Aalto University was created in 2010 as an outcome of a high-profile merger between three leading universities in Finland - the Helsinki School of Economics, the Helsinki University of Technology and the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Finland is consistently ranked highly in quality-of-life studies. It is the best country in the world in Newsweek 2010 study, and Helsinki the 9th most livable city in the Economist Intelligence Unit ranking 2016. The World Economic Forum ranked Finland the world's safest country in 2015.