Academic Schedule
Planning Your Path to Success: ACATCM’s Comprehensive Academic Schedule
Important Note: The academic schedule may be updated online when required and as needed. Students are accountable to the terms outlined in their student enrollment contract regarding the acknowledgment of fee payment and tuition.
Winter Semester 2024
Date | Day | Event |
January 1, 2024 | Monday | New Year’s Day, College Closed |
January 2-6, 2024 | Tuesday – Saturday | Block Week* |
January 8, 2024 | Monday | Start of Classes |
January 12, 2024 | Friday | Last day to drop a course with partial tuition refund** |
January 19, 2024 | Friday | Last day to add or swap a course |
January 26, 2024 | Friday | Tuition and Fees Payment Deadline |
February 18 – 25, 2024 | Sunday – Sunday | Mid-Term Break – No Classes |
February 19, 2024 | Monday | Alberta Family Day, College Closed |
March 5, 2024 | Tuesday | Last day to withdraw from a course*** End of Refund Period |
March 29, 2024 | Friday | Good Friday, College Closed |
April 1, 2024 | Monday | Easter Monday, College Closed |
April 15 -26, 2024 | Monday – Friday | Final examination period for Winter semester |
April 26, 2024 | Friday | End of Winter Semester |
*Block Week offers credit courses in an intensive format over five days, with lectures and seminars running for up to eight hours each day. Assignments may be due after the Block Week, and final exams are held during the regular examination period at the end of the term. Some courses are only available in this format, and it can allow students to take an additional course per semester. The use of Block Week format is not indicated on the student’s transcript.
**There will be no academic record of a course that is dropped by this date and 75% of the tuition will be refunded.
***There will be “W” recorded on the student’s transcript for the course and 40% of tuition will be refunded.
Spring Semester 2024
Date | Day | Event |
April 8, 2024 | Monday | Spring Semester registration opens |
April 22, 2024 | Monday | Last day to register for Spring Semester |
May 3, 2024 | Friday | Last day to drop a course without financial penalty |
May 6, 2024 | Monday | First Day of Spring Classes |
May 8, 2024 | Wednesday | Last day to drop a course* |
May 13, 2024 | Monday | Tuition and Fees Payment Deadline |
May 15, 2024 | Wednesday | Last day to add or swap a course |
May 20, 2024 | Monday | Victoria Day – Campus Closed |
May 29, 2024 | Wednesday | Last day to withdraw from a course** End of Refund Period |
June 15, 2024 | Saturday | Spring Convocation |
June 21, 2024 | Friday | Last day of Spring Classes |
June 24-28, 2024 | Monday – Friday | Final Examination Week |
Jun 28, 2024 | Friday | End of Spring Semester |
*There will be no academic record of a course that is dropped by this date and 75% of the tuition will be refunded.
**There will be “W” recorded on the student’s transcript for the course and 40% of tuition will be refunded.
Summer Semester 2024
Date | Day | Event |
May 27, 2024 | Monday | Summer Semester registration opens |
June 17, 2024 | Monday | Last day to register for Summer Semester |
June 28, 2024 | Friday | Last day to drop a course with no financial penalty |
July 1, 2024 | Monday | Canada Day – Campus Closed |
July 2, 2024 | Tuesday | First Day of Summer Classes |
July 3, 2024 | Wednesday | Last day to drop a course with 45 program hours* |
July 5, 2024 | Friday | Last day to drop a course with 90 program hours* |
July 9, 2024 | Tuesday | Tuition and Fees Payment Deadline |
July 10, 2024 | Wednesday | Last day to add or swap a course |
July 24, 2024 | Wednesday | Last day to withdraw from a course with 45 program hours** |
July 25, 2024 | Thursday | Last day to withdraw from a course with 90 program hours** End of Refund Period |
August 5, 2024 | Monday | Heritage Day, Campus Closed |
August 16, 2024 | Friday | Last day of Summer Classes |
August 19-23, 2024 | Monday – Friday | Examination Week of Summer Semester |
August 23, 2024 | Friday | End of Summer Semester |
*There will be no academic record of a course that is dropped by this date and 75% of the tuition will be refunded.
**There will be “W” recorded on the student’s transcript for the course and 40% of tuition will be refunded.
Fall Semester 2024 (Subject to revision)
Date | Day | Event |
July 31, 2024 | Wednesday | Last day to apply for 2024 Fall Semester |
August 26 – 30, 2024 | Monday – Friday | New student orientation (to be confirmed) |
August 30, 2024 | Friday | Last day to withdraw from a course without financial penalty |
September 2, 2024 | Monday | Labor Day – Campus Closed |
September 3, 2024 | Tuesday | Fall Term Begins |
September 6, 2024 | Friday | Last day to drop a course* |
September 10, 2024 | Friday | Tuition and Fee Payment Deadline |
September 20, 2024 | Friday | Last day to add or swap a course |
September 30, 2024 | Monday | National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – Campus Closed |
October 15, 2024 | Monday | Thanksgiving Day – Campus Closed |
October 15 – 19, 2024 | Monday – Friday | Fall Reading Break – No Classes |
October 18, 2024 | Friday | Last day to withdraw from a course** End of Refund Period |
November 11, 2024 | Monday | Remembrance Day – Campus Closed |
December 6, 2024 | Friday | Last day of Fall classes |
December 9 – 20, 2024 | Monday – Friday | Final exam period for Fall semester |
December 20, 2024 | Friday | Fall Term Ends |
December 25 – 27, 2024 | Wednesday – Friday | Holiday Break – Campus Closed |
*There will be no academic record of a course that is dropped by this date and 75% of the tuition will be refunded.
**There will be “W” recorded on the student’s transcript for the course and 40% of tuition will be refunded.