Academic dates

  1. Autumn semester 2024/25
  2. Spring semester 2025
  3. Autumn semester 2025/26
  4. Spring semester 2026

Autumn semester 2024/25

Summer holidays

15 July to 4 August 2024

Start regular teaching

16 September 2024

Semester break with projects

5 August to 15 September 2024

Opening week for new Bachelor students

9 to 13 September 2024

Semester break with projects

11 to 17 November 2024

Christmas holidays

23 December 2024 to 5 January 2025

End regular teaching

25 January 2025

Pedagogical diploma lessons

25 January to 9 February 2025

Semester break and project weeks
  • Semester break: 27 January to 23 February 2025
  • Break Festival (Project week Jazz): 3 to 7 February 2025
  • Academy for contemporary music: 10 to 14 February 2025
Public holidays
  • Patron saint Gallus Kriens: 16 October 2024
  • All Saint's Day: 1 November 2024
  • Immaculate Conception: 8 December 2024
  • Christmas Eve: 24 December 2024
  • Christmas: 25 December 2024
  • St. Stephen's Day: 26 December 2024
  • New Year's Day: 1 January 2025
  • Berchtold's Day: 2 January 2025
Special events and Carnival
  • Christmas party: 19 December 2024

Spring semester 2025

Start regular teaching

24 February 2025

Carnival (regular teaching schedule)
  • Fat Thursday: 27 February 2025
  • Shrove Monday: 3 March 2025
  • Mardi Gras: 4 March 2025
  • Ash Wednesday: 5 March 2025
Easter holidays

18 April to 4 May 2025

End regular teaching

28 June 2025

Summer project weeks

29 June to 13 July 2025

Examination week Classical

30 June to 5 July 2025

Summer holidays

14 July to 3 August 2025

Closing times

Front office, library:
14 July to 3 August 2025

Public holidays
  • Ascension Day: 29 May 2025
  • Whit Sunday: 8 June 2025
  • Whit Monday: 9 June 2025
  • Corpus Christi: 19 June 2025
Special events
  • Summer party: 27 June 2025
  • Graduation ceremony: 4 September 2025

Autumn semester 2025/26

Summer holidays

14 July to 3 August 2025

Semester break with projects

4 August to 14 September 2025

Closing times

front office:
14 July to 10 August 2025

library:
14 July to 3 August 2025

Opening week for new Bachelor students

8 to 12 September 2025

Start regular teaching

15 September 2025

Semester break with projects

10 to 16 November 2025

Christmas holidays

22 December 2025 to 4 January 2026

Pedagogical diploma lessons

24 January to 8 February 2026

End regular teaching

24 January 2026

Semester break with projects
  • Semester break with projects: 25 January to 22 February 2025
  • Music festival Szenenwechsel: 29 January to 1 February 2026
  • Break festival (project week Jazz): 2 to 6 February 2026
  • Academy for contemporary music: 16 to 20 February 2026
Public holidays

Patron saint Gallus Kriens: 16 October 2025
All Saint's Day: 1 November 2025
Immaculate Conception: 8 December 2025

Special events

Departmental Assembly: 2 September 2025
Diploma ceremony:  4 September 2025

Spring semester 2026

Start regular teaching

23 February 2026

Carnival
  • Fat Thursday: 12 February 2026
  • Shrove Monday: 16 February 2026 (free from school)
  • Mardi Gras: 17 February 2026 (free from school)
  • Ash Wednesday: 18 February 2026 (free from school)
Easter holidays

3 to 19 April 2026

End regular teaching

27 June 2026

Semester break with projects

28 June to 12 August 2026

Examination week Classical

28 June to 5 July 2026

Summer holidays

13 July to 2 August 2026

Closing times

Front office:
13 July to 9 August 2026

Library:
13 July to 2 August 2026

Public holidays
  • Ascension Day: 14 May 2026
  • Whit Sunday: 24 May 2026
  • Whit Monday: 25 May 2026
  • Corpus Christi: 4 June 2026
Special events
  • Summer party: 26 June 2026