Membership Fee
As a member of the Student Union, you receive many benefits. You can order a student card and you are entitled to Kela’s meal subsidy and the student discount of VR and Matkahuolto.
The enrolment period for the fall term and for the whole academic year 2023–2024 has ended 1 Sept 2023. The enrolment period for spring term 2024 opens 27 Nov 2023 and lasts until 5 Jan 2024.
Please note that the enrolment status can only be changed during the enrolment period. Outside of enrolment periods, non-attending status may be changed to attending status.
More information on annual enrolment is available on the Aalto website.
Amount of Membership Fee 2023–2024
Basic degree students and exchange students
€63 / academic year
€30 / autumn term
€33 / spring term
Doctoral students
€43 / academic year
€20 / autumn term
€23 / spring term
Read more about the services for doctoral students here.
Remember to pay the Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) fee to Kela (Social Insurance Institution of Finland).
PLEASE NOTE! You can no longer pay the membership fee of a guild or subject association in connection with the enrolment. Membership fees are paid directly to each association.
Payment of the student union membership fee
New students
After accepting your offer of admission, enrol for attendance in the OILI service of Studyinfo and pay the membership fee of the student union (AYY). The membership fee is paid with online bank user identifiers. The membership fees of guilds and subject associations are paid separately to each association.The student benefits of new students, such as the student card, will start to work at the start of the new academic year on 1 Aug or on 1 Jan for those who begin their studies in the spring term.
If you are unable to pay the membership fee directly through OILI, please contact your own student affairs office or Aalto Student Services ([email protected]).
You can only use Aalto services, receive a student number and register for courses once you have enrolled for attendance.
After accepting the offer of admission, first-year students may enrol for non-attendance only due to military or non-military service, parental leave or illness or disability that prevents them from starting their studies. More information on the enrolment can be found on the Aalto website.
Exchange students
As an exchange student, you can join the student union if you wish. You can become a member once you have received the Aalto University student number. You can live in AYY housing only if you are a member of the student union. The enrolment period for fall term 2023 has ended 1 Sept. The enrolment period for the spring term 2024 is from 27 November 2023 to 5 January 2024. As an exchange student, you can join the student union at any time, so it is possible to become a member even after the enrolment period.
How to become a member?
As an exchange student, you can join the student union by paying the membership fee invoice. Please note that as the membership is optional for exchange students, the membership fee will not be refunded even if you cancel your membership. Therefore, we recommend that you become a member once you are sure that you will study at Aalto and want to join the student union. You can request payment information from Aalto Student Services ([email protected]).
Continuing students
Enrol for attendance and pay the student union membership fee in the OILI service. The membership fee is paid with online bank user identifiers when the payment and enrolment are registered directly in the student register.
PLEASE NOTE! You can no longer pay the membership fee of a guild or subject association in connection with the enrolment. Membership fees are paid directly to each association.
If you are unable to pay the membership fee directly through OILI, please contact your own student affairs office or Aalto Student Services ([email protected]).
You can find more information about enrolment on Aalto University website.
Doctoral students
As a doctoral student, you can join the student union at the OILI service in connection with the enrolment if you wish. The membership fee is smaller than the fee for degree students, as the benefits are more limited.
Membership fee refunds
All refund applications must be submitted using the form at the end of this page at the latest:
30 Sept for the autumn term
31 Jan for the spring term
You can change your enrolment information by contacting the university’s student service point, where the changes are recorded to the student information system.
Please note that the annual enrolment period usually ends a couple of weeks earlier than the application period for AYY's membership fee refund. You must have changed your enrolment from attending to non-attending during the annual enrolment period in order to receive the membership fee refund.
The AYY Board’s decision on membership fee refunds can be found in the minutes of the first board meeting of the year 2022.
If you graduate or decide to change your enrolment information from attending to non-attending before the end of the enrolment period, you have the possibility to apply for the membership fee refund from the student union. A student who graduates during the autumn term can apply for the membership fee refund for the following term, i.e. the spring term.
If you graduate by 31 Dec, you can apply for the membership fee refund for the spring also after 31 Jan. Before the fee is refunded, the enrolment information of the spring must have been changed to non-attending in the student register.
You cannot change your enrolment status from attendance to non-attendance outside the enrolment periods. During the enrolment period, you can change your status from attendance to non-attendance by visiting your school’s student service point with a student card. In this case, the student service point records the change and changes/removes the year tag from your student card. You can also inform the service point of the change by mail. In this case, you must send your student card for the removal of the year tag and confirm your address for return mail.
If you have a digital student card, it will automatically cease to work within a month after your attendance status has been updated to non-attendance.
You can apply for a membership fee refund from AYY. Fill in the form at the end of this page and return the form to AYY by 30 September for the autumn term and by 31 January for the spring term. AYY will refund the membership fee to your bank account within a month of the submitted application.
During the enrolment period, you can change your status from non-attendance to attendance in OILI.
Outside the enrolment period, you can change your status from non-attendance to attendance by paying AYY’s membership fee and submitting a receipt for payment to the student service point of your school in order to register your enrolment in the student information system. Payment details: [email protected].
The payment receipt must include the filing code. Send the receipt by email to [email protected] and mention your name and student number. You can also deliver the receipt personally to the student service point. Once the student service point has entered the information in the student information system, your enrolment is in order and you will receive a year tag on your student card either from the student service point or AYY’s Services Office. Your digital student card will start to work once your attendance status has been updated to attending.
If you lose your right to study because you failed to enrol for the academic year, you must apply for readmission. Instructions for readmission can be found on the Aalto website.
If you have enrolled for attendance for more than one university or higher education institution, you must pay the full membership fee of all the student unions of the universities/higher education institutions. You can choose for which student card you want the year tag.
Year tag for student card
You can only collect the year tag from the student union that issued your student card. AYY’s services office therefore only gives the year tag for AYY’s student card to AYY members who have paid the membership fee. Student cards issued by the former Student Union of the Helsinki School of Economics (KY), Student Union of the University of Art and Design (TOKYO) and Student Union of the Helsinki University of Technology (TKY) are also regarded as AYY student cards.
We also recommend downloading Frank App's free digital student card in order to receive all the student benefits! The digital card will start working 1–3 days after the membership fee and attendance information have been recorded.
As a member of AYY, you can also start using your student card in Pivo.
You can pick up the year tag for your student card from the services office within the opening hours.
Refund form
You can apply for a membership fee refund with this form.