Dates of Semesters 2025–2026: SUMMARY
Dates of semesters for the academic year 2025–2026 are as follows 1 :
First Semester
Reading/Field Trip Week: 13.10.2025 – 18.10.2025 2
Revision Period: 01.12.2025 – 05.12.2025 3
Assessment Period: 06.12.2025 – 23.12.2025 4
Second Semester
Class Suspension Period for Lunar New Year: 17.02.2026 – 23.02.2026 6
Reading/Field Trip Week: 09.03.2026 – 14.03.2026 7
Revision Period: 04.05.2026 – 09.05.2026 8
Assessment Period: 11.05.2026 – 26.05.2026 9
Optional Summer Semester
Teaching and Assessment Period: 29.06.2026 – 22.08.2026 11
First Semester
October 2025: Medicine — MBBS Fourth Summative Assessment
October and November 2025: Medicine — MBBS Final Summative Supplementary/Re-Assessment
November 2025: Medicine — PDipID
November 2025 and January 2026: Medicine — MChinMed
December 2025: Medicine — MBBS Fourth Summative Supplementary/Re- Assessment, MAP, MMedSc, MMDPath, MNurs, MPsyMed, MPH, MSc(Nurs), DNurs and PDipPsyMed
February 2026: Medicine — MRes(Med)
Second Semester
February and March 2026: Medicine — MBBS Final Summative Assessment
February – May 2026: Medicine — MChinMed
March and July 2026: Medicine — MPsyMed and PDipPsyMed
April 2026: Medicine — MNurs, MPH and DNurs
April – May 2026: Medicine — MAP
April, June and July 2026: Medicine — MMDPath
April and July 2026: Medicine — PDipID
May 2026: Medicine — MMedSc, MRes(Med) and MSc(Nurs)
May – June 2026: Medicine — MBBS First Summative Assessment, MBBS Second Summative Assessment and MBBS Final Summative Supplementary/Re-Assessment
June 2026: Medicine — MBBS Third Summative Assessment
July – August 2026: Medicine — MBBS First Summative Supplementary/Re-Assessment and MBBS Second Summative Supplementary/Re-Assessment
Summer Semester
August 2026: Medicine — MNurs, MPH and DNurs
Remarks
Not applicable to the postgraduate curricula offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics.
Dates of teaching for Dentistry taught postgraduate programmes: 01.09.2025 – 31.08.2026.
Reading/Field trip week for BDS: 08.12.2025 – 13.12.2025 and MA(AppliedLinguistics): 27.10.2025 – 01.11.2025.
Not applicable to MBBS and BPharm.
No Reading/Field trip week for MDASC; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology; MSc(CompSc); MSc(ConstProjectMan); MSc(DMBA); MSc(ECom&IComp); MSc(EnvMan); MSc(FTDA); MSc(RealEst); MSocSc in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance; MStat; MUS&HM; PGDE and PGDE (P/T).
Revision Period for BNurs (RN) (P/T): 08.12.2025 – 12.12.2025.
Not applicable to BDS and MBBS.
No Revision Period for MArch; MArch(Design); MA(AppliedLinguistics); MDASC; 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); MStat; MUrbanDesign and DPA.
Assessment Period for BDS: 05.01.2026 – 10.01.2026, BNurs (RN) (P/T): 15.12.2025 – 23.12.2025, MArch and MArch(Design): 01.12.2025 – 23.12.2025; MA(AppliedLinguistics): 03.11.2025 – 31.12.2025, MDASC, MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp), MSc(FTDA) and MStat: 03.12.2025 – 23.12.2025; MIPA, MPA and DPA: 01.12.2025 – 23.12.2025; PCLL and PCLL (P/T) (Year 1): 08.12.2025 – 10.01.2026, and PCLL (P/T) (Year 2): 06.12.2025 – 19.12.2025.
No Assessment Period for MA(TESOL); MEd; MJ; MJ-DFS; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology; MSc(LIM); MSc(TDLL); PGDE and PGDE (P/T).
Trial Advocacy Elective will start from early April for some sessions and continue after the written examinations from mid-May to mid-June (teaching for around three to four weeks).
No class suspension period for Lunar New Year for MSc(DMBA).
Reading/Field trip week for MSc(UDT): 02.03.2026 – 14.03.2026; MA in the fields of Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese Historical Studies, and Translation: 10.03.2026 – 14.03.2026; MA in the field of Museum Studies: 16.03.2026 – 21.03.2026; and MA(AppliedLinguistics): 23.03.2026 – 28.03.2026.
Not applicable to MBBS and BPharm.
No Reading/Field trip week for MDASC; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology; MSc(CompSc); MSc(ConstProjectMan); MSc(DMBA); MSc(ECom&IComp); MSc(EnvMan), MSc(FTDA); MSc(RealEst); MSocSc in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance; MStat; PGDE and PGDE (P/T).
Revision Period for BNurs (RN) (P/T): 06.04.2026 – 10.04.2026; MExpArtsTh, MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Gerontology, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, and Social Service Management, and MSW: 20.04.2026 – 25.04.2026.
Not applicable to MBBS.
No Revision Period for MArch; MArch(Design); MA(AppliedLinguistics); MDASC; 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); MSocSc in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance; MStat; MUrbanDesign and DPA.
Assessment Period for BDS: 11.05.2026 – 30.05.2026; BNurs (RN) (P/T): 13.04.2026 – 30.04.2026; MArch and MArch(Design): 04.05.2026 – 12.06.2026; MA(AppliedLinguistics): 30.03.2026 – 29.05.2026; MDASC, MSc(CompSc), MSc(ECom&IComp), MSc(FTDA) and MStat: 07.05.2026 – 26.05.2026; MExpArtsTh, MSocSc in the fields of Behavioral Health, Counselling, Gerontology, Mental Health, Nonprofit Management, and Social Service Management, and MSW: 27.04.2026 – 16.05.2026; MIPA, MPA and DPA: 04.05.2026 – 26.05.2026; MUrbanDesign: 27.04.2026 – 02.05.2026; PCLL and PCLL (P/T) (Year 1 and 2): 25.04.2026 – 15.05.2026.
No Assessment Period for MA(TESOL); MEd; MJ; MJ-DFS; MSc in the fields of Food Industry: Management and Marketing, and Food Safety and Toxicology; MSc(LIM); MSc(TDLL); MSocSc in the field of Sustainability Leadership and Governance; PGDE and PGDE (P/T).
Compulsory summer semester.
Not applicable to BDS, MBBS and BPharm.
The examination schedules for EMBA; MAcct; MAA; MBA; IMBA; MCGRM; MEcon; MFWM; MFin; MFFinTech; MGM; MSc(BA); MSc(Mktg); MSAF, MWM, DBA and the taught postgraduate curricula offered by the Faculty of Dentistry will be announced separately.
