Career Prospects
The employment percentage of those holding an MSc (Tech.) degree is high in Finland. Health technology related industry is today increasingly important globally and particularly in Finland. Fields of health technology are expanding fast, offering you a wide range of different career opportunities. In addition to companies that are focused on wellness, medical or biomedical analytical solutions, this also includes other industries that are utilising health technology in their products, like global enterprises producing wearable devices capable of measuring heart related signals from a wrist of the user, for example.
Health technology is an area with good employment possibilities and good opportunities to establish your own start-up. There are also possibilities to work in the research, education, consult sectors or even continue studies towards PhD degree.
Career in Research
The Master’s degree also provides you with eligibility for scientific postgraduate degree studies – doctoral and licentiate degrees. You can apply for a position at the University of Turku Graduate School (UTUGS), which covers all of the disciplines of this programme.