New Students | Study Place Confirmation and Registration

All new students admitted to the University of Oulu are required to confirm their study place and register to the University.

Confirmation and Registration

Degree students

Degree students must confirm their study place with the link that is included in the email from noreply@opintopolku.fi under the topic 'The study place can be confirmed in Studyinfo'.
If you don’t confirm your study place by the due date (see below), you will lose the study place.

Students accepted to English taught education from the Joint application to Higher Education or Double Degree Programmes need to confirm their study place by July 10, 2025 at 3.00 pm (GMT +3).
Students accepted to Finnish taught education from the Joint application need to confirm their study place by July 10, 2025 at 3.00 pm (GMT +3).
Students who are accepted after above-mentioned dates, need to confirm their study place in 7 days from the date of acceptance notification.

After confirming the study place, all new students have to register to University either as a present or absent.

Electronic registration must be done by August 12, 2025, at 3:00 pm.
Deadline for new english taught International Bachelor and Master's Programme students to register either as present or absent is September 5, 2025, at 3:00 pm.
Register as a present electronically with the link that has been sent to your by email from noreply@opintopolku.fi under the topic 'The study place can be confirmed in Studyinfo'. Students registering as present have to pay the Student Union Membership fee at the time of registration.
If you are unable to register electronically or you have to register as an absent student, please contact the Faculty Study Services by e-mail. Please note that new students can register as absent only on legal grounds.
Please note that first year students must complete their registration for the full academic year. Registration for new students is not possible for each term individually.

If your acceptance is conditional, you will not be able to register until your acceptance becomes confirmed. You will then receive an email with the instructions on how to proceed.

For students graduating after the application period that are conditionally accepted to a Master’s degree programme the deadline to submit certified copies of your degree certificate and transcript is July 31, 2025 by 15.00 (GMT+3).
For students graduating after the application period that are conditionally accepted to a Bachelor`s degree programme the deadline to submit certified copies of your degree certificate and transcript is July 11, 2025 by 15.00 (GMT+3).

Exchange students

Registering as absent

Registering as an absent student is done by contacting Faculty Study Services. Read more of: registering as absent (new student).

Returning to studies after the first year of absence

If you have confirmed a place to study last Autumn, but you will start your studies in the Spring semester or even in the following Autumn, the registration is done at your personal request in the Faculty Study Services of your own Faculty. Instructions for personal (not online) registration can be found here.

To return and attend studies in the middle of the Academic year (Autumn absent, Spring present) may also require enrolling for the implementation of study courses already in December. Your student account is activated in January, so you can request an education assistant (in Faculty Study Services) do the implementation enrolment in the same time your annual registration is done.

Activation of the student's user account

The system creates the new student's user account after you have first confirmed your study place and registered to the University. Your user account is created within a week after university registration, however earliest on August 1st. You will receive an e-mail notification once the user account has been created, it will be ready to use only after you have activated it. More information on activation of the student's user account