Academic affairs

Proof of enrolment

If you need proof of enrolment at UT (for example for the employer), it can be requested from the respective dean’s office, institute, or college. Contact details are HERE.

Use your university email address for all study-related communication

The University of Tartu expects all study-related communication to take place via your official university email address. For this purpose, every student has a University of Tartu email account with the format firstname.lastname[at]ut.ee. This is the official address to which all study-related correspondence is sent. Through this account, the university ensures that all information related to studies reaches every student without interruptions.

How to access your account? 
You can access your university email account via email applications (Outlook, Thunderbird) or through the web interface (kiri.ut.ee). See the email user guide for more details.

Your UT account gives access to digital tools needed for studies

Through the university account, all students can make full use of the university’s information systems and Microsoft 365 web applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. OneDrive for Business is suitable as a personal cloud storage for study-related work, while SharePoint Online is intended for teamwork and file sharing. Microsoft Teams makes it easy to study and hold meetings online. In addition, students can use the AI-based chatbot Copilot Chat for free, now running on OpenAI’s latest model GPT-5. When you log in with a university account, Microsoft guarantees data security, and the data you enter will not be used to train AI models.

Course registration deadline for the first-year students is 15 September

Please note that the SIS planner is a helpful tool for drawing up your autumn semester’s timetable; the planner helps to register for all selected courses at once. If needed, you can also contact your peer tutor with questions related to registration and using the planner.
🌐 Read guidelines for course registration.
🌐 Read how to use the planner.
🌐 Read about how a peer tutor can help you.

Requesting adaptations in studies

The University of Tartu Counselling Centre is updating the system for requesting adaptations in studies. According to the new system, the special needs adviser will prepare a letter outlining the recommended adaptations and send the student a digitally signed document. The student will then forward this document to the teaching staff (including the teaching staff in charge) for all courses in which adaptations are required, as well as to the academic affairs specialist. The document remains valid until the end of the 2025/2026 academic year. If there is no need to make any changes to the recommended adaptations, the student may send the same document to the lecturers at the beginning of the spring semester, without needing to contact the adviser again.
🌐 Find more information about the support and services available to students with special needs.

Completion of curriculum

Students are required to complete the curriculum they have registered for and the university checks their progress.
🌐 Read more about completing the curriculum.

Tuition fees in academic year 2025/26

📄 Download the PDF of tuiton fees.

Orientation course materials & feedback request

International students can now access the slide presentations and photos from the 2025/26 orientation course. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to share your thoughts on the orientation course by 14 September. Your feedback helps us improve future programs. Two students who complete the feedback form will be randomly selected to receive a UT hoodie on 15 September! Thank you for being part of our international student community!
🌐 Give your feedback here.
🌐 Get the orientation course materials.
🌐 Do not forget to check out the photo gallery!

Completion of curriculum

Students are required to complete the curriculum they have registered for and the university checks their progress. Read more about completing the curriculum.

Course registration deadline for the first-year students is 15 September

Read the guidelines for course registration. Please note that the SIS planner is a helpful tool for drawing up your autumn semester’s timetable; the planner helps to register for all selected courses at once. Read how to use the planner.
If needed, you can also contact your peer tutor with questions related to registration and using the planner.

Requesting adaptations in studies

The University of Tartu Counselling Centre is updating the system for requesting adaptations in studies. According to the new system, the special needs adviser will prepare a letter outlining the recommended adaptations and send the student a digitally signed document. The student will then forward this document to the teaching staff (including the teaching staff in charge) for all courses in which adaptations are required, as well as to the academic affairs specialist. The document remains valid until the end of the 2025/2026 academic year. If there is no need to make any changes to the recommended adaptations, the student may send the same document to the lecturers at the beginning of the spring semester, without needing to contact the adviser again.
More information about the support and services available to students with special needs can be found on the University of Tartu Counselling Centre´s website.

Changes in the organisation of studies in the 2025/26 academic year

Read more about changes in the organisation of studies in the next academic year.

Opening ceremony of the 2025/26 academic year

For new first-year students

Newly admitted students can log in UT’s Study Information System (SIS) already on 26 August – one week before the official beginning of the 2025/2026 academic year. The academic year begins on 1 September. By today, all of you should have received your login credentials, check emails sent by arvutiabi@ut.ee. The students, who have studied previously at UT and start in a new programme this autumn will not get new login credentials but need to use their former ones. If you have forgotten your password, follow the password recovery instructions.

In the SIS, you can plan and register for courses. The guidelines for course registration are given here. The SIS planner is a helpful tool for drawing up your autumn semester’s timetable: it helps to register for all the selected courses at once. The guidelines for using the planner.

The deadline for course registration for the first-year students is 15 September.

If needed, you can also contact your peer tutor with questions related to registration and using the planner. As there will be info sessions for newly admitted students, delivered by the UT academic units, we advise you to wait with registrations and get more detailed instructions in those sessions.

Course registration deadline for the students of the second year and above

The course registration deadline for the autumn semester is 31 August (2nd year students and above). The course registration deadline for first-year students is 15 September.

Extension of studies

The students, whose end of studies is approaching (check SIS for the final date of your studies), need to submit an application for extension before the final date of studies to the respective dean’s office, institute, or college.

Changes in the organisation of studies in the 2025/26 academic year

Read more about changes in the organisation of studies in the next academic year.