SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
The School of Business and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology offers a flexible, session-based MBA with a focus that taps into Estonia’s renowned start-up status. Tim Banerjee Dhoul takes a look at the school’s outlook, history and place within the wider university
HISTORY Tallinn University of Technology’s history dates back to 1918, when the Estonian Technical Society began organising courses. A private school called the Tallinn College of Engineering was established the following year, before being nationalised in 1920 and acquiring state higher education institution status soon after. The name Tallinn University of Technology (Tallinna Tehnikaülikool) was first used in 1938 and then reintroduced in 1989, ahead of independence from the Soviet Union. The shortened name of TalTech came into use in 2018, the year of its 100th anniversary. A faculty of economics at the university was first established in 1940, becoming the School of Economics and Business Administration in 2005 and TalTech School of Business and Governance in 2017, following the incorporation of the university's School of Social Sciences. It forms one of four schools at today’s TalTech, not including its marine sciences arm known as the Estonian Maritime Academy.
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COURSES The school’s English-language
TalTech School of Business and Governance is based at the university’s campus in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The campus
entrepreneurial management MBA is a two-year programme that combines
three days of face-to-face instruction each month with online learning, allowing participants to live and work outside Estonia. Other options at postgraduate level include degrees in international business administration, technology governance and digital transformation and a joint offering in public sector innovation and e-governance in conjunction with Belgium’s University of Leuven and the University of Münster in Germany.
is said to be one of the most compact in Europe and lies in the district of Mustamäe (Estonian for ‘black hill’). Estonia has an established reputation as a leading European start-up hub and a number of renowned technology companies, including the ride-hailing firm Bolt, began life in Tallinn. The country has also placed highly in a number of international rankings for quality of life and the digitalisation of public services.
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