According to CSN's statistics, Finland as a study country is still in a modest 18th place, but everything indicates that the climb towards the top has begun.
In the past five years, the number of Swedish students at Finnish universities has quadrupled.
Last year, 181 Swedes accepted a place to study in Finland, but the number of Swedes who applied to Finnish universities was even higher, 580 people, according to figures from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.
That too was a doubling compared to 2016.
The Novia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki tops the list of the most popular universities in Finland, followed by Åbo Akademi, the University of Helsinki and the Swedish School of Economics, Hanken.
All offer studies in Swedish, which is both easier and more useful for Swedes who may want to return home and work in Sweden.
For many Swedes with a Finnish background, the step east is natural.
But Aina Bexell had no connection to Finland:
- I could choose between Spain, Italy and Romania, but the northernmost university in the world in Rovaniemi sounded more interesting then.
Watch the clip above about why Jens-Antti Andersen and Aina Bexell chose to study in Finland.
Watch a full 15 minutes from Uutiset - the program about Swedish students in Finland on SVT Play.