Important Dates 2025 / 2026

Next Open Day - To be held via Zoom (4 December 2024) and in Melbourne (16 December 2024)

OPEN DAY PROGRAM VIA ZOOM (4 December 2024)

OPEN DAY PROGRAM IN MELBOURNE (16 December 2024)

	2025
Dec 2 - Dec 31 (2024)	New Students -- Applications are welcome for admission into all courses of study (commencing in Semester 1, 2025). Also welcome during Jan 20-31. Enquiries for Cross-Institutional Study are welcome.
Dec 20 (2024)	Release of Results (for Semester 2, 2024)
Dec 23 (2024) - Jan 3 (2025)	Continuing Students -- Enrolment Period (for 2025)
Dec 25 - Dec 26	NSW Public Holidays (Christmas & Boxing Day) -- College Closed
Jan 1	NSW Public Holiday (New Year's Day) -- College Closed
Jan 2 - Jan 17	College Office Open Limited Hours (phone messages and email correspondence may be monitored periodically)
Jan 6	Epiphany -- College Closed
Jan 19	Feast Day of Saint Makarios of Egypt (Patronal Feast of our Archbishop and College Dean)
Jan 20 - Jan 31	New Students -- Applications are welcome for admission into all courses of study (commencing in Semester 1, 2025). Enquiries for Cross-Institutional Study are welcome.
Jan 27	NSW Public Holiday (Australia Day) -- College Closed

Dates	2025, Semester 1
Feb 26	Doxology for the Commencement of the Academic Year (12:00pm)
Feb 26 - Feb 28	On-Campus 3-Day Orientation Program (compulsory for all new students)
Feb 28	Doxology for Graduating Students of St Andrew's and of the Byzantine Music School of Australia (Sydney campus) (6:30pm)
Mar 3 - Apr 11	Semester Start Date / Teaching Weeks 1-6
Mar 3	Beginning of Great Lent (Clean Monday)
Mar 10	Last Day to Add a Unit or to Swap Units (via email to Registrar by 12:00pm Sydney time)
Mar 21	Last day to change FEE HELP billing option
Mar 25	Annunciation of the Theotokos -- College Closed / No Lectures
Mar 31	CENSUS DATE - Last day to withdraw from unit(s) without paying for them or incurring a FEE HELP debt
Apr 12	Mid-Semester Recess Begins
Apr 13	Palm Sunday
Apr 14 - Apr 21	Holy Week (incl. Renewal Monday) -- College Office Closed
Apr 20	Holy and Great Sunday of Pascha
Apr 22 - Apr 27	Renewal Week -- College Office Open Limited Hours (phone messages and email correspondence may be monitored periodically)
Apr 22	Last day to withdraw from unit(s) without academic penalty
Apr 25	NSW Public Holiday (ANZAC Day) -- College Closed
Apr 27	Mid-Semester Recess Ends
Apr 28 - Jun 6	Teaching Weeks 7-12
Jun 6	Semester End Date
Jun 9	NSW Public Holiday (King's Birthday) -- College Closed
Jun 9 - Jun 11	Study Recess (3 days)
Jun 12 - Jun 20	Examination Period
Jun 23 - July 11	Mid-Year Intake for Semester 2, 2025 (no new students) Enrolment enquiries are welcome from (a) Students returning from a leave of absence, (b) prospective Cross-Institutional Students and (c) Audit Students Continuing Students -- Enrolment Period (for Semester 2, 2025) Enquiries for Cross-Institutional Study are welcome.
Jun 28	Sydney College of Divinity Graduation Ceremony (11:00am, Great Hall, University of Sydney)
Jul 11	Release of Results (for Semester 1, 2025)

Dates	2025, Semester 2
Jul 21 - Aug 14	Semester Start Date / Teaching Weeks 1-4
Jul 28	Last Day to Add a Unit or to Swap Units (via email to Registrar by 12:00pm Sydney time)
Aug 8	Last day to change FEE HELP billing option
Aug 15	Dormition of the Theotokos -- College Closed / No Lectures
Aug 18	CENSUS DATE - Last day to withdraw from unit(s) without paying for them or incurring a FEE HELP debt
Aug 18 - Aug 22	Non-Teaching Week
Aug 22 - Aug 23	Fifth Theology Symposium (Celebrating the 1700th Anniversary since the Council of Nicaea)
Aug 25 - Sep 26	Teaching Weeks 5-9
Sep 10	Last day to withdraw from unit(s) without academic penalty
Sep 27 - Oct 12	Mid-Semester Recess
Oct 6	NSW Public Holiday (Labour Day) -- College Closed
Oct 13 - Oct 31	Teaching Weeks 10-12
Oct 31	Semester End Date
Nov 3 - Nov 5	Study Recess (3 days)
Nov 6 - Nov 14	Examination Period
Dec 1 - Dec 31	New Students -- Applications are welcome for admission into all courses of study (commencing in Semester 1, 2026). Also welcome during Jan 20-29. Enquiries for Cross-Institutional Study are welcome.
Dec 12	Release of Results (for Semester 2, 2025)
Dec 15 - Dec 31	Continuing Students -- Enrolment Period (for 2026)
Dec 25 - Dec 26	NSW Public Holidays (Christmas & Boxing Day) -- College Closed
Jan 1 (2026)	NSW Public Holiday (New Year's Day) -- College Closed
Jan 2 - Jan 16 (2026)	College Office Open Limited Hours (phone messages and email correspondence may be monitored periodically)
Jan 6 (2026)	Epiphany -- College Closed
Jan 19 (2026)	Feast Day of Saint Makarios of Egypt (Patronal Feast of our Archbishop and College Dean) -- College Closed
Jan 20 - Jan 29 (2026)	New Students -- Applications are welcome for admission into all courses of study (commencing in Semester 1, 2026). Enquiries for Cross-Institutional Study are welcome.

Whilst every effort is made to avoid changes to these published dates, St Andrew’s reserves the right to amend its calendar without notice at any time.