Information Guide on the Academic Schedule and Tasks for the 1st Semester (Fall Semester) of the 2026/2027 Academic Year
Key faculty events:
Faculty Value-Day: 3 September 2026
Day of Hungarian Science (working day with no classes): 19 November 2026
Semester schedule:
ELTE Opening Ceremony: 4 September 2026
Faculty Opening Ceremony (BA courses): 3 September 2026
Fall registration period: until 6 September 2026
Study period: 7 September – 12 December 2026
Fall break /daytime classes/: 26-31 October 2026
Holidays, rest days and extraordinary working days during the study and exam period:
23 October 2026 (Friday) National Holiday
12 December 2026 (Saturday) working day
24 December 2026 (Thursday) rest day
Exams:
Exam registration in Neptun: 3 December 18:00 – 30 January 16:00
Exam period:
For graduating BA/MA and postgraduate specialist students (taking their final examination at the end of this semester): 14 December 2026 – 8 January 2027
For other academic years of BA/MA and postgraduate specialist programs: 14 December 2026 – 30 January 2027 (7 weeks)
Retake exam period: 25-30 January 2027
Registration for spring semester: untill 7 February 2027
First day of spring semester: 8 February 2027
Budapest, 19 June 2026 Dr. Eszter Márkus
Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs
| Academic Year 2026/27 – Fall Semester | |
| Registration period | Until September 6, 2026 (Sunday) |
| Opening Ceremony | September 4, 2026 (Friday) |
| Teaching period | |
| First day | September 7, 2026 (Monday) |
| Autumn break | October 26–31, 2026 (Monday–Saturday)* ** |
| Last day of teaching*** December 12, 2026, Saturday is a working day December 24, 2026, Thursday is a rest day | December 12, 2026 (Saturday)** |
| Examination period | |
| First day | December 14, 2026 (Monday) |
| Last day | January 30, 2027 (Saturday)** |
* Subject to change depending on the official schedule of the public education school year.
** Saturdays apply only to students in part-time (correspondence) and evening study programmes.
*** In accordance with the working-day rearrangements for the calendar year, pursuant to NGM Decree No. 10/2025 (IV. 30.) on the working schedule around public holidays in 2026.
* Subject to change depending on the official schedule of the public education school year.
** Saturdays apply only to students in part-time (correspondence) and evening study programmes.
*** In accordance with the working-day rearrangements for the calendar year, pursuant to NGM Decree No. 10/2025 (IV. 30.) on the working schedule around public holidays in 2026.