Attendance registration of doctoral students

All doctoral students who register as attending must estimate in conjunction with their annual registration how actively they intend to pursue the doctoral degree during the coming academic year, and provide information on completed studies for the previous academic year.

The full-time or part-time status (activity rate) of doctoral studies and work on the dissertation is determined jointly by the doctoral student and the supervisor. Doctoral students should contact their supervisors in good time before registering for the academic year to make the estimate. Read more about the registration as a part- or full-time student.

A doctoral student whose study progress is being monitored cannot register as attending before the monitoring has been cleared. If your studies are currently being monitored, you register as non-attending until the matter is taken care of.

The registration period for the academic year 2020–2021 is from 1 May to 31 August 2020.

If you have a valid username for the University network, you can register through Oili and announce your intended rate of study activity. You will also have to give your assurance that you have conducted a conversation on the estimate with your supervisor.

NB! The usernames of all students who registered as non-attending for the academic year 2019–2020 have been automatically activated to enable annual registration. The automatic activation will be valid until 31 August 2020. Please note that the usernames are temporarily activated solely for the purpose of annual registration. If you intend to register as non-attending for the academic year 2020–2021, you are not allowed to e.g. register for courses, even though the activation of your user account temporarily makes it possible.

If you do not have a University of Helsinki username you can activate your username here. After doing that you can register through Oili.

If you cannot activate your username, please contact Student Services.

If you don’t have an official Finnish personal identity number or you have not yet informed it for student register, please make your registration in person by sending email to studentinfo@helsinki.fi or by visiting the Student Services for registration.

The Student Union membership fee is voluntary for doctoral students.

The registration period for the academic year 2020–2021 is from 1 May to 31 August 2020.

If you want to join the Student Union for the full academic year or just the autumn term, you will have to pay the membership fee when you register as an attending student. If you register through Oili, you can pay the fee through an online bank following the instructions in Oili. Your membership will then be immediately entered into the Student Register.

If you have already registered as attending, without joining the Student Union, and later decide to join for either the autumn term or the full academic year, you will have to pay the membership fee. Once you have paid the fee, send the receipt to the Student Services.

Academic year 2020-2021

Doctoral students: EUR 45.00

Autumn term 2020

Doctoral students: EUR 24.50

Spring term 2021

Doctoral students: EUR 20.50

Account and reference information

The account numbers are:

• Nordea FI80 1573 3000 0324 57
• Danske Bank FI80 8000 1500 0668 82

The reference number is 28 04990.

Payment through a bank outside Finland

Payee: Helsingin yliopiston ylioppilaskunta
Account number: FI80 1573 3000 0324 57
BIC/SWIFT code: NDEAFIHH
Bank address: Nordea Bank Finland, Aleksanterinkatu 36 B, Helsinki, FIN-00020 Nordea

You will have to register between 1 May and 31 August 2020, even if you intend to be a non-attending student.

You can register as a non-attending student through Oili if you have a valid username for the University network, or at Student Services either via email to studentinfo@helsinki.fi or in person. If you register via email, make sure to indicate either your student number or date of birth in your message. Emails received no later than at 23.59 on 31 August 2020 will be accepted. You will receive a confirmation when your email has been processed.

All doctoral students whose study progress is currently being monitored must register as non-attending until the matter is taken care of.

NB! The usernames of all students who registered as non-attending for the academic year 2019–2020 have been automatically activated to enable annual registration. The automatic activation will be valid until 31 October 2020. Please note that the usernames are temporarily activated solely for the purpose of annual registration. If you intend to register as non-attending for the academic year 2020–2021, you are not allowed to e.g. register for courses, even though the activation of your user account temporarily makes it possible.

If you register as non-attending and plan to have a break from your doctoral studies, don't forget to keep your supervisors, your responsible person and the possible members of your thesis committee updated of your plans.

If you do not register as attending or non-attending during the registration period (1 May – 31 August), you will lose your right to complete a degree.

If you forgot to register but want to reinstate your doctoral study right and register as attending or non-attending during the same academic year (by 31 July), you can do so simply by paying the re-enrolment fee prescribed by the University.

If your studies have been on hold for a longer time and it has been more than one academic year since you last registered at the University, you must apply for the reinstatement of your right to pursue doctoral studies from your home faculty.

Detailed instructions on how to apply for readmission and pay the re-enrolment fee are available in the instructions on resuming doctoral studies.

If you have registered as non-attending for the full academic year 2019-2020, or as attending for the autumn term only, and wish to register as an attending student for the spring term, please contact the Student Services. 

You cannot register as attending if the progress of your doctoral studies is being monitored.