Reinstating study right

• A degree student (Bachelor’s, Master’s or doctoral) has to apply for reinstating their study right, if they have lost it for one of the following reasons:
  • A student has failed to register as absent or present during the registration period
  • A first-year student has registered as absent, but has not submitted documents proving the legal grounds for absence by the deadline
  • a student who is required to pay a tuition fee fails to pay the fee by the deadline
• If more than a year has passed since the student’s last registration as present or absent, the Student and Learning Services shall consult the faculty before reinstating the student’s study right. The student is required to update their study plan. The student updates their personal study plan with their study coordinator before applying for reinstating the study right. You can find the contact information in UEF Connect (opens in a new tab).
• A student applies for reinstating their study right with an online form and pays the handling fee (50 euros). The payment information for the handling fee can be found on the form.
  • If a student applies to have their right to study reinstated at the same time as they apply for an extension to their right to study, only one handling fee will be collected (50 euros). You can find further instructions on the form.
• A student must also register as present or absent when applying for having the study right reinstated.
  • If a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree student registers as present, they must also pay the student union membership fee. The payment information for the student union membership fee for a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree student can be found on the form.
  • For doctoral students the student union membership fee is optional. If you are a doctoral student and you want to pay the student union membership fee, please contact the Student and Learning Services (contact information on the bottom of the page.)
• If your study right has already ended, you must apply for an extension to your study right first. Apply for having your study right reinstated only after you have been granted the extension.
  • NOTE! If your study right was still active in the previous semester, and you were registered as present or absent, you will only need to apply for having your study right reinstated, if you do not register for the following semester within the registration period.
    • If a student whose study right has ended on 31 July is granted an extension and registers for the autumn semester within the registration period by 15 September, they do not need to apply for having their study right reinstated.
    • If a student whose study right has ended on 31 December is granted an extension and registers for the spring semester within the registration period by 15 January, they do not need to apply for having their study right reinstated.
• NOTE! If you are registered as absent and you want to change your registration to present, you do not need to apply for having your study right reinstated, but you can change your registration by contacting the Student and Learning Services.
• Changing your registration from present to absent is only possible during the registration periods.
• You cannot change the registration status of a semester that has already ended.

NOTE! You should register to all your active study rights as either present or absent in the Oili registration service during the registration period. If you register for all of your study rights, you will not lose your study right and will not need to apply for reinstating your study right.

With one application and one payment of the handling fee, you can have all of your study rights reinstated at once. If you apply for having several study rights reinstated with one application, you will not need to make a separate payment for each study right. State on the application form which study rights you wish to have reinstated and whether you wish to register as present and or absent for each one.

You can find the instructions for annual registration in Kamu.

Reinstating study right – application form

Apply for reinstating your study right with the online application form for reinstating your study right (opens in a new tab). The form does not require you to log in with your UEF account. The form does not import the information directly to Peppi. An employee of the Student and Learning Services’ will handle the application. You will receive a confirmation by email once your study right has been reinstated. Your UEF account will start working within a day of receiving the confirmation.

If you cannot use the online form, contact the Student and Learning Services’ customer service. If needed, the Student and Learning Services’ customer service will provide a paper form.

The amount of the handling fee for reinstating a study right is set in the Government Decree on Fees for University Services 1082/2009 (in Finnish) (opens in a new tab).

More information on reinstating your study right and registration in general: