SPRING 2025
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| May 2 | Last day of Spring semester classes Final exams: May 5-9 |
| May 11 | Conferral date for Spring 2025 degrees |
| May 12 | UConn Health 2025 Commencement Ceremony, 1PM, Jorgenson Center for the Performing Arts, Storrs campus |
| May 13 | Semester grades due by 4 PM |
SUMMER 2025
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| June 6 | Deadline to apply for graduation and last day to submit Final Plan of Study (Master’s, Sixth-Year and Graduate Certificate students only) for conferral of a Summer 2025 degree |
| August 10 | Last day for degree candidates to submit thesis and dissertation final copies to Submittable and related paperwork to Degree Audit in the Office of the Registrar for conferral of a Summer 2025 degree. It is recommended that students defend at least two weeks prior to this deadline to allow for revisions. Defense must be announced two weeks prior to defending. |
FALL 2025
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| August 18-22 | Mandatory Biomedical Science Ph.D. Incoming Student Orientation begins |
| August tbd (week of 18-22) | Biomedical Science Graduate Student Research Day |
| August 24 | Conferral date for Summer 2025 degrees |
| August 25 | Fall 2025 semester begins |
| September 1 | Labor Day- No Classes |
| September 8 | Last day to register, including Continuous Registration, without penalty. Last day to drop a course without a “W” (withdrawal); last day to add/drop courses without additional signatures. |
| September 19 | Deadline to apply for graduation and submit Final Plan of Study (Master’s, Sixth-Year and Graduate Certificate students only) for conferral of Fall 2025 degree |
| September 22 | Last day to add a course without permission from the Associate Dean of the Graduate School |
| October TBD | Ph.D. in Biomedical Science Open House |
| November 10 | Last day for graduate students to withdraw from a course |
| November 25-28 | Thanksgiving Recess |
| November 28 | Last day for degree candidates to submit thesis and dissertation final copies to Submittable and related paperwork to Degree Audit in the Office of the Registrar for conferral of a Fall 2025 degree. It is recommended that students defend at least two weeks prior to this deadline to allow for revisions. Defense must be announced two weeks prior to defending. |
| December 1 | Deadline for applications for the Ph.D. program in Biomedical Science for Fall 2026 |
| December 5 | Last day for Fall semester classes Final Exams (Dec. 8-12) |
| December 14 December 17 |
Conferral date for Fall 2025 degrees Semester grades due by 4PM |
SPRING 2026
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 20 | Spring 2026 semester begins |
| January/February TBD | Biomedical Science Ph.D. Interviews- online |
| February 2 | Last day to register, including Continuous Registration, without penalty. Last day to drop a course without a “W” (withdrawal); last day to add/drop courses without additional signatures. |
| February 13 | Deadline to apply for graduation and last day to submit Final Plan of Study (Master’s, Sixth-Year and Graduate Certificate students only) for conferral of a Spring 2026 degree |
| February 16 | Last day to add a course without permission from the Associate Dean of the Graduate School |
| February tbd | Deadline for applications for the Undergraduate Summer Research Internship Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences [check webpage for details] |
| March 1 | Deadline to apply for Summer 2026 graduation to be included in the 2026 Commencement Book |
| March 16-20 | Spring Recess-Graduate School |
| April 1 | Admissions for M.P.H. program: for preferred consideration, apply by April 1st |
| April 13 | Last day for graduate students to withdraw from a course |
| April 24 | Last day for degree candidates to submit thesis and dissertation final copies to Submittable and related paperwork to Degree Audit in the Office of the Registrar for conferral of a Spring 2026 degree. It is recommended that students defend at least two weeks prior to this deadline to allow for revisions. Defense must be announced two weeks prior to defending. |
| May 1 | Last day of Spring semester classes Final exams: May 4-8 |
| May 10 | Conferral date for Spring 2026 degrees |
| May TBD | UConn Health 2026 Commencement Ceremony, Jorgenson Center for the Performing Arts, Storrs campus |
| May 12 | Semester grades due by 4 PM |
| June 11 | Deadline to apply for graduation and last day to submit Final Plan of Study (Master’s, Sixth-Year and Graduate Certificate students only) for conferral of a Summer 2026 degree |
| August 10 | Last day for degree candidates to submit thesis and dissertation final copies to Submittable and related paperwork to Degree Audit in the Office of the Registrar for conferral of a Summer 2025 degree. It is recommended that students defend at least two weeks prior to this deadline to allow for revisions. Defense must be announced two weeks prior to defending. |
| August 24 | Conferral date for Summer 2026 degrees |
| August 31 | Fall 2026 semester begins |