- About the Country
- List of Engineering Universities
- Advantages
- Estonia is on the north-eastern edge of the European Union, bordering Russia and Latvia and it is a country in the Baltic region.
- It is an amazing place of natural beauty and steeped in colorful history.
- It is a member of SCHENGEN Agreement since 21 December 2007 and Estonia became a European Union member state on 1 May 2004.
- The capital of Estonia is Tallinn with 400 thousand inhabitants or 29.8% of total population.
- Estonia is an e-country – most people use e-banking, pay parking with a mobile phone and pay taxes, or even vote, online.
- A typical Estonian would like to portray himself as hard-working, reliable, smart, innovative and friendly.
- The official language in Estonia is Estonian which belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family and is closely related to Finnish. Along with Finnish, English, Russian and German are also widely spoken and understood.
- Tallinn University of Technology
- Tallinn University of Applied Sciences
- Estonia Business School
- Estonian Academy of Arts
- University of Tartu
- Estonian University of Life Sciences
- Estonian Aviation Academy
- Private School of Professional Psychology
- Mainor Business School
- Estonian Information Technology College
- The principal objective of Estonia's educational system is to develop Estonian society into an open learning society, where every person is a lifelong learner.
- Estonian public universities have significantly more autonomy than applied higher education institutions. In addition to organizing the academic life of the university, universities can create new curricula, establish admission terms and conditions, approve the budget, approve the development plan, elect the rector and make restricted decisions in matters concerning assets.
- The IT industry of Estonia in late 1950s as the first computer centers were established in big cities Tartu and Tallinn.
- A university is a research, development, educational and cultural institution where instruction is provided at the three levels of higher education according to professional higher education, Bachelor's study, Master's study and Doctoral study curricula in several fields of study.
- The task and mission of a university is to cooperate with other universities and with the whole society while supporting the development of the society and preservation of national culture through efficient research, development and creative work.
- Homeland of Skype - the Skype software was developed by 4 Estonian engineers.
