Yale university Educational Calendar

Fall Term

AUG 21, 2025(Sunday) Residences open to first-year students, 9 a.m.

AUG 22, 2025 -AUG 23, 2025Orientation Start

AUG 25, 2025Residences open for upper-level students, 9 a.m.

AUG 24, 2025 -AUG 27, 2025Mid-Orientation Programs

AUG 27, 2025 -AUG 30, 2025Orientation Resumes

AUG 31, 2025Fall-term classes start, 8:20 a.m.

SEP 2, 2025Friday classes do not meet; Monday classes meet instead

SEP 5, 2025Labor Day; classes do not meet

OCT 7, 2025 -OCT 9, 2025Family Weekend

OCT 18, 2025October recess start, 11 p.m.

OCT 24, 2025Classes resume, 8:20 a.m.

OCT 28, 2025Midterm

NOV 18, 2025November recess start, 5 p.m.

NOV 28, 2025Classes resume, 8:20 a.m.

DEC 9, 2025Classes end, 5:30 p.m.; Reading Period start

DEC 15, 2025Final examinations start, 7 p.m.

DEC 21, 2025Examinations end, 5:30 p.m.; Winter recess start

DEC 22, 2025Residences close, noon

JAN 12, 2025Residences open, 9:00 a.m.

JAN 16, 2025Martin Luther King Jr. Day; classes do not meet.

JAN 17, 2025Spring term classes start, 8:20 a.m.

MAR 10, 2025Spring recess start, 5:30 p.m.

MAR 10, 2025Midterm

MAR 27, 2025Classes resume, 8:20 a.m.

APR 28, 2025Classes end, 5:30 p.m.; Reading period start

MAY 4, 2025Final examinations start, 7 p.m.

MAY 10, 2025Examinations end, 5:30 p.m.

MAY 22, 2025University Commencement

SEP 5, 2025

Labor Day; classes do not meet

OCT 18, 2025October recess starts, 11 p.m.

NOV 18, 2025November recess starts, 5 p.m.

DEC 21, 2025Examinations close, 5:30 p.m.; Winter recess start

JAN 16, 2025Martin Luther King Jr. Day; classes do not meet.

MAR 10, 2025Spring recess starts, 5:30 p.m.