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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.

 QUALIFICATIONS* 32 BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 33 VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 16 SPECIALIST VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 2025 --- STUDENT FLOW 6284** #YLPEÄSTI LAPPILAINEN 2025 Source: Primus --- STUDENT SATISFACTION 4,2/5 2024–2025 Source: Vipunen --- LAPPIA IN A NUTSHELL --- PERSONNEL 336 2025 --- COMPLETED QUALIFICATIONS 860 2025 Source: Schoolday OF WHICH 28 MATRICULATION EXAMINATIONS --- AFTER GRADUATION 74 % OF STUDENTS ENTER THE WORKFORCE 3,0 % OF STUDENTS PURSUE FURTHER STUDIES 2022 (the latest available information) Source: Vipunen --- COMPETITIONS FINNISH CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 1 1 2025 ARCTIC SKILLS 0 3 2 2025 --- INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE 91 2025 ARRIVED AND DEPARTED STUDENTS AND STAFF --- PROJECTS TOTAL VALUE OF THE PROJECT PORTFOLIO 5,4 M€ 2025 --- TURNOVER 32,3 M€ 2025 --- LOANS 0 € 2025 --- *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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