Academic Calendar and Key Deadlines 2025/2026
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Class Timetable and Classroom Occupancy
COMMON DATES AND DEADLINES FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026
- Start of the academic year: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
- Start of teaching activities: Monday, September 29, 2025
For organisational and teaching efficiency reasons, the competent teaching structures may:
- bring forward the start of teaching activities to Monday, September 22, 2025, with notice given on their website by Tuesday, August 26, 2025
- postpone the start and end of teaching activities with notice given on their website by Tuesday, September 16, 2025
The teaching activities of nationally restricted-access degree programmes may start after Monday, 29 September 2025, dependng on the admission procedures.
Suspension of teaching activities:
- All Saints' Day: Saturday, November 1, 2025
- Feast of the Immaculate Conception: Monday, December 8, 2025
- Christmas holidays: from Wednesday, December 24, 2025 to Tuesday, January 6, 2026
- Easter holidays: from Friday, April 3, 2026 to Tuesday, April 7, 2026
- Liberation Day: Saturday, April 25, 2026
- Labour Day: Friday, May 1, 2026
- Giustinianea Day: Monday, June 1, 2026
- Italian Republic Day: Tuesday, June 2, 2026
- Summer holidays: from Saturday, August 8 to Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- Feast day of the Patron Saint in the provincial capitals where teaching activities take place:
Padua: June 13\ Rovigo: November 26\ Treviso: April 27\ Vicenza: September 8
ENROLMENT AND REGISTRATION FOR YEARS FOLLOWING THE FIRST YEAR\ (This information is not valid for incoming exchange students)**\ The dates for enrolment in the first year o degree programmes (matriculations) are determined through the respective admission notices**.
Registration for years following the first year must be completed by Tuesday, September 30, 2025 with payment of the first instalment of fees.
Students who graduate by Saturday, December 13, 2025 are exempt from paying the first instalment.
LECTURES AND EXAM SESSIONS
*Trimesters and semesters*\ Classes are organised either in semesters or in trimesters, depending on regulations that\ applies to the specific class. Every single class can begin/end in different dates within common\ intervals\ These are the common scheduled dates:
Trimester system\ First trimester:\ Classes: from Monday 29 September 2025 to Saturday 29 November 2025\ Winter exam session: from Monday 1 December 2025 to Saturday 20 December 2025
Second trimester:\ Classes: from Wednesday 7 January 2026 to Saturday 14 March 2026\ Spring exam session: from Monday 16 March 2026 to Thursday 2 April 2026
Third trimester:\ Classes: from Wednesday 8 April 2026 to Friday 12 June 2026\ Summer exam session: from Monday 15 June 2026 to Saturday 18 July 2026
Extra exam session: from Wednesday 19 August 2026 to Saturday 19 September 2026
Exam session reserved to students who will graduate by 12 December 2026: from Thursday 1\ October 2026 to Saturday 21 November 2026
Semester system\ First semester:\ Classes: from Monday 29 September 2025 to Saturday 17 January 2026\ Winter exam session: from Monday 19 January 2026 to Saturday 21 February 2026
Second semester\ Classes: from Monday 23 February 2026 to Friday 12 June 2026\ Summer exam session: from Monday 15 June 2026 to Saturday 18 July 2026
Extra exam session: from Wednesday 19 August 2026 to Saturday 19 September 2026
Exam session reserved to students who will graduate by 12 December 2026: from Thursday 1 October 2026 to Saturday 21 November 2026
You can consult the timetable of lectures and the occupancy of the university's teaching rooms
Other information about academic calendar deadlines are available in the downloadable academic calendar below.