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Have you considered continuing your studies here after you graduate from your home university? We invite you to discover what the Master’s programmes in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities have to offer.

"Old Religion, New Spirituality: Implications of Secularisation and Individualisation in Estonia", first published in hardcover in 2021, and "Religious diversity in Europe: Mediating the past to the young", first published in 2022, are now available in softcover!

Richard F. Gombrich, Professor Emeritus of the University of Oxford, will be the main speaker of the lecture series.

On 27 October, the University of Tartu senate decided to award the Johan Skytte medal to Margit Sutrop, member of the Riigikogu and Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Tartu. The highest award granted to university members, the University of Tartu Grand Medal, is given to two university researchers for services of particular value. Also, the recipients of the University of Tartu Star of Appreciation, Medal, Badge of Distinction and the decoration “100 Semesters at the University of Tartu” have been selected.

The university will use the survey to find out what kind of mobility Estonia's largest university brings about and what attitudes staff and students hold towards sustainable mobility.

Professor emeritus Gebhard Josef Selz of the University of Vienna will visit the University of Tartu and its Centre for Oriental Studies from 19 to 21 October.

The public event takes place on Thursday, 28 September, in the conference hall of the University of Tartu Library.

On 12 September, the commission formed for the dean elections registered the dean candidates of the university’s four faculties.

On 15 September, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew paid a visit to the University of Tartu and delivered a public lecture in the assembly hall.

All university members are invited to nominate candidates who deserve to be awarded the university’s honorary decoration for their outstanding achievements.

The University of Tartu doctoral students are invited to participate in the three-minute thesis competition on 28 September.

At the beginning of August, the menu layout of the UT website was updated.

On 27 June, the global higher education consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) launched its World University Rankings 2024, adopting a methodology that has undergone considerable change. The University of Tartu is ranked 358th and again tops the list of Estonian universities.

The spring fair of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities encourages reuse and green exchange

On 17 May, the election commission confirmed the results of the senate elections. 

The language learning hub, created to support the Estonian language learning of international staff, international students and students who speak Estonian as a foreign language.

Night Library will be 20 years old this year, and to celebrate this, the project will last longer than ever before - for five weeks. The Night Library opened on Monday, 15 May.

Today, on 20 April, the 292-member electoral council elected Professor of Neurosurgery Toomas Asser as rector of the University of Tartu with 168 votes.

On Thursday, 20 April at 12:00, the 292-member electoral council will gather in the University of Tartu assembly hall to elect a rector for the university for the next five years.

Next week, the School of Theology and Religious Studies will host Eran Viezel, Professor at Ben-Gurion University.