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Information about Lappia

Lappia is situated in the Northern Finland.

Competence from the North

Kemi-Tornionlaakso Municipal Education and Training Consortium Lappia maintains the Lappia Vocational College and owns Lappia-Education Ltd development service company.

The operating area of Lappia covers 30 per cent of Finland’s surface area. We have offices in Kemi, in Loue in Tervola, in Muonio, Rovaniemi and Tornio. We also carry out various training courses elsewhere in Finland and serve customers across the border to Sweden and Norway. For companies and communities, we organise training opportunities according to their needs.


QUALIFICATIONS*

32
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

33
VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

16
SPECIALIST VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

2025

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STUDENT FLOW
6284**

#YLPEÄSTI LAPPILAINEN

2025
Source: Primus

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STUDENT SATISFACTION
4,2/5

2024–2025
Source: Vipunen

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LAPPIA
IN A
NUTSHELL

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PERSONNEL
336
2025

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COMPLETED QUALIFICATIONS
860
2025
Source: Schoolday

OF WHICH
28
MATRICULATION EXAMINATIONS

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AFTER GRADUATION

74 %
OF STUDENTS ENTER THE WORKFORCE

3,0 %
OF STUDENTS PURSUE FURTHER STUDIES

2022 (the latest available information)
Source: Vipunen

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COMPETITIONS

FINNISH CHAMPIONSHIPS
1 1 1
2025

ARCTIC SKILLS
0 3 2
2025

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INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
91
2025

ARRIVED AND DEPARTED
STUDENTS AND STAFF

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PROJECTS

TOTAL VALUE OF THE PROJECT PORTFOLIO
5,4 M€
2025

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TURNOVER
32,3 M€
2025

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LOANS
0 €
2025

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*Lappia holds unrestricted authorisations to provide education, enabling us to organise training in a flexible and agile manner as part of a national education provision pilot
**Includes students at Vocational College Lappia and Lappia-Koulutus Ltd


Lappia-Education Ltd – Learning Through Life

We develop new service products for the needs of the working life. We are customer-oriented, we provide quality services agilely and safely. Most of our training services are labour market training and other market-oriented training services.

Our vision is to be the most agile, the best known and the best quality developer of expertise in our region in 2023.

Our key services include:

  • continuing education and development services
  • career and recruitment services
  • license, qualification, and card training courses
  • mapping the skills needed
  • Lappia Driving School services

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