Important dates for graduate students

Laurier may have a different schedule - visit their website for applicable start dates.

Actual dates may vary depending on employer or student requirements.

All classes cancelled and offices closed.

Not Fees Arranged (NFA) holds are applied to student accounts which are not yet Fees Arranged for the term.

Undergraduate students: Find out more about how this hold will impact your course registration process for future terms.

Deadline to receive 100% of charges removed for withdrawing from the term, completing degree requirements, or dropping a course. See Student Financial Services website.

During this period, graduate students can continue to drop classes in Quest but a grade of Withdrawn, no credit granted (WD) will be applied and the class will remain on the transcript.  Note that WD is not an academic penalty.

Outside of this period, students with special circumstances can petition to drop or add a class using a course drop add form (Graduate Studies forms website).

View details about final examination arrangements for online courses on The Centre website. Deadline is 3 p.m. ET on date listed.

Visit the Final Examination Schedule website (authentication required) on or after this date to view the term's final examination schedule.

Visit Convocation website for ceremony details.

Deadline to receive 50% of charges for tuition, co-op fee, and student services fees removed for withdrawing from the term, completing degree requirements, or dropping a course. All other charges remain on student accounts. See Student Financial Services website.

Refer to tuition and fees deadlines. Late fees apply, see Student Financial Services for details.

Visit the Finance website for instructions on submitting a Promissory Note.

All classes cancelled and offices closed.

The loss of a Monday class on May 24 will be made up by following a Monday schedule on Tuesday, August 3.

The loss of a Friday class on July 2 will be made up by following a Friday schedule on Wednesday, August 4.

Laurier may have a different schedule - visit their website for applicable end dates.

The loss of a Thursday class on July 1 will be made up on Thursday, August 5 (no change in schedule).

There are one or two study days each term, between the end of the Formal Lecture Period and the beginning of the Final Examination Period. No classes are to be held during study days, except where classes are rescheduled as the result of a campus-wide emergency closure.

The Final Examination Period begins on the first date listed, and ends with an emergency day. Students are expected to be available to write their final examination(s) for the entirety of the Final Examination Period, including the scheduled emergency days.

Each term, the Office of the Registrar provides instructors with several dates and times during the Final Examination Period, or shortly thereafter, at which they can register a student to write their deferred final examination. The registration process to attend will only occur after the student and the instructor have mutually agreed on the date and time. Any student who arrives to a make-up final examination session who is not registered to write at that session will not be permitted to write and will be directed to contact their instructor. Final examination make-up sessions are only available at the University of Waterloo campus

Spring 2027 term dates; not all dates may be used.

Dates reserved to hold final examinations in the event the University is closed during the spring 2027 Final Examination Period: Examinations will be rescheduled on the next available day, including Sunday, on which examinations have not been scheduled.

Each term, the Office of the Registrar provides instructors with several dates and times during the Final Examination Period, or shortly thereafter, at which they can register a student to write their deferred final examination. The registration process to attend will only occur after the student and the instructor have mutually agreed on the date and time. Any student who arrives to a make-up final examination session who is not registered to write at that session will not be permitted to write and will be directed to contact their instructor. Final examination make-up sessions are only available at the University of Waterloo campus

Actual dates may vary depending on employer or student requirements.