Semester dates
Lecture periods up to 2030
You can find the official lecture periods up to 2030 at https://www.fh-aachen.de/en/studies/studying/semester-dates.
Dates in the summer semester 2025
Official start of semester: 1 March 2025
Official end of semester: 31 August 2025
Start of registration for the bridging courses: 1.3.2025
Bridging courses for freshers (subject to change): 4.3-7.3.2025 and 10.3-13.3.2025
Registration for courses and lectures: 1 March 2025, 10 a.m. to 31 August 2025, 11:59 p.m.
Registration for all modules with participant restrictions (incl. business management but without language/social skills): 1 March 2025, 10 a.m. to 9 March 2025, 11:59 p.m.
Registration for all language/social skills modules: 1 March 2025, 10 a.m. to 16 March 2025, 11:59 p.m.
Inspection of final semester examinations WiSe24/25: from 10 March 2025
Block courses in business management: 20-21 March 2025
Orientation days for freshers: 17.3.-20.3.2025
Start of the semester-accompanying courses: 24 March 2025
Registration for the final semester examinations: 19.5.-2.6.2025
Readingweek: 26-30 May 2025
End of the semester-accompanying courses: 4 July 2025
Final semester examinations: 7-18 July 2025
Inspection of written examinations for the July 2025 examination period: from 18 August 2025
Registration for the September 2025 examinations: 18.8.-1.9.2025
Start of semester examinations: 8-19 September 2025
Graduation ceremony: 14.11.2025 (Graduates who completed their final colloquium at the Faculty of Business Studies between 1 September 2024 and 31 August 2025 inclusive are invited)
Dates in the winter semester 2025/26
Official start of the semester: 1 September 2025
Official end of the semester: 28 February 2026
Registration for the September 2024 examinations: 18.8.-1.9.2025
Registration for courses and lectures: from 1 September 2025
Start of registration for all modules with participant restrictions (excluding language/social skills): 1 Sep, 10 a.m. to 7 Sep 2025, 11:59 p.m.
Business management with LUDUS/TOPSIM business game : 1.9.2025, 10 a.m. to 7.9.2025, 11:59 p.m.
Start of registration for all language/social skills modules: 1.9.2025, 10 a.m. to 14.9.2025, 11:59 p.m.
Start of registration for all modules without participant restrictions: 1.9.2025-28.2.2026
Start of registration for bridging courses: 1.9.2025, 10 a.m. | Further information on bridging courses
Bridging courses for freshers: 8.9.-18.9.2025
First semester examinations: 8.9.-19.9.2025
Orientation days for freshers: 22.9.-26.9.2025
Block course specialisation modules: 22.9.-26.9.2025
Block course in business game: 24.9.-26.9.2025
Start of the semester-accompanying courses: 29.9.2025
Inspection of examinations at the beginning of WiSe25/26: from 20.10.2025
Reading week: 17.11.-22.11.2025
Registration for examinations at the end of WiSe 2025/26: t.b.d.
Graduation ceremony: 11 November 2025 (Graduates who completed their final colloquium at the Faculty of Business Studies between 1 September 2024 and 31 August 2025 inclusive are invited)
House closure: 22 Dec 2025 - 4 Jan 2026
Lecture-free: 22 Dec 2025 - 4 Jan 2026
End of the semester-accompanying courses: 23 January 2026
End of semester examinations: 26 Jan - 13 Feb 2026
Inspection of final semester examinations: from 9 March 2026
Examination schedules
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