Brown academic calendar 2024-2025

Brown academic calendar 2024/2025. Check out the important dates and deadlines on the Brown academic calendar for 2024-2025 academic year. These dates include Brown University holidays, exam dates, registration dates, etc.

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.

At its foundation, Brown was the first college in North America to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation. The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics program in the United States, the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, and the third-oldest medical program in New England.

Brown academic calendar 2024/2025

The university was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters and doctoral studies in 1887. In 1969, Brown adopted its Open Curriculum after a period of student lobbying. The new curriculum eliminated mandatory “general education” distribution requirements, made students “the architects of their own syllabus” and allowed them to take any course for a grade of satisfactory (Pass) or no-credit (Fail) which is unrecorded on external transcripts. In 1971, Brown’s coordinate women’s institution, Pembroke College, was fully merged into the university.

Brown academic calendar fall 2024

These are the important dates and deadlines in the Brown academic calendar for fall 2024.

1. Monday, August 1 2024 is the last day for payment of charges.
2. Brown move-in day 2024 is on Wednesday, August 31, 2024.
3. Thursday, September 1 2024 is the beginning of College Orientation.
4. Registration of new undergraduate and all graduate students for the fall semester begins at 4:00 pm EDT on Friday, September 2 2024, and ends at midnight EDT on Tuesday, September 6 2024. Maximum of 4 credit hours allowed for undergraduates.
5. Registration re-opens at 9:00 am EDT on Sept 6 2024 for all students for the fall semester. Up to a maximum of 5 credit hours is allowed.
6. Opening Convocation is on Tuesday, September 6 2024 at 4:00 p.m.EDT
7. Wednesday, September 7 2024 is the first day of RISD Fall Session.
8. Brown Fall Classes begin on Wednesday, September 7 2024.
9. Wednesday, September 14 2024 is the last day to register for a Fall RISD course without a fee or change a grade option for a Fall RISD course – (5:00 p.m. EDT deadline).
10. Tuesday, September 20 2024 is the last day to add a course without a fee (5:00 p.m. EDT deadline). Banner Web will be taken down for approximately one hour. Once relaunched, all course adds require Instructor override and will be charged a late fee of $15 per course.
11. Tuesday, October 4 2024 is the last day to add a course (includes late fee), change from audit to credit, or change a grade option declaration (5:00 p.m. EDT deadline) on the Brown academic calendar.
12. Monday, October 10 2024 is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Brown Univerisity Holidays 2024, No University exercises.
13. Friday, October 14 2024 is the last day to change from credit to audit in a course (5:00 p.m. EDT deadline).
14. Mid-semester is Saturday, October 15 2024.
15. Tuesday, October 18 2024 is the date by which sophomores entering their 5th semester must file their concentration declaration forms via ASK to avoid having a “No Concentration” hold placed against their Banner registration. (5:00 p.m. EDT deadline).
16. Thursday, November 3, 2024 is the date by which advisors must approve sophomore submitted concentrations in ASK to avoid having a “No Concentration” hold placed against the student’s Banner registration. (5:00 p.m. EDT deadline).
17. Tuesday, November 8 2024 is United States Election Day (2024 United States House of Representatives elections). No University exercises.
18. Students on serious warning who wish to drop a course after Monday, November 14 2024 must meet with an academic dean for advising and to obtain a “drop code.”
19. Thanksgiving break begins on Wednesday, November 23 at noon EST to Sunday, November 27 2024.
20. Monday, November 28 2024 is the deadline for seniors in their penultimate (usually 7th) semester to file a second or third concentration via ASK (5:00 p.m. EDT deadline). *Any declarations not “advisor approved” and recorded in Banner by the advisor approval deadline will not be honored.
21. Classes resume on Monday, November 28 2024 on the Brown academic calendar.
22. Monday, December 5 2024 is the last day of Fall RISD classes.
23. Thursday, December 8 2024 is the beginning of Reading Period (optional and at the instructor’s discretion).
24. Monday, December 12 2024 is the last day for students in their ante-penultimate (typically 6th) semester to declare an undergraduate certificate in ASK as stated in the Brown academic calendar.
25. Monday, December 12 2024 is the last day for advisors to approve second or third concentrations in ASK for students in their penultimate semester (typically the 7th semester) who are declaring a second/third concentration (5:00 p.m. EST deadline).
26. Classes end for courses not observing the Reading Period on Monday, December 12 2024. It is the last day to drop a course (5:00 p.m. EST deadline) or to request an incomplete from an instructor.
27. Tuesday, December 13 2024 is the last day for approved 7th (or penultimate) semester undergraduates in eligible concentrations to submit writing completed in the concentration in ASK to complete part II of the writing requirement.
28. The final examination period (including Sunday) is 13 Tuesday, December 13 to Wednesday, December 21 2024.

Brown academic calendar winter session 2025

These are the essential dates and deadlines in the Brown academic calendar for Winter session 2025.

1. Registration for Winter Session courses begins at 9:00 A.M. EST on Thursday, November 17 2024 to Monday, December 5 2024.
2. Winter Session tuition is due on Wednesday, December 14 2024.
3. Winter Session online courses begin on Thursday, December 22 2024.
4. Tuesday, January 10 2025 is the last day to change a grade option declaration.
5. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday is Monday, January 16 2025 on the Brown academic calendar 2025.
6. Final examinations for Winter session 2025 is on Tuesday, January 24 2025.
7. Winter Session ends on Tuesday, January 24 2025.

Brown academic calendar Spring 2025

These are the essential dates and deadlines in the Brown academic calendar for Spring 2025.

1. Saturday, October 1 2024 is the deadline for undergraduates on personal leave (including employment and military leave) or on Full-time Study Away status to request return to studies at Brown University for Spring 2025.
2. Advising period for spring pre-registration begins on Monday, October 24 2024. Students in their first through third semesters will need to procure their advising PIN from their advisor in order to register.
3. Registration opens for Semester II, 2024-2025 on Monday, November 7 2024 for undergraduate students semester level 07 and above and all continuing graduate students at noon EST. Registration will close from midnight Tuesday, November 8 until midnight Wednesday, November 9 then remain open until.
4. Registration opens for Semester II, 2024-23 for undergraduate students semester levels 05-06 on Wednesday, November 9 2024 at noon EST. Students are unable to register for 5th semester unless approved concentration is filed. Registration remains open until Tuesday, November 15, 5:00.
5. Registration opens for Semester II, 2024-23 for undergraduate students semester levels 03-04 on Thursday, November 10 2024 at noon EST. Registration remains open until Tuesday, November 15, 5:00 p.m. EST. Maximum of 4 credit hours allowed for undergraduates.
6. Registration opens for Semester II, 2024-23 for undergraduate students semester levels 01-02 on Friday, November 11 2024 at noon EST. Registration remains open until Tuesday, November 15, 5:00 p.m. EST. Maximum of 4 credit hours allowed for undergraduates.
7. Friday, November 11 2024 is the deadline for submission of proposals for College Curriculum Council-approved undergraduate group study projects (GISPs), independent study projects, and internships for credit) for Semester II on the Brown academic calendar.
8. Registration for Semester II, 2024-23 continues until Tuesday, November 15, 5:00 p.m. EST.
9. Thursday, December 1 2024 is the deadline for undergraduates to declare a leave for Semester II.
10. Sunday, January 1 2025 is the last day for payment of charges.
11. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday is Monday, January 16 2025.
12. Spring semester classes begin on Wednesday, January 25 2025. Classes of the second semester begin. Web registration begins at 8:00 a.m. EST on the Brown academic calendar.
13. Tuesday, February 7 2025 is the last day to add a course without a fee (5:00 p.m. EST deadline). Banner Web will be taken down for approximately one hour. Once relaunched, all course adds require Instructor override and will be charged a late fee of $15 per course.
14. Long weekend Holiday is from Saturday, February 18 2025 to Tuesday, February 21 2025.
15. Classes resume on Wednesday, February 22, 2025.
16. Wednesday, February 22, 2025 is the last day to add a course (includes late fee), change from audit to credit, or change a grade option declaration (5:00 p.m. EST deadline).
17. The last day to change from credit to audit in a course is Friday, March 10 2025 (5:00 p.m. EST deadline).
18. Mid-semester is Saturday, March 11 2025 on the Brown academic calendar.
19. Brown Spring Break 2025 is from Saturday, March 25 2025 to Sunday, April 2 2025.
20. Saturday, April 1 2025 is the deadline for undergraduates on personal leave (including employment and military leave) or on Full-time Study Away status to request return to studies at Brown for Fall.
21. Classes resume on Monday, April 3, 2025.
22. Students on serious warning who wish to drop a course after Tuesday, April 11 2025 must meet with an academic dean for advising and to obtain a “drop code.”
23. Tuesday, April 25 2025 is the deadline for seniors in their penultimate (usually 7th) semester to file a second or third concentration via ASK (5:00 p.m. EDT deadline). *Any declarations not “advisor approved” and recorded in Banner by the advisor approval deadline will not be honored.
24. Reading Period begins on Friday, April 28 2025 and will end on May 10 2025. This is optional and at the discretion of the instructor.
25. Classes end for courses not observing the Reading Period on Tuesday, May 9 2025. Tuesday, May 9 2025 is the last day to drop a course (5:00 p.m. EDT deadline) or to request an incomplete from an instructor.
26. Tuesday, May 9 2025 is the last day for students in their ante-penultimate (typically 6th) semester to declare an undergraduate certificate in ASK on the Brown academic calendar.
27. Final Examination Period is Wednesday, May 10 2025 to Friday, May 19 2025. There are no exams on Sunday May 14.
28. Commencement is on Sunday, May 28 2025.

Brown academic calendar summer 2024

These are the important dates and deadlines on the Brown academic calendar for summer 2024.

1. Registration for Summer courses for continuing Brown University undergraduates opens at 9:00 a.m.EDT on Monday, April 4 and continues through Thursday April 14 at 5:00 p.m. EDT.
2. Registration period for fall courses for Brown undergraduates is 19 Tuesday, April 19 2024 to 26 Tuesday, April 26 2024. Summer registration closed during this period.
3. Registration period for Summer courses for Brown undergraduates re-opens on Wednesday, April 27 2024 at 9:00 a.m.EDT and remains open until Wednesday, June 22 at 5:00 p.m. EDT.
4. Residence halls open on Sunday, June 19 2024.
5. Monday June 20 2024 is Juneteenth Holiday observed. No University exercises.
6. Summer Session opens on Monday, June 20 2024.
7. Summer Session classes begin on Tuesday, June 21 2024.
8. Wednesday, June 22 is the last day to change courses (All students MUST be in their registered courses by Thursday, June 23).
9. Monday July 4 2024 is Independence Day holiday. No University exercises.
10. Tuesday July 5 2024 is the last day to change grade options.
11. Classes end on Friday, July 29 2024.
12. Reading Period is from Saturday, July 30 until Tuesday, August 2 2024.
13. Tuesday, August 2 2024 is the last day to drop a course. It is the last day to initiate a Course Performance Report via ASK on the Brown academic calendar.
14. Final examination period is 3 Wednesday, August 3 – Friday, August 5 2024.
15. Summer Session ends on Friday, August 5 2024.
16. Residence halls close on Saturday, August 6 2024.

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