Apply to become a tutor!

As a tutor, you play a key role in welcoming new students to the university and ensuring they develop a strong commitment to the university community and their studies. As a tutor, you will act as a group leader and you will be part of the university’s guidance and counselling system along with university personnel. Tutors receive a tutoring fee of 180 euro, or 210 if they are international tutors (i.e. tutors for exchange or international bachelor's and master's programmes). Taxes, the employee's pension (TyEL) and unemployment insurance contribution are deducted from the fee. First-time tutors also receive 5 academic credits for their initial training.

Tutors will be needed at the beginning of both the spring and the autumn terms.

• In January there are about 300-400 exchange students entering our university and starting their studies. Being an international tutor for them is a great way to get international experience and get to know students from different cultures. The working language of tutorgroups is English. Among new students there may also be students who have already obtained their studyright earlier but who are starting their studies now.           
• At the beginning of the autumn term, tutors will be needed for about 5,000 new students. Among them there are new students of both Finnish and international bachelor's and master's programmes, students from bilingual bachelor's degree programmes (KaTu / Tvex) and exchange students.

The ideal tutor is an enthusiastic, responsible and enterprising student with an interest in leadership. A tutor should be familiar with the general way things work at the university. However, you don’t have to know everything before you begin — the faculties provide training for all new tutors.

If you are applying to become an international tutor for exchange students or international bachelor's and master's degree students, we require a good command of English. In addition, we also hope that our international tutors have completed their first year of study.

Call for tutors for student tutoring in autumn 2024 has ended.

If you have any questions about tutor application process you can contact guidance-coordination@helsinki.fi or your Faculty Tutor Coordinator whose contact details are here.

Faculty Tutor Coordinator will inform the applicants about the tutor selections.

Remember to also read about what is involved in tutoring in your own degree programme!

Common tutor training sessions will be organised for all tutors, and attendance is mandatory for all first-time tutors at the University of Helsinki in autumn 2024.

• The Tutor Adventure is organised by HYY and the Student Services for all of autumn 2024 tutors. You will be able to use the skills and knowledge you have learned in the Tutor Adventure to guide the freshmen in the beginning of their studies.
  • Tutor Adventure 2024 will be organised on 16 April and on 25 April at the City Centre Campus. You have to attend one of the days. There are three starts on both days. The adventure lasts about three hours. Registration for the training will open in March.
• The common training about group guiding skills for tutors will be organised in the afternoon in April-May at the Viikki and City Centre Campus. The training lasts for two hours and all training sessions have the same content. You can already check the dates for the training sessions in this file (PDF). There may still be some minor changes to the dates. The final dates and locations of the training sessions can be found on the registration form, which will be opened in March.
• The training for international tutors (tutors of exchange students or international degree students) takes place on Moodle. The Moodle area will open in March. International tutors will receive the link to the Moodle area from their Faculty Tutor Coordinator once the Moodle area has been opened.