
Academic Calendar and Key Deadlines 2025/2026
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
If required by the admission procedures to nationally regulated courses of study, the teaching activities for those courses may start after Monday, September 29, 2025.
Suspension of teaching activities:
- All Saints' Day: Wednesday, November 1, 2025
- Feast of the Immaculate Conception: Friday, 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
The dates for enrolment in the first year of courses of study (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.
FINAL EXAMINATIONS
During each of the three periods, it is mandatory to schedule at least one exam session, unless otherwise directed by the ministry.
Courses of study according to D.M. 509/99 and 270/04
- First period - from Monday, March 9, 2026 to Friday, April 24, 2026
- Second period - from Monday, June 22, 2026 to Saturday, July 25, 2026
- Third period A+B - from Monday, August 31, 2026 to Saturday, December 12, 2026
Courses of study prior to D.M. 509/99
- Extraordinary session a.y. 2024/25 - from Monday, March 9, 2026 to Friday, April 24, 2026
- Summer session - from Monday, June 22, 2026 to Saturday, July 25, 2026
- Autumn session - from Monday, August 31, 2026 to Saturday, December 12, 2026
Periods of lectures and assessments, and other information are available in the downloadable academic calendar below.