ACADEMIC CALENDAR
- The academic year starts on September 1st every year and ends on August 31st of the following year.
- The educational work of every academic year is organized in two semesters, the fall semester and the spring semester, each of which comprises 13 weeks of teaching and two or three weeks of exams.
- Fall semester courses start in the last week of September and end in late January, followed by the first exam period of the fall semester. Fall semester courses are examined during the exam period January-February.
- Spring semester courses start in mid February and end at the end of May, followed by the first exam period of the spring semester. Spring semester courses are examined during the exam period of June.
Neither courses nor exams are held in July and August, the two months of summer holidays.
There are no courses and examinations on weekends and on the following holidays – anniversaries:
- Christmas Holidays: December 24 to January 7.
- Carnival Holidays: from Thursday before Lent to the day after Lent Monday.
- Easter Holidays: from the Monday of Easter Week to the Sunday after Easter Sunday.
- October 26: Saint Dimitrios Day – Feast of the city’s Patron Saint. Liberation of Thessaloniki from the Ottoman occupation (National Holiday).
- October 28: National celebration.
- November 17: Students’ uprising in the National Technical University of Athens against the junta in 1973.
- January 30: The Three Patron Saints of Education Day.
- March 25: National Anniversary of the revolution of 1821 against the Turkish rule.
- May 1: Labour Day.
- Holy Spirit Day: Monday (after Pentecost).