⚠️These documents only apply to the 2025–2026 academic year.
A guide to finding your vacation dates
- Choose the dates that match when you started your course.
You will have started in either Semester A (September) or Semester B (January). - Not sure which School your course belongs to? Go to www.herts.ac.uk, search for your course, and download the programme specification.This document tells you which School your course is part of. (For example, this is shown for MSc Finance and Investment Banking).
- Employers can also look up this information themselves.
- For guidance on using these documents, visit the providing evidence of vacation periods to employers page on Ask Herts.
Vacation and term dates for each School
Hertfordshire Business School (HBS)
- Business School Extended Postgraduate Programmes term & vacation dates
- Business School Full-Time Postgraduate Programmes term & vacation dates
- Business School Undergraduate Programmes term & vacation dates
School of Law and Education
- Education Full-Time MRes Programmes term & vacation dates
- Education Full-Time Postgraduate Programmes term & vacation dates
- Education Undergraduate Programmes term & vacation dates
- Law Extended Postgraduate Programmes term & vacation dates
- Law Full-Time Postgraduate Programmes term & vacation dates
- Law Undergraduate Programmes term & vacation dates
School of Creative Arts
- School of Creative Arts Postgraduate term & vacation dates
- School of Creative Arts Undergraduate students follow the vacataion dates given in the UH academic calendar
School of Physics, Engineering, Computer Science (SPECS)
School of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (HLS)
- BSc Bioscience Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- BSc Nursing Degree Apprenticeship Year 2 Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- BSc Nursing Year 1 and Degree Apprenticeship Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- BSc Nursing Year 2 Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- BSc Nursing Year 3 & Degree Apprenticeship Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- BSc Physiotherapy Year 1 Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- BSc Physiotherapy Year 2 Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- BSc Physiotherapy Year 3 Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- Environmental Management Sem A Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- Environmental Management Sem B Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- MSc Nursing Year 1 Study Pattern term & vacation dates
- MSc Nursing Year 2 Study Pattern term & vacation dates