Verify your student status in the online store
If you are an upper secondary student, please see the separate instructions on Kela’s school transport subsidy. See the instructions here (in Finnish).
You can buy a student ticket with the OSL app or load it onto an OSL card when you update your customer group to student. You need to authenticate as a student every semester, that is, twice a year – during the autumn and spring semesters.
The student authentication is initiated from the “My Information” section of the Waltti online store. In this section, there are two ways to authenticate as a student, and you can choose which method to use.
The new way to verify student eligibility is by moving from the online store to the “My study info” service. In “My study info”, you authenticate strongly and give consent for the use of study data in Waltti services. After this, student eligibility can be verified without separately obtaining and copying a link to the online store.
The old way of checking student eligibility (copying a separate study completion link to the travel account) remains alongside the new method for the time being.
Student ticket from the OSL app
Purchasing a student ticket requires logging into the app and verifying your student status, which is done in the Waltti online store.
The app provides a link to the Waltti online store, where you log in using the same user credentials as the app.
Student ticket for the OSL card
A physical travel card and a student ticket cannot be ordered at the same time from the Waltti online store. First, order the card, and once you have it at home, load the student ticket onto the card in the online store. See instructions for ordering a travel card (obtaining a travel card).
Log in to the Waltti store and verify your identity in the store using strong personal bank credentials or a mobile certificate.
When your customer group is a student, student-priced season tickets will be displayed. The tickets will appear if you are a currently enrolled student. Simply having the right to study does not allow a student discount.
Foreign exchange students
A foreign exchange student cannot identify themselves as a student in the Waltti online store (waltti.fi) using a foreign identification method.
If a foreign student has Finnish strong authentication methods available, identification as a student is possible electronically as usual.
If an exchange student cannot identify themselves as a student in the online store, they can purchase a student-priced ticket for a travel card at a ticket sales point (Oulu10). At the Oulu10 point, an official identification document and a study certificate valid for at least 30 days from an educational institution located in the OSL area must be presented.