ABSTRACT
The only true tendency that evolved towards Public Administration training in Finland before World War II was the establishment of the Social Science College in Helsinki in 1924. During the entire period of Finland's independence post-entry pre-service training in the field of Public Administration and all closely related fields have been absent rather than present. University education in the field of Public Administration is particularly widespread in Finland. There are other university level institutions in Finland beside the universities, namely the Business Schools and the Universities of Technology, but in none of them have administrative sciences been established. The Finnish administrative sciences show evidence of an extreme and continously advancing differentiation. Although there is the common situation of a drastic decrease in recruitment to the public sector, graduates in the administrative sciences as an aggregate have found employment relatively well.
