 Grimberg's "Kansojen historia" ("History of Peoples") offered a lively description of history to the young Utrio.Kaari Utrio matriculated in 1962 from Helsingin tyttölukio, a girls-only college.After that, she studied history at the University of Helsinki and graduated as a Master of Arts in 1967, History of Finland and Scandinavia as her major subject and General history as minor.