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Last week 21 students of UT Pärnu College defended their final theses.

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Dr Isabelle Frochot, a visiting associate professor of tourism marketing at the University of Tartu Pärnu College, says that she would recommend Estonia as a place to study without hesitation. In Estonia, when one talks about a “university town”, one usually means Tartu, the home of the largest and oldest university in the country. And then, of course, everyone knows the capital, Tallinn, has many universities.

Dr Isabelle Frochot, a visiting associate professor of tourism marketing at the University of Tartu Pärnu College, says that she would recommend Estonia as a place to study without hesitation. In Estonia, when one talks about a “university town”, one usually means Tartu, the home of the largest and oldest university in the country. And then, of course, everyone knows the capital, Tallinn, has many universities.

I arrived in Parnu in September and, as it goes for students, started attending classes. Little did I know how much this would later influence me. I have never been a part of such a small group of students. And I just loved our discussions, group work and teacher involvement.

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The foreman of the jury, University of Tartu Vice Dean for Development Erik Puura mentions that he’d like to “Especially point out the student companies that have consulted with university’s scientists during the product development process. It shows that science-based ideas are already accepted in our schools as the fundamentals of a new entrepreneurship.”

The foreman of the jury, University of Tartu Vice Dean for Development Erik Puura mentions that he’d like to “Especially point out the student companies that have consulted with university’s scientists during the product development process. It shows that science-based ideas are already accepted in our schools as the fundamentals of a new entrepreneurship.”

Garage48 hackathon kicked off this friday in University of Tartu Pärnu College with an equal gender balance. Alltogether 10 teams are currently working on their projects to show working solutions by Sunday evening. Be sure to watch the live stream of the best projects tonight (04.12.16) at 5.30PM. To watch the live stream Click here.

Garage48 Pärnu 2016 Women in Tech inviting Developers & Designers to join! Now's your chance to follow the movement and join our Garage48 Pärnu 2016 Women in Tech hackathon event already this week-end, 2-4th December in TU Pärnu College!

We invite all our students, staff and alumni to celebrate the 97th anniversary of Estonia's national university with us. Wednesday, 30. November

On December 9th, at the University of Tartu’s initiative, the first international business festival sTARTUp Day 2016 will be held. Over 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors, students, and scientists will come together and more than 40 speakers will discuss successful business models.

The University of Tartu has got an invitation to join two important international cooperation networks – the GUILD, established this summer, and the Eastern and Central European partnership programme of the League of European Research Universities (LERU).

On November 1, 2016 at 19.00 our student theater "K-Äng2" performs a play "Will" in Cafe Versus. After the performance is poetry night, were our international students read Shakespeare sonnets in many languages.

UT Vega fund is bigger than ever this year. The funding facility for the development of knowledge-intensive business projects has with the support of Enterprise Estonia and Swedbank become a part of the support system of Estonian innovation. The total size of the fund has more than doubled and the applying system is more flexible.

From October 19-20, 2016, the 9th Baltic Sea Tourism Forum welcomes more than 150 tourism representatives in Pärnu. This year the conference is organised by the City of Pärnu, the University of Tartu Pärnu College, Enterprise Estonia (EAS), the Foundation Pärnumaa Tourism, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Tourist Board, the Ministry of Economics and Construction and Tourism Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The THE World University Rankings 2016-2017 are the only international university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions. Estonia's University of Tartu holds the highest place of all time in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, placing 301-350. This year THE assessed the performance of 1,313 universities around the world and ranked 980. The University of Tartu holds the highest place of all time also in this year's QS World University Rankings published in September where it placed 347th.