Porthania Student Services
Faculty-specific guidance: Faculty of Law and Language Centre.
Faculty of Law Student Guidance
You can contact Faculty of Law student guidance by email, phone, or by booking an appointment.
Please headline your emails clearly. In urgent cases, add “URGENT” in the email header field before the topic of the message, and clarify the cause of urgency in the message. In urgent cases, you can also contact phone guidance.
Services of Student Guidance
Telephone service
Our telephone service offers general study guidance. In need of programme-specific or more advanced counseling, please contact Porthania Student Services by email, or book an appointment.
Appointment
You can book an appointment for general, advanced, and Sisu-related guidance.
It is essential to choose the right type of service, when booking appointment.
- General guidance advises e.g. with drawing up a study plan, applying for credit transfers, checking your study accomplishments with regards to graduation, and applying for an extension of your study right.
- Advanced guidance advises e.g. with degree completion, requirements of specific degree programmes, and other matters requiring advanced guidance.
- Sisu guidance advises on Sisu-related technical issues, such as drawing up a study plan, placing studies in your study plan, course registration, and compilation of courses/partial completions/entities.
If you are uncertain of the type of guidance you need, please contact student services by email or phone.
You can book an appointment to study guidance via the attached link. Please mention whether you wish to have an on-site or a remote appointment.
Contact information
Telephone service 02941 24720 (day/mpm)
Mon 14:00–15:00
Wed 11:00–12:00
Email
porthania-student@helsinki.fi
Vaasa unit study guidance
oik-vaasa-neuvonta@helsinki.fi
Exceptions in service hours: Booking appointments and telephone service closed 26.6.-6.8.2023.
Postal address
Svenska social- och kommunalhögskolan
Snellmaninkatu 12
PB 16
00014 Helsingin yliopisto
Visiting address
Booked appointments are held in Porthania (Yliopistonkatu 3, 6th floor, P666) and in Svenska social- och kommunalhögskolan (Yrjö-Koskisen katu 3).
Forms can be filed in the post office box number 60 (“Porthanian opiskelijapalvelut”) in the lobby of social och kommunalhögskolan during the opening hours of the building.
The certificate pickup point has moved to Kaisa House on 22 November 2021. Closer details for picking up the certificate are sent by email to graduating students.