# Academic Calendar and Key Deadlines 2025/2026

**Source**: https://www.unipd.it/en/academic-calendar-key-deadlines-2025-2026
**Parent**: https://www.unipd.it/en/key-academic-dates

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## Academic Calendar and Key Deadlines 2025/2026

*[Versione italiana](https://www.unipd.it/calendario-scadenze)*

*[Class Timetable and Classroom Occupancy](https://agendastudentiunipd.easystaff.it/?view=home&include=homepage&_lang=en)*

**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](https://agendastudentiunipd.easystaff.it/?view=home&include=homepage&_lang=en)

Other information about academic calendar deadlines are available in the downloadable academic calendar below.

### Download

- [Academic Calendar 2025/2026
  Download](https://www.unipd.it/en/sites/en.unipd.it/files/Calendario%20accademico%202025-26_ENG_rev.2.pdf "Academic Calendar 2025/2026 - 2")
- [Large calendar 2025-2026
  Download](https://www.unipd.it/en/sites/en.unipd.it/files/CALENDARIO_GRANDE_PADOVA_25_26_STAMPA.pdf "Large calendar 2025-2026")
- [Small calendar 2025-2026
  Download](https://www.unipd.it/en/sites/en.unipd.it/files/CALENDARIO_PICCOLO_2025_2026_STAMPA.pdf "Small calendar 2025-2026")