Academic calendar
Academic calendar
| Event | |
| April | Entrance ceremony, guidance (1st year graduate students) |
| Welcome ceremony, guidance (3rd year undergraduate students) | |
| On-line course registration period (spring, summer terms) | |
| Spring semester begins | |
| Spring term (undergraduate students) | |
| Spring term (graduate students) | |
| May | Course confirmation and cancellation period (spring, summer terms) |
| June/July | |
| University Festival (at Sapporo campus) | |
| Summer term (undergraduate students) | |
| Summer term (graduate students) | |
| Course cancellation period (summer term) | |
| August/September | Summer break |
| Open campus | |
| Graduate student entrance exam | |
| October | Online course registration period (fall, winter terms) |
| Fall semester begins | |
| Fall term (undergraduate students) | |
| Fall term (graduate students) | |
| Student festival at Hakodate | |
| Course confirmation and cancellation period (fall, winter terms) | |
| November | Winter term (undergraduate students) |
| Winter term (graduate students) | |
| December | Winter break |
| January | Classes resume |
| Common Test for University Admissions | |
| February | PhD dissertation defenses |
| Master’s degree thesis defenses | |
| Graduate student entrance exam | |
| March | Graduation ceremony at Hakodate |