Life in Auth
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki provides all members of the academic community with a significant number of services, aiming to improve the quality of academic life and support the implementation of their daily tasks. Find out information about the actions of the Aristotle University Cultural Policy Committee, as well as about the Orchestra, the Opera Oberta, Choirs, the Museums-Archives-Collections, the various Student Societies and the Ceremony Halls of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Learn more in AUTh website.
European Programmes Socrates/Erasmus
The School of Geology has developed collaboration with many other European Universities or Institutes. The students can get all the necessary information from our co-ordinators of each program.
Further information is available at the Department of European Educational Programmes, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Tel. +30 2310 995306, 995169.
Course Registration
The maximum number of courses a student is permitted to register per semester is n+3, where n the sum of compulsory (Y) plus the minimum number of optional (E) courses.
Assessment is generally based on formal written examinations at the end of semester. The method of assessment by mid-term exams and term papers is used in a number of courses; also, a combination of the two methods is not unusual.
The total number of courses and not their separation in compulsory and optional plays the basic role in the registration. The maximum number and the distribution of courses each student can fulfill is shown below.
| Semester | Compulsory Courses(Υ) | Minimum number of Optional Courses (Ε) | Y+E+3 (n+3) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 6 | 0 | 10 |
| 2nd | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 3rd | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| 4th | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 5th | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 6th | 6 | 2 | 11 |
| 7th | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 8th | 3 | 5 | 11 |
AUTh Scholarships
Scholarships to Foreign Students
AUTh grants scholarships every year through the Department of Studies.
Academic Calendar
The academic year starts on September 1st every year and ends on August 31st of the following year.
The educational work of every academic year is structured in two semesters, the fall semester and the spring semester, each of which comprises 13 weeks of teaching and two or three weeks of exams.
- Fall semester courses start in the last week of September and end in late January, followed by the first exam period of the fall semester.
- Spring semester courses start in mid-February and end at the end of May, followed by the first exam period of the spring semester.
The exact dates are determined by the University Senate. In extraordinary cases, however, upon recommendation of the Senate, the start and end dates of the two semesters may be fixed by the Minister of Education, so as to ensure the required number of teaching weeks.
Every semester has two exam periods: Fall semester courses are examined during the exam period January-February and re-sit exams are held in September; Spring semester courses are examined during the exam period of June and re-sit exams are held in September.
Neither courses nor exams are held in July and August, the two months of summer holidays. Holidays also include:
- Christmas Holidays: December 24 to January 7.
- Carnival Holidays: from Thursday before Lent to the day after Lent Monday.
- Easter Holidays: from the Monday of Easter Week to the Sunday after Easter Sunday.
- October 26: Saint Dimitrios Day, Feast of the city’s Patron Saint. Liberation of Thessaloniki from the Ottoman rule (National Holiday).
- October 28: National holiday Commemoration of the “No” to Italian fascism.
- November 17: Student’s uprising in the National Technical University of Athens against the junta in 1973.
- January 30: The Three Patron Saints of Education Day.
- March 25: National Anniversary of the revolution of 1821 against the Turkish rule.
- May 1: Labour Day.
- Holy Spirit Day: (Monday after Pentecost).