The campus consists of six connected buildings which have Latin names: Terra, Astra, Mare, Nova, Silva and Vita.

The University's Academic Library is located a short walk from the main campus.

It was established as the Central Library for the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 1946; it became a part of the university in 2003.

The university was ranked among the top 15 institutions in the Emerging Europe and Central Asia by the percentage of international faculty.

[12] In 2023, Taiwan set up a Chinese Studies center in Tallinn University [1].