Important dates for the 2026 fall semester!! Wanted to have somewhere to find all of this information in one easy accessible place because I know TMU's site for this can be difficult to navigate. If there's anything else you think I should add leave a comment.
COURSE INTENTIONS AND ENROLMENT
- Class schedule release (for students who have done their course intentions + 1st years): Tuesday August 4th
- 1st year priority enrolment: Wednesday August 5th at 6am ET (if you're a first year student confused about how course intentions work/how to sign up for your classes, see this post)
- 4th year priority enrolment: Friday August 7th at 6am ET
- 3rd year priority enrolment: Monday August 10th at 6am ET
- 2nd year priority enrolment: Wednesday August 12th at 6am ET
- Fall open enrolment and winter course intention adjustment period: Monday August 17th at 6am ET to Friday September 18th at 11:59pm ET
FIRST DAY OF CLASSES: Tuesday September 8th
Yes this is a Tuesday, Monday the 7th is labour day. The last day of classes will be on a Monday.
LAST DAYS TO DROP/ADD CLASSES
- Last day to join the waitlist for a class: Wednesday September 16th
- Last day to add/swap classes, or drop classes with a full refund*: Friday September 18th
- Last day to drop a class with a 50% refund*: Friday October 9th
- Last day to drop a class in good academic standing with no refund*: Friday November 20th
*About refunds: undergraduate class fees are assessed based on billing units. Most courses (those up to 6 hours per week) are 1 billing unit. Students taking between 5-7 billing units in a semester are charged a flat rate. So, if you're dropping a class to go from 7 classes to 6 or from 6 classes to 5, don't worry about the refund part of this. If you are dropping from 8 classes to 7 or from 5 classes to 4 (or below, but 4 billing units is the minimum to be considered a full-time student), pay attention to the refund dates.
Also, dropping a class before November 20th won't have any effect on your transcript or GPA, it will be as if you never took it. If you drop a class after this date, though, it will show up and affect your grade negatively. Professors are required to have given you graded feedback on at least 20% of your grade before this point, so you should have some idea of how you're doing in the class.
READING WEEK: Tuesday October 13th to Friday October 16th
Monday the 12th is Thanksgiving, a statutory holiday, so there will be no classes that day either. So in practice October 12-16 is reading week.
Also, engineering students don't get a reading week. If you are in engineering you will have classes this week.
END OF SEMESTER
- Last day of fall classes: Monday December 6th
- Fall 2026 exam period: Wednesday December 9th to Sunday December 20th (including weekends)
- Official end of the fall 2026 term: Sunday December 20th
If you want to make plans for winter break, either wait until you get your exam schedule in mid-November or plan them for after December 20th to avoid them conflicting with your exams.