Getting started for international students
Academic year 2024/2025 at the University of Tartu (UT)
A very warm welcome to the University of Tartu! This Getting Started website hopefully helps new international students to find some relevant and useful information.
The academic year at UT begins on 2 September, 2024. Orientation course for new international degree and exchange students will take place on August 28-30. Further information on the course will be provided here. Arrival time to Estonia: August 26-27.
Reminder - degree seeking students of I and II study level programmes taught in English, who are not citizens of an EU or EEA country or Switzerland, need to make sure they obtain the Estonian long-term visa on time to be able to participate in the orientation course for international students held August 28-30. They are also required to complete their arrival registration by September 2, 2024, at the latest. Failure to do so will result in the revocation of their admission decision and visa.
For registering arrival, students are requested to visit the Admissions Office (located in the UT main building, Ülikooli 18, rooms 132 and 133, Tartu) during the last week of August, from Monday to Friday between 13.00 and 16.00.
They also need to update arrival information on DreamApply once tickets to Estonia are bought and inform their admissions coordinator by email of their arrival time to Tartu.
The full academic calendar 2024/2025 can be found here.
Before your arrival to Tartu
Practical information for incoming exchange and degree seeking students prior the arrival in Estonia. To help you getting started smoothly you will find answers to all kind of practical questions such as travelling to Tartu, housing etc. from Tartu Welcome Centre website.
If your studies are taking place in the University of Tartu Narva College, School of Law in Tallinn, Pärnu College or Viljandi Culture Academy, you can find practical information from the respective websites or by contacting directly your study programme coordinators.
Student essentials
UT username and course registration
Your UT username and password (login credentials needed for course registration) will be sent to you by the UT IT department before the beginning of the semester. Newly admitted students can sign up for the courses in the Study Information System (SIS) as soon as they have received their login credentials. Course registration is open until 16.09.2024.
You can find information regarding your curriculum and timetables in SIS. It is possible to see courses, timetables, and curricula information also without logging in the SIS.
All first-year degree-seeking and exchange students will receive the UT email address in the format firstname.lastname@ut.ee and this address is used for communication with the University of Tartu.
More detailed information on various courses for learning Estonian can be found from UT language learning hub.
Important dates in the 1st semester 2023/2024 (degree-seeking students only)- to be updated for 2024/2025.
Throughout the academic year the Office of Academic Affairs informs degree-seeking students about important study-related information and other related topics. Topics like academic affairs, training courses, seminars, possibilities of studying abroad, scholarships and allowances, internship and job possibilities are updated weekly in the student newsletter.
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