Early exam schedule at Nat and Tech

STADS is up and running

STADS is once again up and running, and you can register for spring classes and exams. The registration deadline is Thursday 7 November at 23.59.

Exam schedule is published before course registration

From and including the spring semester 2025, the exam and teaching schedule is published simultaneously on the following dates:

Fall semester

Spring semester

Exam and teaching schedule publication: 24th of April 

Exam and teaching schedule publication: 24th of October

Course registration: 1st-5th of May

Course registration: 1st-5th of November 

Aarhus University has gradually transitioned to a new way of creating teaching and exam schedules, so-called "curriculum-based planning", which means that the teaching and exam schedule are published seven days before course registration. For you as a student, this means that you can see the teaching and exam schedule well in advance of the start of the semester and before you register for courses. If you are going to have electives, you can see when the courses you want to take are available, and choose courses that are not scheduled at the same time. This may also be relevant for you if you need to organize an individual study program on the basis of transfer credit, delayed studies, or otherwise.

The goal of earlier published teaching and exam schedules is to create more stable and predictable schedules and plans, as well as make it easier for you as a student to plan a good course of study without schedule overlap.

Note that this early exam schedule only covers ordinary exams. As before, re-exams are planned continuously up to the exam period.

How to see the schedule of your exams

As normal, you access the exam schedule via “Examination schedules” in the overview on the left side of this homepage.  

Remember to check the schedule regularly. 

Although we of course try to avoid it, there may be changes to the schedule both before and after the start of the semester due to unforeseen events. It is therefore important that you regularly check the schedule to make sure you have the most up-to-date schedule. 

This is how we schedule at Nat and Tech

Until now, the exam planning of the ordinary exams at Nat and Tech has been based on students' course and exam registrations. 

When the exam schedule is published before course registration, the exams are instead planned based on information from curricula, experiences from previous semesters, historical data on enrolments and information from the course coordinators and instructors. 

Each programme has also decided which electives should not have overlapping schedules. If you experience that the exam schedule of two electives have been scheduled at the same time, it may be because your education has chosen that, that particular course combination does not have to be possible in terms of overlapping schedules. 

If you need help and guidance

It can be a bit of a puzzle to get hours, rooms and all students' course registrations to add up, and therefore some students will find that the courses they want are scheduled at the same time, including their exams. If this is the case and you need to make a new study plan, you are recommended to contact the 'Student Guidance Counsellors’, which can help you create a course composition that meets your academic wishes.  

Remember that you must update and have approved your study contract in the Contract Generator every time you change your study programme (does not apply to Bachelor of Engineering students).