Enrolment and Registration
Registration for attendance (or non-attendance) is obligatory for all students: undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates.
The registration time for the 2013-2014 academic year is 1.5.-2.9.2013.
For the first year students the registration is completed at the same time when they enroll to the University of Helsinki. From the second year on, you have to remember to register yourself.
A registration completed before the beginning of the academic year is cancelled, if the student's situation changes in a way that he/she no longer has a right to pursue a degree at the University of Helsinki for the academic year in question.
Automatic registration
Registration in person
Postgraduate students
Non-attendance
Registering for the spring term
Student Union fee
Limitations in registration
Did you forget to register?
Year tag and student calendar
Rector's decision on enrolment and registration
Automatic registration
Automatic registration is available during the registration period from May 1 to September 2, 2013.
- WebOodi – the most convenient way to register
WebOodi is the preferable way of registering as it is done fully on-line: your registration is valid immediately. If you have a user ID of the University of Helsinki and you have an Internet banking agreement with Nordea, OP-Pohjola Bank, Sampo Bank, or Aktia, the easiest way to pay and register is by WebOodi.
- Automatic registration without WebOodi
Another option for automatic registration is to pay the Student Union (HYY) fee at a bank, with an ATM (maksut) or at home with an on-line bank service. Your annual registration is automatically registered within two banking days, if you use your own student number as the reference number.
Registration in person
If you use the general reference number on the bank transfer or if you pay from a bank abroad, you have to remember to register in person. After paying the fee, you have to register yourself for attendance at the Student Services in either the City Centre or Kumpula Campus. Remember to bring the receipt of the payment with you.
For opening hours and contact information of the Student Services offices, please see their website.
Postgraduate students
If you are a postgraduate student, you must register either as an attending or a non-attending student for every academic year. For postgraduate students, the Student Union fee is voluntary. Please note that if you have both an undergraduate/graduate and a postgraduate student status, then you have to pay the student union fee for undergraduate/graduate students.
Registration with Student Union membership
If you want to join the Student Union for the full academic year or for the autumn term only, then you register using one of the options listed above.
If you want to join the Student Union for the spring term only, then you first pay the membership fee for the spring term. After paying the fee, you must present the receipt at the Student Services.
If you already registered for attendance without the student union membership, but then make up your mind to become a member for the full academic year or for the autumn term, then you have to pay the Student Union fee and present the receipt at the Student Services.
Registration without Student Union membership
If you do not want to become a member of the Student Union and if you have a user ID for the University's computer networks, you can register through the WebOodi-system. You can also register by contacting the Student Services.
Non-attendance
If you want to register for non-attendance, you must also inform the Student Services. This must be done from May 1 to September 2, 2013. You can register for non-attendance by e-mail, phone or by visiting the Student Services. If you send an e-mail, please include your student number or date of birth with it. You will find the contact information for the Student Services here.
Registering for the spring term
This registration information is for those who during the registration time registered for non-attendance for the entire academic year or attendance just for the autumn term and then decide to attend the University in the spring term.
The automatic registration options are not available when registering for the spring term. There is no set registration period, but registration has to be completed before studies begin.
If you are an undergraduate or graduate student, you need to pay the Student Union fee and then bring the receipt of the payment to the Student Services. The registration is completed at the Student Services.
If you are a postgraduate student, the Student Union fee is voluntary. If you paid the Student Union fee only for the autumn term and you would now like to pay the fee for the spring term you need to pay the fee and register at the Student Services. Bear in mind that if you have both an undergraduate/graduate and postgraduate study status, then the Student Union fee for undergraduate/graduate students is obligatory.
From the beginning of January you can pick up the yeartag for the spring term for your student card at the Student Services.
Student Union fee
Academic year 2013-2014
- 92 euro for undergraduate and graduate students
- 48 euro for postgraduate students.
The autumn term 2013
- 47 euro for undergraduate and graduate students
- 25 euro for postgraduate students.
The spring term 2014
- 45 euro for undergraduate and graduate students
- 23 euro for postgraduate students.
Information on the account numbers and reference number
The Student Union account numbers are:
- Nordea FI80 1573 3000 0324 57
- OP-Pohjola FI67 5000 0110 0286 43
- Sampo FI80 8000 1500 0668 82
- Aktia FI75 4055 1120 0469 52
The general reference number is 28 04990. Keep in mind that if you use the general reference number when paying the fee then you must present the receipt at the Student Services in order for the registration to be valid.
Paying from abroad by international money transfer
The HYY bank account number is Nordea Bank Ltd. FI80 1573 3000 0324 57 and the bic code is NDEAFIHH. NB! If you pay the membership fee abroad (by using the BIC code), the registration is not processed automatically. You must register yourself for attendance at the Student Services no later than September 2, 2013 by showing/sending the receipt of the payment.
Reimbursement of the Student Union membership fee
If you have enrolled for a entire academic year, but you graduate during the autumn term, your membership fee for the spring term will be refunded. You must first of all ask the Student Services to cancel your spring term registration. Please note that this should be done by January 15th at the latest. After that you need to send the receipt of the Student Union fee or a bank account statement (tiliote), a copy of your passport or ID card and your bank account number to the Student Union customer service, by January 31st at the latest. Contact the Student Services for more information.
You can cancel your registration for other reasons as well by contacting the Student Services. To cancel the registration for the autumn term or the entire academic year, you need to do the cancellation no later than 31.8. The cancellation of the registration for the spring term has to be done no later than 15.1. You can ask for a refund of the Student Union fee at the Student Union customer service by 30.9./31.1.
Limitations in registration
The University of Helsinki has implemented several study guidance systems that might affect your right to register. These are:
- Etappi checkpoint system
- monitoring of postgraduate (PhD) studies
- if you fall under the scope of the Amendment to the Universities act concerning the normative duration of studies, you may not register at all before you have been granted an extension to your right to study.
For more information on these, please contact the Student Services or your faculty’s study office.
Did you forget to register?
If you do not register for attendance or non-attendance during the registration time (1.5.-31.8.) you will lose your right to pursue a degree at the University of Helsinki.
If you, after having failed to register at the University, wish to register as an attending or non-attending student during the same academic year i.e. before 31 July of the following year, then you have to pay the re-enrolment fee and show the receipt of the payment at the Student Services.
In addition to the receipt of the re-enrolment fee an undergraduate and graduate student who wants to register as attending, as well as those postgraduate students who want to become members of the Student Union, have to to show a receipt of the Student Union membership fee as well. As a receipt a printout from your Internet bank is enough if it shows the Arvchive ID.
If you wish to continue your studies after July 31, then you have to apply for readmission into the faculty and pay a degree-specific re-enrolment fee.
In addition to the receipt of the re-enrolment fee an undergraduate and graduate student who wants to register as attending, as well as those postgraduate students who want to become members of the Student Union, have to to show a receipt of the Student Union membership fee as well. As a receipt a printout from your Internet bank is enough if it shows the Arvchive ID.
The application for readmission should be addressed to the faculty where you held the right to pursue a degree. If you held the right to pursue a degree in several faculties, then you can submit the application(s) to the faculties in which you wish to continue studying.
A student pursuing studies for a specialist’s degree in medicine or dentistry who has failed to register for attendance will not lose his or her right to pursue a degree and may thus register for attendance or non-attendance without separate application and is not liable to pay the re-enrolment fee. NB! From 1.8.2013 these students also have to pay the re-enrolment fee.
The re-enrolment fee is 35 euro. (Fee set by the Finnish Government 17.12.2009)
The fee has to be paid into the following University of Helsinki account:
NORDEA FI23 1660 3000 0777 20 and the reference number is 0253 62312.
If you pay the re-enrolment fee from a bank abroad, then the payment information is the following:
IBAN FI 2316603000077720
Swift NDEAFIHH.
More information on the Student Union fee can be found in the section Student Union fee.
More information on the re-enrolment process is available at the Student Services.
If your normative duration of study ended on July 31 and you have applied for/received an extension from your Faculty, then you do not have to pay a re-enrolment fee even though you register outside the acutal registration time.
Year tag and student calendar
After you have completed your annual registration, you may collect the year tag (i.e. the annual registration tag) for your Lyyra student card at the Student Services in the City Centre and Kumpula. Together with the tag, collect the student calendar. The year tag can also be picked up at the Student Union Customer Services.
NB! If a representative picks up the year tag for the student card, he/she has to present a power of attorney.
For a student card that includes Mastercard it is not possible to authorise another person to collect your year tag!
In the City Centre (Main building, Fabianinkatu 33, ground floor) there is a separate service point where you can pick up the year tag and student calendar from 12.8.2013 to 20.9.2013.
Opening hours:
12.8.-30.8.2013: Mon 10:00-17:00, Tue 8:30-15:30, Wed 10:00-17:00, Thu and Fri 8:30-15:30.
2.9.-20.9.2013: Mon 10:00-16:30, Tue 10:00-15:30, Wed 10:00-16:30, Thu 10:00-15:30 and Fri 10:00-15:00.
In Viikki (Biocentre 1, Viikinkaari 9) there is a separate service point where you can pick up the year tag and student calendar from 19.8.2013 to 6.9.2013.
Opening hours:
Mon-Fri 10:00-15:00.
Rector's Decision on Enrolment and Registration
Rector's Decision 49/2013: Enrolment and registration at the University.
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