Academic Calendar
The academic year starts on September 1st and ends on August 31st of the following calendar year.
Teaching activities for each academic year are organized into two semesters: fall and spring, each consisting of at least thirteen (13) weeks of teaching. The end of each semester marks the beginning of the exam period.
Before the start of each exam period, students have the right and obligation to evaluate their courses and teaching staff to improve the quality of their studies. Further information is available on the website of the Quality Assurance Unit (MODIP) of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The start and end of classes, as well as the duration of examination periods, are determined by the academic calendar or by decision of the Assembly of the School of Architecture of the Faculty of Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, upon recommendation from the Steering Committee (SC) of the Postgraduate Studies Program (PSP).
Classes are suspended during the following periods:
- from Christmas Eve until the day after Epiphany (Christmas break),
- from Clean Monday until the day after Ash Monday (Carnival break),
- from Holy Monday until the Sunday after Easter (Easter break).
No teaching activities or exams are scheduled during on weekends and the following dates:
- October 26: Saint Demetrius Memorial Day (Thessaloniki’s Patron Saint Holiday)/Thessaloniki’s Liberation from the Ottoman Rule (National Holiday).
- October 28: Ohi Day (National Holiday).
- November 17: Students’ uprising at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, against the Junta in 1973 (National Holiday).
- January 30: The Three Holy Hierarchs Day (Religious Holiday).
- March 25: Greek Revolution of 1821 (National Holiday).
- May 1: Labour Day (National Holiday).
- Holy Spirit Day: Whit Monday (Movable Religious Holiday).
July and August are designated as the summer holiday period.
