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 is from 26 October to 9 November 2026. The application form will be published here once the application period begins.

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.

• Group guiding skills training session for tutors will be held on 8 December from 10 am to 12 pm at the City Centre Campus (Main Building, U4071) and on 10 December from 1 pm to 3 pm in Kumpula (Chemicum, room A120). The training sessions last two hours and both sessions cover the same content. Please choose one of the dates. Registration for the training sessions opens on 23 November.
• In addition, the faculty will organise their own training sessions for tutors. All tutors will also have a shared Moodle area with mandatory assignments and lots of useful information for tutors. It will also cover topics that are specifically relevant to international tutors.