Academic Calendar
This calendar reflects major term dates and activities scheduled throughout the academic year at PAFA. Term start and end dates, refund periods, drop/add periods, and more vary for all terms.
2024 - 2025 Academic Calendar
| Fall 2024 | |
| Classes Start (Cert/BFA/PB/MFA)-Monday classes | 8/26/2024 |
| Labor Day Holiday (no classes) | 9/2/2024 |
| Classes Start (Low Residency MFA) | 9/3/2024 |
| Drop/Add Ends | 9/9/2024 |
| Welcome Back Class o f '25 Brunch | 9/12/2024 |
| Indigenous Peoples Day (no classes) | 10/14/2024 |
| Last Day to Withdraw from a Class | 10/22/2024 |
| Undergraduate Registration for Spring Classes | 11/4/2024 |
| Graduate Registration for Spring Classes | 11/11/2024 |
| Thanksgiving Holiday (no classes) | 11/28 & 11/29/2024 |
| Final Crit Week | 12/10 – 12/13/2024 |
| Last Day of Fall Classes | 12/13/2024 |
| Winter Break Begins for All Students | 12/14/2024 |
| Spring 2025 | |
| Classes Start (Cert/BFA/PB/MFA)-Monday classes | 1/6/2025 |
| Drop/Add Ends | 1/17/2025 |
| Martin Luther King Holiday (no classes) | 1/20/2025 |
| Classes Start (Low Residency MFA) | 1/21/2025 |
| Last Day to Remove Fall Incompletes | 2/17/2025 |
| Last Day to Withdraw from a Class | 2/28/2025 |
| Spring Break (no classes) | 3/1 - 3/9/2025 |
| Classes Resume | 3/10/2025 |
| Final Crit Week | 4/22 - 4/28/2025 |
| Last Day of Spring Classes (BFA/MFA/PB/LoRes MFA) | 4/28/2025 |
| MFA End of Term Reviews | 4/29/2025 |
| ASE Women’s Committee Preview Opening | 5/8/2025 |
| Commencement/ASE Public Opening | 5/9/2025 |
| Annual Student Exhibition Closes | 6/1/2025 |
| Last Day to Remove Spring 2025 Incompletes | 6/9/2025 |
| Summer 2025 | |
| Classes Start (Low Residency MFA) | 6/17/2025 |
| Juneteenth Holiday (no classes) | 6/19/2025 |
| Drop/Add Ends | 6/25/2025 |
| Independence Day (no classes) | 7/4/2025 |
| Low Residency MFA Graduation | 8/6/2025 |
| Last Day of Summer Classes (Low Residency MFA) | 8/8/2025 |
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