Academic Calendar

2025–26 academic year

Find key dates and deadlines for the current academic year below.

You can subscribe to the academic calendar through your RISD Google account with a risd.edu email address. You’ll find the calendar under "RISD Academic Calendar" associated with the email academiccalendar@risd.edu.

Downloadable 2025–26 calendars

2025–26 detail dates

2025–26 basic dates graphic calendar

First Year in Florence calendar

2026 Wintersession Calendar Schedule Grid

2025–26 detail dates

2025–26 basic dates graphic calendar

First Year in Florence calendar

2026 Wintersession Calendar Schedule Grid

Summer 2025

Fall 2025

Wintersession 2026

Spring 2026

Historic academic calendars

2020–2025

2024–25 academic calendar

2023–24 academic calendar

2022–23 academic calendar

2021–22 academic calendar

2020–21 academic calendar

2015–2020

2019–20 academic calendar

2018–19 academic calendar

2017–18 academic calendar

2024–25 academic calendar

2023–24 academic calendar

2022–23 academic calendar

2021–22 academic calendar

2020–21 academic calendar

2019–20 academic calendar

2018–19 academic calendar

2017–18 academic calendar

Academic Calendar

2025–26 academic year

Downloadable 2025–26 calendars

Summer 2025

Fall registration for new transfer and graduate students begins (by appointment)

Master of Arts in Adaptive Reuse summer program

Juneteenth — no classes, offices closed

Summer Foundation Studies program

Master of Arts in Design Engineering summer program

Independence Day — no classes, offices closed

Master of Landscape Architecture summer program

Master of Architecture, Master of Design and Master of Arts in Teaching summer programs

Fall 2025

Fall registration closes

Fall semester begins

Add/drop period

Indigenous People’s Day — no classes, offices closed

Advising days — no classes

Final day to withdraw from fall courses

Wintersession and spring registration begins (by appointment)

Thanksgiving — no classes, offices closed

Last day of fall classes

Reading/preparation/study day

Liberal Arts and Grad Commons exams

Studio review days/crits

Last day of fall semester

Wintersession 2026

Wintersession registration closes

Wintersession begins

Martin Luther King Jr. Day — no classes, offices closed

Final day to withdraw from wintersession courses

Wintersession classes end

Spring 2026

Spring registration closes

Spring semester begins

Add/drop period

Spring break

Final day to withdraw from spring courses

Fall 2026 registration begins (by appointment)

Last day of spring classes

Reading/preparation/study day

Liberal Arts and Grad Commons exams

Studio review days/crits

Last day of spring semester

Memorial Day — offices closed

Commencement

Historic academic calendars

2020–2025

2015–2020