Yale University Academic Calendar 2024/2025 | Yale Important Dates. The Yale academic calendar provides critical information regarding activities and holidays during the academic year 2024-2025. Yale University is on a semester system, and there are typically 13 weeks in a semester at Yale. Students can enrol in four or five courses each semester to complete thirty-six courses while earning a degree.
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Yale University Academic Calendar 2024/2025 | Yale Important Dates
Yale University Fall Term 2024
- New student occupancy/move-in, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m
- Orientation begin
- Residences open to upperclassmen, 9 a.m
- Fall-term classes begin, 8:20 a.m
- Friday classes do not meet; Monday classes meet instea
- Labor Day; classes do not mee
- –Family Weekend
Yale College opens its doors to families and friends and invites everyone to attend the dozens of events planned around campus and throughout New Haven.
Whether you plan to visit the newly renovated art gallery, cheer one of our teams to victory, or sit in on a discussion of Yale College life, you will find the details to those and all other events here. And as you plan your stay, you will also find everything you need to know about navigating the city, dining, and lodging. More about Family Weekend
- October recess begins, after last academic obligatio
- Classes resume, 8:20 a.m
- Mid-semester dat
- November recess begins, 5 p.m
- Classes resume, 8:20 a.m
- Classes end, 5:30 p.m.; reading period begin
- Final examinations begin, 7 p.m
- Examinations end, 5:30 p.m.; Winter recess begin
- Residences close, noon
Yale University Spring Term 2025
- Residences open, 9:00 a.m
- Spring term classes begin, 8:20 a.m
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day; classes do not meet
- Friday classes do not meet; Monday classes meet instea
- Spring recess begins, 5 p.m
- Mid-semester dat
- Classes resume, 8:20 a.m
- Classes end, 5:30 p.m.; reading period begin
- Final examinations begin, 7 p.m
- Examinations end, 5:30 p.m
- University Commencement
Yale University Holidays
- Labor Day; classes do not meet
- October recess begins, after last academic obligatio
- November recess begins, 5 p.m
- Examinations end, 5:30 p.m.; Winter recess begin
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day; classes do not meet
- Spring recess begins, 5 p.m.
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