Lappeenranta University of Technology (
LUT) (in Finnish: until 2003
Lappeenrannan teknillinen korkeakoulu, LTKK, and from 2003
Lappeenrannan teknillinen yliopisto, LTY) was established in 1969. The university campus is situated on the shore of lake
Saimaa, about 7 kilometres from the city center. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Finnish government made plans to establish the University of
Eastern Finland in Lappeenranta, but it was ultimately decentralized in three cities:
Lappeenranta,
Kuopio, and
Joensuu. Only the departments of engineering were located in Lappeenranta at that time. The Department of Business Administration was established and teaching of economics began in 1991.