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Spring Term 2025

January 21 – May 17, 2025

November 4 – January 27, Monday–Monday: Enrollment for spring 2025 continuing students for all undergraduates and graduates in Dedman College, Lyle, Meadows and Simmons.
January: Virtual Orientation experiences for new first-year and transfer undergraduate students. Moreinformationabout Virtual Orientation isavailablefrom the Office of the Student Experience, Student Affairs,214-768-4560,/studentaffairs/newstudent.
January 1, Wednesday: New Year’s Day. University offices closed.
January 16, Thursday: Spring Rotunda Passage
January 20, Monday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. University offices closed.
January 20, Monday: Last day to submit a request for cancellation/withdrawal from all courses with no tuition charges. (Undergraduate students visit smu.edu/leaverequest. Graduate students contact academic school of record.) This deadline applies to ALL courses scheduled in the term regardless of the start date.
January 21, Tuesday: First day of classes.
January 27, Monday: Last day to enroll, add a course, or drop a course without tuition billing while remaining enrolled for the term.
February 3, Monday: Last day to drop a course without academic record (tuition charges apply). Last day to withdraw from the university without academic record (withdrawal refund schedule applies). See Bursar’s website for more information.
February 5, Wednesday: Last day to declare no-credit grading option for a course (see UG catalog for specific information). Also, last day to request an excused absence for the observance of a religious holiday. Last day to file for graduation in May. (Spring Census Date)
February 21, Friday: Last day for continuing undergraduate students to change their majors before April enrollment.
February 25, Tuesday: Early intervention grades due for undergraduate students.
March 1, Saturday: Degree Planner completion required for all undergraduate students.
March 17-23, Monday-Sunday: Spring break
March 26, Wednesday: Midterm grades due for undergraduate students.
April 3, Thursday: 60 percent point of the term that federal financial aid has been earned if a student officially withdraws from 51²è¹Ý; prior to this date a partial calculated return to federal programs will be required.
March 31 – April 18, Monday–Friday: Enrollment for summer 2025 and fall 2025 continuing students for all undergraduates and graduates in Dedman College, Lyle, Meadows and Simmons.
April 17, Thursday: Last Day for May graduation candidates to change grades of Incomplete, and to obtain a final grade for a grade of X or a missing grade from a previous term.
April 18, Friday: Good Friday. University offices closed.
April 20, Sunday: Easter Sunday.
April 24, Thursday: Students may begin applying for August or December graduation. The deadline to apply for August graduation is June 11. The deadline to apply for December graduation is September 10.
April 25, Friday: Honors Convocation.
April 28, Monday: Last day to: declare a course pass/fail (see UG catalog for specific information), drop a course (grade of W), and withdraw from the University (grades of W). (This date does not apply to courses in which the last class meeting and final exam have occurred.)
May 1-6, Thursday–Tuesday: No final examinations or unscheduled tests and papers.
May 2, Friday: Last day for oral/written examinations for graduate students who are May degree candidates.
May 6, Tuesday: Last day of classes. (Follows a Friday schedule.)
May 7, Wednesday: Reading Day.
May 8-14, Thursday-Wednesday: Examinations (No examinations scheduled for Sunday).
May 16, Friday: Baccalaureate. 
May 17, Saturday: May Commencement. Official close of term and conferral of degrees.