Registration for the academic year by basic degree students

The instructions for registration vary slightly depending on your student status and the stage of your studies. Select the instructions appropriate to your situation:

• If you have been granted a new right to study, follow the instructions you received in the letter of admission: Registration instructions for first-year students.
• If you were granted a right to study last year, but you then registered for non-attendance on the basis of a statutory reason, you must register in person at the Kaisa House Student Advice service point in accordance with the instructions on this page.
• If you have been granted an extension to your study right for completing your degree, follow the registration instructions for students with an extension to their right to study.
• If you're liable to pay a tuition fee, follow registration instructions for tuition fee liable students.
• If you are registering for doctoral studies, follow the registration instructions for doctoral researchers.
• If you are completing postgraduate professional education at the Faculty of Medicine, follow the registration instructions for postgraduate professional education (in Finnish).
• If you are a student pursuing a basic (i.e., first- or second-cycle) degree and none of the above scenarios apply to you, register for the academic year in accordance with the instructions on this page. 

• Register for the academic year annually at your own initiative during the registration period.
• If you have several study rights, register for each of them separately.
• Register for each study right either as an attending or non-attending student depending on whether you intend to study during the academic year or term in question.
• Participating in studies and graduating is possible only for students registered for attendance.
• If you register as an attending student, pay the Student Union membership fee in connection with registration. Remember to also pay the student healthcare fee to the Social Insurance Institution of Finland, Kela.
• If you fail to register during the set registration period, you may be charged a re-enrolment fee.

The registration period is approximately at the same time each year. The exact dates are separately announced for each academic year.

• The registration period for the academic year 2025–2026 is from 1 April to 1 September 2025.
• The registration period for the academic year 2024–2025 closed on 2 September 2024.
• Exceptional registration deadlines might apply if you have been granted an extension to your study right or when you re-enrol. You can find the deadline in the decision sent to you by your faculty.

Whether registering for attendance or non-attendance, you must observe the set registration periods. The registration period ends the last registration day at 23.59, when also e-mail registrations need to arrive.

Did you forget to register in time? Read the instructions for late registration and re-enrolment fee.

Were you granted an extension to your right to study? Follow the registration instructions for students with an extension to their right to study.

• Register as an attending student for all the study rights under which you intend to complete studies during the academic year in question.
• If you are about to complete your degree, register as an attending student also for the term of graduation, even if you have completed all the studies required for your degree.
• If you are currently transitioning from a bachelor’s programme to a master’s programme, but your request for a bachelor’s degree certificate has not yet been processed, register as an attending student for bachelor’s studies. Your registration will automatically be transferred to apply to master’s studies once your bachelor’s degree has been registered.
• You must register for attendance regardless of where you will be pursuing your studies: register as an attending student also while completing exchange studies abroad or studies in another Finnish higher education institution under the flexible study right scheme JOO or as cross-institutional studies.
• If your right to study has expired under the relevant amendment to the Universities Act, apply to your faculty for an extension to be able to register as an attending student.
• If you are planning to resume your studies after a long break, read the checklist for returning students.

• Register as a non-attending student for all the study rights under which you do not intend to complete any studies during the academic year in question.
• As a non-attending student, you cannot complete any studies or graduate.
• You can change the status of your registration to attendance any time during the academic year.
• If your non-attendance is based on a statutory reason, submit to Kaisa House Student Advice a certificate verifying the reason of your non-attendance when registering for the academic year.
• If your non-attendance was not based on a statutory reason, the duration of your non-attendance is counted in the target duration of your degree. Even in this case, do not fail to register for the academic year – any terms for which you have not registered for attendance or non-attendance will be counted in the set target duration of your degree.
• For more information on the target duration of degrees and statutory reasons for non-attendance, see Duration of the degree.

As a rule, students are expected to independently register for the academic year using the Oili registration service. The credentials of non-attending students will be automatically activated for the registration period to allow them to register through Oili.

Registration through Oili:

• Log into Oili using your University credentials.
• If you are registering as an attending student, pay the Student Union membership fee through Oili when registering.
• If you are registering for attendance for the autumn term only, Oili will automatically register you for non-attendance for the spring term.
• The Oili service will be available during the registration period only.

Registration outside Oili

If Oili registration does not work for you, registering for the academic year is also possible

• by email or
• in person at the Kaisa House Student Advice service point. 

If you register as an attending student, pay the Student Union membership fee through your bank and submit the receipt when registering.  A receipt file from an online banking service, displaying the archive code, is sufficient. 

If you were granted a right to study last year and registered for non-attendance for your first year of studies, submit a certificate verifying the statutory reason of your non-attendance when registering for the academic year.

Also, remember to submit the following information when registering:

• Which study right or rights you are registering for
• Whether you are registering as an attending or non-attending student
• Your student number or date of birth

Your email with the required attachments must arrive at Kaisa House Student Advice (studentinfo@helsinki.fi) by the last date of the registration period at 23.59. A late email will be considered as a late registration.

If you wish to register for the academic year in person or submit the receipt of the Student Union membership payment in person, visit the Kaisa House Student Advice service point during its opening hours before the closing of the registration period. Please note that the service point is not open every day.

If you are registering through Oili, you can pay the membership fee of the University of Helsinki Student Union in connection with registering. If you are registering in person, first pay the membership fee through your bank before registering.

Pay the membership fee for all of the terms for which you intend to register as an attending student. Pay the fee once only, even if you have several valid rights to study. 

Academic year 2024–2025:

• Spring term: €27.00

Academic year 2025–2026:

• Entire academic year: €85.00
• Autumn term: €45.00
• Spring term: €40.00

Payment information:

When paying the membership fee, use the following information:

• Recipient: University of Helsinki Student Union (HYY)
• Reference number: 28 04990
• Account number: FI80 1573 3000 0324 57 (Nordea) or FI80 8000 1500 0668 82 (Danske Bank)

If paying the fee from an account in a foreign bank, use the Nordea account number. For a bank transfer from a foreign account you will need the following:

• BIC NDEAFIHH

Bank address: Nordea Bank Finland, Aleksanterinkatu 36 B, Helsinki, FIN-00020 Nordea

You can change your registration status in Oili (during the registration period) or by contacting Kaisa House Student Advice.

• You can change your status from non-attending student to attending student any time during the academic year.
• Attendance for the spring term can be changed to non-attendance until 15 January.
• Attendance for the autumn term or the entire academic year can be changed to non-attendance by the end of the registration period for the academic year.
• You can apply for the reimbursement of the Student Union membership fee by contacting the Student Union Services Office.
• Contact Kela for queries about the reimbursement of the student health care fee.

Didn’t find what you were looking for on this page? See also:

• Forgotten registration and re-enrolment fee
• Student healthcare fee
• Year tag and calendar
• Tuition fees
• University user accounts