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. First-time tutors also receive 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.

Tutor application for tutoring in Autumn 2022 begins on 17 January and ends on 6 February. Apply here. Make sure that you submit your application so that the application status is not 'draft' (top-right corner)!

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. In technical issues, please contact ulappa-tuki@helsinki.fi.

Faculty Tutor Coordinator will inform about the tutor selections.

Tutor Adventure 2022 will be held on 6 April and 5 May. You have to attend one of the days.

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The Tutor Adventure is a compulsory part of the tutor training organized by HYY and the Student Services for all of autumn 2022 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.

The tutor training for intl. tutoring in Autumn 2022 will be organised as distance education in Moodle.
 

The Moodle area will be opened in April and those who have been accepted as tutors will get more information about it later.