Data extractions from the register of educational institutions

Subject to charge

You can order address data on educational institutions and public unit data describing other educational institutions from the register of educational institutions.

The following can be ordered from Statistics Finland's register of educational institutions

addresses of educational institutions
coordinates of educational institutions
data on numbers of pupils and students in educational institutions
data on providers of education.

The register does not contain names, telephone numbers or email addresses of educational institution personnel. Hospital schools, educational institutions operating abroad, military vocational institutions as well as military academies have been removed from the register of educational institutions.

The coordinates of comprehensive schools and general upper secondary schools are available free of charge in Statistics Finland's Educational institutions geographic data.

What data can be ordered from the Register of educational institutions?

Service data

Data formatXLSX, CSV

Data delivery methoddelivery as a file

Latest update09/06/2025

Next estimated updateApril 2026

What does an educational institution refer to?

An educational institution refers to an administrative unit, not an individual school building or establishment. All educational institutions have only one address (location).

Ordering data

Order an extraction from the register of educational institutions by sending us an email. We will agree with you on the data to be delivered, the delivery schedule and the price.

You can order data by means of different extraction criteria, such as type of educational institution, number of pupils/students, location of educational institutions or language of instruction.

You can place an order either as a one-off or continuous assignment. If the assignment is continuous, we will deliver the ordered data annually whenever new statistical data are completed.

The price of the order comprises of the basic charge and the amount of educational institutions as follows:

Basic charge EUR 230
Names and addresses and other data EUR 0.50 per item

If the preparations for the assignment take more than one hour, EUR 115 per hour is charged for the additional work.

All prices are exclusive of VAT (25,5%).

View the numbers of educational institutions

The numbers of educational institutions by type of educational institution are presented in the table below. You can also filter the numbers by several different extraction criteria using the register of educational institutions (xlsx).

Type of educational institution	Number
11 Comprehensive schools	1 972
12 Comprehensive school level special education schools	44
15 Upper secondary general schools	330
19 Comprehensive and upper secondary general level schools	40
21 Vocational institutes	77
22 Special needs vocational institutes	5
23 Specialised vocational institutes	11
24 Vocational adult education centres	9
28 Fire, police and security service institutes	1
41 Polytechnics	24
42 Universities	13
61 Music schools and colleges	141
62 Sports institutes	13
63 Folk high schools	70
64 Adult education centres	170
65 Study circle centres	11
66 Summer universities	18
67 Basic art education institutes (other than music schools and colleges)	126
99 Other educational institutions	5
Total	3 080

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Contact information

Do you need an educational institution code?

If you need an educational institution code, a change to the code or have questions about the codes, please contact us at koulutusrekisterit@stat.fi.

Also view the following

Educational institutions

Geographic data

Data includes coordinates and a name of every comprehensive and upper secondary level schools in Finland.