Beskrivning
Mikkeli (www.mikkeli.fi) is a modern provincial and commercial center with 47,000 inhabitants. In the heart of the Finnish Lake District, Mikkeli is situated in the beautiful scenery of Lake Saimaa. Approximately 25,000 cottages can be found on the shores of Saimaa and 700 other lakes in the Mikkeli region. Summer activity is especially quite busy.

Mikkeli is home to a combination of active domestic and international businesses, institutions of higher education, and numerous cultural events. It can be reached in 2.5 hours by car or train from Helsinki. Mikkeli is situated at the crossroads of five highways; good connections to eastern, southern and central Finland offer many opportunities for travel.

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HSE Mikkeli works in collaboration with MOAS (the Mikkeli student housing organization), www.moas.fi, which provides apartments for students. In addition, the company rents apartments to others for temporary purposes, e.g. international students or researchers.

Most student apartments consist of single rooms and shared apartments within easy walking distance to the campus. A lot of students in Finland live in these shared apartments, which are cheaper and usually easier to get than private housing. A shared apartment is basically a big apartment where every student has his/her own room and a shared kitchen and bathroom.

It is recommended that foreign students look for hou¬sing through student housing organizations. It is recommended that foreign students coming to HSE Mikkeli apply for housing through MOAS, since arranging housing privately is likely to be more complicated and more expensive.