Academic calendar
Our academic calendar includes key dates for students including census dates, semester dates, exam periods, holidays and graduation ceremonies.
Find out about VU’s important dates, what they mean, and what you need to complete by each deadline.
Census dates
The census date is an important deadline each study period. It’s your last day to finalise the following:
- withdrawal from your course or unit(s) without financial penalties
- adding unit(s) to your enrolment – with College approval only
- providing your Tax File Number (TFN), if you are a domestic student deferring fees via a HELP loan.
See HE census dates and VET/TAFE census dates.
Penalties for withdrawing after the census date
If you withdraw from the course or unit after the census date, you’ll face one of these financial penalties:
- you will not be eligible for a refund for that unit
- you will remain liable for the HELP loan for that unit.
Penalties also apply for the following delays and amendments:
- making changes to your enrolment
- making late payments
- submitting documents after the relevant census date.
Exceptional circumstances
If you have to discontinue from your course or unit(s) after the census date due to exceptional circumstances, you may be eligible for a refund of fees or have your HELP debt remitted.
Administrative census date
The ‘administrative census date’ is the deadline for adding units each study period (last day to add units).
Withdraw without academic penalty
If you miss the census date, there is a deadline for withdrawing without academic penalty.
When you withdraw by that date, you avoid the academic penalty (fail), but you will remain liable for the fees/or HELP loan.
The discontinued unit will appear on the academic transcript with a WD (Withdrawn) grade.
This date is labelled as 'WD deadline' on this page.
Find out more about withdrawing from your units.
Withdraw with academic penalty (HE)
If you withdraw after the deadline for avoiding academic penalty, you’ll be deemed to have failed the unit.
In these circumstances, the following apply:
- a WN (Withdrawn-Fail) grade will be recorded on your academic transcript
- you’ll remain liable for the fees
- the WN grade will be counted towards your Grade Point Average (GPA).
This date is labelled as 'WN-fail deadline' on this page.
Find out more about withdrawing from your units.
After the deadline for withdrawing with academic penalty (HE)
Once the deadline for withdrawing with an academic penalty has passed, you can no longer withdraw from your unit of study.
Study dates
Results will be displayed in MyVU at 12pm AEST (noon) on the dates listed here.
Summer Block, 2024
- Teaching: 15 January 2024 – 9 February 2024
- Last day to add units: 17 January 2024
- Census: 22 January 2024
- WD deadline: 29 January 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 7 February 2024
- Results published: 12 February 2024
Study break: 12 – 16 February 2024
Semester 1 Block 1, 2024
- Teaching: 19 February 2024 – 15 March 2024
- Last day to add units: 21 February 2024
- Census: 26 February 2024
- WD deadline: 4 March 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 13 March 2024
- Results published: 18 March 2024
Semester 1 Block 2, 2024
- Teaching: 18 March 2024 – 19 April 2024
- Last day to add units: 20 March 2024
- Census: 25 March 2024
- WD deadline: 3 April 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 17 April 2024
- Results published: 22 April 2024
Easter break: 29 March – 4 April 2024
Study break: 22 – 26 April 2024
Semester 1 Block 3, 2024
- Teaching: 29 April 2024 – 24 May 2024
- Last day to add units: 1 May 2024
- Census: 6 May 2024
- WD deadline: 13 May 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 22 May 2024
- Results published: 27 May 2024
Semester 1 Block 4, 2024
- Teaching: 27 May 2024 – 21 June 2024
- Last day to add units: 29 May 2024
- Census: 3 June 2024
- WD deadline: 11 June 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 19 June 2024
- Results published: 24 June 2024
Study break: 24 – 28 June 2024
Winter Block, 2024
- Teaching: 1 July 2024 – 26 July 2024
- Last day to add units: 3 July 2024
- Census: 8 July 2024
- WD deadline: 15 July 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 24 July 2024
- Results published: 29 July 2024
Semester 2 Block 1, 2024
- Teaching: 29 July 2024 – 23 August 2024
- Last day to add units: 31 July 2024
- Census: 5 August 2024
- WD deadline: 12 August 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 21 August 2024
- Results published: 26 August 2024
Semester 2 Block 2, 2024
- Teaching: 26 August 2024 – 20 September 2024
- Last day to add units: 28 August 2024
- Census: 2 September 2024
- WD deadline: 9 September 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 18 September 2024
- Results published: 23 September 2024
Study break: 23 – 27 September 2024
Semester 2 Block 3, 2024
- Teaching: 30 September 2024 – 25 October 2024
- Last day to add units: 2 October 2024
- Census: 7 October 2024
- WD deadline: 14 October 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 23 October 2024
- Results published: 28 October 2024
Semester 2 Block 4, 2024
- Teaching: 28 October 2024 – 22 November 2024
- Last day to add units: 30 October 2024
- Census: 4 November 2024
- WD deadline: 11 November 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 20 November 2024
- Results published: 25 November 2024
Results will be displayed in MyVU at 12pm AEST (noon) on the dates listed here.
Summer term, 2023/2024
- Teaching: 6 November 2023 – 26 January 2024
- Last day to add units: 10 November 2023
- Census: 12 January 2024
- WD deadline: 12 January 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 24 January 2024
- Exams: 29 January 2024 – 2 February 2024
- Results published: 12 February 2024
Study break: 23 December 2023 – 10 January 2024
Semester 1, 2024
- Teaching: 19 February 2024 – 17 May 2024
- Last day to add units: 23 February 2024
- Census: 15 March 2024
- WD deadline: 12 April 2024
- Study break: 29 March – 4 April 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 15 May 2024
- Results published: 24 June 2024
Winter term, 2024
- Teaching: 17 June 2024 – 19 July 2024
- Last day to add units: 21 June 2024
- Census: 28 June 2024
- WD deadline: 12 July 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 17 July 2024
- Results published: 29 July 2024
Semester 2, 2024
- Teaching: 29 July 2024 – 25 October 2024
- Last day to add units: 2 August 2024
- Census: 23 August 2024
- WD deadline: 20 September 2024
- Study break: 23 – 27 September 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 23 October 2024
- Results published: 2 December 2024
Summer term, 2024/2025
- Teaching: 4 November 2024 – 24 January 2025
- Last day to add units: 8 November 2024
- Census: 10 January 2025
- WD deadline: 10 January 2025
- WN-Fail deadline: 22 January 2025
- Results published: 10 February 2025
Results will be displayed in MyVU at 12pm AEST (noon) on the dates listed here.
Block 5, 2023/2024
- Teaching: 27 November 2023 – 9 February 2024
- Last day to add units: 1 December 2023
- Study break: 18 December 2023 - 5 January 2024
- Census: 18 December 2023
- WD deadline: 17 January 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 7 February 2024
- Results published: 12 February 2024
Block 1, 2024
- Teaching: 19 February 2024 – 19 April 2024
- Last day to add units: 23 February 2024
- Census: 4 March 2024
- WD deadline: 18 March 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 17 April 2024
- Results published: 22 April 2024
Study break: 22 – 26 April 2024
Block 2, 2024
- Teaching: 29 April 2024 – 21 June 2024
- Last day to add units: 3 May 2024
- Census: 13 May 2024
- WD deadline: 27 May 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 19 June 2024
- Results published: 24 June 2024
Study break: 24 June 2024 – 26 July 2024
Block 3, 2024
- Teaching: 29 July 2024 – 20 September 2024
- Last day to add units: 2 August 2024
- Census: 12 August 2024
- WD deadline: 26 August 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 18 September 2024
- Results published: 23 September 2024
Study break: 23 – 27 September 2024
Block 4, 2024
- Teaching: 30 September 2024 – 22 November 2024
- Last day to add units: 4 October 2024
- Census: 14 October 2024
- WD deadline: 28 October 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 20 November 2024
- Results published: 25 November 2024
Block 5, 2024/2025
- Teaching: 25 November 2024 – 7 February 2025
- Last day to add units: 29 November 2024
- Study break: 23 December 2024 - 10 January 2025
- Census: 16 December 2024
- WD deadline: 13 January 2025
- WN-Fail deadline: 5 February 2025
- Results published: 10 February 2025
Results will be displayed in MyVU at 12pm AEST (noon), on the dates listed here.
Study period 1, 2024
- Teaching: 8 January 2024 – 25 February 2025
- Last day to add units: 10 January 2024
- Census: 19 January 2024
- WD deadline: 2 February 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 23 February 2024
- Results published: 1 March 2024
Study period 2, 2024
- Teaching: 4 March 2024 – 28 April 2024
- Last day to add units: 6 March 2024
- Census: 15 March 2024
- WD deadline: 3 April 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 26 April 2024
- Results published: 3 May 2024
Study period 3, 2024
- Teaching: 6 May 2024 – 23 June 2024
- Last day to add units: 8 May 2024
- Census: 17 May 2024
- WD deadline: 31 May 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 21 June 2024
- Results published: 28 June 2024
Study period 4, 2024
- Teaching: 1 July 2024 – 18 August 2024
- Last day to add units: 3 July 2024
- Census: 12 July 2024
- WD deadline: 26 July 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 16 August 2024
- Results published: 23 August 2024
Study period 5, 2024
- Teaching: 26 August 2024 – 13 October 2024
- Last day to add units: 28 August 2024
- Census: 6 September 2024
- WD deadline: 20 September 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 11 October 2024
- Results published: 18 October 2024
Study period 6, 2024
- Teaching: 21 October 2024 – 8 December 2024
- Last day to add units: 23 October 2024
- Census: 1 November 2024
- WD deadline: 15 November 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 6 December 2024
- Results published: 13 December 2024
Results will be displayed in MyVU at 12pm AEST (noon), on the dates listed here.
Summer term, 2023/2024
- Teaching: 6 November 2023 – 26 January 2024
- Last day to add units: 10 November 2023
- Census: 12 January 2024
- WD deadline: 12 January 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 24 January 2024
- Exams: 29 January 2024 – 2 February 2024
- Results published: 12 February 2024
Winter term, 2024
- Teaching: 17 June 2024 – 19 July 2024
- Last day to add units: 21 June 2024
- Census: 28 June 2024
- WD deadline: 12 July 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 17 July 2024
- Results published: 29 July 2024
Summer term, 2024/2025
- Teaching: 4 November 2024 – 24 January 2025
- Last day to add units: 8 November 2024
- Census: 10 January 2025
- WD deadline: 10 January 2025
- WN-Fail deadline: 22 January 2025
- Results published: 10 February 2025
Offshore 1 (2024)
- Teaching: 29 January 2024 to 26 May 2024
- Census: 24 May 2024
- Results published: Site Specific result publication dates TBC
Offshore 2
- Teaching: 22 July 2024 to 24 November 2024
- Census: 22 November 2024
- Results published: Site Specific result publication dates TBC
Offshore 3
- Teaching: 27 November 2023 to 28 January 2024
- Census: 26 January 2024
- Results published: Site Specific result publication dates TBC
Offshore 4
- Teaching: 27 May 2024 to 21 July 2024
- Census: 19 July 2024
- Results published: Site Specific result publication dates TBC
Summer Block 2024
- Teaching: 15 January 2024 – 9 February 2024
- Last day to add units: 17 January 2024
- Census: 22 January 2024
- WD deadline: 29 January 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 7 February 2024
- Results published: 12 February 2024
Study break: 12 – 16 February 2024
Semester 1 Block 1, 2024
- Teaching: 19 February 2024 – 15 March 2024
- Last day to add units: 21 February 2024
- Census: 26 February 2024
- WD deadline: 4 March 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 13 March 2024
- Results published: 18 March 2024
Semester 1 Block 2, 2024
- Teaching: 18 March 2024 – 19 April 2024
- Last day to add units: 20 March 2024
- Census: 25 March 2024
- WD deadline: 3 April 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 17 April 2024
- Results published: 22 April 2024
Easter break: 29 March – 4 April 2024
Study break: 22 – 26 April 2024
Semester 1 Block 3, 2024
- Teaching: 29 April 2024 – 24 May 2024
- Last day to add units: 20 March 2024
- Census: 6 May 2024
- WD deadline: 13 May 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 22 May 2024
- Results published: 27 May 2024
Semester 1 Block 4, 2024
- Teaching: 27 May 2024 – 21 June 2024
- Last day to add units: 20 March 2024
- Census: 3 June 2024
- WD deadline: 11 June 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 19 June 2024
- Results published: 24 June 2024
Study break: 24 – 28 June 2024
Winter Block, 2024
- Teaching: 1 July 2024 – 26 July 2024
- Last day to add units: 20 March 2024
- Census: 8 July 2024
- WD deadline: 15 July 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 24 July 2024
- Results published: 29 July 2024
Semester 2 Block 1, 2024
- Teaching: 29 July 2024 – 23 August 2024
- Last day to add units: 31 July 2024
- Census: 5 August 2024
- WD deadline: 12 August 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 21 August 2024
- Results published: 26 August 2024
Semester 2 Block 2, 2024
- Teaching: 26 August 2024 – 20 September 2024
- Last day to add units: 28 August 2024
- Census: 2 September 2024
- WD deadline: 9 September 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 18 September 2024
- Results published: 23 September 2024
Study break: 23 – 27 September 2024
Semester 2 Block 3, 2024
- Teaching: 30 September 2024 – 25 October 2024
- Last day to add units: 28 August 2024
- Census: 7 October 2024
- WD deadline: 14 October 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 23 October 2024
- Results published: 28 October 2024
Semester 2 Block 4, 2024
- Teaching: 28 October 2024 – 22 November 2024
- Last day to add units: 28 August 2024
- Census: 4 November 2024
- WD deadline: 11 November 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 20 November 2024
- Results published: 25 November 2024
VET/TAFE dates
This section includes census dates, and general course study dates and break periods for TAFE courses.
Delivery and term dates may vary significantly for different courses.
Refer to your course timetable for your course's details, available from your teaching area or from VU International (for international students). Results will be displayed in MyVU at 12pm AEST (noon) when finalised by your teacher.
Trimester 3, 2023/2024
- Teaching: 2 October 2023 – 12 January 2024
- Last day to add units: 6 October 2023
- Census: 27 October 2023
- WD deadline: 24 November 2023
- WN-Fail deadline: 10 January 2024
- Results published: 22 January 2024
Trimester 1, 2024
- Teaching: 12 February 2024 – 17 May 2024
- Last day to add units: 16 February 2024
- Census: 8 March 2024
- WD deadline: 5 April 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 15 May 2024
- Results published: 27 May 2024
Trimester 2, 2024
- Teaching: 11 June 2024 – 6 September 2024
- Last day to add units: 14 June 2024
- Census: 5 July 2024
- WD deadline: 2 August 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 4 September 2024
- Results published: 23 September 2024
Trimester 3, 2024/2025
- Teaching: 30 September 2024 – 10 January 2025
- Last day to add units: 4 October 2024
- Census: 25 October 2024
- WD deadline: 22 November 2024
- WN-Fail deadline: 8 January 2025
- Results published: 20 January 2025
Public & University holidays
Public holidays and University holidays in 2024:
- New Year's Day: Monday 1 January 2024
- New Year's Day holiday: Tuesday 2 January 2024
- Australia Day: Friday 26 January 2024
- Labour Day: Monday 11 March 2024 (classes as usual)
- Good Friday: Friday 29 March 2024
- Saturday before Easter Sunday: 30 March 2024
- Easter Sunday: 31 March 2024
- Easter Monday: Monday 1 April 2024
- Easter Tuesday*: Tuesday 2 April 2024
- ANZAC Day: Thursday 25 April 2024
- King's Birthday: Monday 10 June 2024
- AFL Grand Final holiday: TBA
- Melbourne Cup: Tuesday 5 November 2024
- Christmas Day: Wednesday 25 December 2024
- Boxing Day: Thursday 26 December 2024
*VU holiday.