The academic year at the University of Bialystok is divided in two semesters (winter and summer). The first one begins in the first days of October (with a two–week break for Christmas and New Year Holidays), the second semester starts in the end of February and lasts until the end of June (with a week break for Easter holidays).
Each semester ends with a two-week exam session. The winter semester make-up exam session is scheduled in mid of February and the summer semester make up session is moved to the two weeks of July.
For the majority of students, each academic year will run from 1 September to 31 August but there are 4 official start dates in each academic year with each lasting 12 months. You can find the one which applies to you based your course start date.
An academic year is divided into three semesters: Fall (end of August / start of September to December / January) Winter (January to April) Summer (April / May to July)
The English school year runs from early September to mid or late July of the following year. Most schools operate a three term school year, each term divided into half terms. Autumn term runs from early September to mid December (half term falls in late October).