Dates of Semesters 2024–2025: SUMMARY

Dates of semesters for the academic year 2024–2025 are as follows 1 :

First Semester
Second Semester
Optional Summer Semester

First Semester

Date
Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
01.07.2024 – 31.01.2025
Medicine — MRes(Med)
01.08.2024 – 30.11.2024
Law — JD1
12.08.2024 – 30.11.2024
Architecture — MArch(Design) and PDLA
26.08.2024 – 23.12.2024
Engineering — MSc(FTDA)
27.08.2024 – 30.11.2024
Architecture — MLA
01.09.2024 – 31.12.2024
Medicine — MNurs, MPH, MSc(Nurs) and DNurs
01.09.2024 – 31.01.2025
Medicine — MChinMed, MMedSc, MMDPath and PDipID
02.09.2024 – 30.11.2024
Architecture [except MArch(Design), MLA, MSc(AAD), MSc(UDT), MUrbanDesign and PDLA]
02.09.2024 – 30.11.2024
Arts [except MA in the fields of Chinese Historical Studies, and Creative Communications; MA(AppliedLinguistics); and MFA]
02.09.2024 – 30.11.2024
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)
02.09.2024 – 30.11.2024
Education — BA&BEd(LangEd), BASc(SDS), BEd&BSc, BEd(ECE&SE), BSc(ACD), BSc(SLP), MEd and MSc(Audiology)
02.09.2024 – 30.11.2024
Engineering — BASc(FinTech), BEng, BEng(BME), BEng(DS&E) and BEng(EngSc)
02.09.2024 – 30.11.2024
Law — LLB, JD2 and MCL
02.09.2024 – 30.11.2024
Science — BASc(Applied AI); BSc; BSc&LLB; BSc&MRes; BSc(ActuarSc); MDASC; MSc in the fields of Chemical Technologies for Health and Materials, Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Physics; MSc(AI); and MStat
02.09.2024 – 30.11.2024
Social Sciences
02.09.2024 – 02.12.2024
Architecture — MUrbanDesign
02.09.2024 – 06.12.2024
Architecture — MSc(UDT)
02.09.2024 – 06.12.2024
Arts — MA in the field of Chinese Historical Studies
02.09.2024 – 06.12.2024
Education — BSc(IM)
02.09.2024 – 06.12.2024
Law — PCLL and PCLL (P/T) (Year 1 and 2)
02.09.2024 – 07.12.2024
Dentistry — BDS
02.09.2024 – 13.12.2024
Architecture — MSc(AAD)
02.09.2024 – 13.12.2024
Arts — MA(AppliedLinguistics)
02.09.2024 – 19.12.2024
Education — PGDE (P/T)
02.09.2024 – 20.12.2024
Education — PGDE
02.09.2024 – 20.12.2024
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T)
02.09.2024 – 23.12.2024
Engineering — MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(Eng)
02.09.2024 – 23.12.2024
Medicine — BASc(GHD), BBiomedSc, BChinMed, MBBS, BNurs, BPharm and BSc(Bioinformatics)
02.09.2024 – 23.12.2024
Science — MSc in the fields of Applied Geosciences, and Food Safety and Toxicology
02.09.2024 – 31.12.2024
Medicine — MAP, MPsyMed and PDipPsyMed
02.09.2024 – 31.12.2024
Science — MSc(EnvMan)
09.09.2024 – 30.11.2024
Law — LLM, LLM(Arb&DR), LLM(Chinese Law), LLM(CR), LLM(CFL), LLM(HR) and LLM(T&IPL)
09.09.2024 – 06.12.2024
Education — MSc(LIM) and MSc(TDLL)
09.09.2024 – 07.12.2024
Education — MA(TESOL)
16.09.2024 – 06.12.2024
Arts — MA in the field of Creative Communications and MFA

Reading/Field Trip Week: 14.10.2024 – 19.10.2024 2

Revision Period: 02.12.2024 – 06.12.2024 3

Assessment Period: 07.12.2024 – 23.12.2024 4

Second Semester

Date
Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
16.12.2024 – 18.04.2025
Law — PCLL (P/T) (Year 2) 5
01.01.2025 – 30.04.2025
Medicine — MPH
02.01.2025 – 30.04.2025
Medicine — MNurs and DNurs
02.01.2025 – 27.05.2025
Medicine — MBBS and MSc(Nurs)
02.01.2025 – 31.05.2025
Science — MSc(EnvMan)
02.01.2025 – 31.08.2025
Medicine — MPsyMed and PDipPsyMed
06.01.2025 – 30.04.2025
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T)
06.01.2025 – 27.05.2025
Engineering — MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(FTDA)
06.01.2025 – 23.08.2025
Science — MSc in the field of Food Safety and Toxicology
13.01.2025 – 18.04.2025
Law — PCLL 5
13.01.2025 – 18.04.2025
PCLL (P/T) (Year 1)
13.01.2025 – 28.04.2025
Architecture — MUrbanDesign
13.01.2025 – 03.05.2025
Social Sciences — MExpArtsTh; MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, and Social Service Management; and MSW
13.01.2025 – 10.05.2025
Architecture — MSc(UDT)
13.01.2025 – 26.07.2025
Dentistry — BDS
13.01.2025 – 31.07.2025
Medicine — MAP
20.01.2025 – 03.05.2025
Architecture [except MSc(AAD), MSc(UDT) and MUrbanDesign]
20.01.2025 – 03.05.2025
Arts [except MA in the field of Creative Communications, MA(AppliedLinguistics) and MFA]
20.01.2025 – 03.05.2025
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)
20.01.2025 – 03.05.2025
Education — BA&BEd(LangEd), BASc(SDS), BEd&BSc, BEd(ECE&SE), BSc(ACD), BSc(SLP), MA(TESOL), MEd, MSc(Audiology), MSc(LIM) and MSc(TDLL)
20.01.2025 – 03.05.2025
Engineering — BASc(FinTech), BEng, BEng(BME), BEng(DS&E) and BEng(EngSc)
20.01.2025 – 03.05.2025
Law — LLB, JD1, JD2 and MCL
20.01.2025 – 03.05.2025
Science — BASc(Applied AI); BSc; BSc&LLB; BSc&MRes; BSc(ActuarSc); MDASC; MSc in the fields of Chemical Technologies for Health and Materials, and Physics; MSc(AI); and MStat
20.01.2025 – 03.05.2025
Social Sciences (exceept MExpArtsTh; MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, and Social Service Management; and MSW)
20.01.2025 – 09.05.2025
Education — PGDE
20.01.2025 – 10.05.2025
Architecture — MSc(AAD)
20.01.2025 – 10.05.2025
Education — BSc(IM)
20.01.2025 – 15.05.2025
Arts — MA(AppliedLinguistics)
20.01.2025 – 21.05.2025
Education — PGDE (P/T)
20.01.2025 – 27.05.2025
Engineering — MSc(CompSc) and MSc(Eng)
20.01.2025 – 27.05.2025
Medicine — BASc(GHD), BBiomedSc, BChinMed, BNurs, BPharm and BSc(Bioinformatics)
20.01.2025 – 27.05.2025
Science — MSc in the field of Applied Geosciences
20.01.2025 – 22.08.2025
Science — MSc in the field of Food Industry: Management and Marketing
27.01.2025 – 03.05.2025
Law — LLM, LLM(Arb&DR), LLM(Chinese Law), LLM(CR), LLM(CFL), LLM(HR) and LLM(T&IPL)
01.02.2025 – 30.06.2025
Medicine — MMDPath and MRes(Med)
01.02.2025 – 31.08.2025
Medicine — MChinMed, MMedSc and PDipID
05.02.2025 – 02.05.2025
Arts — MA in the field of Creative Communications and MFA

Class Suspension Period for Lunar New Year: 29.01.2025 – 04.02.2025 6

Reading/Field Trip Week: 10.03.2025 – 15.03.2025 7

Revision Period: 05.05.2025 – 10.05.2025 8

Assessment Period: 12.05.2025 – 27.05.2025 9

Optional Summer Semester

Date
Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
01.05.2025 – 31.08.2025
Medicine — MPH
02.05.2025 – 31.08.2025
Medicine — MNurs and DNurs
05.05.2025 – 01.08.2025
Architecture — MUrbanDesign 10
05.05.2025 – 01.08.2025
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T) (Revision Period: 14.07.2025 – 19.07.2025 and Assessment Period: 21.07.2025 – 01.08.2025)
05.05.2025 – 31.05.2025
Social Sciences — MSocSc in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance
05.05.2025 – 23.08.2025
Education — MSc(LIM) and MSc(TDLL)
06.05.2025 – 13.06.2025
Social Sciences — MJ
06.05.2025 – 31.07.2025
Education — MEd
06.05.2025 – 31.07.2025
Social Sciences — MJ-DFS
19.05.2025 – 23.08.2025
Social Sciences — MExpArtsTh, MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, and Social Service Management, and MSW
28.05.2025 – 16.08.2025
Engineering — MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(FTDA) (Assessment Period: 04.08.2025 – 16.08.2025)
28.05.2025 – 23.08.2025
Education — BASc(SDS) and BSc(IM)
01.06.2025 – 31.08.2025
Medicine — MSc(Nurs)
01.06.2025 – 31.08.2025
Science — MSc in the field of Applied Geosciences and MSc(EnvMan)
02.06.2025 – 19.07.2025
Science — MStat
02.06.2025 – 31.07.2025
Science — MDASC
02.06.2025 – 15.08.2025
Architecture — MSc(AAD)
02.06.2025 – 31.08.2025
Science — MSc in the field of Chemical Technologies for Health and Materials
09.06.2025 – 16.08.2025
Engineering — MSc(CompSc) and MSc(Eng) [Assessment Period for MSc(CompSc): 04.08.2025 – 16.08.2025 and MSc(Eng): 11.08.2025 – 16.08.2025]
09.06.2025 – 16.08.2025
Science — MSc(AI)
01.07.2025 – 31.08.2025
Medicine — MMDPath

Teaching and Assessment Period: 30.06.2025 – 23.08.2025 11

First Semester
Second Semester
Summer Semester

First Semester

Date
Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
06.11.2024 – 31.12.2024
Arts — MA(AppliedLinguistics)
02.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
Social Sciences — MIPA, MPA and DPA
04.12.2024 – 06.12.2024
Medicine — BNurs (Year 5)
07.12.2024 – 14.12.2024
Law — PCLL (P/T) (Year 2)
07.12.2024 – 14.12.2024
Medicine — BNurs (Year 4)
07.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
First Semester examinations for all undergraduate curricula following the credit unit system, unless specified otherwise
07.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
Architecture — taught postgraduate curricula
07.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
Arts — MA in the fields of AI, Ethics and Society, Art History, Chinese Historical Studies, Chinese Language and Literature, English Studies, Hong Kong History, Linguistics; Literary and Cultural Studies, Museum Studies, Music Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and Translation; MBC and MBuddhStud
07.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
Education — MSc(Audiology)
07.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
Engineering — MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp), MSc(Eng) and MSc(FTDA)
07.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
Law — JD, MCL, LLM, LLM(Arb&DR), LLM(Chinese Law), LLM(CR), LLM(CFL), LLM(HR), LLM(MEL) and LLM(T&IPL)
07.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
Medicine — BNurs (Year 1, 2 and 3)
07.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
Science — taught postgraduate curricula (except MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology)
07.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
Social Sciences — taught postgraduate curricula (except MIPA, MJ, MJ-DFS, MPA and DPA)
07.12.2024 – 11.01.2025
Law — PCLL and PCLL (P/T) (Year 1)
09.12.2024 – 20.12.2024
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T)
14.12.2024 – 23.12.2024
Arts — MA in the field of Creative Communications and MFA
06.01.2025 – 11.01.2025
Dentistry — BDS

October and November 2024: Medicine — MBBS Final Summative Supplementary/Re-Assessment

November 2024: Medicine — PDipID

December 2024: Medicine — MAP, MMedSc, MMDPath, MNurs, MPsyMed, MPH, MSc(Nurs), DNurs and PDipPsyMed

December 2024 and January 2025: Medicine — MChinMed

February 2025: Medicine — MRes(Med)

Second Semester

Date
Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
02.04.2025 – 30.05.2025
Arts — MA(AppliedLinguistics)
14.04.2025 – 30.04.2025
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T)
26.04.2025 – 10.05.2025
Law — PCLL (P/T) (Year 1)
26.04.2025 – 17.05.2025
Law — PCLL and PCLL (P/T) (Year 2)
28.04.2025 – 03.05.2025
Architecture — MUrbanDesign and MAP
06.05.2025 – 27.05.2025
Social Sciences — MIPA, MPA and DPA
08.05.2025 – 27.05.2025
Engineering — MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(FTDA)
12.05.2025 – 17.05.2025
Medicine — BNurs (Year 3 and 4)
12.05.2025 – 27.05.2025
Second Semester examinations for all undergraduate curricula following the credit unit system, unless specified otherwise
12.05.2025 – 27.05.2025
Architecture — taught postgraduate curricula [except MUrbanDesign]
12.05.2025 – 27.05.2025
Arts — MA in the fields of AI, Ethics and Society, Art History, Chinese Historical Studies, Chinese Language and Literature, Creative Communications, English Studies, Hong Kong History, Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies, Museum Studies, Music Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and Translation; MBC; MBuddhStud and MFA
12.05.2025 – 27.05.2025
Engineering — MSc(Eng)
12.05.2025 – 27.05.2025
Law — JD, MCL, LLM, LLM(Arb&DR), LLM(Chinese Law), LLM(CR), LLM(CFL), LLM(HR), LLM(MEL) and LLM(T&IPL)
12.05.2025 – 27.05.2025
Medicine — BNurs (Year 1 and 2)
12.05.2025 – 27.05.2025
Science — taught postgraduate curricula (except MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology)
12.05.2025 – 27.05.2025
Social Sciences — taught postgraduate curricula (except MIPA, MJ, MJ-DFS, MPA, MSocSc in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance, and DPA)
12.05.2025 – 30.05.2025
Dentistry — BDS
12.05.2025 – 30.06.2025
Education — MSc(Audiology)

February and March 2025: Medicine — MBBS Final Summative Assessment

February – May 2025: Medicine — MChinMed

March and July 2025: Medicine — MPsyMed and PDipPsyMed

April 2025: Medicine — MNurs, MPH and DNurs

April and May 2025: Medicine — MSc(Nurs)

April, June and July 2025: Medicine — MMDPath

April and July 2025: Medicine — PDipID

May 2025: Medicine — MMedSc and MRes(Med)

May and June 2025: Medicine — MBBS First Summative Assessment, MBBS Second Summative Assessment, MBBS Final Summative Supplementary/Re-Assessment

June 2025: Medicine — MBBS Third Summative Assessment

July and August 2025: Medicine — MBBS First Summative Supplementary/Re-Assessment and MBBS Second Summative Supplementary/Re-Assessment

Summer Semester

Date
> Faculty and Programme
-- Select --
05.05.2025 – 31.05.2025
Social Sciences — MSocSc in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance
05.05.2025 – 01.08.2025
Architecture — MUrbanDesign
06.05.2025 – 13.06.2025
Social Sciences — MJ
06.05.2025 – 31.07.2025
Social Sciences — MJ-DFS
19.05.2025 – 23.08.2025
Social Sciences — MExpArtsTh; MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Gerontology, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, and Social Service Management; and MSW
30.06.2025 – 23.08.2025
Architecture — taught postgraduate curricula [except MSc(AAD), MSc(UrbanAnalytics), MSc(UDT), MSc(UrbanPlanning) and MUrbanDesign]
30.06.2025 – 23.08.2025
Arts – MA in the field of Museum Studies
30.06.2025 – 23.08.2025
Social Sciences — taught postgraduate curricula (except MExpArtsTh; MJ; MJ-DFS; MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Gerontology, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, Social Service Management, and Sustainability Leadership and Governance; and MSW)
21.07.2025 – 01.08.2025
Medicine — BNurs (RN) (P/T)
04.08.2025 – 16.08.2025
Engineering — MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(FTDA)
11.08.2025 – 16.08.2025
Engineering — MSc(Eng)
16.08.2025 – 23.08.2025
Architecture — MSc(AAD)

August 2025: Medicine — MNurs, MPH and DNurs

Remarks

1

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

Dates of teaching for Dentistry taught postgraduate programmes: 01.09.2024 – 31.08.2025.

2

Reading/Field trip week for BDS: 09.12.2024 – 14.12.2024, and MA(AppliedLinguistics): 30.10.2024 – 05.11.2024.

Not applicable to MBBS and BPharm.

No Reading/Field trip week for MA in the field of Creative Communications; 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): 02.12.2024 – 07.12.2024 and MA in the field of Creative Communications and MFA: 09.12.2024 – 13.12.2024.

Not applicable to BDS and MBBS.

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

4

Assessment Period for BDS: 06.01.2025 – 11.01.2025, BNurs (RN) (P/T): 09.12.2024 – 20.12.2024, MA in the field of Creative Communications and MFA: 14.12.2024 – 23.12.2024, MA(AppliedLinguistics): 06.11.2024 – 31.12.2024, MIPA, MPA and DPA: 02.12.2024 – 23.12.2024, PCLL and PCLL (P/T) (Year 1): 07.12.2024 – 11.01.2025, and PCLL (P/T) (Year 2): 07.12.2024 – 14.12.2024.

No Assessment Period for MA(TESOL); MEd; MJ; MJ-DFS; 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: 03.03.2025 – 15.03.2025, MA in the field of Chinese Historical Studies: 10.03.2025 – 13.03.2025, and MA(AppliedLinguistics): 26.03.2025 – 01.04.2025.

Not applicable to MBBS and BPharm.

No Reading/Field trip week for MA in the field of Creative Communications; 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).

8

Revision Period for BNurs (RN) (P/T): 07.04.2025 – 12.04.2025.

Not applicable to MBBS.

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

9

Assessment Period for BDS: 12.05.2025 – 30.05.2025; BNurs (RN) (P/T): 14.04.2025 – 30.04.2025; MA(AppliedLinguistics): 02.04.2025 – 30.05.2025; MIPA, MPA and DPA: 06.05.2025 – 27.05.2025; MSc(AAD): 16.08.2025 – 23.08.2025; MSc(Audiology): 12.05.2025 – 30.06.2025; MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(FTDA): 08.05.2025 – 27.05.2025; MUrbanDesign: 28.04.2025 – 03.05.2025; PCLL and PCLL (P/T) (Year 2): 26.04.2025 – 17.05.2025 and PCLL (P/T) (Year 1): 26.04.2025 – 10.05.2025.

No Assessment Period for MA(TESOL); MEd; MJ; MJ-DFS; MSc(LIM); MSc(TDLL); PGDE and PGDE (P/T).

10

Compulsory summer semester for MUrbanDesign.

11

Not applicable to BDS, MBBS and BPharm.

12

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

Dates of teaching for Dentistry taught postgraduate programmes: 01.09.2024 – 31.08.2025.