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. As a tutor you receive a tutoring fee of 180 euro, or 210 if you 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. You can therefore be a tutor more than once.

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.

We recruit tutors twice a year. The application period for tutoring in January 2026 has ended. The new application period for tutoring in Autumn 2026 will open in January

Approved tutors sign a tutoring agreement upon acceptance. You can read the tutoring agreement in advance.

If you have any questions about tutor application process you can contact uni-help@helsinki.fi.

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.

• The common training about group guiding skills for tutors will be organised in Viikki from 10 am to 12 pm on 2 December (Infocentre, K1086, 1st floor) and at the City Centre Campus on 11 December from 9 am to 11 am (Main Building, U3029, 3rd floor). The duration of the training session is two hours. Both trainings have the same content.
• Besides these there will be a Moodle area for all tutors. The Moodle course has mandatory exercises and lots of useful information for tutors. It will also cover topics that are specifically relevant to international tutors.