Academic Calendar

Overview Dates and deadlines 2025

Entrance examinations	13.01.2025 - 23.01.2025	Show
Calendar weeks 3&4
Examination session	20.01.2025 - 14.02.2025	Show
Calendar weeks 4-7
Doctoral awards ceremony	24.01.2025
Start Spring semester	17.02.2025	Show
Calendar weeks 08-22
Doctoral awards ceremony	11.04.2025
Week after Easter: no classes	18.04.2025 - 27.04.2025	Show
No classes up to and including Sunday, April 27, 2025 \| Buildings closed over Easter from Good Friday until Easter Monday!
"Sechseläuten" (Zurich spring festival)	28.04.2025	Show
No classes in the afternoon, buildings closed from 12:00 h!
Labour Day	01.05.2025	Show
no classes, buildings closed
Ascension Day (classes on Friday, 30.05.2025)	29.05.2025	Show
no classes, buildings closed
End of Spring semester	30.05.2025	Show
Calendar weeks 08-22
Whitsuntide	07.06.2025 - 09.06.2025	Show
no classes, buildings closed
Doctoral awards ceremony	11.07.2025
Swiss National Day	01.08.2025	Show
Buildings closed
Examination session	04.08.2025 - 29.08.2025	Show
Calendar weeks 32-35
Information days for final-year secondary school students	03.09.2025 - 04.09.2025	Show
Wednesday and Thursday, calendar week 36
Start Autumn semester	15.09.2025	Show
Calendar weeks 38-51
Welcome for new students	15.09.2025	Show
No classes
"Knabenschiessen" (local Zurich holiday)	15.09.2025	Show
Buildings open!
Classes begin	16.09.2025
Application deadline session examinations and end of semester examinations	12.10.2025	Show
End of fourth semester week
Doctoral awards ceremony	24.10.2025
Dies Academicus ("ETH Day")	22.11.2025	Show
Main building HG closed, Sport Center Polyterrasse MM open
Polyball (annual student prom)	29.11.2025	Show
Buildings HG and MM closed starting Saturday, 17:00 h and Sunday
End of Autumn semester	19.12.2025	Show
Calendar weeks 38-51