Academic Calendar 2023 - 2024
In keeping with higher education standards, the academic semester at AIC includes fifteen teaching weeks, which reduce to 14 weeks of actual instruction due to holidays (Labor Day, October Break, and Thanksgiving in the fall and March Break in the spring). Final exams and projects are sometimes scheduled for the sixteenth week (after classes are over) and sometimes are folded into the last weeks of class. This is up to the instructor. For the 2023 – 2024 Academic Year, the academic schedule is laid out below.
Fall 2023
| August 18, 2023 | Late Registration Penalty in Effect* | |
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| August 28, 2023 | First Day of Classes | |
| September 4, 2023 | Labor Day | |
| September 8, 2023 | Last Day to Drop / Add | |
| October 9, 2023 | Last Day for students to submit outstanding assignments to change an “I” grade from the previous semester | |
| October 9 - 10, 2023 | Midterm Break (Monday-Tuesday) | |
| October 11, 2023 | (Wednesday) Special Class – Monday Schedule | |
| November 3, 2023 | Last day to withdraw with a grade of “W” | |
| November 23 - 24, 2023 | Thanksgiving Holiday (Thursday-Friday) | |
| December 8, 2023 | Last Day of Classes (Friday) | |
| December 11 - 15, 2023 | Final Exams |
Spring 2024
| January 8, 2024 | Late Registration Penalty in Effect* | |
|---|---|---|
| January 15, 2024 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day | |
| January 16, 2024 | First Day of Classes | |
| January 29, 2024 | Last Day to Drop/Add | |
| February 26, 2024 | Last Day for students to submit outstanding assignments to change an “I” grade from the previous semester | |
| March 4 - 8, 2024 | Spring Break | |
| March 25, 2024 | Last Day to withdraw with a grade of “W” | |
| April 8 or 9, 2024 | Eid al-Fitr (end of Ramadan)** | |
| May 7, 2024 | Last Day of Classes | |
| May 8 - 13, 2024 | Final Exams |
Degree students enrolling after the Late Registration Penalty comes into effect will be assessed an additional fee of $100.
** The beginning and end of Ramadan are determined by collectively-agreed upon moon sightings, and so the precise date for Eid al-Fitr and the Feast Days marking the end of Ramadan will be announced once they become known. No exams will be administered during the first two days of Eid.