Division of the Academic Year (Dates)
Academic Year 2020/21
Winter semester 2020/21
Tue., 01.09.2020 - Sun,. 14.02.2021
| Admission period: | Mon., 07.09.2020 - Fri., 02.10.2020 |
| Period of grace*: | Mon., 05.10.2020 - Fri., 13.11.2020 |
| Deadline for degree thesis (summer semester 2020): | Fri., 09.10.2020 |
| Start of lectures: | Mon., 21.09.2020 |
| End of lectures: | Fri., 29.01.2021 |
| Payment deadline**: | Fri., 11.09.2020 |
Summer semester 2021
Mon., 15.02.2021 - Tue., 31.08.2021
| Admission period: | Mon., 01.02.2021 - Fri., 12.02.2021 |
| Period of grace*: | Mon., 15.02.2021 - Fri., 26.02.2021 |
| Deadline for degree thesis (winter semester 2020/21): | Fri., 22.01.2021 |
| Start of lectures: | Mon., 15.02.2021 |
| End of lectures: | Fri., 02.07.2021 |
| Payment deadline**: | Fri., 22.01.2021 |
| Non-teaching periods during the academic year 2020/21 | |
| Summer break 2020: | until Sun., 06.09.2020 |
| National Day: | Mon., 26.10.2020 |
| Autumn holidays: | Tue., 27.10.2020 - Sat., 31.10.2020 |
| All Saints' Day: | Sun., 01.11.20120 - Mon., 02.11.2020 |
| St. Leopold's Day: | Sun., 15.11.2020 |
| Feast of the Immaculate Conception: | Tue., 08.12.2020 |
| Christmas holidays: | Thu., 24.12.2020 - Wed., 06.01.2021 |
| Semester break: | Sat., 30.01.2021 - Sun., 14.02.2021 |
| Easter holidays: | Sat., 27.03.2021 - Sun., 11.04.2021 |
| National holiday: | Sat., 01.05.2021 |
| Ascension Day: | Thu., 13.05.2021 |
| Pentecost: | Sat., 22.05.2021 - Tue., 25.05.2021 |
| Feast of Corpus Christi: | Thu., 03.06.2021 |
| Summer break 2020: | Sat., 03.07.2021 - Sun., 05.09.2021 |
Entrance examinations for the academic year 2021/22
January — April 2021 (for further information please see entrance examination dates here)
* Registration during the period of grace is only possible for students beginning their first semester. Graduations until the end of the respective period of grace are attributed to the previous semester.
** Applies to students of the university, not students beginning their first semester. The first tuition fee is paid during enrolment.
