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Key Registration Dates
August 20, 2025
Registration opens for first-year, transfer, and Eli Whitney students
TBD
Add/Drop
Aug 27, 2025
Fall-term classes begin, 8:20 a.m.
Aug 29, 2025
Friday classes do not meet; Monday classes meet instead
Sep 1, 2025
Labor Day; classes do not meet
Oct 3, 2025 -Oct 5, 2025
Family Weekend
Oct 14, 2025
October recess begins, after last academic obligation.
Oct 20, 2025
Classes resume, 8:20 a.m.
Oct 24, 2025
Mid-semester date
Nov 21, 2025
November recess begins, 5:00 p.m.
Nov 22, 2025
The Game: Yale vs. Harvard
Dec 1, 2025
Classes resume, 8:20 a.m.
Dec 5, 2025
Classes end, 5:30 p.m.; Reading Period begins
Dec 11, 2025
Final examinations begin, 7:00 p.m.
Dec 17, 2025
Examinations end, 5:30 p.m.; Winter recess begins
Dec 18, 2025
Residences close, noon
Jan 7, 2026
Residences open, 9:00 a.m.
Jan 12, 2026
Spring term classes begin, 8:20 a.m.
Jan 19, 2026
Martin Luther King Jr. Day; classes do not meet.
Jan 23, 2026
Friday classes do not meet; Monday classes meet instead
Mar 6, 2026
Spring recess begins, 5:00 p.m.
Mar 6, 2026
Mid-semester date
Mar 23, 2026
Classes resume, 8:20 a.m.
Apr 24, 2026
Classes end, 5:30 p.m.; reading period begins
Apr 30, 2026
Final examinations begin, 7:00 p.m.
May 6, 2026
Examinations end, 5:30 p.m.
May 7, 2026
Residences close (for non-seniors), 3:00 p.m.
May 18, 2026
University Commencement