Dates are subject to change at any time. Courses that can be made available online may already start on April 6. Please look out for further announcements on our website.
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Lecture Periods from Summer Semester 2018 to Winter Semester 2023/2024 at North-Rhine Westphalian Universities
Summer Semester 2018: April 9 to July 20, 2018
Winter Semester 2018/2019: October 8, 2018 to February 1, 2019
Summer Semester 2019: April 1 to July 12, 2019
Winter Semester 2019/2020: October 7, 2019 to January 31, 2020
Summer Semester 2020: April 20 to July 17, 2020 – Please note: courses that can be made available online may already start on April 6. Please look out for further announcements on our website.
Winter Semester 2020/2021: October 26, 2020 (for students in the 2nd semester or higher) / November 2, 2020 (for first-semester students) to February 12, 2021
Summer Semester 2021: April 12 to July 23, 2021
Winter Semester 2021/2022: October 4, 2021 to January 28, 2022
Summer Semester 2022: April 4 to July 15, 2022
Winter Semester 2022/2023: October 4, 2022 to January 27, 2023
Summer Semester 2023: April 3 to July 4, 2023
Winter Semester 2023/2024: October 9, 2023 to February 2, 2024
| Winter Semester 2019/2020 | Summer Semester 2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Start of Semester | October 1, 2019 |
April 1, 2020 |
| First Day of Lectures | October 7, 2019 |
April 20, 2020 (all attendance-based classes and events) April 6, 2020 (online instruction) |
| Last Day of Lectures | January 31, 2020 | July 17, 2020 |
| End of Semester | March 31, 2020 | September 30, 2020 |
| Winter Semester 2019/2020 | Summer Semester 2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Enrollment Deadline | ||
| Courses of Study with Open Admission Online | August 1 to October 31, 2019 | February 1 to April 30, 2020 |
| Courses of Study with Open Admission in Person |
August 27 to September 6, 2019 |
February 17 to March 6, 2020 |
| RWTH Aachen Courses of Study with Restricted Admission | August, 12 to September 30, 2019 | |
| hochschulSTART Courses of Study with Restricted Admission – Part 1 |
August 15 to 26, 2019 |
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| hochschulSTART Courses of Study with Restricted Admission – Part 2 | September 10 to 17, 2019 | |
| hochschulSTART Courses of Study with Restricted Admission – Part 3 | September 27 to October 2, 2019 | |
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Re-enrollment Deadline
(including the deadline for semesters of leave) |
June 11 to September 1, 2019 | January 13 to March 3, 2020 |
| BlueCard issue date | October 1 to 11, 2019 | |
| Application Deadlines | ||
| for Small Cross-Registration | September 9 to October 25, 2019 | March 9 to April 24, 2020 |
| for Auditors and Senior Citizen Students | September 16 to November 15, 2019 | March 16 to May 15, 2020 |
| Winter Semester 2019/2020 | Summer Semester 2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Student Representative Council Meetings | November 5, 2019 | May 5, 2020 |
| RWTH FH Sports Day | June 17, 2020 | |
| Talk Lehre / "Teaching Talk" | June 17, 2020 |
| Winter Semester 2019/2020 | Summer Semester 2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| All Saints' Day | November 1, 2019 | |
| Christmas Holidays | December 23, 2019 to January 3, 2020 | |
| Shrove Monday | February 24, 2020 | |
| Good Friday | April 10, 2020 | |
| Easter Monday | April 13, 2020 | |
| May Day | May 1, 2020 | |
| Ascension of Christ | May 21, 2020 | |
| Pentecost Week (Excursion week) | June 1 to 5, 2020 | |
| Corpus Christi | June 11, 2020 |