Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics

The Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics is one of the original departments of Helsinki University of Technology, i.e. over 100 years old. The Department is responsible for the highest level of education for surveying sciences in Finland. In addition, it is the only comprehensive university unit of the field in the country and now it incorporates also education and research of land use planning and urban studies. In accordance to the field of surveying sciences, the Department has two degree programmes, Geomatics and Real Estate Economics, which provide high-level undergraduate (bachelor) and postgraduate (master) studies. In addition it has four master’s programmes in English: Creative Sustainability, Geoinformatics, Managing Spatial Change, and Real Estate Investment and Finance. The Department coordinates the national Doctoral Programme in the Built Environment, a joint programme for seven Finnish universities with about one hundred doctoral students.

The annual intake for bachelor-level studies in about 70 students and for master-level about 65 students. Approximately eight to ten students begin doctoral studies annually. The Department has eight professors and one adjunct professor. It is formed of three research groups; Geoinformatics, Real Estate, and YTK Land Use Planning and Urban Studies. The Department accommodates also the Research Institute of Measuring and Modelling the Built Environment. The total number of the staff is about 140.