From and including the spring semester 2025, the teaching and exam schedule is published simultaneously on the following dates.
Fall semester | Spring semester |
Teaching and exam schedule publication: 24th of April | Teaching and exam 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.
The preliminary schedule will be published on timetable.au.dk. When the schedule is published, you are not yet registered for courses and therefore you cannot see your personal teaching schedule. Instead, you must look up the schedule for each course you want to take.
Open timetable.au.dk
Search for the courses you want to see the schedule for. You will find guidance here under "Adding timetables for modules".
Go to the semester you want to see schedule for.
To check for overlapping schedules between two or more courses, use the BSS video guide. This can be helpful if you take electives and want to make sure that they are not scheduled at the same time, or if you find it a little difficult to figure out whether you will have teaching overlap.
A few weeks after the registration period, you will be assigned to your class and can then see your personal schedule on timetable.au.dk. Only a few weeks before the start of the semester, your personal schedule will enter mitstudie.au.dk.
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.
Until now, the teaching planning at Nat and Tech has been based on students' course registrations and we have tried to create as few teaching overlaps as possible.
When the teaching schedule is published before course registration, the courses 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 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. You are allowed to take the courses, but will have teaching overlap.
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. 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).