Dates of Semesters 2023–2024: SUMMARY

Dates of semesters for the academic year 2023–2024 are as follows 1 :

First Semester

Date
Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
01.07.2023 – 31.01.2024
Medicine — MRes(Med)
01.08.2023 – 30.11.2023
Law — JD1
07.08.2023 – 30.11.2023
Architecture — PDLA
21.08.2023 – 30.11.2023
Architecture — MArch(Design)
21.08.2023 – 30.11.2023
Engineering — MSc(FTDA)
01.09.2023 – 30.11.2023
Architecture [except MArch(Design), MSc(UDT), MUrbanDesign and PDLA]
01.09.2023 – 30.11.2023
Arts [except MA in the fields of Chinese Historical Studies, Chinese Language and Literature, and Creative Communications; MA(AppliedLinguistics) and MFA]
01.09.2023 – 30.11.2023
Business and Economics — BBA, BBA(Acc&Fin), BBA(ADA), BBA(BA), BBA(IBGM), BBA(Law)&LLB, BEcon, BEcon&Fin, BFin(AMPB), BSc(MAT) and BSc(QFin)
01.09.2023 – 30.11.2023
Education — BA&BEd(LangEd), BASc(SDS), BEd(ECE&SE), BEd&BSc, BSc(ACD), BSc(SLP), MEd and MSc(Audiology)
01.09.2023 – 30.11.2023
Engineering — BASc(FinTech), BEng, BEng(BME), BEng(DS&E), BEng(EngSc), MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(Eng)
01.09.2023 – 30.11.2023
Law — LLB, JD2 and MCL
01.09.2023 – 30.11.2023
Science (except MSc in the fields of Applied Geosciences, and Food Safety and Toxicology)
01.09.2023 – 30.11.2023
Social Sciences
01.09.2023 – 02.12.2023
Law — PCLL and PCLL (P/T) (Year 1 and 2)
01.09.2023 – 04.12.2023
Architecture — MUrbanDesign
01.09.2023 – 04.12.2023
Arts — MA in the field of Chinese Historical Studies
01.09.2023 – 07.12.2023
Architecture — MSc(UDT)
01.09.2023 – 07.12.2023
Education — BSc(IM)
01.09.2023 – 08.12.2023
Arts — MA(AppliedLinguistics)
01.09.2023 – 09.12.2023
Dentistry — BDS
01.09.2023 – 15.12.2023
Education — PGDE
01.09.2023 – 21.12.2023
Education — PGDE (P/T)
01.09.2023 – 23.12.2023
Medicine — BASc(GHD), BBiomedSc, BChinMed, MBBS, BNurs, BPharm and BSc(Bioinformatics)
01.09.2023 – 23.12.2023
Science — MSc in the field of Applied Geosciences
01.09.2023 – 31.12.2023
Medicine — MAP, MNurs, MPsyMed, MPH, MSc(Nurs), DNurs and PDipPsyMed
01.09.2023 – 02.01.2024
Science — MSc in the field of Food Safety and Toxicology
01.09.2023 – 31.01.2024
Medicine — MChinMed, MMedSc, MMDPath and PDipID
02.09.2023 – 04.12.2023
Arts — MA in the field of Chinese Language and Literature
08.09.2023 – 30.11.2023
Law — LLM
08.09.2023 – 07.12.2023
Education — MA(TESOL)
11.09.2023 – 07.12.2023
Education — MSc(LIM) and MSc(TDLL)
11.09.2023 – 22.12.2023
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T)
18.09.2023 – 09.12.2023
Arts — MA in the field of Creative Communications and MFA

Reading/Field Trip Week: 16.10.2023 – 21.10.2023 2

Revision Period: 01.12.2023 – 07.12.2023 3

Assessment Period: 08.12.2023 – 23.12.2023 4

Second Semester

Date
Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
11.12.2023 – 19.04.2024
Law — PCLL (P/T) (Year 2) 5
01.01.2024 – 30.04.2024
Medicine — MPH
02.01.2024 – 30.04.2024
Engineering — MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(FTDA)
02.01.2024 – 30.04.2024
Medicine — MNurs, MSc(Nurs) and DNurs
02.01.2024 – 21.05.2024
Medicine — MBBS
02.01.2024 – 30.06.2024
Medicine — MPsyMed and PDipPsyMed
03.01.2024 – 24.08.2024
Science — MSc in the field of Food Safety and Toxicology
08.01.2024 – 22.04.2024
Architecture — MUrbanDesign
08.01.2024 – 26.04.2024
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T)
08.01.2024 – 04.05.2024
Architecture — MSc(UDT)
08.01.2024 – 20.07.2024
Dentistry — BDS
15.01.2024 – 19.04.2024
Law — PCLL 5
15.01.2024 – 19.04.2024
Law — PCLL (P/T) (Year 1)
15.01.2024 – 27.04.2024
Architecture [except MSc(UDT) and MUrbanDesign]
15.01.2024 – 27.04.2024
Arts [except MA in the fields of Chinese Historical Studies, Chinese Language and Literature, and Creative Communications; MA(AppliedLinguistics) and MFA]
15.01.2024 – 27.04.2024
Business and Economics — BBA, BBA(Acc&Fin), BBA(ADA), BBA(BA), BBA(IBGM), BBA(Law)&LLB, BEcon, BEcon&Fin, BFin(AMPB), BSc(MAT) and BSc(QFin)
15.01.2024 – 27.04.2024
Education — BA&BEd(LangEd), BASc(SDS), BEd(ECE&SE), BEd&BSc, BSc(ACD), BSc(SLP), MEd, MA(TESOL), MSc(Audiology), MSc(LIM) and MSc(TDLL)
15.01.2024 – 27.04.2024
Engineering — BASc(FinTech), BEng, BEng(BME), BEng(DS&E), BEng(EngSc) and MSc(Eng)
15.01.2024 – 27.04.2024
Law — LLB, JD1, JD2 and MCL
15.01.2024 – 27.04.2024
Science (except MSc in the fields of Applied Geosciences, Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology)
15.01.2024 – 27.04.2024
Social Sciences
15.01.2024 – 30.04.2024
Engineering — MSc(CompSc)
15.01.2024 – 03.05.2024
Education — PGDE
15.01.2024 – 04.05.2024
Arts — MA in the fields of Chinese Historical Studies, and Chinese Language and Literature
15.01.2024 – 04.05.2024
Education — BSc(IM)
15.01.2024 – 06.05.2024
Arts — MA(AppliedLinguistics)
15.01.2024 – 21.05.2024
Medicine — BASc(GHD), BBiomedSc, BChinMed, BNurs, BPharm and BSc(Bioinformatics)
15.01.2024 – 21.05.2024
Science — MSc in the field of Applied Geosciences
15.01.2024 – 22.05.2024
Education — PGDE (P/T)
15.01.2024 – 24.08.2024
Science — MSc in the field of Food Industry: Management and Marketing
16.01.2024 – 31.08.2024
Medicine — MAP
22.01.2024 – 27.04.2024
Arts — MA in the field of Creative Communications and MFA
22.01.2024 – 27.04.2024
Law — LLM
01.02.2024 – 30.06.2024
Medicine — MMDPath and MRes(Med)
01.02.2024 – 31.08.2024
Medicine — MChinMed, MMedSc and PDipID

Class Suspension Period for Lunar New Year: 10.02.2024 – 16.02.2024 6

Reading/Field Trip Week: 04.03.2024 – 09.03.2024 7

Revision Period: 29.04.2024 – 04.05.2024 8

Assessment Period: 06.05.2024 – 21.05.2024 9

Optional Summer Semester

Date
Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
22.05.2024 – 17.08.2024
Education — BASc(SDS) and BSc(IM)
06.05.2024 – 02.08.2024
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T) (Revision Period: 15.07.2024 – 20.07.2024 and Assessment Period: 22.07.2024 – 02.08.2024)
27.05.2024 – 17.08.2024
Science — MDASC and MStat
02.05.2024 – 31.07.2024
Education — MEd
20.05.2024 – 17.08.2024
Social Sciences — MExpArtsTh, MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Gerontology, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, and Social Service Management, and MSW
02.05.2024 – 31.05.2024
Social Sciences — MJ
01.07.2024 – 31.08.2024
Medicine — MMDPath
02.05.2024 – 31.08.2024
Medicine — MNurs, MSc(Nurs) and DNurs
02.07.2024 – 31.08.2024
Medicine — MPsyMed and PDipPsyMed
01.05.2024 – 31.08.2024
Medicine — MPH
01.06.2024 – 31.08.2024
Science — MSc in the field of Applied Geosciences
11.06.2024 – 17.08.2024
Science — MSc(AI)
11.06.2024 – 03.08.2024
Engineering — MSc(CompSc) and MSc(Eng)
22.05.2024 – 17.08.2024
Engineering — MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(FTDA)
03.06.2024 – 17.08.2024
Science — MSc(EnvMan)
06.05.2024 – 17.08.2024
Education — MSc(LIM) and MSc(TDLL)
02.05.2024 – 01.08.2024
Architecture — MUrbanDesign 10

Teaching and Assessment Period: 24.06.2024 – 17.08.2024 11

First Semester

Date
Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
02.11.2023 – 30.12.2023
Arts — MA(AppliedLinguistics)
01.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
Social Sciences — MIPA, MPA and DPA
04.12.2023 – 22.12.2023
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T)
07.12.2023 – 09.12.2023
Medicine — BNurs (Year 5)
08.12.2023 – 16.12.2023
Medicine — BNurs (Year 4)
08.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
First Semester examinations for all undergraduate curricula following the credit unit system, unless specified otherwise
08.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
Architecture — taught postgraduate curricula
08.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
Arts — MA in the fields of AI, Ethics and Society, Art History, Chinese Historical Studies, English Studies, Hong Kong History, Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies, Museum Studies, Music Studies and Translation; MBC and MBuddhStud
08.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
Education — MSc(Audiology)
08.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
Engineering — MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp), MSc(Eng) and MSc(FTDA)
08.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
Law — JD, MCL, LLM, LLM(Arb&DR), LLM(Chinese Law), LLM(CR), LLM(CFL), LLM(HR), LLM(MEL) and LLM(T&IPL)
08.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
Medicine — BNurs (Year 1, 2 and 3)
08.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
Science — taught postgraduate curricula (except MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing (Year 1), and Food Safety and Toxicology) (Year 1)
08.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
Social Sciences — taught postgraduate curricula (except MIPA, MJ, MPA and DPA)
09.12.2023
Law — PCLL (P/T) (Year 2)
09.12.2023 – 13.01.2024
Law — PCLL and PCLL (P/T) (Year 1)
11.12.2023 – 23.12.2023
Arts — MA in the field of Creative Communications and MFA
12.12.2023 – 27.12.2023
Arts — MA in the field of Chinese Language and Literature
02.01.2024 – 06.01.2024
Dentistry — BDS

November 2023: Medicine — MBBS Final Summative Re-examination and PDipID

December 2023: Medicine — MAP, MMedSc, MMDPath, MNurs, MPsyMed, MPH, MSc(Nurs), DNurs and PDipPsyMed

December 2023 and January 2024: Medicine — MChinMed

February 2024: Medicine — MRes(Med)

Second Semester

Date
Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
22.03.2024 – 31.05.2024
Arts — MA(AppliedLinguistics)
15.04.2024 – 26.04.2024
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T)
22.04.2024 – 27.04.2024
Architecture — MUrbanDesign
27.04.2024 – 10.05.2024
Law — PCLL (P/T) (Year 1)
27.04.2024 – 18.05.2024
Law — PCLL and PCLL (P/T) (Year 2)
29.04.2024 – 21.05.2024
Social Sciences — MIPA, MPA and DPA
29.04.2024 – 24.05.2024
Arts — MA in the field of Creative Communications and MFA
02.05.2024 – 21.05.2024
Engineering — MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(FTDA)
06.05.2024 – 11.05.2024
Medicine — BNurs (Year 3 and 4)
06.05.2024 – 18.05.2024
Social Sciences — MExpArtsTh; MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Gerontology, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, and Social Service Management; and MSW
06.05.2024 – 21.05.2024
Second Semester examinations for all undergraduate curricula following the credit unit system, unless specified otherwise
06.05.2024 – 21.05.2024
Architecture — taught postgraduate curricula [except MUrbanDesign]
06.05.2024 – 21.05.2024
Arts — MA in the fields of AI, Ethics and Society, Art History, Chinese Historical Studies, English Studies, Hong Kong History, Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies, Museum Studies, Music Studies, and Translation; MBC and MBuddhStud
06.05.2024 – 21.05.2024
Engineering — MSc(Eng)
06.05.2024 – 21.05.2024
Law — JD, MCL, LLM, LLM(Arb&DR), LLM(Chinese Law), LLM(CR), LLM(CFL), LLM(HR), LLM(MEL) and LLM(T&IPL)
06.05.2024 – 21.05.2024
Medicine — BNurs (Year 1 and 2)
06.05.2024 – 21.05.2024
Science — taught postgraduate curricula [except MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing (Year 1) and Food Safety and Toxicology) (Year 1)]
06.05.2024 – 21.05.2024
Social Sciences — taught postgraduate curricula (except MExpArtsTh; MIPA; MJ; MPA; MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Gerontology, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, and Social Service Management; MSW and DPA)
06.05.2024 – 25.05.2024
Dentistry — BDS
06.05.2024 – 30.06.2024
Education — MSc(Audiology)
13.05.2024 – 28.05.2024
Arts — MA in the field of Chinese Language and Literature

February to April 2024: Medicine — MBBS Final Summative Assessment

February to May 2024: Medicine — MChinMed

March and July 2024: Medicine — MPsyMed and PDipPsyMed

April 2024: Medicine — MNurs, MPH and DNurs

April and May 2024: Medicine — MSc(Nurs)

April, June and July 2024: Medicine — MMDPath

April and July 2024: Medicine — PDipID

May 2024: Medicine — MBBS Fourth Summative Assessment, MMedSc and MRes(Med)

May and June 2024: Medicine — MBBS First Summative Assessment, MBBS Second Summative Assessment, MBBS Final Summative Re-examination, and MAP

June 2024: Medicine — MBBS Third Summative Assessment

June and July 2024: Medicine — MBBS Fourth Summative Re-examination

July and August 2024: Medicine — MBBS First Summative Re-examination and MBBS Second Summative Re-examination

Summer Semester

Date
> Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
02.05.2024 – 31.05.2024
Social Sciences — MJ
02.05.2024 – 01.08.2024
Architecture — MUrbanDesign
20.05.2024 – 17.08.2024
Social Sciences — MExpArtsTh; MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Gerontology, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, and Social Service Management; and MSW
23.05.2024 – 15.07.2024
Social Sciences — MSocSc in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance
24.06.2024 – 17.08.2024
Architecture — taught postgraduate curricula [except MSc(UrbanAnalytics), MSc(UDT), MSc(UrbanPlanning) and MUrbanDesign]
24.06.2024 – 17.08.2024
Arts – MA in the field of Museum Studies
24.06.2024 – 17.08.2024
Social Sciences — MIPA, MPA and DPA
22.07.2024 – 02.08.2024
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T)
05.08.2024 – 17.08.2024
Engineering — MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(FTDA)
12.08.2024 – 17.08.2024
Engineering — MSc(Eng)

August 2024: Medicine — MNurs, MPH and DNurs

Remarks

1

Not applicable to EMBA, MAcct, MBA, IMBA, MEcon, MFin, MFFinTech, MGM, MSc(BA), MSc(Mktg) and DBA.

Dates of teaching for Dentistry taught postgraduate programmes: 01.09.2023 – 31.08.2024.

2

Reading/Field trip week for BDS: 11.12.2023 – 16.12.2023, MA in the field of Chinese Historical Studies: 17.10.2023–21.10.2023, and MA(AppliedLinguistics): 26.10.2023 – 01.11.2023.

Not applicable to MBBS and BPharm.

No Reading/Field trip week for MA in the fields of Creative Communications, and Translation; MFA; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology; MSc(ConstProjectMan); MSc(DMBA); MSc(ECom&IComp); MSc(EnvMan); MSc(FTDA); MSc(RealEst); MSocSc in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance; MUS&HM; PGDE and PGDE (P/T).

3

Revision Period for BNurs (RN) (P/T): 27.11.2023 – 02.12.2023 and MA in the field of Chinese Language and Literature: 05.12.2023 – 11.12.2023.

Not applicable to BDS and MBBS.

No Revision Period for MA in the field of Creative Communications; MA(AppliedLinguistics); MFA; MIPA; MJ; MPA; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology; MSc(CompSc); MSc(ECom&IComp); MSc(FTDA); MSc(UDT); MUrbanDesign and DPA.

4

No Assessment Period for MA(TESOL); MEd; MJ; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology; MSc(LIM); MSc(TDLL); PGDE and PGDE (P/T).

5

Trial Advocacy Elective will be held after the written examinations from end of May to mid-June (intensive block teaching for three to four weeks).

6

No class suspension period for Lunar New Year for MSc(DMBA).

7

Reading/Field trip week for MSc(UDT) and MUrbanDesign: 26.02.24 – 09.03.24, MA(AppliedLinguistics): 14.03.24 – 21.03.24.

Not applicable to MBBS and BPharm.

No Reading/Field trip week for MA in the field of Translation; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology; MSc(ConstProjectMan); MSc(DMBA); MSc(ECom&IComp); MSc(EnvMan), MSc(FTDA); MSc(RealEst); MSocSc in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance; PGDE and PGDE (P/T).

8

Revision Period for BNurs (RN) (P/T): 08.04.24 – 13.04.24 and MA in the field of Chinese Language and Literature: 06.05.24 – 11.05.24.

Not applicable to MBBS.

No Revision Period for MA in the field of Creative Communications; MA(AppliedLinguistics); MFA; MIPA; MJ; MPA; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology; MSc(CompSc); MSc(ECom&IComp); MSc(FTDA); MSc(UDT); MUrbanDesign and DPA.

9

No Assessment Period for MA(TESOL); MEd; MJ; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology; MSc(LIM); MSc(TDLL); PGDE and PGDE (P/T).

10

Compulsory summer semester for MUrbanDesign.

11

Not applicable to BDS, MBBS and BPharm.

12

The examination schedules for EMBA; MAcct; MBA; IMBA; MEcon; MFin; MFFinTech; MGM; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing (Year 1), and Food Safety and Toxicology (Year 1); MSc(BA); MSc(Mktg); DBA and the taught postgraduate curricula offered by the Faculty of Dentistry will be announced separately.

Last updated on August 29, 2023