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The University of Tartu museums, with their rich collections, offer discovery and excitement for visitors of all ages. During the spring holidays, you are welcome to visit the university’s museum, art museum, botanical garden, natural history museum and the library. Read and find out which exciting exhibitions and events are taking place in Tartu during the holiday week.

From 24 April, Eveliis Padar will start work at the university as an equality officer to support university members in cases of unequal treatment and to help handle them in a fair and professional manner.

Speaker application is open until April 1 for TEDxUniversity of Tartu.

Värskelt avaldatud QS World University Rankings järgi on Tartu Ülikooli keeleteadus maailma 200 parima hulgas.

On May 6-8, the Center for Digital Text Studies (DigiTS), in cooperation with the Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures, will organize a 3-day workshop on network analysis in the humanities.

Essays written in Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian earned Bridget Frances Moran-Nae, a University of Tartu Junior Research Fellow in Finno-Ugric Studies, the Three Rectors’ Scholarship. What makes the achievement particularly remarkable is that none of these three languages is her mother tongue.

Students in the international master's programme Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages have been eagerly studying Estonian. Rafael from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China wrote in Estonian about why he wanted to come to Tartu to learn Estonian.

From the 2026/2027 academic year, many international master’s curricula at the University of Tartu will offer tuition waivers or reductions to students from the European Union. Students arriving from outside the European Union will have to pay tuition fees.

In the coming years, the University of Tartu will focus on developing practical solutions for promoting equal treatment to maintain and strengthen a safe learning and working environment for the entire university community. Planned activities include preventing sexual harassment and developing a system to handle such cases. An important basis for this work is the new gender equality plan for 2026–2030.

Juliet Lehtonen is a master’s student in Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages at the University of Tartu. Outside her studies, Juliet enjoys climbing and has even run the Tartu half marathon.

Students in the international master's programme Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages have been eagerly studying Estonian. Anna Aleksandra Bober from Poland wrote in Estonian about why she wanted to come to Tartu to learn Estonian.

The committee formed by the University of Tartu Student Union chose the recipients of the teaching staff of the year 2025 awards from among 100 nominees.

University of Tartu students can submit applications to study abroad under the Erasmus+ programme in the 2026/2027 academic year until 9 March 2026.

Students in the international master's programme Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages have been eagerly studying Estonian. August Blackham from the USA wrote in Estonian about why he wanted to come to Tartu to learn Estonian.

Students in the international master's programme Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages have been eagerly studying Estonian. Brian Souders from the USA wrote in Estonian about why he wanted to come to Tartu to learn Estonian.

Students in the international master's programme Estonian and Finno-Ugric Languages have been eagerly studying Estonian. CC Conway from the USA wrote in Estonian about why they wanted to come to Tartu

Preliminary results of the International Student Barometer (ISB) show that international students are satisfied with their studies at the University of Tartu. They highlight strong academic quality, supportive learning conditions and the city of Tartu as an excellent living environment.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE) results were published recently, in which the field of humanities and arts is once again the highest among university fields and the entire Baltic countries.

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities offers numerous optional courses for the spring semester, available to both our students and all other students at the University of Tartu.

The University of Tartu’s endowment fund received 1.6 million euros from the bequest of expatriate Estonian Kadri Rõuk. This amount was used to establish the Rõuk Family Estonian Language Fund, which will advance and develop research on the Estonian language and teaching Estonian language and linguistics at the University of Tartu.