NTU Term Dates 2026/27: Nottingham Trent University Academic Calendar

Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU) 2026/27 academic year begins with Welcome and Induction on Monday, September 14, 2026, and Term One teaching for undergraduates across the university’s seven schools starts on Monday, September 21, 2026.

NTU term dates for 2026/27 vary by school and by campus. Nottingham Law School, the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, the School of Science and Technology, and the School of Social Sciences follow one calendar.

Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design follow a second calendar with a longer Term One and a shorter Term Three.

Brackenhurst Campus, which delivers further education (FE) programmes, runs on a three-term structure with half-terms rather than the two long breaks used elsewhere.

NTU in Mansfield runs the longest academic year of any NTU site, extending five weeks beyond the standard Term Three end date.

NTU Term Dates 2026/27 at a Glance

NTU’s 2026/27 academic year runs from Monday, September 21, 2026, to Friday, May 28, 2027, across three terms for most schools.

Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design finish Term Three one week earlier, on Friday, May 21, 2027, while the winter and spring breaks are identical across all undergraduate schools.

This table reflects the calendar for Nottingham Law School, the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, the School of Science and Technology, and the School of Social Sciences.

Nottingham Business School, Nottingham School of Art & Design, Brackenhurst Campus, and NTU in Mansfield each run variant calendars, detailed in the sections below.

NTU Welcome and Induction 2026/27

NTU’s Welcome and Induction period for the 2026/27 academic year runs Monday, September 14, 2026, to Friday, September 18, 2026, the week immediately before Term One teaching begins.

This week applies to undergraduate students in Nottingham Law School, the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, the School of Science and Technology, the School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Business School, and Nottingham School of Art & Design.

Welcome and Induction is distinct from Term One in two respects. First, it does not carry academic credit; it covers enrolment, campus orientation, and School-level briefings rather than timetabled teaching.

Second, attendance expectations differ from those in Term One itself — new students are typically expected on campus for the full week, while returning students in some Schools may have a lighter or partial induction schedule.

Students should confirm attendance requirements with their individual School, since this page does not cover course-by-course induction timetables.

Brackenhurst Campus does not follow this same Welcome and Induction week. Its further education students instead attend course induction days on Tuesday, September 1, Wednesday, September 2, and Thursday, September 3, 2026 — two weeks earlier than the university-wide induction period, and one week before Brackenhurst’s own Term One begins on Monday, September 14, 2026.

NTU Term Dates 2026/27 for Nottingham Law School, ARES, Architecture, Science & Technology, and Social Sciences

Undergraduate students in Nottingham Law School, the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences (ARES), the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, the School of Science and Technology, and the School of Social Sciences follow the same 2026/27 term-date calendar.

This calendar applies to City Campus and Clifton Campus, where these five schools are based. It does not apply to Nottingham Business School, Nottingham School of Art & Design, Brackenhurst Campus, or NTU in Mansfield, each of which has at least one differing date, covered separately below.

Term Dates for Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design

Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design run a longer Term One and a shorter Term Three than the other five schools, while Welcome and Induction, Winter break, Term Two, and Spring break 2027 stay the same.

Term One for these two schools extends one calendar week beyond the other five schools’ Term One end date (Friday, December 18, 2026, versus Friday, December 11, 2026), and Winter break starts a week later as a result (Monday, December 21, 2026, versus Monday, December 14, 2026). Term Three then ends one week earlier (Friday, May 21, 2027, versus Friday, May 28, 2027).

Why NTU Term Dates Differ by School

Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design shift one teaching week from Term Three into Term One.

Counting term-time weeks confirms this: Nottingham Law School, the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, the School of Science and Technology, and the School of Social Sciences deliver a 12-week Term One, a 10-week Term Two, and an 8-week Term Three (30 weeks total).

Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design deliver a 13-week Term One, a 10-week Term Two, and a 7-week Term Three — also 30 weeks total, redistributed by one week.

Both calculations use the same total teaching-week figure, which indicates the split is a scheduling adjustment rather than a change in overall contact time.

Coursework-heavy and portfolio-based programmes, which are concentrated in Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design, typically benefit from additional autumn-term weeks ahead of January assessment or submission points; this page reports the published date difference without asserting the university’s internal rationale, since NTU does not publish an explanation alongside the calendar itself.

NTU Term Dates 2026/27 by Campus

NTU term dates 2026/27 differ across four physical sites: City Campus, Clifton Campus, Brackenhurst Campus, and NTU in Mansfield. City Campus and Clifton Campus follow the School-based calendars above.

Brackenhurst Campus and NTU in Mansfield each publish independent calendars that do not match either School-based table.

Brackenhurst Campus Further Education (FE) Term Dates 2026/27

Brackenhurst Campus runs a further education calendar for 2026/27, structured around three terms with half-terms rather than one long winter and one long spring break.

This differs from every other NTU calendar on this page, all of which use higher-education term/break structures.

Brackenhurst’s Term One begins Monday, September 14, 2026 — the same week as the university-wide Welcome and Induction period, and one full week before Term One begins for City and Clifton Campus schools.

Term Two also begins a week earlier than the university-wide Term Two, on Monday, January 4, 2027, rather than Monday, January 11, 2027.

The Term Two inset day falls on Thursday, March 25, 2027, the same date Term Two ends, meaning it functions as a non-teaching closing day rather than a mid-term break.

Brackenhurst’s calendar does not apply to degree-level students at City Campus or Clifton Campus, and City/Clifton term dates do not apply to Brackenhurst’s further education cohort.

NTU in Mansfield Term Dates 2026/27

NTU in Mansfield’s Term Three for 2026/27 runs to Friday, July 2, 2027 — 35 days (five weeks) longer than the Term Three end date used by every other NTU school.

Term One at Mansfield matches the standard City/Clifton calendar exactly (Monday, September 21 – Friday, December 11, 2026).

Term Two begins a week earlier than the standard calendar, on Monday, January 4, 2027, aligning with Brackenhurst rather than City/Clifton Campus.

Term Three then begins on the same date as every other NTU school (Monday, April 5, 2027) but runs 13 teaching weeks rather than 8, extending the Mansfield academic year to 36 total teaching weeks against 30 for City and Clifton Campus schools.

Across all four NTU sites, the Term Three end dates for 2026/27 span 42 days: Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design finish earliest, on Friday, May 21, 2027, and NTU in Mansfield finishes last, on Friday, July 2, 2027.

City Campus and Clifton Campus Term Dates

City Campus and Clifton Campus do not run separate calendars from one another. Both follow the School-based term dates set out above: the calendar for Nottingham Law School, the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, the School of Science and Technology, and the School of Social Sciences, or the calendar for Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design, depending on which school a student is enrolled in rather than which of these two campuses they attend.

NTU Winter, Spring, and Summer Break Dates 2026/27

Winter Break

NTU’s winter break for 2026/27 runs Monday, December 14, 2026, to Sunday, January 10, 2027, for most schools, or Monday, December 21, 2026, to Sunday, January 10, 2027, for Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design.

Both versions end on the same date, Sunday, January 10, 2027, with Term Two teaching resuming the following day. The break encompasses the UK Christmas Day and New Year’s Day bank holidays, both of which fall within the break window regardless of which Term One end date applies.

Spring Break

NTU’s spring break for 2026/27 runs Monday, March 22, 2027, to Sunday, April 4, 2027, uniformly across every undergraduate school.

This is the one break period that does not vary by school. It fully encompasses the UK Easter bank holiday weekend, which falls on Good Friday, March 26, 2027, and Easter Monday, March 29, 2027.

Summer Break

NTU does not publish a single fixed summer break date, because Term Three end dates differ by school and campus, running from Friday, May 21, 2027, for Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design, through Friday, July 2, 2027, for NTU in Mansfield.

Students should expect summer activity to continue past their Term Three end date if they have main examinations, resits, or graduation-related commitments — the main examination period runs into late May, the resit period runs in August, and summer graduation runs into late July 2027.

NTU Exam and Assessment Periods 2026/27

NTU runs three examination windows in 2026/27: half-year exams in January, main exams in May, and resits in August.

Each window is university-wide rather than school-specific, unlike NTU’s term dates.

Half-Year Examination Period

The half-year examination period runs Monday, January 11, 2027, to Friday, January 22, 2027, coinciding with the first two weeks of Term Two.

This window covers assessments for modules taught during Term One and is common across UK universities running a three-term academic structure with January assessment points.

Main Examination Period

The main examination period runs Tuesday, May 4, 2027, to Friday, May 28, 2027. This window begins the day after the UK’s Early May Bank Holiday, which falls on Monday, May 3, 2027, the first Monday of the month.

The main examination period end date, Friday, May 28, 2027, matches the Term Three end date for Nottingham Law School, the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, the School of Science and Technology, and the School of Social Sciences, but falls a week after Term Three ends for Nottingham Business School and Nottingham School of Art & Design (Friday, May 21, 2027).

Resit Examination Period

The resit examination period runs Monday, August 9, 2027, to Friday, August 20, 2027. This is the assessment window for students who did not pass modules during the main examination period. It precedes the resit conferment and progression deadline of Friday, September 10, 2027, by three weeks.

NTU Graduation Dates 2026/27

NTU holds two graduation cycles in 2026/27: winter graduation in December 2026 and summer graduation in July 2027. Each ceremony cycle is preceded by a conferment deadline, the cutoff date by which a student’s award must be formally approved to graduate in that cycle.

Winter Graduation

Winter graduation ceremonies run Monday, December 14, 2026, to Friday, December 18, 2026 — the same week as the start of winter break for most schools.

Eligibility for winter graduation is set by the winter conferment deadline of Friday, October 30, 2026, roughly six weeks before the ceremonies take place.

Summer Graduation

Summer graduation ceremonies run Wednesday, July 14, 2027, to Friday, July 30, 2027, a 17-day window and the longer of NTU’s two graduation cycles.

Eligibility is set by the main conferment deadline of Wednesday, June 23, 2027, three weeks before ceremonies begin.

What Is a Conferment Deadline?

A conferment deadline is the date by which NTU’s Academic Registry must formally confer (approve) a student’s degree so that the student can graduate in the corresponding ceremony cycle.

It is not the same as a final assessment or resubmission deadline; it is an administrative cutoff that runs after marks are finalised and boards of examiners have met.

Missing a conferment deadline does not prevent a student from graduating altogether — it defers eligibility to the next available ceremony cycle.

NTU sets two conferment deadlines for 2026/27: Friday, October 30, 2026, for winter graduation, and Wednesday, June 23, 2027, for summer graduation. A third date, Friday, September 10, 2027, applies specifically to students completing resit assessments.

Conferment Deadline vs Progression Deadline in NTU Term Dates 2026/27

A conferment deadline applies to students completing their final year and graduating; a progression deadline applies to continuing students moving from one academic year to the next.

NTU’s main progression deadline for continuing students in 2026/27 is Friday, July 16, 2027 — two days after summer graduation ceremonies begin and three weeks after the main conferment deadline.

A separate resit conferment and progression deadline, covering both graduating and continuing students who complete assessments in the August resit period, falls on Friday, September 10, 2027.

NTU Postgraduate Term Dates and Start Points 2026/27

January Postgraduate Start Date

NTU’s postgraduate January start date for the 2026/27 academic year is Monday, January 18, 2027.

This is a dedicated intake point for postgraduate taught programmes that begin in the spring rather than the autumn, distinct from Term Two’s Monday, January 11, 2027, start for continuing undergraduate students.

How Postgraduate Term Dates Differ From Undergraduate

Postgraduate term dates at NTU are not identical to the undergraduate School-based calendars published above. Postgraduate taught programmes commonly run on trimester or block-teaching structures with intakes in September and January, while postgraduate research students typically follow supervisor-agreed timetables rather than fixed term dates at all.

This page covers undergraduate term dates in detail; postgraduate students should confirm exact module and assessment dates with their School, since intake structure varies by course and, in some cases, by individual programme rather than by School as a whole.

NTU Term Dates vs University of Nottingham: Key Differences

Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham are separate institutions with separate 2026/27 calendars, despite sharing the city of Nottingham.

The University of Nottingham is not abbreviated “NTU.”

For 2026/27, both institutions begin their autumn term on the identical date, which is not the pattern generally assumed for these two universities.

According to the University of Nottingham’s published key dates page, its Autumn Term also runs from Monday, September 21, 2026, matching NTU’s Term One start date exactly.

The two calendars diverge later in the year.

Term One and Autumn Term start on the same date at both universities for 2026/27, and Term Two/Spring Term also share the same start date, Monday, January 11, 2027.

The largest gap opens in the final term: the University of Nottingham’s Summer Term begins Monday, April 26, 2027, three weeks after NTU’s Term Three begins on Monday, April 5, 2027, and ends Friday, June 18, 2027, three weeks after NTU’s standard Term Three end date of Friday, May 28, 2027.

The University of Nottingham also uses a semester structure in parallel with its terms for assessment purposes; NTU does not use a semester system at all, referring only to Term One, Term Two, and Term Three.

This is a structural difference, not just a naming difference, and it means “semester dates” is not a correct search term for Nottingham Trent University’s calendar.

NTU Reading Week and Closure Days Explained

Does NTU Have a Reading Week?

NTU’s published 2026/27 term-date calendar does not include a university-wide reading week. The closest structural equivalents are the winter break (Monday, December 14 or 21, 2026 – Sunday, January 10, 2027) and spring break (Monday, March 22 – Sunday, April 4, 2027), both of which fall between terms rather than mid-term.

Some individual modules or courses may schedule a consolidation or reading week within a term; this varies by School and is not published as part of the university-wide calendar covered on this page.

What Are NTU Closure Days?

NTU closure days are dates on which university buildings and services close outside of standard UK bank holidays, typically clustered within the winter break period between Christmas and New Year.

NTU does not publish a standalone closure-day list as part of its term-date calendar; students and staff needing exact closure dates for 2026/27 should confirm them through NTU’s Estates or HR communications rather than the academic term calendar, since closure days apply to campus operations rather than teaching.

Frequently Asked Questions About NTU Term Dates 2026/27