More than a degree - unique opportunities for Aalto students
This page showcases some of the multidisciplinary minors offered at Aalto as well as courses and communities that prepare you for entrepreneurship. As you plan your studies, keep in mind all your multidisciplinary possibilities and change the game!
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society Aaltoes
exist to build the next generation of entrepreneurs. Aaltoes organizers a variety of events and programs targeted university students and early-stage founders: incubators/accelerators, hackathons, inspirational events and meetups. The organization is run entirely by students: active members consist of a full-time board, selected for a calendar year, and team members, volunteers fascinated about entrepreneurship.
Aaltonaut
The goal of the Aaltonaut is to educate students about product development through hands-on projects and problem based learning. The minor offers bachelor’s level students an opportunity to develop skills they will use in work life, such as communication skills and interdisciplinary team work.
Creative Sustainability
provides a multidisciplinary learning platform in the fields of architecture, business, design, built environment and real estate for dealing with the significant challenges of sustainability which background is in climate change, global poverty, social and economic inequality, demographic changes and rapid global economic changes.
Design Factory
is a cross-disciplinary working environment in which problem-centred learning, combined with theory, practice and professional skills, takes centre stage. A place where students, researchers, entrepreneurs and businesses work together to solve real-life challenges, the Design Factory provides education for future global leaders in product development.
Founder School
Aalto Founder School brings entrepreneurship closer to all students at Aalto through monthly Founder Talks, a new minor studies programme, and a tailor-made Founder Sprint for the most driven founders.
International Design Business Management IDBM
Master's Degree Major & Minor Programmes challenge students from all six schools of Aalto University to experiment and expand on their core capabilities and interdisciplinary teamwork skills through courses and projects that demonstrate the significance of design in user experiences, business and life. IDBM Programme culminates to a six months long project provided by our renowned industry partners, in which students collaborate to design unique solutions and create value for the client and themselves.
Multidisciplinary Energy Studies (MES)
is an elective Minor subject for Master’s students interested in energy and society. It approaches energy in a modern way from three key perspectives, namely science and technology, economics and business, social sciences and human behavior. At the same time, MES strives for increasing integrative understanding across a range of energy issues. MES aims at providing strong systemic thinking and multiple skills for dealing with the complexity of energy in a new way. The Multidisciplinary Energy Studies (MES) is a collaborative teaching effort between several disciplines at Aalto University. Examples of themes include Sustainable Energy, Green-ICT, Energy Markets, Behavioral Economics, Green Business, Smart Power, E-Mobility, among others.
StartUp Sauna
is the world’s leading student-led entrepreneurship hub and home to a multitude of entrepreneurial entities and projects shaping the future. The community has been accelerating founders since 2010. Here you will meet the most experienced coaches in Europe. If you are ready to default to action and learn by doing, this is your place.
CEMS Master’s in International Management
() is a Global Alliance of leading business schools, multinational companies and NGOs that together offer the (MIM) (). CEMS MIM prepares students to take on various responsible and international expert and leadership positions. The programme includes CEMS courses conducted in active corporate collaboration i.e. in the fields of global leadership and strategy, an extensive business project, an international internship, and seminars familiarising the students with skills required in working life. One of the CEMS terms is spent studying at Aalto University School of Business, the other at another CEMS school abroad in the form of a Master's level exchange term. More information: CEMS MIM at Aalto University (), or contact cems@aalto.fi.