Academic Calendar 2025 - 2026
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 2024 – 2025 Academic Year, the academic schedule is laid out below.
Fall 2025
| August 15, 2025 | Late Registration Penalty in Effect* | |
|---|---|---|
| August 25, 2025 | First Day of Classes (Monday) | |
| September 1, 2025 | Labor Day (Monday) | |
| September 5, 2025 | Last Day to Drop / Add | |
| October 6, 2025 | Last Day for students to submit outstanding assignments to change an “I” grade from the previous semester | |
| October 6 - 7, 2025 | Midterm Break (Monday-Tuesday) | |
| October 8, 2025 | (Wednesday) Special Class – Monday Schedule | |
| October 31, 2025 | Last day to withdraw with a grade of “W” | |
| November 26 - 28, 2025 | Thanksgiving Holiday (Wednesday-Friday) | |
| December 5, 2025 | Last Day of Classes (Friday) | |
| December 8 - 12, 2025 | Final Exams |
Spring 2026
| January 5, 2026 | Late Registration Penalty in Effect* | |
|---|---|---|
| January 19, 2026 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Monday) | |
| January 20, 2026 | First Day of Classes | |
| January 30, 2026 | Last Day to Drop/Add | |
| March 2, 2026 | Last Day for students to submit outstanding assignments to change an “I” grade from the previous semester | |
| March 9 - 13, 2026 | Spring Break | |
| March 27, 2026 | Last Day to withdraw with a grade of “W” | |
| March 20 or March 21, 2026 | Eid al-Fitr (end of Ramadan)** | |
| May 4, 2026 | Last Day of Classes | |
| May 5 - 8, 2026 | Final Exams | |
| May 15, 2026 | Commencement Day*** |
* 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.
*** Commencement Day is tentative and subject to confirmation.