SAMK in Figures: Library in 2014
In 2014, SAMK’s library had
123, 057 printed books
118,670 e-books
290,000 downloads, 47 per student and teacher
52 per cent of purchasing expenses were spent on electronic materials, 60 euros per student and staff member
Citycom, the main contractor in the campus project, estimates that the construction work provides 270 person-years for Pori region. (Citycon sells SAMK Campus in Pori to Hemsö, read the news.)
The cubic volume of the new campus will be 114 387 cubic meters.
SAMK in figures: Effects on the surrounding area
Over 400 graduates are employed in Satakunta every year
Bachelor’s theses and practical training demand 450 man-years
Over 1,200 people from Satakunta participate in further training at SAMK annually
Over 400 companies and societies co-operate with SAMK
SAMK in figures: new students and exchange students
SAMK has
– over 1200 new Bachelor’s degree students in autumn 2014.
– 89 new Master’s degree students
– 41 international degree students in the Degree Programme in Business Administration in Rauma and 8 in the Degree Programme in Physiotherapy.
– 80 exchange students in Tiilimäki, Tiedepuisto and Kanali campuses in the autumn.
The third best! This place was achieved by SAMK, when the students who graduated last year, evaluated the expertise and quality in their own institution. The survey was answered by 97 per cent of the graduates from SAMK.
In 2013, as many as 1053 degrees were completed at SAMK
A record number of 82 of them were Master’s degrees.
Clients made 883, 693 searches for electronic data in the library in 2013. The most popular site was MOT dictionary and the second place was taken by searches to health care data. Altogether 246,720 searches were made to the collections of SAMK’s library.
Electronic data was loaded 215, 614 times. Journals were most often searched from the ePress and Ebsco databases. E-books were mainly searched from Ebrary and SanomaPro and other information from Terveysportti (health care database).
Altogether 45, 355 books were loaned from the library in 2013. In addition, 33,783 loans were renewed in the library and 197,423 online.
SAMK has degree and exchange students and staff members with 50 different nationalities – from Albania to Yemen.
Altogether 61 partner institutions from 35 different countries with which both staff and student exchange works successfully.
You can study 10 languages, including Finnish and Swedish, at SAMK.
1064 new degree students in four cities in the autumn 2013
185 students in adult education
59 master-level students in four degree programmes in Pori
2, 269 first-choice applicants in youth education in spring 2013
7,000 applicants in all
Intake 729
3,11 first-choice applicants for each starting place
4,33 first-choice applicants for each starting place in adult education
2,39 first-choice applicants for each starting place in Master’s Degree Programmes
19,4% growth in the number of applicants compared to 7,7% growth at national level
What is the most popular degree programme at SAMK?
Answer: Degree Programme in Physiotherapy with 10 applicants for each starting place.
188 students from Satakunta University of Applied Sciences participated in the long-duration study or exchange periods of at least three months in 2012.
140 students arrived in SAMK for their long-duration exchange period.
10 teachers made an exchange visit of at least one month. Six teachers arrived in SAMK, and four teachers from our university set off to our partner universities.
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