Semester Dates & Deadlines
Overview
Winter semester 2024/25
Start of semester: 1st October 2024
End of semester: 28th February 2025
Start of general admission period: 1st July 2024
End of general admission period: 5th September 2024
Window for reporting continuation of studies opens (continuation period):
1st July 2024
Window for reporting continuation of studies closes (continuation deadline):
31st October 2024
Start of registration period for classes: 2nd September 2024
End of registration period for classes: 30th September 2024
Start of teaching: 1st October 2024
End of teaching: 31st January 2025
Teaching-free period
Christmas: 21st December 2024 to 6th January 2025
Semester break: 1st February 2025 to 28th February 2025
and
National Holiday: 26th October 2024
All Saints' Day: 1st November 2024
Summer semester 2025
Start of semester: 1st March 2025
End of semester: 30th September 2025
Start of general admission period: 7th January 2025
End of general admission period: 5th February 2025
Window for reporting continuation of studies opens (continuation period):
7th January 2025
Window for reporting continuation of studies closes (continuation deadline):
31st March 2024
Start of registration period for classes: 3rd February 2025
End of registration period for classes: 27th February 2025
Start of teaching: 1st March 2025
End of teaching: 27th June 2025
Teaching-free period
Easter: 14th April 2025 to 25th April 2025
Pentecost: 9th June 2025 to 10th June 10 2025
Summer vacation: 30th June 2025 to 30th September 2025
and
National Holiday: 1st May 2025
Ascension Day: 29th May 2025
Senate Day: 30th May 2025
Corpus Christi: 19th June 2025
Start of academic year: 1st October 2024
End of academic year: 30th September 2025
Application Deadlines
Application deadlines for auditions and entrance examinations (for courses beginning in October 2025)
- Performance Studies (Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Postgraduate University Course)
1.2.2025 - 28.2.3025 (Please note: the deadline is in February!) - Pre-College Salzburg
1.2.2025 - 28.3.2025 - Studies at the Orff Institute (Elemental Music and Dance or Movement Pedagogy)
1.2.2025 - 28.3.2025 - Instrumental & Vocal Pedagogy (Salzburg and Innsbruck locations)
1.2.2025 - 28.3.2025 - Teacher Training Studies (teaching subjects Art, Design: Technology & Texiles, Music, Instrumental Music)
Date 1: 1.2.2025 - 10.6.2025 (only Art and Design: Technology & Textiles, Salzburg campus)
Date 2: 1.7.2025 - 5.8.2025 (only Art and Design: Technology & Textiles, Salzburg campus)
1.2.2025 - 10.6.2025 (only Art, Innsbruck campus)
1.2.2025 - 28.3.2025 (only Music and Instrumental Music, Salzburg and Innsbruck campuses) - Diploma Programme: Stage design
Date 1: 1.2.2025 - 28.2.2025
Date 2: 1.4.2025 - 28.5.2025 - Diploma Programme: Acting (admission for summer semester 2025!)
01.8.2024 - 14.11.2024 - Diploma study Directing (admission for summer semester 2025!)
01.8.2024 - 14.11.2024 - MA in Applied Theatre
1.2.2025 - 28.3.2025 - PhD in the Arts
1.2.2025 - 28.3.2025
Complete list of current audition & entrance examination dates (2024)