2023-2024 Graduate Academic Catalog

Academic Calendar 2023-2024

Below are key dates in the academic year. 

For much more detailed information, please see Lesley University's 2023-2024 academic calendar

Fall 2023
   
September  4 Labor Day  
   5 Fall Term 1 classes begin
   6
Fall Semester classes begin
   11
Deadline to add/drop courses for Fall Term 1
   12
Deadline to add/drop courses for Fall Semester
   
October 9 Indigenous Peoples’ Day

 29 Fall Term 1 ends
   30 Fall Term 2 classes begin
     
November  5 Deadline to add/drop courses for Fall Term 2
   10 Veterans Day (Observed)
   22-26 Student Thanksgiving Break1
     
December  20 Fall Semester ends
   21-Jan 1
Student Winter Break2
   23 Fall Term 2 ends2
     
1Student Thanksgiving Break 2023: No classes from Wednesday, 11/22 through Sunday, 11/26
(Administrative offices close at 12:00 pm on Wednesday, November 22, 2023).
2Student Winter Break 2023: The Fall Semester ends on Wednesday, 12/20, but Fall Term 2 ends on Saturday 12/23.
Some Fall Term 2 classes may meet on 12/23.
     

Spring 2024

   
     
 January  2 January Mini-Semester classes begin
   15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
   21 January Mini-Semester classes end
   22 Spring Semester begins
   22 Spring Term 1 begins
   28 Deadline to add/drop courses for Spring Semester
   28 Deadline to add/drop courses for Spring Term 1
     
 March  11-17 Spring Student Vacation
   17 Spring Term 1 ends
   18 Spring Term 2 begins
   24 Deadline to add/drop courses for Spring Term 2
     
 April  15 Patriots Day
     
 May  10 Spring Semester ends
   12 Spring Term 2 ends
   13 Summer Term 1 begins
   19 Deadline to add/drop courses for Summer Term 1
   27 Memorial Day
     
 June  1 Summer Semester begins
   7 Deadline to add/drop courses for Summer Semester
   19 Juneteenth
     
 July  4 Independence Day
   7 Summer Term 1 ends
   8 Summer Term 2 begins
   14 Deadline to add/drop courses for Summer Term 2
     
 August  25
Summer Semester ends
     
 September  1 Summer Term 2 ends