The academic year begins on the 1st of September and ends on the 31st of August of the following year. Teaching and training of each academic year is divided in two semesters (Winter and Spring) with a duration of 13 weeks each. At the end of each semester an exam period takes place along with a September exam period.

 The time-frame of the study program is decided each year by the School’s General Assembly on April or May of the previous academic year.
No educational activities take place in the following dates:

• October 26 to 28 (Saint Dimitrios Day – Feast of the city’s Patron Saint and National Celebration)
• November 17 (Students’ uprising in the National Technical University of Athens against the junta in 1973)
• December 24 to January 7 (Christmas Holidays)
• January 30 (The Three Patron Saints of Education Day)
• March 25 (National Anniversary of the revolution of 1821 against the Turkish rule)
• From Thursday before Lent to the day after Lent Monday (Carnival Holidays)
• From the Monday of Easter Week to the Sunday after Easter Sunday (Easter Holidays)
• May 1 (Labour Day)
• On the day of students’ elections
• Holy Spirit Day (Monday after Pentecost)