• Please note: future provisional dates are not final and are subject to change.

Yale College Provisional Academic Calendars

 

2025-26

2026-27

FALL TERM

   

Upper-level fall semester registration

May

May

First-year fall semester registration

August

August

New student occupancy/move-in

Su 8/17

Su 8/23

Orientation begins

M  8/18

M 8/24

Camp Yale Programs

TBA

TBA

Orientation resumes

TBA

TBA

Classes begin

W 8/27

W 9/2

M classes meet on F

F 8/29

F 9/4

Labor Day (no classes)

M 9/1

M 9/7

Family Weekend

F-Su, 10/3-5

TBA

October recess begins, 5pm

Tu 10/14

Tu 10/20

Classes resume

M 10/20

M 10/26

Mid-semester date

F 10/24

F 10/30

November recess begins, 5pm

F 11/21

F 11/20

Yale-Harvard Game

Sa 11/22

Sa 11/21

Classes resume

M 12/1

M 11/30

Classes end

F 12/5

F 12/11

Finals begin, 7pm

Th 12/11

W 12/16

Finals end, 5:30pm

W 12/17

Tu 12/22

Residences close

Th 12/18

W 12/23

 

   

SPRING TERM

   

Residences open

W 1/7

W 1/13

Classes begin

M 1/12

Tu 1/19

MLK Day (no classes)

M 1/19

M 1/18

M classes meet on F

F 1/23

F 1/22

Mid-semester date

F 3/6

F 3/12

Spring recess begins, 5pm

F 3/6

F 3/12

Classes resume

M 3/23

M 3/29

Classes end; reading period begins

F 4/24

F 4/30

Finals begin, 7pm

Th 4/30

Th 5/6

Finals end

W 5/6

W 5/12

Residences close (for non-seniors)

Th 5/7

Th 5/13