Atiba University Academic Calendar 2025/2026

Atiba University has shared the full academic calendar for the 2025/2026 session. The schedule guides freshers, returning students and final year groups. It sets out key dates for lectures, breaks, assessments and meetings.

This outline helps students plan study time, travel and course work within the set period.

First Semester Overview

Resumption and Early Activities

• 29–30 September 2025
  Freshers, direct entry students and final year groups return.
  Returning students also resume from the end-of-session break.
• 01 October 2025
  Independence Day.
• 01–15 October 2025
  Orientation sessions led by the registrar, deans and heads of department.
• 02 October 2025 – 08 January 2026
  Lectures run for all students across fourteen weeks.
• 02–16 October 2025
  Course registration period.
• 06–17 October 2025
  Submission of examination questions for first semester courses.

Mid-Semester Activities

• 24–28 November 2025
  General continuous assessment tests.
• 20 December 2025 – 03 January 2026
  End-of-year break.
• 25 December 2025
  Christmas Day.
• 26 December 2025
  Boxing Day.
• 01 January 2026
  New Year’s Day.
• 05 January 2026
  Students return from the Christmas break.

Lectures, Revision and Exams

• 06–08 January 2026
  Lectures resume and continue for a short stretch.
• 09–16 January 2026
  Revision week.
• 19 January – 06 February 2026
  First semester examinations.
• 07–21 February 2026
  First semester break.

Second Semester Activities

Resumption and Early Dates

• 22 February 2026
  Students resume for the second semester.
• 20–21 March 2026
  Id el Fitr holiday.
• 23 February – 06 March 2026
  Course registration.
  Submission of second semester examination questions.
• 23 February – 30 May 2026
  Lectures continue over fourteen weeks.

Religious and Academic Meetings

• 01–30 March 2026
  Ramadan fasting period.
• 31 March 2026
  Departmental board meeting to consider first semester results.
• 02 April 2026
  Faculty board meeting.
• 04 April 2026
  Good Friday.
• 06 April 2026
  Easter Monday.
• 09 April 2026
  Senate meeting on examination results.

Mid-Semester Notes

• 01 May 2026
  National Workers Day.
• 28–29 May 2026
  Id el Kabir.

Revision, Matriculation and Exams

• 01–05 June 2026
  Revision week.
• 03–04 June 2026
  Matriculation week for freshers.
• 04 June 2026
  Matriculation ceremony.
• 05–26 June 2026
  Second semester examinations.
• 12 June 2026
  Democracy Day.

End of Session Activities

• 27 June – 29 September 2026
  End-of-session break.
• 13–17 July 2026
  Project defence for final year students.