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Registration after being absent for your first year

Last modified: 12.03.2026

These instructions are for you if you have been admitted to the University of Eastern Finland (Bachelor’s or Master’s level) and you registered as absent for your first academic year (or for more years) due to a statutory reason, and you will start your studies after this absence period (for example, one year after you received your right to study).

Before you register

Contact your programme coordinator to discuss your start of studies and practical arrangements.
If you are liable to pay tuition, you must pay the tuition fee before you can register as present. Further information on the tuition fees and waivers.

Familiarise yourself with the new student materials and participate in orientation, if possible. You can find further information on the New Students’ orientation page.

Academic year and registration period

At the University of Eastern Finland, the academic year begins on 1 August and ends on 31 July. Under the Finnish Universities Act (558/2009), you must register each academic year as either present or absent.

You must register within the registration period. The registration period starts on 1 June and ends on 15 September.

If you do not register within the registration period, you will lose your study right and you have to apply for reinstatement.

Here you can find more information on annual registration.

How to register

Register as present or absent using the electronic registration form (link opens in a new tab). If you are unable to use the electronic registration form, please contact the Student and Learning Services’ customer service (contact information at the bottom of the page).

If you register as present

If you register as present, you must pay the Student Union membership fee. You will find the payment instructions on the registration form.

The Student and Learning Services Customer Service will confirm the completion of your registration by email.

Registering as absent

You can also register as absent. If you register as b absent, you do not pay the Student Union membership fee. While you are registered as absent, you cannot participate in teaching or complete studies during.

Further information on registration

If you have any questions regarding registration, please contact the Student and Learning Services’ customer service:

Student and Learning Services’ Customer Service

The Student and Learning Services’ customer service desk offers general study counselling, information on term registration and study rights and maintains the student register. Changes to personal information are done at the Student and Learning Services’ customer service. The customer services desk also provides study certificates and transcripts of records.

Phone number: +358 29 445 8900

phone service: Mon–Thu from 12 to 2 pm (12–14)

Opening/office hours:

on Wednesdays the customer service desk is open from 10 am to 2 pm (10–14).
At other times the customer service desk is open by appointment only. You can book an appointment in an hour, at the earliest, and a week in advance, at most. You can book a Teams meeting or an in-person appointment at the Joensuu or Kuopio customer service point through our booking site (opens in a new tab). The available times are shown in the booking calendar.

Up-coming exceptions to opening hours of Student and Learning Services’ customer service are:

Service point at Kuopio campus is closed week 10 (2 to 6 March)

Before contacting us, please check if you can find the answer to your question in Kamu or in KamuBot!

Email address: [email protected]

If your message contains confidential attachments, for example a document providing grounds for statutory absence, send it from your UEF email. All email exchange between UEF email addresses are encrypted. If your UEF account does not work and you want to send us encrypted email, please contact us and we will give you instructions on how to send your message encrypted.

Visiting address:

Joensuu Campus, Aurora building, entrance A, ground floor (Yliopistokatu 2)
Kuopio Campus, Canthia building, 2. floor, Oppari (Yliopistonrinne 3)

Postal address:

Joensuu: University of Eastern Finland, Student and Learning Services, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu
Kuopio: University of Eastern Finland, Student and Learning Services, P.O. Box 1627, FI-70211 Kuopio