2024-2025 academic calendar for bachelor's and master's degrees approved by the Governing Council on 24 April 2024. See the calendar of each school for each of the deadlines regulated in the general calendar.
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2024–2025 bachelor's and master's degrees academic calendar 

	Public holidays and non-working days (1)
	Non teaching periods (2)
	Teaching days for final thesis examination committees
(1)	Non-working days are: ● Saturdays and holidays. ● Periods of low occupancy of spaces, in accordance with Board of Trustees Decision CS/2023/09/05, of 21 December 2023, of the Social Council, which approves the UPC's 2024 budget. ● For electoral purposes, non-teaching periods are non-working days in accordance with Article 32.3 of the UPC election regulations.
(2)	During the non-teaching periods, ordinary classes are no taught, no exams are held and final thesis examination committees are not convened.

Academics regulations

Rules, regulations and procedures

2024

SEPTEMBER

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23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30

OCTOBER

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NOVEMBER

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DECEMBER

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30	31

2025

JANUARY

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27	28	29	30	31

FEBRUARY

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17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28

MARCH

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24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31

APRIL

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21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30

MAY

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19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

JUNE

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JULY

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28	29	30	31

AUGUST

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18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Public holidays 2024-2025

• 11 September 2024
• 12 October 2024
• 1 November 2024
• 6 December 2024
• 25 December 2024
• 26 December 2024
• 1 January 2025
• 6 January 2025
• 18 April 2025
• 21 April 2025
• 1 May 2025
• 24 June 2025
• 15 August 2025

In addition to these public holidays, schools may close on local holidays.

Start and end of the academic year

• Start of the academic year: 1 September 2024
• End of the academic year: 31 August 2025
• However, the following academic activities are considered part of the 2024-2025 academic year:
  • External placements from 16 September 2024 until 15 September 2025.
  • Assessment of final theses enrolled for in the 2024-2025 academic year up to 15 September 2025.
  • Assessment of final theses and external placements with additional enrolment up to 31 October 2025, under the terms set out in the Academic Regulations for Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees.

Non-teaching periods

During non-teaching periods, ordinary classes are not taught, no exams are held and final thesis examination committees are not convened.

• Christmas: from 27 December, 2024 to 3 January, 2025
• Easter: from 14-17 April 2025
• Summer: from 1-31 August 2025

Although Saturdays are non-teaching days, classes for specific degrees may be taught on Saturdays.

Ordinary classes are not taught between 1 and 31 July.

Periods applicable to both bachelor's and master's degrees

Periods for bachelor's and master's degree thesis defences

• Semestral enrolment
  
  • Additional enrolment in S2 (after ordinary enrolment in S1): up to 31 May, 2025 (the date of May 31 may be brought forward to 30 April  or extended to 15 July if, for organisational reasons, the school considers it appropriate).
  • Additional enrolment in S1(after ordinary enrolment in S2 the previous year): up to 31 October 2025

• Annual enrolment
  
  • Ordinary enrolment in S1 + additional enrolment in S2: up to 31 May 2025 (the date of 31 May may be brought forward to 30 April  or extended until 15 July if, for organisational reasons, the school considers it appropriate)
  • Additional enrolment in S1 (after ordinary enrolment in S2 of the previous year): up to 31 October 2025

Periods for applying for recognition/validation

• Degrees with semestral enrolment
  
  • Autumn semester: in June, July and up to 2 September 2024
  • Spring semester: in December 2024 and up to 31 January 2025

• Degrees with annual enrolment
  
  • During the months of June, July and until 2 September 2024

Periods for applying for a special dispensation on academic progress (students who did not meet the academic progress requirements)

• Degrees with semestral enrolment
  
  • Students who did not meet the minimum academic progress requirements in their first year or the initial stage in the 2024-2025 autumn semester: until 15 February 2025
  • Students who did not meet the minimum academic progress requirements in their first year or the initial stage 2024-2025 spring semester: until 15 July 2025
• Degree with annual enrolment
  Until 15 July 2025

Periods for applying to withdraw from a degree

• Degrees with curricular assessment
  • Autumn semester: before the start of the curricular assessment (schools must set a deadline in their calendar)
  • Spring semester: before the start of the curricular assessment (schools must set a deadline in their calendar)

• Degrees without curricular assessment
  
  • Autumn semester: before the end of the assessment period (school must set a deadline in their calendar)
  • Spring semester: before the end of the assessment period (school must set a deadline in their calendar)

Periods for adding or dropping subjects

Schools establish the application period for each academic period from the moment of enrolment and until, at the latest:

Degrees with semestral enrolment

• Autumn semester and yearly enrolment: up to 16 September 2024 (for master's degrees only: 23 September 2024)
• Spring semester: up to 21 February 2025

Degrees with annual enrolment

• Up to 16 September 2024 (for master's degrees only: 23 September 2024)

Periods for dropping subjects and withdrawing enrolment

• Autumn semester: up to 31 October 2024
• Spring semester: up to 31 March 2025 (in the case of grantholders: up to 21 2025)
  
  In the event of serious illness or accident of the student or a first-degree relative that makes it impossible to attend classes for over a month, these periods are extended until 15 December 2024 and 15 May 2025 respectively.