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 autumn 2026 is now closed.

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 between 30 March and 28 May at the City Center Campus, Viikki, and Kumpula. Each training session lasts two hours, and all sessions cover the same content. Each tutor will choose one two-hour session. You can already check the timetables for the training sessions. Please note! Minor changes to the timetables are possible. Please check the information on the registration form. Registration for the training sessions will open in March.
• The University of Helsinki and Student Union's joint Tutor Adventure will be held at the City Center Campus on Thursday, 16 April and Tuesday 21April between 11 am and 8 pm. There will be three departures on each day, from which each tutor willchoose one. Registration for the Tutor Adventure will open in March.
• In addition, the faculty will organise its 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.

Apply to be a tutor for degree and exchange students starting in August 2026!

The Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences is now seeking tutors whose task will be to introduce new students to the university, their field of study, and fellow students at the beginning of the 2026 academic year. A taxable compensation of €170 + €10 (the additional €10 is for printing costs) will be paid for tutoring bachelor's programs, while tutoring for master's programs and exchange students will receive a taxable compensation of €200 + €10.

Anyone who has previously tutored domestic or international students can serve as a tutor, but new tutors are also welcome!

Attendance is mandatory for the tutor training and orientation week, so participation in tutor training during an internship is not possible. Please also check before applying that the schedules (see below) suit you. In the fall, the tutor must be available for at least the duration of the orientation week from August 24 to August 30, 2026. There will not be time for personal work shifts during the orientation week.

If more applications are received than the number of tutors needed, a selection will be made based on the open responses in the application form. Therefore, please fill out your answers carefully! The results of the application will be communicated to all applicants via email in early March.

Compulsory training for Finnish-speaking tutors (bachelor’s tutors):

• Tuesday, March 17, 2026, from 4 PM to 6 PM: TUTOR START meeting with the tutor coordinators of the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. Location: Oppimistori at Infocenter Viikki.
• Group guidance training and a shared Moodle area (see the section "Tutor training for all tutors" on this page)
• Tutor adventure at the city centre campus; see alternative dates in the section "Tutor training for all tutors " on this page
• Submission of the tutoring plan before the August orientation week
• Submission of the tutoring report after orientation

Compulsory training for international tutors (master's and exchange tutors, training in English):

• Thursday, March 19, 2026, from 4 PM to 6 PM: TUTOR START meeting with the tutor coordinators of the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, along with an international expert. Location: Oppimistori at Infocenter Viikki.
• Group guidance training and a shared Moodle area (see the section "Tutor training for all tutors" on this page)
• Tutor adventure at the city centre campus; see alternative dates in the section "Tutor training for all tutors " on this page
• Meeting with the Master's degree programme director (tutors will organize the meeting) (not for exchange student tutors)
• Submission of the tutoring plan before the August orientation week
• Participation in the Check-in Event guidance session (remote meeting) before the orientation week
• Submission of the tutoring report after orientation

If you have completed the tutor training in the past then Tutor adventure and group guiding training do not apply to you.