Academic Calendar 2024-2025

29 30 31 1 2 3 4 1: Deadline to complete grades (I) for the Summer Session 2023-2024

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 5-16: Summer Break

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 15: Assumption
August
2024

19: Closure of online application for the Fall Semester 2024-2025

21: Deadline to settle the 1st installment of tuition fees for the Fall Semester 2024-2025
22: Application of the penalty: Drop of registered courses (if no settlement of tuition fees and overdue payments)
21-22: Orientation sessions
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
21-23: Registration for new (including freshman), readmitted, exchange and transfer students for the Fall Semester
2024-2025
22: USEK Entrance Exam for undergraduate programs
23: USEK Entrance Exam for graduate programs

26: Start of the submission period of the sibling’s allowance request

20: Start of the submission period of agreements with third party discount request
26 27 28 29 30 31 1 26-28: Registration Verification and Validation Process (RVVP) for the Fall Semester 2024-2025
30: Orientation session and registration of new students
30: Activation of the Theology Online Application

1 1 1 1 1
2: Start of classes for the Fall Semester 2024-2025
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2-6: Add/Drop - Late registration for the Fall Semester 2024-2025. Late registration penalty will apply.
2: Start of the Financial Aid Application submission period for active students
2 2 2 2 2
15: Prophet
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mohammad's
Birthday*
3 3 3 3 3
16: Activation of the Online Application for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
September
2024

16: Activation of the Shadowing Activity

16 17 18 19 20 21 22
16: Start of the Financial Aid Application submission period for new applicants
20: Deadline to submit the Siblings' Allowance Request
20: Deadline to submit the agreements with third party discount requests
4 4 4 4 4

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

30 1 2 3 4 5 6

5 5 5 5

5: Deadline to settle the 2nd installment of tuition fees

30 1 2 3 4 5 6
6: Application of the financial penalty

6 6 6 6 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

7 7 7 7 7

14 15 16 17 18 19 20 15: USEK Entrance Exam for Undergraduate Programs (except for Engineering)

8 8
October

8 8 8
2024

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 21-25: Midterm exams (without class suspension) for the Fall Semester 2024-2025

9 9 9 9
31: USEK Entrance Exam for Engineering Programs

28 29 30 31 1 2 3
Octob
202

30: Deadline to submit the NSSF paper or to apply for NSSF

31: Application of the NSSF hold
31: End of the Financial Aid Application submission period for active students
28 29 30 31 1 2 3
31: Deadline to Submit Postgraduate Files for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
1: Deadline to submit an academic program change request for the Spring Semester 2024-2025 (admission test(s)
may be required.)
1: Deadline to submit a request for a double degree, double major, academic minor and change of campus for the
Spring Semester 2024-2025 (admission test(s) may be required.)
1: Deadline to submit a request for readmission for the Spring Semester 2024-2025

28 29 30 31 1 2 3 1: All Saints' Day

10 10 10 10 10 5: Deadline to settle the 3rd installment of tuition fees

6: Application of the financial penalty
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5: USEK Entrance Exam for Graduate Programs

8: Open Day for Prospective Students

November

11 11 11 11 11
11-14: Advising for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
2024

11 12 13 14 15 16 17

15: USEK Entrance Exams for Undergraduate Programs (except for Engineering)

12 12 12 12 12
18-26: Registration for the Spring Semester 2024-2025 for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduates studies
22: Independence programs
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Day
21: Deadline to apply for the shadowing activity

13 13 13 13 13

25 26 27 28 29 30 1 25: Deadline for course Withdrawal (W)

27

14 14 14 14 14 4: Early Registration for new students + Orientation session

4: Comprehensive Exam for Postgraduate Applicants for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
5: Deadline to settle the 4th and final installment of tuition fees
6: Application of the financial penalty
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
5: USEK Entrance Exam for Graduate Programs
6: Deadline for Term Withdrawal
6: End of classes for the Fall Semester 2024-2025
6: USEK Entrance Exams for Undergraduate Programs (except for Engineering)

6: Deadline to apply for transfer

9: Starting Submission of Postgraduate Files (1) for the Fall Semester 2025-2026
December

9 10 11 12 13 14 15
9-18: Final exams for the Fall Semester 2024-2025
2024

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20: Deadline to submit the final grades for the Fall Semester 2024-2025

23-1: Christmas and

23 24 25 26 27 28 29
New Year Holiday

30 31 1 2 3 4 5

2: Deadline to submit a request to review a final grade for the Fall Semester 2024-2025
30 31 1 2 3 4 5
3: Deadline to sit for a make-up final exam for the Fall Semester 2024-2025
7: Closure of the online application for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
6: Epiphany
6
8: Deadline to complete grades (I), final-year projects, and Master theses for the Fall Semester 2024-2025
7 8 9 10 11 12
6: Armenian
Christmas 9: Deadline to settle the 1st installment of tuition fees for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
10: Drop of registered courses (if no settlement of tuition fees and overdue payments)

13-14: Orientation sessions and registration of new students

January 2025

13-16: Registration for new (including freshman), readmitted, exchange and transfer students for the Spring
17: Saint Anthony
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Semester 2024-2025
the Great
13: USEK Entrance Exams for all Undergraduate Programs
15: Activation of the online application for the Fall Semester 2025-2026
 January 202

20: Start of the submission period of the sibling’s allowance request

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 20: Start of the submission period of agreements with third party discount request
20-22: Registration Verification and Validation Process (RVVP) for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
1 1 1 1 1

27: Start of classes for the Spring Semester 2024-2025

27 28 29 30 31 1 2
27-31: Add/Drop - Late registration for the Spring Semester 2024-2025. Late registration penalty will apply.

2 2 2 2 2
3: Start of the Financial Aid Application submission period for active students
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9: Saint Maron
6: Deadline for Submission of Postgraduate Files (1) for the Fall Semester 2025-2026

3 3 3 3
14: Assassination of 10: Activation of the shadowing activity
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 former PM Rafic
14: Deadline to submit the Siblings' Allowance Request
February

Hariri
2025

14: Deadline to submit the agreements with third party discount requests
4 4 4 4 4

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22: USEK Entrance Exam for Admissions with Scholarship

5 5 5 5 5

24 25 26 27 28 1 2

6 6 6 6 6

5: Deadline to settle the 2nd installment of tuition fees for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
6: Application of the financial penalty

7 7 7 7 7

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 15: USEK Entrance Exam for Admissions with Scholarship

8 8 8 8 8
17: Starting Submission of Postgraduate Files (2) for the Fall Semester 2025-2026
March
2025

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 17-21: Midterm exams (without class suspension) for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
19: First Comprehensive Exam for Postgraduate Applicants the Fall Semester 2025-2026
9 9
9 9 9 26: Deadline to submit the NSSF paper or to apply for NSSF
27: Application of the NSSF hold
25: Annunciation
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28: Deadline to submit a request for a double degree, double major, academic minor and change of campus for the
30-31: Eid Al-Fitr*
Fall Semester 2025-2026 (Admission test(s) may be required.)
28: Deadline to submit a request for readmission for the Summer Session 2024-2025

31 1 2 3 4 5 6 31: End of the Financial Aid Application submission period for active students

10 10

10 10 10 10 10 1: Deadline to apply for an admission with scholarship

5: Deadline to settle the 3rd installment of tuition fees for the Spring Semester
31 1 2 3 4 5 6
6 April: Application of the financial penalty
5: USEK Entrance Exam for Admissions with Scholarship

11 11
11 11 11 11

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 7-10: Advising for the Summer Session 2024-2025

12 12 12 12
12 14-23: Registration for the Summer Session 2024-2025 for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate studies
2025
April

17-21: Catholic and programs

14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Orthodox Easter
16: Deadline to apply for the shadowing activity

14 13
13 13 13

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

14 14 14
28: Deadline for course Withdrawal (W)
28 29 30 1 2 3 4
30: Orientation sessions and early Registration for new students for the Fall Semester 2025-2026
30

14
 14

1: Labor Day
28 29 30 1 2 3 4 3: USEK Entrance Exam for Undergraduate Programs (except for Engineering)

5: Deadline to settle the 4th installment of tuition fees for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
6 April: Application of the financial penalty
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 5-9: Make-up sessions
9: End of classes
9: Deadline for Term Withdrawal
2025
May

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12-21: Final exams for the Spring Semester 2024-2025

23: Deadline to submit the final grades for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 25: Resistance and
Liberation Day
23: USEK Entrance Exam for Undergraduate Programs (except for Engineering)

27: Deadline to submit a request to review a final grade for the Spring Semester 2024-2025

27: USEK Entrance Exam for Graduate Programs

26 27 28 29 30 31 1 1: Pentecost 28: Deadline to sit for a make-up final exam for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
30: Deadline to complete grades (I), final-year projects, and Master theses for the Spring Semester 2024-2025
30: Deadline for Submission of Postgraduate Files (2) for the Fall Semester 2025-2026

30: USEK Entrance Exam for Engineering Programs

3: Settlement of the 1st installment of tuition fees for the Summer Session
4: Application of the penalty: Drop of registered courses (if no settlement of tuition fees and overdue payments)
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6: Eid Al-Adha*
5: Deadline to submit an academic program change request for the Fall Semester 2025-2026 (Admission test(s) may
be required.)

1 2 3
11: Start of classes for the Summer Session 2024-2025
11: Late registration for the Summer Session 2024-2025
June 2025

9 10 11 12 13 14 15
11: USEK Entrance Exam for Undergraduate Programs (except for Engineering)

13: Deadline to submit a request for readmission for the Fall Semester 2025-2026
4 5 6 7 8

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 16-20: Advising for the Fall Semester 2025-2026

9 10 11 10 12

26: New Hegira

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 25: Orientation sessions and early registration of new students for the Fall Semester 2025-2026
Year*

13

30 1 2 3 4 5 6

14 15 16 17 2: Second Comprehensive Exam for Postgraduate Applicants the Fall Semester 2025-2026
5: Deadline to settle 2nd and final installment for the Summer Session 2024-2025
30 1 2 3 4 5 6 5: Achoura* 6: Application of the financial penalty
1-9: Registration for the Fall Semester 2025-2026 for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate studies programs
(current students only)
18 19 20 21 22
8: Deadline for Course Withdrawal
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
11: USEK Entrance Exam for Undergraduate Programs (except for Engineering)
23 24 25
15: Deadline to apply as transfer for the Fall Semester 2025-2026

15: End of the Financial Aid Application submission period for new applicants
16: Deadline for Term Withdrawal
2025
July

14 15 16 17 18 19 20
16: End of classes for the Summer Session 2024-2025
17: USEK Entrance Exam for Graduate Programs

18: USEK Entrance Exam for Engineering

2025
July

21-22: Final exams for the Summer Session 2024-2025

24: Deadline to submit the final grades for the Summer Session 2024-2025
21 22 23 24 25 26 27

25: USEK Entrance Exam for Undergraduate Programs (except for Engineering)

28: Deadline to submit a request to review a final grade for the Summer Session 2024-2025
28 29 30 31 1 2 3 29: Deadline to sit for a make-up final exam for the Summer Session 2024-2025
31: Deadline to complete grades (I) for the Summer Session 2024-2025

28 29 30 31 1 2 3

4-15: Summer Break

4 5 6 7 8 9 10
15: Assumption

11 12 13 14 15 16 17
August
2025

18: Deactivation of the online application for the Fall Semester 2025-2026
20: Deadline to settle the 1st installment of tuition fees for the Fall Semester 2025-2026
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 21: Application of the penalty: Drop of registered courses (if no settlement of tuition fees and overdue payments)
20-21: Orientation sessions and registration of new students
20-22: Registration for new (including freshman), readmitted, exchange and transfer students for the Fall Semester
2025-2026

21: USEK Entrance Exam for all Undergraduate Programs

25: Start of the submission period of the sibling’s allowance request
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 25: Start of the submission period of agreements with third party discount request
25-27: Registration Verification and Validation Process (RVVP) for the Fall Semester 2025-2026

4: Prophet 1: Start of classes for the Fall Semester 2025-2026

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mohammad's 1-5: Add/Drop - Late registration for the Fall Semester 2025-2026. Late registration penalty will apply.
Birthday* 1: Start of the Financial Aid Application submission period for active students

8 9 10 11 12 13 14
September
2025

19: Deadline to submit the Siblings' Allowance Request

15 16 17 18 19 20 21
19: Deadline to submit the agreements with third party discount request

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30

* Dates to be confirmed later