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Studying at Vocational College 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.

Lappia in a Nutshell 2025–2026

Student flow: 6,284 students in 2025.
Student satisfaction: 4.2 out of 5 in 2024–2025.
Students whose native language is other than Finnish: 626 in 2025.
Share of applicants choosing Lappia in the joint application system among institutions in Lappia’s member municipalities: 64% in 2026.
Operating area covers 30% of Finland’s land area.
Total value of the project portfolio: 5.4 million euros in 2025.
Personnel: 336 employees in 2025.
Completed qualifications: 860 in 2025.
Working life partners: 4,224 in 2025.
Working life satisfaction: 4.3 out of 5 in 2024–2025.
Carbon footprint: 2,766 tCO₂e in 2024, representing a 34% reduction compared to 2021.
International exchange mobility (arriving and departing students and staff): 91 in 2025.
Liquidity: 180 days (status as of March 2026).
Turnover: 32.5 million euros in 2025.
Loans: 0 euros in 2025.

Note: Student flow 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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