Academic calender

The Stockholm University Academic Year always starts a Monday in the period August 28 – September 3 and contains two terms: the Autumn Term and the Spring Term. One semester runs for 20 weeks. Each semester is divided in four periods: A, B, C and D.

Application is normally January 15 or April 15 for the Autumn Term and October 15 for the Spring Term. Compulsory course and programme registration is normally not earlier than the week before the semester starts.

Academic Year 2012/2013

Autumn Term 2012 (September 3, 2012 – January 20, 2013)
Semester period A: Monday September 3 – Wednesday October 3
Semester period B: Thursday October 4 – Friday November 2
Semester period C: Monday November 5 – Wednesday December 5
Semester period D: Thursday December 6 – Friday January 18

Spring Term 2013 (January 21, 2013 – June 9, 2013)
Semester period A: Monday January 21 – Wednesday February 20
Semester period B: Thursday February 21 – Friday March 22
Semester period C: Monday March 25 – Friday May 3
Semester period D: Monday May 6 – Friday June 7

Academic Year 2013/2014

Autumn Term 2013 (September 2, 2013 – January 17, 2014)
Semester period A: Monday September 2 – Wednesday October 2
Semester period B: Thursday October 3 – Friday November 1
Semester period C: Monday November 4 – Wednesday December 4
Semester period D: Thursday December 5 – Friday January 17

Spring Term 2014 (January 20, 2014 – June 6, 2014)
Semester period A: Monday January 20 – Wednesday February 19
Semester period B: Thursday February 20 – Friday March 21
Semester period C: Monday March 24 – Friday May 2
Semester period D: Monday May 5 – Friday June 6

Nearly all courses run full-time (100 % study tempo) during one term or part of one term. At a full-time course students are expected to study about 40 or somewhat more than 40 hours a week (including scheduled and individual studies). The number of hours of compulsory scheduled education in taught courses varies and the total quantity of study hours a week obviously differs a lot depending on the students individual study background, techniques and aim. Studying two full-time courses during the same period of time is not recommend; still sometimes it is doable to study one 100 % course and one 50 % course.