foundation-based interdisciplinary higher education institution is named Tampere University.

While all departments pursue scientific research and publish in international, peer-reviewed journals, the strongest areas of the university are signal processing, nanophotonics, biotechnology, and intelligent mobile hydraulic systems.

Among other things, the university has been developing the world's first: biodegradable joint implant, communicator, yellow laser and walking harvester.

Furthermore, the numerical evaluations were accompanied with the verbal assessments, which give better understanding than the plain integer numbers.

[20] The university awards undergraduate degrees of tekniikan kandidaatti (Bachelor of Science in Technology (B.Sc.

The program of Science and Engineering aims to provide students a multi-disciplinary basic knowledge on different engineering and scientific subjects and offer a wide range of possibilities to continue studies in TUT's master's degree programs in English.

Possible major subjects are Mathematics, Physics, and Information and Communications Technology.

As usual in Finland, the completion of doctoral degree requires a certain number of courses taught (worth at least 60 ECTS) and a dissertation containing original scientific research, usually published in international peer-reviewed journals.

The students of technology (teekkarit) are especially noticeable, as they wear a distinctive hat with a tuft (teekkarilakki) on many occasions, both formal and informal.

[26] There are also numerous other clubs that focus on different hobbies, such as, eSports, alpine skiing, sailing, photographing and skydiving.