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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 6 to July 17, 2020
Winter Semester 2020/2021: October 12, 2020 to February 5, 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
| Summer Semester 2019 | Winter Semester 2019/2020 | |
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| Start of Semester | April 1, 2019 |
October 1, 2019 |
| First Day of Lectures | April 1, 2019 | October 7, 2019 |
| Last Day of Lectures | July 12, 2019 | January 31, 2020 |
| End of Semester | September 30, 2019 | March 31, 2020 |
| Summer Semester 2019 | Winter Semester 2019/2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Enrollment Deadline | ||
| Courses of Study with Open Admission Online | December 3, 2018 to April 30, 2019 | July 1 to October 31, 2019 |
| Courses of Study with Open Admission in Person |
February 18 to March 8, 2019 |
August 27 to September 6, 2019 September 18 to 26, 2019 |
| RWTH Aachen Courses of Study with Restricted Admission | August, 12 to September 30, 2019 | |
| hochschulSTART Courses of Study with Restricted Admission – Part 1 |
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August 15 to 26, 2019 |
| 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) |
January 14 to March 1, 2019 | June 10 to September 1, 2019 |
| BlueCard issue date | September 30, 2019 | |
| Application Deadlines | ||
| for Small Cross-Registration | March 4 to April 18, 2019 | September 9 to October 25, 2019 |
| for Auditors and Senior Citizen Students | March 18 to May 15, 2019 | September 16 to November 15, 2019 |
| Summer Semester 2019 | Winter Semester 2019/2020 | |
|---|---|---|
| Student Representative Council Meetings | May 7, 2019 | November 5, 2019 |
| RWTH FH Sports Day | June 4, 2019 | |
| Talk Lehre / "Teaching Talk" | June 4, 2019 |
| Summer Semester 2019 | Winter Semester 2019/2020 | |
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| German Day of Unity | October 3, 2019 | |
| All Saints' Day | November 1, 2019 | |
| Christmas Holidays | December 23, 2019 to January 3, 2020 | |
| Shrove Monday | February 24, 2020 | |
| Good Friday | April 19, 2019 | |
| Easter Monday | April 22, 2019 | |
| May Day | May 1, 2019 | |
| Ascension of Christ | May 30, 2019 | |
| Pentecost Week (Excursion week) | June 10 to 14, 2019 | |
| Corpus Christi | June 20, 2019 |