Academic Calendar
Each academic year is divided into four Quads of 8 weeks each. Furthermore we have both a Winter Term and a Summer Term of 4 weeks each.
You will have a one-week Autumn Break between Quad 1 and Quad 2, a two-week break between Quad 2 and the Winter Term, a one-week Spring Break between Quad 3 and Quad 4 and a long break between the Summer Term and Quad 1.
Academic Year 2018/9
The academic year 2018-2019 begins on 15 August 2018 and runs up to and including 13 August 2019.
August | |
|---|---|
| 15-26 | Move-in period for LUCIA (first-year student housing) |
20 - 23 | Eurekaweek (optional university-wide orientation) |
26 | End of Summer Break |
26 | Start of EUC Introduction Week (strongly recommended) |
| 27 | Start of Quad 1 for current students |
September | |
| 1 | End of EUC Introduction week (new students only) |
| 3 | Start of Quad 1 for new students |
October | |
15 - 21 | Exams Quad 1 |
22 - 28 | Autumn Break |
29 | Start of Quad 2 |
November | |
N.A. |
|
December | |
17 - 22 | Exams Quad 2 |
24-31 | Winter Break |
January | |
2 - 27 | Winter Term (including resits in week 3 and 4) |
21 - 27 | Introductory period for exchange students |
28 | Start of Quad 3 |
| February | |
| N.A. | |
| March | |
| 18 - 24 | Exams Quad 3 |
| 25 - 31 | Spring Break |
| April | |
| 1 | Start of Quad 4 |
| 19 | Good Friday (Day off) |
| 22 | Second Easter Day (Day off) |
| 27 | King's Day (Day off) |
| May | |
| 5 | Liberation Day (Day off) |
| 27 | Start of Exams Quad 4 |
| 30 | Ascension Day (Day off) |
| June | |
| 2 | End of Exams Quad 4 |
| 3 -30 | Summer Term (including resits in week 25 and 26) |
| July | |
| 1 | Start of Summer Break |
| August | |
| 19 - 22 | Eurekaweek (optional university-wide orientation) |
| 25 | End of Summer Break |