Deadlines

October 2026

• 1 September 2026 to 30 April 2027
  2027 entry

  Finland LUT rolling admission window

  Rolling

  Details

  Considered as they arrive, until places run out.

  Non-competitive. LUT states that if you meet all requirements you are admitted without competition while places last.

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• 1 September 2026 to 1 July 2027
  September 2027 intake

  Latvia Riga Stradins University - International Business & Start-up Entrepreneurship, September 2027 intake, EU/EEA applicants

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  RSU's table prints the opening as "1 Sep 2025", which is the previous intake's date: the master's row for the same intake reads "1 Sep 2026 – 1 Jul 2027", and the February tab opens this programme on 1 Sep 2026. So the window opened on 1 September 2026 and is open now. The date that matters is the close, 1 July 2027, which is not in doubt.

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• 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027
  2027 entry - projected, because the published window carries no year

  Czechia Masaryk University, Faculty of Education - applications, September intake

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The earliest of Masaryk's faculty windows to open, and the first Czech deadline of the cycle. Published as "Bachelor's programme: 1 October-31 March". Masaryk publishes this window with a day and a month but no year at all, and no academic-year heading anywhere on the page, so the year here is projected onto the September 2027 intake. Where the page's summary table and its per-faculty sections disagree, go by the faculty section, which gives the opening dates the table leaves out.

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• 1 October 2026 to 31 January 2027
  2027/28 entry

  Czechia VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology - English-taught bachelor's, 2027/28 first round

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The one genuinely 2027/28 row on VSB's whole application-dates table, published in Czech as "bakalarske | anglictina | 2027/2028 | 01. 10. 2026 - 31. 01. 2027 | 1. kolo". Read the Czech page: the English mirror of the same table has not been updated for this faculty and still shows the closed 2026/27 window. The university homepage carries a banner saying "APPLICATIONS for AY 27/28 open on 1 October", but it names no faculty, no year digit and no closing date, so go by the faculty table rather than the banner.

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• 12 October to 16 October 2026
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom UAT-UK admissions tests (ESAT, TMUA, TARA) - October sitting

  Details

  Published as "tests 12-16 October 2026". Oxford and Cambridge applicants must use this October sitting apart from a few exceptions. Used for 2027 entry by Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford and UCL (ESAT); those four and LSE, Warwick and Durham (TMUA); and Oxford and UCL (TARA), per the test pages on esat-tmua.ac.uk.

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• 15 October 2026, 18:00 UK time

  United Kingdom Oxford, Cambridge, medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine/science

  Hard deadline Via UK

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Thirteen months before the course starts. UCAS says it is unusual for these universities to consider a late application. Admissions tests for these courses register earlier still, and the registration deadline is not the test date.

  UCAS’s deadline for these courses, three months before everyone else’s. UCAS says it is unusual for these universities to consider a late application, so treat 18:00 UK time on 15 October as the end. Admissions test registration closes even earlier.

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• 15 October 2026
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom LNAT (law) - sit the test, Oxford and Cambridge

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "sit by 15 October 2026". Registration and booking close a month earlier, on 15 September 2026.

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• 15 October 2026, 23:59 CET
  2027 entry

  Hungary CEU (Vienna) bachelor’s - round 1 of four

  Priority

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  All four rounds close at 23:59 CET. CEU’s own financial aid is awarded in the first two rounds only, so apply in October or February if you want it. Accepted students pay a 500-euro registration fee. Note that CEU’s bachelor’s programmes are taught in Vienna, not in Budapest - it appears on this page because it was founded in Budapest, but you would be living in Austria.

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• 15 October 2026

  Singapore NTU applications open

  Via Singapore Autonomous University for August 2027

  Details

  Opens two months before NUS.

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• 16 October 2026

  Sweden First admissions round opens

  Via Sweden

  Details

  The round aimed at applicants from abroad, carrying most English-taught programmes. The 2027 catalogue becomes visible here. University Admissions tells IB students who have not finished the Diploma not to apply in this round.

  This is the round aimed at international applicants. Most English-taught programmes are only offered here.

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• 19 October 2026

  United Arab Emirates American University of Sharjah opens Fall 2027 applications

  Via Applying direct to a UAE private university

  Details

  AUS states that all its dates are tentative and subject to change.

  AUS opens Fall 2027 and Spring 2027 applications on the same day. The page states that dates are tentative and subject to change.

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• 20 October 2026, 23:59 CEST

  France École polytechnique Bachelor - round 1 closes

  Priority Via French grande école or private institution

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Published as "September 17, 2026 to October 20, 2026 at 11:59 PM (CEST)", with interviews in early December and results in January 2027. Rounds 2 and 3 follow, so missing this is not fatal. You may apply once a year, either here or through Parcoursup, not both. Application fee €105.

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• 23 October 2026
  autumn 2027 intake

  United States SAT, registration closes for the 7 November 2026 sitting

  Applies to: applicants to colleges that require the SAT or ACT

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The College Board's own dates page states that "These test dates and deadlines apply to all students—U.S. and international—taking the SAT", so a Copenhagen test centre runs the same calendar as an American one. This is the last sitting that can realistically reach a college which allows November scores into an early round; it is already after the 1 November early deadlines, so check each college's own policy on late-arriving scores before relying on it. Whether you need a test at all is a per-college question with no national answer: Yale, Harvard, Stanford and MIT require the SAT or ACT for autumn 2027 entry, and Yale states that IB results may accompany the test but not replace it; NYU, Michigan, Illinois and Amherst are test-optional. No ACT date is given here: on 23 September 2026 act.org still showed only 2024 test dates. If your colleges accept the ACT, take its dates from act.org directly and do not assume they match the SAT's.

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• 26 October to 21 December 2026, 18:00 GMT
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom UAT-UK admissions tests (ESAT, TMUA, TARA) - test booking for the January sitting

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as test booking from 26 October 2026 3pm GMT to 21 December 2026 6pm GMT (registration reopens 5 October 2026). The time is the closing time. Not available for Oxford or Cambridge applicants. Other universities let you pick a sitting. Used for 2027 entry by Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford and UCL (ESAT); those four and LSE, Warwick and Durham (TMUA); and Oxford and UCL (TARA), per the test pages on esat-tmua.ac.uk.

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November 2026

• 1 November 2026, 23:59 EST

  United Arab Emirates NYU Abu Dhabi — Early Decision I closes

  Hard deadline Via NYU Abu Dhabi

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Roughly a year before the eventual first day of term, and eight months before IB results. NYUAD decides on predicted grades.

  NYUAD publishes 1 November without a year, so 2026 is expected rather than confirmed. Early Decision is binding: if you are admitted with a financial aid package you can afford, you must withdraw your other applications and accept within two to three weeks. You are released from the agreement only if the aid package does not enable you to attend. Decisions are released 15 December.

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• 1 November 2026

  Australia Decide between a July 2027 and a February 2028 start

  Your own plan Via n Australian university

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  Not a deadline anyone publishes, and the decision everything else hangs on. Australia's main intake starts in late February, so a May 2027 IB session leads either to a mid-year July 2027 start - if that degree admits mid-year, and many do not - or to February 2028, eight months later. The date here is a suggestion, set early enough to still change your mind.

• 1 November 2026, 23:59 EST

  China NYU Shanghai Early Decision I (binding)

  Hard deadline Via the Common App, on the American calendar, 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  NYU prints 1 November with no year.

  NYU Shanghai publishes "November 1" and "11:59 p.m EST" with no calendar year, so 2026 is expected rather than confirmed. It is binding, and NYU's wording is more specific than most: if you are admitted to the campus you named as your primary interest, "you must accept the offer within 25 days", and "If accepted, you'll also need to withdraw applications from other schools, and cannot submit new applications" — so an NYU Shanghai Early Decision admission in December ends your application season, including applications you have already paid for elsewhere. One Common Application covers all three of NYU's degree-granting campuses, New York, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, which is why an Early Decision here binds you against the others. The application fee is US$85, with waivers available.

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• 1 November 2026

  Czechia Masaryk Faculty of Science opens

  Via Czech university or faculty for September 2027

  Details

  Published with no year; read onto the 2027 intake.

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• 1 November 2026 to 30 April 2027
  2027 entry

  Czechia Charles 2nd Faculty of Medicine, application window

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A genuine 2027 date: "Applications are accepted from 1 November 2026 to 30 April 2027." Registration for the entrance exam closes the same day but is a separate item on the faculty's table, and it has its own entry.

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• 1 November 2026 to 15 May 2027
  2027 entry - projected, because the published window carries no year

  Czechia Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies - applications, September intake

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "September intake: 1 November-15 May", the same window for bachelor's and follow-up master's. A February intake also exists, running 1 July to 31 October. Masaryk publishes this window with a day and a month but no year at all, and no academic-year heading anywhere on the page, so the year here is projected onto the September 2027 intake. Where the page's summary table and its per-faculty sections disagree, go by the faculty section, which gives the opening dates the table leaves out.

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• 1 November 2026
  2027 entry - projected from the 2026-entry page, which says applications open "anytime from 1st November 2025 onwards"

  Czechia Palacky University Olomouc, General Medicine in English - applications open

  Details

  The faculty page is still written for September 2026 enrolment and has not rolled over. The opening day was 1 November in the 2026 cycle, so 1 November 2026 is the expectation, not a published fact.

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• 1 November 2026
  2027/28 entry

  Czechia VSE Prague, Bachelor of International Business - applications open for 2027/28

  Details

  "The application will be open on 1 November, 2026." One of the very few Czech pages that names the 2027/28 cycle explicitly, and it is maintained - stamped last updated 14 August 2026.

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• 1 November 2026

  Estonia Tallinn University: bachelor's applications open

  Via n Estonian institution

  Details

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• 1 November 2026
  February 2027 intake

  Hungary University of Debrecen - application closes for the February 2027 intake

  Applies to: applicants to the January/February start, not the September one

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its year: Debrecen lists "January/February 2026/2027 - all programs: 1st November 2026". This is the only route on this page that starts in February rather than September, which makes it the fallback for a student who misses a September round - and the nearest deadline on this whole page. Debrecen also states that it closed applications early for the September 2026 Medicine and Dentistry intake "due to an exceptionally high number of applications received", so treat its published deadlines as the latest possible date rather than a safe one. Application fee 150 USD, non-refundable.

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• 1 November 2026
  2027 entry

  Hungary University of Pécs - applications open for 2027/28

  Details

  Published with its year: "the application period starts on 1st November 2026 and the application deadline is 30th June 2027 for the academic year 2027/2028 beginning from September 2027". Pécs adds the sentence that makes the opening date matter: "Since admission is continuous, the earlier you apply, the more spots we can offer." There is one intake a year. It is on the online-application page (https://admissions.medschool.pte.hu/application-form), as of 23 September 2026; the page on the same site titled "Deadlines & Requirements" publishes no deadline at all, so look for dates on the application page.

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• 1 November 2026

  Lithuania LSMU: application portal opens

  Via Lithuanian institution

  Details

  LSMU advises applying as early as possible; entrance tests begin in mid-January.

  Published for the 2026 intake as "1 November 2025 - Opening the online application period. All applicants must apply at apply.lsmuni.lt and upload copies of all required documents." LSMU publishes a dated "Application calendar" for one intake at a time; on 23 September 2026 it still showed the 2026 intake, headed "RULES FOR ADMITTING STUDENTS TO THE LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES IN 2026". The date here is that calendar rolled forward by one year and is provisional until LSMU publishes the 2027 one. Review of applications begins nine days later, on 10 November, and LSMU says plainly what that means: "Applicants are recommended to apply as early as possible. Applications submitted after the deadline could be considered only in case of available study places." An early application also buys you a choice of entrance-test date, which a late one does not.

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• 1 November 2026

  New Zealand Decide between a July 2027 and a February 2028 start

  Your own plan Via New Zealand university

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  Not published by anyone, and the decision the rest of this page depends on. A mid-year start means applying before you have any results at all; February 2028 means eight months between your last exam and your first lecture. Not every degree admits mid-year, and the professional ones generally do not.

• 1 November 2026

  Singapore LASALLE main application deadline

  Priority Via LASALLE or NAFA for August 2027

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  LASALLE says further application windows may open if programme seats remain available. Treat it as the real deadline anyway — a later window is a possibility, not an entitlement, and it competes for whatever is left.

  The earliest deadline on this page by a wide margin, and easy to miss. LASALLE opens on 1 October 2026 and asks you to apply by 1 November 2026, with outcomes announced by 23 December 2026 — eight months before IB results. LASALLE adds two hedges of its own: "the timeline provided serves as a general guide. Actual outcome release dates may vary", and that future application windows may open if programme seats remain available. So this is a window rather than the only chance, but it is the one that gets first pick of the seats, and the outcome dates are softer than the application ones. Music runs on its own later date and has its own entry below.

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• 1 November 2026

  United States Early Action, Restrictive Early Action and Single-Choice Early Action — not binding

  Priority Via the Common App

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  1 November 2026 at every institution here that runs one: Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Illinois and Macalester. Not binding — you keep the offer and every other application, and you still reply on 1 May. The catch is exclusivity rather than commitment: Stanford's restrictive version forbids applying early to any other private college, and Yale's single-choice version does the same, so this is a decision about the whole autumn taken in October. Decisions arrive in mid-December. Missing it moves you to Regular Decision; it does not shut the door.

• 1 November 2026

  United States MIT Early Action closes

  Hard deadline Via MIT's own application portal

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  MIT publishes the day without a year, so 2026 is expected rather than confirmed. The application form and fee are due that day; only teachers' letters may arrive later. Early Action is not binding, but the deadline is firm.

• 2 November 2026, 23:59 ET

  China Duke Kunshan Early Decision (binding)

  Applies to: international applicants — DKU states these must be non-Chinese citizens

  Hard deadline Via the Common App, on the American calendar, 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its full calendar year on DKU's English international-admissions site as "Early decision application deadline: November 2, 2026 (11:59pm ET)", which is 05:59 on 3 November in Denmark. Applications are made through the Common App, which DKU began accepting for the 2027 entry term in August 2026, and Early Decision on the Common App is binding: you may hold one Early Decision application only, and if admitted you withdraw the rest and enrol. DKU's own How to Apply page does not restate those terms, so the binding force comes from the Common App agreement you sign rather than from anything DKU publishes — read it before you file. There is no application fee. The CSS Profile is required if you are seeking financial aid, and DKU is test-optional for the 2026-2027 cycle. A warning that matters more than any of this: DKU runs two entirely separate admissions tracks on the same domain. The Chinese-language site (admissions.dukekunshan.edu.cn, 中文 – 中国学生) publishes a 综合评价 comprehensive-evaluation route with rounds closing 3 January and 5 February, for Chinese students. Those are not your dates. An international applicant uses the English site marked "English – International Students", and DKU states that international applicants must be non-Chinese citizens.

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• 2 November to 30 November 2026

  Spain Universidad de Deusto applications for 2027–2028

  Hard deadline Via Spanish private university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A short window: Deusto takes undergraduate applications for 2027–2028 only from 2 to 30 November 2026.

• 3 November 2026

  France EDHEC International BBA - first of five sessions closes

  Priority Via French grande école or private institution

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Four later sessions run to March; rounds 1 and 2 carry eligibility for Excellence scholarships.

  EDHEC's international admissions page gives the first session as "from 1st October to 3rd November 2026", with an online English assessment and an online interview. Four later sessions run to March; applying in round 1 or 2 is what makes you eligible for its Excellence scholarships. Application fee €100.

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• 4 November 2026, 23:59 Paris time

  France Sciences Po — first round for foreign secondary diplomas (2027 intake)

  Hard deadline Via French grande école or private institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Results mid-January 2027. Interviews 8-18 December 2026.

  Sciences Po publishes all three round deadlines as "Paris time (11.59pm)". Apply by this date and you get your result in mid-January 2027 — the school publishes only the month, not a result day. The interview window for this round is a separate entry.

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• 5 November 2026, 12:00 Irish time

  Ireland CAO application facility opens for 2027 entry

  Via Ireland

  Details

  Published twice: the last line of the CAO Timetable of Events reads "5th November 2026 - CAO application facility opens for 2027 applications", and the CAO Handbook 2027 gives "CAO online application facility opens on 5 November at 12:00 noon". Nothing can be submitted before midday.

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• 5 November 2026, 17:00 JST

  Japan UTokyo College of Design, Route B, September 2027 entry

  Hard deadline Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Route B is the international-qualifications route and lists the IB, with an expected level of 38/42 plus 2 core points that the university says is not a cut-off. 50 of the 100 places. First screening result 22 December 2026, final decision 20 February 2027. Closes 17:00 JST.

  Opens 15 October 2026 at 09:00 JST. Route B is the international-qualifications route (50 of the 100 places) and lists the IB. A separate video assignment is due 13–16 November 2026, first screening result 22 December 2026, final decision 20 February 2027. With predicted grades the offer is conditional and final results are due by 16 August 2027.

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• 7 November 2026

  Canada Ontario — University of Toronto, recommended early application date

  Priority Via n Ontario university

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Not a deadline. Apply by this date and complete the next steps by 1 December and you are considered in the first admission round as well as later ones. For an applicant carrying predicted grades rather than final ones, an early round is worth more than the date suggests.

  Toronto's 2027 admissions table gives this under the heading "Recommended early application date" for Applied Science & Engineering, Architecture, Arts & Science at St George, the iSchool, Kinesiology & Physical Education, Mississauga and Scarborough. Applying by this date and getting your documents in by 1 December 2026 — its own entry below — buys early consideration, which is an earlier decision rather than a better one. Music runs its own recommended date of 1 December, and Medical Radiation Sciences has none. Missing it costs you nothing except the earlier answer; the date that closes the door is 15 January 2027.

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• 10 November 2026, 23:59 EST

  United Arab Emirates CSS Profile due for Early Decision I

  Hard deadline Via NYU Abu Dhabi

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Financial aid at NYUAD is need-based for non-Emirati citizens and this is the form that establishes need. It is due nine days after the application itself and from both custodial and noncustodial parents, which for a separated family is a logistical problem worth starting early.

• 12 November 2026

  Hong Kong CUHK Advance Offer Round closes

  Priority Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  If you miss it, the same application goes into the Regular Round.

  CUHK's Important Dates page is headed "2027 Admissions Exercise" and reads "12 Nov 2026 — Application Deadline for Advance Offer Round". Missing it does not close the door: CUHK states that only one application is required and that "applicants who are not selected for an advance offer will automatically compete on equal footing with all other applicants in the Regular Round". Notifications to successful Advance Offer applicants run from December 2026. Applications open in October 2026 and CUHK holds an Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions on 17 October 2026.

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• 13 November to 16 November 2026

  Japan UTokyo College of Design video assignment window

  Hard deadline Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A separate submission after the application closes, inside a four-day window. Both routes require it, alongside essays, supporting materials and an English proficiency test result.

• 15 November 2026, 23:59 PST

  Canada British Columbia — UBC International Scholars Program: apply and submit the award application

  Applies to: international applicants who want an International Scholars award

  Hard deadline Via British Columbia university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  An expensive date to miss, and one that looks optional. UBC's largest awards for international students require the whole application two months before the ordinary deadline, in the first term of the final IB year. If you are not applying for the award, your date is 15 January. Award applicants also have to meet UBC's English standard and submit their documents by 31 January 2027.

  Two months before UBC's general January deadline, and an easy date for an applicant in Denmark to miss: it is the date by which an international student must have applied to UBC and submitted the award application to be considered for the International Scholars Program. The scholarship is the reason the date exists, and the scholarship is the thing that is gone on 16 November — the general admission route stays open until 15 January. Published with a time and a time zone, 11:59 p.m. PST, which is 08:59 the following morning in Denmark; an applicant in Denmark working to a local midnight has until the morning of 16 November, but do not use that margin.

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• 15 November 2026

  Hong Kong CityU Early Round closes

  Priority Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  CityU's International Admission page lists "24 Sep 2026 — Application Opens", "15 Nov 2026 — Early Round Application Deadline" and Early Round results in December 2026. Application fee HK$600 for up to two programme choices.

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• 17 November 2026

  Hong Kong PolyU Early Round closes

  Priority Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  From PolyU's "Ug Admissions 2027/28 — International & Chinese Mainland Non-JEE Applicants" timeline: applications start 23 September 2026, the Early Round application deadline is 17 November 2026, and Early Round admission announcements run from late December 2026 onwards. PolyU states that "applicants without decisions will be considered in subsequent round in competition with other applicants", so this is a priority date rather than a closing one. PolyU publishes the timeline as an image on its key-dates page.

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• 20 November 2026
  autumn 2027 intake

  United States SAT, registration closes for the 5 December 2026 sitting — the last SAT that reaches a January deadline

  Applies to: applicants to colleges that require the SAT or ACT

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  5 December 2026 is the final SAT sitting of the 2026-27 calendar before Regular Decision closes; the next one is 6 March 2027, by which time every Regular Decision file in this cycle has been read. If a college on your list requires the test, this registration date is the real end of the line, not the December sitting itself. The remaining 2026-27 sittings after it — 6 March, 1 May and 5 June 2027 — are listed here only so that nobody mistakes them for a second chance at admission; they are of use for a gap year or a transfer, not for autumn 2027 entry.

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• 25 November 2026, 12:00 HKT

  Hong Kong HKU first round closes

  Priority Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Published as "25 Nov (noon) 2026 — Submit your application for first-round evaluation"; applications after that are reviewed on a rolling basis, so missing it costs the first round and not the application. The cycle opened on 23 September 2026. Shortlisted students may be interviewed between November and January. Application fee HK$780 (2027 intake).

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• 25 November 2026

  Hong Kong HKUST priority round closes

  Priority Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Rolling from 26 November.

  HKUST's online application system opens on 2 October 2026. Its Important Dates list two consecutive rows: "25 Nov 2026 — Deadline for Priority Round Applications" and "26 Nov, 2026 onwards — Application on rolling basis", so there is no gap. The priority round is also the deadline for the application-based scholarships (Beyond Academic Admissions Scholarship, Future Leaders Award). Offers are announced from late December 2026. Application fee HKD 600.

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• 25 November 2026 to 26 January 2027, 15:00 Italian time
  2027/28 entry

  Italy Bocconi — Winter Session for 2027/28 entry: applications

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "25 November 2026 - 26 January 2027 (3:00pm Italian time)", with results in mid March 2027. The time given is the closing time. This is the last Bocconi round for 2027-28 entry: there is no spring session.

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• 27 November 2026, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands First portfolio round closes (Creative Media & Game Technologies)

  Priority Via Breda University of Applied Sciences programme with selection

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  One of four rounds, not a deadline. BUas says decisions on interview invitations follow within two weeks of each round and that an earlier round secures a place sooner. The year is taken from the regulation's stated academic year and is provisional for that reason.

• 30 November 2026

  United States SAT or ACT taken, for MIT's 1 November round

  Hard deadline Via MIT's own application portal

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  MIT requires the SAT or ACT and sets the last test date rather than the last reporting date: before 30 November for Early Action, before 31 December for Regular Action. There is no IB alternative.

• 30 November 2026

  United States MIT financial aid application, 1 November round

  Applies to: applicants asking MIT for need-based aid

  Hard deadline Via MIT's own application portal

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Managed separately from the admissions application and due a month after it. Easy to walk past, and there is no second chance at it.

  Published on MIT's deadlines page as "November 30" with no calendar year, as every date on that page is, so 2026 is expected rather than confirmed. It falls a month after the 1 November Early Action application itself, so it is a date that is easy to miss precisely because the application is already in.

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• 30 November 2026

  United States University of California application

  Hard deadline Via the University of California application

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  One filing window and nothing else. No Early Decision, no Early Action, no rolling consideration, no late round, no equivalent of Clearing. The application can be worked on from 1 August but is only accepted between 1 October and 30 November 2026, and decisions come back across March 2027. A student who treats 1 January as "the American deadline" has missed all nine University of California campuses by five weeks.

  UC's first-year page gives the fall filing period as "October 1–November 30"; its dates table lists the "Fall 2027 admission application filing period" across October and November. The application itself opens on 1 August for drafting. It closes before every Regular Decision deadline, and there is no second round and no early round — the University of California runs neither Early Action nor Early Decision, does not read letters of recommendation, and asks four 350-word personal insight questions instead of the Common App essay. The University of California's three later dates — the 1 May reply, the 1 July final transcript and the 15 July IB results deadline — each have their own entry below.

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December 2026

• 1 December 2026
  2027 admission

  Canada Ontario — University of Toronto, documents for early consideration

  Applies to: applicants who applied by the 7 November early date

  Priority

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Early consideration is conditional on both halves: the application by 7 November 2026 and the required documents by this date. Applying early and sending the documents in January puts you back in the ordinary queue. Your gymnasium supplies most of what is wanted, so ask for it in October rather than in the last week of November.

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• 1 December 2026

  Switzerland ETH Zurich bachelor applications open

  Via Swiss university

  Details

  ETH publishes day and month only; the year is read for autumn 2027 entry.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 1 December 2026 to 30 April 2027
  2027 entry - projected, because the published window carries no year

  Czechia Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts - applications, September intake

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Submit your application during this period: 1 December-30 April". A February intake for the follow-up master's runs 1 June to 30 September. Masaryk publishes this window with a day and a month but no year at all, and no academic-year heading anywhere on the page, so the year here is projected onto the September 2027 intake. Where the page's summary table and its per-faculty sections disagree, go by the faculty section, which gives the opening dates the table leaves out.

  Source

• 1 December 2026 to 31 July 2027
  2027 entry - projected, because the published window carries no year

  Czechia Masaryk University, Faculty of Pharmacy - applications, EU applicants

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "1 December-31 July (for EU residents)". Non-EU residents get a shorter window closing 31 May. As an EU citizen living in Denmark you have the longer one, which runs well past your IB results. Masaryk publishes this window with a day and a month but no year at all, and no academic-year heading anywhere on the page, so the year here is projected onto the September 2027 intake. Where the page's summary table and its per-faculty sections disagree, go by the faculty section, which gives the opening dates the table leaves out.

  Source

• 1 December 2026

  Hong Kong HKU: enter predicted grades and upload documents

  Hard deadline Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  For first-round applicants. HKU wants results typed into its system, not only uploaded.

  HKU's key dates add "1 Dec 2026 — Input predicted and/or actual grades and submit supporting documents" for first-round applicants. HKU wants the results typed into its application system, not only uploaded, so ask your coordinator for predicted grades before this date.

  Source

• 1 December 2026

  Netherlands Create your Studielink account

  Your own plan Via Netherlands

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  Not an official deadline. With a Dutch address you log in with DigiD, which the government says takes about five days. Without one you upload a scan or photo of your passport or EU identity card and Studielink verifies it automatically. Either way, do it well before 15 January.

• 1 December 2026
  2027 entry

  Norway University of Oslo — Technology Systems: Science and Engineering, applicants without Norwegian

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  UiO's own admission page for applicants who cannot document Norwegian proficiency. UiO states "You must submit all documents before the application deadline, or your application will not be considered", so a May 2027 IB candidate cannot document the Diploma in time: this route suits a student who already holds it. The financing documentation the page demands does not apply to Norwegian, Nordic and EU/EEA citizens.

  Source

• 1 December 2026
  2027 entry

  Norway NMBU — International Environment and Development Studies, applicants without Norwegian

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "1 December, the year before you plan to start" — but only for applicants "from outside the Nordic countries" who "cannot document proficiency in Norwegian". If you take Danish, Norwegian or Swedish A and reach grade 3 or better, you document Norwegian and apply through Samordna opptak by 15 April instead, where NMBU requires Norwegian B2 even though the programme is taught in English. Without one of those, this 1 December route is the one.

  Source

• 1 December 2026

  New Zealand Check you will meet University Entrance

  Your own plan Via New Zealand university

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  The full IB Diploma, English as Language A at Standard or Higher Level (or Language B at Higher Level, which Auckland accepts only at grade 5 or above), and any mathematics subject. This is a check on your subject choices, so it has to happen while they can still change - which is why it is dated here and not when you apply.

• 2 December 2026

  Japan Keio PEARL, Period I, September 2027 entry

  Hard deadline Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Closes 15:00 JST. The three periods share one quota of about 100 places, so an early period competes for a fuller pool.

• 3 December 2026, 17:00 JST

  Japan Kyoto University iUP, October 2027 enrolment

  Hard deadline Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Closes 17:00 JST. Kyoto's Apply page gives the period as 2 November to 3 December 2026. Screening stages and result dates are in Kyoto's guidelines PDF.

  Applications open 2 November 2026. Kyoto's own Apply page gives the period as "November 2 until December 3, 2026 (5 p.m. Japan Standard Time)". Screening stages and result dates are in Kyoto's guidelines PDF.

  Source

• 8 December to 18 December 2026
  2027 entry

  France Sciences Po — interviews, first round (2027 intake)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "from 8 December 2026 until 18 December 2026". The remote interview is worth 50 of the 100 points, and Sciences Po states that missing it means rejection — so this window is a hard commitment, not a courtesy invitation. You are interviewed in this window if you applied in the 4 November 2026 round.

  Source

• 11 December 2026

  Japan Kyushu University international undergraduate programmes, October 2027 entry

  Hard deadline Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A five-day window: the online system is open only from 7 to 11 December, so do not plan to start the form on the 11th. Documents also go by post. For the English-taught engineering programmes and Bioresource and Bioenvironment. No closing time is stated.

  A five-day window: the online application system is open only from 7 to 11 December 2026, so do not plan to start the form on the 11th. Kyushu then wants "all the necessary documents by post" as well. For the English-taught engineering programmes and Bioresource and Bioenvironment. No closing time is stated.

  Source

• 15 December 2026
  2027 admission

  Canada British Columbia — Simon Fraser University, Undergraduate Scholars Entrance Scholarship closes

  Applies to: applicants seeking an SFU entrance scholarship

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Six weeks before Simon Fraser's own application deadline, which is the trap: a student who applies in January, on time, has already missed the entrance scholarship by a month. The supporting documents for the scholarship are due separately on 31 January 2027, and the offers go out between mid-March and May.

  Source

• 15 December 2026 to 30 April 2027
  2027 entry - projected, because the published window carries no year

  Czechia Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics - applications, September intake

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "September intake: 15 December-30 April". A February intake also exists, closing 30 October - note that Informatics prints 30 October where Economics and Social Studies print 31, and the page repeats it, so it is not a one-line typo. Masaryk publishes this window with a day and a month but no year at all, and no academic-year heading anywhere on the page, so the year here is projected onto the September 2027 intake. Where the page's summary table and its per-faculty sections disagree, go by the faculty section, which gives the opening dates the table leaves out.

  Source

• 15 December 2026 to 30 April 2027
  2027 entry - projected, because the published window carries no year

  Czechia Masaryk University, Faculty of Economics and Administration - applications, September intake

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "September intake: 15 December-30 April". A February intake runs 15 June to 31 October. Masaryk publishes this window with a day and a month but no year at all, and no academic-year heading anywhere on the page, so the year here is projected onto the September 2027 intake. Where the page's summary table and its per-faculty sections disagree, go by the faculty section, which gives the opening dates the table leaves out.

  Source

• 15 December 2026
  2027 entry

  Norway University of Agder — music performance programmes (Classical Music Performance, Electronic Music)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Application deadline for all applicants to music performance programmes" on 15 December, with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake. Two of UiA's four English-taught bachelor's are music performance degrees, so for them the deadline is December, not 1 March.

  Source

• 16 December 2026 to 17 February 2027

  Singapore National University of Singapore — IB Diploma application window, AY2027/2028

  Hard deadline Via Singapore Autonomous University for August 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  NUS runs the IB Diploma as its own applicant group with its own window. A student looking under "international qualifications" is in the right place by coincidence this year — the two windows happen to coincide for AY2027/2028 — and should still apply under the IB Diploma group.

  NUS runs the IB Diploma as its own applicant group with its own window, separate from the one for other international qualifications — although for AY2027/2028 both happen to run 16 December 2026 to 17 February 2027. It closes a month before NTU's. NUS says most applicants hear by the third week of May, and that IB applicants taking the May 2027 examination will hear by the third week of July 2027. On 23 September 2026 every AY2027/2028 window on NUS's page, including this one, was marked "[Closed]", three months before it is due to open; the status is probably left over from the previous cycle. NUS says to "check the information regularly below for the latest updates, as the details are subject to change." If you still see "[Closed]" in December 2026, write to the NUS Office of Admissions rather than assume you have missed it. One thing this page does settle for an IB candidate: the three-day final-results rule it imposes applies to Advanced Placement, Gaokao, HKDSE, Indian Standard 12 and STPM candidates and the IB is not on that list, so NUS, unlike NTU, sets no three-day turnaround on you.

  Source

• 20 December 2026

  United States Early round decisions

  Via the Common App

  Details

  Mid-December at Harvard, Bowdoin and Amherst; 29 January at Illinois, which runs its Early Action decisions later than most. The date here is an indicative mid-December marker, not a published day.

• 22 December 2026

  Japan UTokyo College of Design first screening result, Route B

  Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

• 23 December 2026

  Singapore LASALLE outcomes announced

  Via LASALLE or NAFA for August 2027

  Details

  An offer in December, against IB results the following July. What LASALLE conditions that offer on is not established here.

• 31 December 2026
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom LNAT (law) - sit the test, KCL, LSE and UCL

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "KCL, LSE and UCL: sit by 31 December 2026". LNAT universities listed are Cambridge, Oxford, King's College London, LSE, UCL, Bristol, Durham and SUSS (Singapore).

  Source

January 2027

• 1 January 2027, 23:59 EST

  United Arab Emirates NYU Abu Dhabi — Early Decision II closes

  Hard deadline Via NYU Abu Dhabi

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Also binding. The date is published without a year, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. Decisions are released 15 February.

  Source

• 1 January to 30 April 2027
  2027 entry - published with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake

  Switzerland University of Zurich - application period for the autumn semester

  Applies to: holders of a foreign certificate who do not need a visa, which includes EU/EEA citizens

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  UZH publishes "1 January until 30 April" as the ordinary autumn-semester window, "1 May until 31 July" as an extended window available for Swiss qualifications only, and "1 January until 28 February" for applicants who need a visa. An EU/EEA citizen needs a residence permit rather than a visa, so 30 April is the deadline that applies - and the extended July window, which would have let you apply after results, is the one you cannot use. UZH also requires German at C1.

  Source

• 1 January 2027, 23:59 EST

  China NYU Shanghai Early Decision II (binding)

  Hard deadline Via the Common App, on the American calendar, 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "January 1" with no calendar year, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. Same binding terms as Early Decision I, in the same window as Regular Decision, and it exists for a student whose first binding choice turned them down in December. The 25-day acceptance rule and the requirement to withdraw every other application apply here too.

  Source

• 1 January to 30 June 2027
  annual standing rule, applied to 2027

  Hungary University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest - rolling application window

  Rolling

  Details

  Considered as they arrive, until places run out.

  Published as a standing rule with no year: "Applications are accepted on a rolling basis from 1st January until 30th June (in cases of vacancies later)"; this site assumes the 2027 intake. Decisions are made on a rolling basis through the window, so an early application is a better one. Entrance examinations are arranged online between March and July, with "further rounds of entrance examinations organized in August depending on the number of vacancies" - a real second chance, but one that depends on other people turning places down. An applicant still in the final year of school may apply, but the school leaving certificate must be presented before enrolment.

  Source

• 2 January to 31 July 2027
  2027 entry - projected, because the published window carries no year

  Czechia Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine - applications for candidates examined through a representative

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "for exams via representatives: 2 January - 31 July", and that qualifier matters: it is the only window the page gives for Medicine, and it is scoped to candidates sitting the entrance exam through one of the university's representatives. The summary table at the top of the page shows Medicine simply as "31 July" and drops both the opening date and the qualifier. Masaryk publishes this window with a day and a month but no year at all, and no academic-year heading anywhere on the page, so the year here is projected onto the September 2027 intake. Where the page's summary table and its per-faculty sections disagree, go by the faculty section, which gives the opening dates the table leaves out.

  Source

• 4 January 2027, 23:59 ET

  China Duke Kunshan Regular Decision

  Applies to: international applicants — DKU states these must be non-Chinese citizens

  Hard deadline Via the Common App, on the American calendar, 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its full calendar year as "Regular decision application deadline: January 4, 2027 (11:59pm ET)", which is 05:59 on 5 January in Denmark. Not binding: you keep every offer you hold and reply on 1 May 2027, which is its own entry below. The DKU application is the Common App plus two DKU-specific essays, and DKU also lets an applicant to Duke University in North Carolina share that application with DKU — but only the materials submitted at that moment are shared, and transcripts, school reports, recommendations and CSS Profile documents that arrive later must be sent to both universities separately. That is the detail most likely to cost somebody an assessed application.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 4 January to 8 January 2027
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom UAT-UK admissions tests (ESAT, TMUA, TARA) - January sitting

  Details

  Published as "tests 4-8 January 2027". Not available for Oxford or Cambridge applicants. Used for 2027 entry by Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford and UCL (ESAT); those four and LSE, Warwick and Durham (TMUA); and Oxford and UCL (TARA), per the test pages on esat-tmua.ac.uk.

  Source

• 4 January 2027

  United States MIT Regular Action closes

  Hard deadline Via MIT's own application portal

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The fourth of January. Not the first.

• 5 January 2027, 23:59 EST

  United Arab Emirates NYU Abu Dhabi — Regular Decision closes

  Hard deadline Via NYU Abu Dhabi

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The non-binding round, and the one to use unless you are certain. The date is published without a year, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. Decisions are released 1 April. The CSS Profile for financial aid is due 1 February — a separate date, and missing that one costs the money rather than the place.

  Source

• 5 January 2027, 23:59 EST

  China NYU Shanghai Regular Decision

  Hard deadline Via the Common App, on the American calendar, 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  NYU prints 5 January with no year.

  Published on NYU Shanghai's How to Apply page as "Regular Decision - January 5", 11:59 p.m. EST, with no calendar year, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. The Early Decision page leaves it out.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 6 January 2027, 23:59 CET

  France École polytechnique Bachelor - round 2 closes

  Priority Via French grande école or private institution

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Published as "October 21, 2026 to January 6, 2027 at 11:59 PM (CET)"; interviews in February-March, results in March 2027.

  Source

• 7 January to 21 January 2027, 15:00 UTC+2 (Finnish time)

  Finland Joint application for English-taught bachelor's programmes

  Hard deadline Via Finland

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The national window, on Studyinfo.fi, closing at 15:00 Finnish time on 21 January. Six months before IB results, so you apply on predicted grades. Aalto, the University of Helsinki and LUT are not in it: each runs its own application (Aalto closes on 22 January, Helsinki's IB group on 23 March, LUT's rolling admission on 30 April). Åbo Akademi's bachelor's programmes are in the second joint application, in March.

  One form, maximum six programme choices. Opens 7 January 2027 at 08:00 and closes 21 January 2027 at 15:00 Finnish time (UTC+2). Studyinfo's own record of the joint application ("Joint Application to Higher Education, Spring 2027", run by the Finnish National Agency for Education) gives exactly that, and Tampere, Metropolia, Jamk, Xamk, Study in Finland, Jyväskylä, Turku, Oulu and Arcada agree. Aalto is not part of it: its English-taught bachelor's programmes have their own application on Studyinfo, open 7 January 08:00 to 22 January 2027 15:00. Both dates are right; they are two different applications.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 7 January 2027

  Hong Kong CUHK Regular Round closes

  Hard deadline Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "7 Jan 2027 — Application Deadline for Regular Round". This is CUHK's last date; the first teaching term commences in early September 2027, and registration and course selection run August to September 2027. CUHK's page gives Regular Round notifications "From Feb 2026", which, between a January 2027 deadline and August 2027 registration, is probably a misprint for February 2027. A successful applicant must pay a first instalment of composition fees of HK$10,000 and complete acceptance by a specified date or the offer becomes void.

  Source

• 10 January 2027, 23:59 EST

  United Arab Emirates CSS Profile due for Early Decision II

  Hard deadline Via NYU Abu Dhabi

  Details

  After this the door closes.

• 13 January 2027, 23:59 Paris time

  France Sciences Po — second round, and Émile Boutmy scholarship deadline (2027 intake)

  Hard deadline Via French grande école or private institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Paris time (11.59pm)". Results at the beginning of April 2027 — the school publishes only the month. This is also the deadline to apply for the Émile Boutmy scholarship. The interview window for this round is a separate entry.

  Source

• 13 January 2027, 18:00 UK time

  United Kingdom Equal consideration date for most courses

  Equal consideration Via UK

  Details

  Applications in by this date are guaranteed to be considered. Later ones may still be read, at the institution’s discretion, against whatever places remain.

  The 13th for 2027 entry, where 2026 entry used the 14th. The date moves between cycles, so a figure remembered from a sibling’s year is worth re-checking.

  Every application that arrives by this time must be given equal consideration. Applications after it are only looked at if places remain.

  Source

• 13 January 2027
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom LNAT (law) - register, book and sit, Bristol and Durham

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Bristol and Durham: register, book and sit by 13 January 2027". LNAT universities listed are Cambridge, Oxford, King's College London, LSE, UCL, Bristol, Durham and SUSS (Singapore).

  Source

• 13 January 2027
  2027 entry, projected from the 2026 calendar

  Lithuania LSMU - entrance tests and motivational interviews begin

  Details

  Published for the 2026 intake as "13 January 2026 - The period of Entrance tests and motivational interviews starts." LSMU publishes a dated "Application calendar" for one intake at a time; on 23 September 2026 it still showed the 2026 intake, headed "RULES FOR ADMITTING STUDENTS TO THE LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES IN 2026". The date here is that calendar rolled forward by one year and is provisional until LSMU publishes the 2027 one. The test is online: an interview a few days before a 90-minute multiple-choice paper in Biology and Chemistry, 30 questions each (Biology and Mathematics for Psychology). Missing the interview cancels the written test automatically, and a date can only be changed with an admission officer’s approval. IB holders with grade 5 at higher level in the required subjects are exempt from the entrance examination altogether, which is the single biggest reason for an IB candidate to look at LSMU. Without a TOEFL, IELTS or CEFR B1 certificate you must also sit LSMU’s own English test.

  Source

• 14 January 2027

  Japan Tohoku University Gateway College, October 2027 entry

  Hard deadline Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  First-stage result 5 February, second stage 21–22 February 2027, successful applicants announced 24 March. Predicted IB scores are accepted. About 90 places for October entry.

  Application period 15 December 2026 to 14 January 2027; first-stage result 5 February, second stage 21–22 February, successful applicants announced 24 March 2027. Predicted IB scores are accepted. No closing time is stated.

  Source

• 14 January 2027, 18:00 KST

  South Korea KAIST Regular Admissions, Fall 2027 entry

  Hard deadline Via Korean university for the September 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The live round for anyone finishing the IB Diploma in May 2027; KAIST says the academic year for this round begins at the end of August 2027. Decided on predicted grades and a recommendation letter before results exist. KAIST's Early Admissions round (22 September to 22 October 2026) leads to a start at the end of February 2027 and is not for this cohort.

  KAIST's own timeline says this round's "Academic Year Begins: End of August, 2027". Opens 10 November 2026. The recommendation letter has a later deadline of its own, 21 January 2027. Decision 25 March 2027, before IB results on 6 July 2027. KAIST's other round, Early Admissions (22 September to 22 October 2026), leads to a start at the end of February 2027 and cannot be used by a May 2027 candidate.

  Source

• 15 January 2027

  United Arab Emirates RIT Dubai — Fall 2027 Early Admission Phase closes

  Priority Via Applying direct to a foreign university's UAE campus

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  The phase to be in if you want a scholarship. RIT Dubai says its scholarship seats are limited. The date is published without a year, so 2027 is expected.

  RIT Dubai's page says it is already accepting applications for Spring and Fall 2027. The phase dates are published without a year, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. Apply in this phase if you want a scholarship: RIT Dubai says its scholarship seats are limited and urges applicants to apply as soon as they can.

  Source

• 15 January 2027

  Canada Quebec — McGill University applications close

  Applies to: applicants studying at, or last studied at, an overseas or US high school

  Hard deadline Via each university directly

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as Friday, January 15, 2027, for anyone studying or last studying at a high school outside Canada, across Arts, Science, Engineering, Management, Education, Nursing, Architecture and Agricultural & Environmental Sciences.

  McGill states it with the year and the weekday attached — "Friday, January 15, 2027" — as the "Application deadline for Fall 2027 admission to undergraduate programs by applicants studying or who last studied in an overseas or U.S. high school", which is the group an IB candidate at a school in Denmark is in. No closing time is published on that page. McGill assesses on predicted IB results or, if you have them, on final ones.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 15 January 2027, 23:59 PST

  Canada British Columbia — UBC applications close

  Hard deadline Via British Columbia university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Pacific time is nine hours behind Denmark, so this closes on the morning of 16 January Danish time. It is a deadline for the Winter Session beginning September 2027.

  Published as "Deadline to apply for Winter Session (September 2027 to April 2028)", 11:59 p.m. PST. Submitted through EducationPlannerBC, not to UBC directly.

  Source

• 15 January 2027

  Canada Ontario — University of Toronto applications close

  Hard deadline Via n Ontario university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The date for Applied Science & Engineering, Arts & Science at St. George, Mississauga, Scarborough and almost everything else. Medical Radiation Sciences closes on 1 February instead. If the OUAC forwards your application after the programme has closed, Toronto cancels it and does not refund the fee.

  Published on Toronto's 2027 admissions deadlines table under "Deadline" for Applied Science & Engineering, Architecture, Arts & Science at St George including the International Foundation Program, the iSchool, Kinesiology & Physical Education, Music, Nursing, Physician Assistant, Mississauga and Scarborough. Medical Radiation Sciences is the exception at 1 February. This is the university's own date, not the OUAC's, and you apply through the OUAC — which warns that it needs processing time before a university's date, so treat the first week of January as the real one.

  Source

• 15 January 2027

  Canada OUAC deadline for Ontario high school applicants (Group A) - not yours

  Via n Ontario university

  Details

  It tells you when Ontario universities start deciding, and because it is the date most often quoted at international applicants who are not bound by it. You are Group B.

• 15 January to 28 May 2027

  Canada Offers released, in rounds

  Via n Ontario university

  Details

  Toronto releases decisions from January to late May. The OUAC's guarantee that every Group A applicant hears by 28 May does not extend to Group B, so a later answer is possible and is not a bad sign.

• 15 January 2027

  Spain IE University Round 2 closes

  Hard deadline Via Spanish private university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  IE's other 2027-28 rounds: Early Round 18 September 2026 (passed), Round 1 6 November 2026, and Round 3, the last, 5 March 2027. From May 2027, only while places remain.

• 15 January 2027

  Hong Kong CityU Main Round closes

  Hard deadline Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Results February to May 2027.

  "15 Jan 2027 — Main Round Application Deadline", with Main Round results from February to May 2027 and Semester A starting 30 August 2027 (provisional). CityU admits IB Diploma holders to first-year studies or with Advanced Standing I.

  Source

• 15 January 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands Second portfolio round closes (Creative Media & Game Technologies)

  Priority Via Breda University of Applied Sciences programme with selection

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Falls on the same day as the national numerus fixus deadline and is not the same thing: this round is one of four and missing it does not close the programme.

• 15 January 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands International Business numerus fixus application closes

  Hard deadline Via Maastricht University

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The national numerus fixus date. Maastricht's published table gives 15 January 2026 for the 2026-2027 round; the 2027 date is inherited from the national rule and is provisional until Maastricht republishes. Studielink and all MyApplication admission tasks must both be complete.

  Absolute, and published to the minute: Studielink's own guidance is "until 23:59 on 15 January", and the University of Amsterdam states the 2027 date: "from 1 October 2026 till 15 January 2027". You may apply to at most two numerus fixus programmes in one academic year. Medicine, Dentistry, Dental Hygiene and Physiotherapy allow only one application per programme, so you cannot apply for Medicine at two universities. Selection then runs between 15 January and 15 April; what happens on 15 April, and what you then have to do, are entries of their own.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 15 January 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands Numerus fixus applications close

  Hard deadline Via Netherlands

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Two numerus fixus programmes at most; medicine, dentistry, dental hygiene and physiotherapy allow one application per programme, so not medicine at two universities. Missing this does not cost you the year, but it does cost you every selective programme in it.

• 15 January 2027

  Sweden First round closes, and rankings lock

  Hard deadline Via Sweden

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Also the last day to change how your choices are ranked. Not your round as a May 2027 IB candidate unless the programme admits on predicted grades (Stockholm School of Economics does).

  Closes at midnight CET, and it is also the ranking deadline. University Admissions' IB guidance page says "If you haven't yet completed your IB Diploma programme, do not apply to the first admissions round", because University Admissions "will not be able to evaluate your application in time for admissions decisions in late March/April" without a completed transcript and diploma (https://www.universityadmissions.se/en/apply-to-bachelors/provide-application-documents-bachelors/ib-studies/). A May 2027 candidate therefore normally cannot use this round — the second round, below, is yours.

  Source

• 20 January 2027
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom LNAT (law) - register, all other universities

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "All others: register by 20 January 2027". LNAT universities listed are Cambridge, Oxford, King's College London, LSE, UCL, Bristol, Durham and SUSS (Singapore).

  Source

• 20 January 2027, 17:00 Irish time

  Ireland Discounted application fee ends - 35 EUR becomes 50 EUR

  Via Ireland

  Details

  Applying after this costs more. Not a barrier, and a needless cost.

  The discounted online fee ends at 17:00 (CAO Handbook 2027, Timetable of Events and Table 1.1). Missing it costs 15 EUR, not your place: you can still apply at the normal 50 EUR until 1 February. The fee ladder is in Table 1.1 of the CAO Handbook 2027 and is the part most often got wrong: early online (discounted) 35 EUR by 20 January, normal online 50 EUR by 1 February, late online 65 EUR by 1 May, Change of Mind nil. Amending your course choices between 5 February and 1 March costs a further 10 EUR. Application fees are non-refundable and CAO states that no extension to any closing date is allowed.

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

• 21 January 2027

  Canada McGill - Major Entrance Scholarship application and documents

  Hard deadline Via each university directly

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  McGill's IB requirements page publishes 21 January without a year. So 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. Six days after the application itself, so it is not something to start after applying.

• 21 January 2027
  2027/28 entry

  Italy Bocconi — Winter Session for 2027/28 entry: last date to sit the Bocconi online test

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as the Winter Session final test date, "21 January 2027", five days before that session's application deadline.

  Source

• 21 January 2027, 18:00 KST

  South Korea KAIST recommendation letter due (Regular Admissions)

  Hard deadline Via Korean university for the September 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A week after the application itself closes. Sending the application in on time does not finish the job, and this is the part most often missed — ask your referee in November, not in January.

• 25 January 2027
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom LNAT (law) - sit the test, all other universities

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "All others: ... sit by 25 January 2027". Registration for these universities closes on 20 January 2027. LNAT universities listed are Cambridge, Oxford, King's College London, LSE, UCL, Bristol, Durham and SUSS (Singapore).

  Source

• 26 January 2027, 15:00 Rome time

  Italy Bocconi Winter Session closes — Bocconi's last round for 2027

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Hard deadline Via n Italian university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The example of how early the selective universities close. Bocconi has no spring round for 2027-28 entry. You need a test score first: the last Bocconi online test date for this session is 21 January 2027.

• 27 January 2027

  Japan Keio PEARL, Period II, September 2027 entry

  Hard deadline Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

• 28 January 2027

  Finland Attachments uploaded to Studyinfo (Jyväskylä's date)

  Hard deadline Via Finland

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  One university's published date. Check your own programme's.

  Jyväskylä's attachment deadline, and also the deadline for English-proficiency proof and individual arrangements for the International UAS Exam.

  Source

• 31 January 2027

  Canada British Columbia — Simon Fraser University applications close

  Hard deadline Via British Columbia university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Sixteen days after UBC's, on the same platform, for the same intake. This is the clearest reason not to read one British Columbia deadline as the province's.

  Published as "Deadline to apply for Fall 2027 on Education Planner BC", with applications opening 1 October 2026. Two weeks later than UBC, on the same platform, in the same city region — which is the argument against carrying one British Columbian date to another.

  Source

February 2027

• 1 February 2027, 23:59 EST

  United Arab Emirates CSS Profile due for Regular Decision

  Hard deadline Via NYU Abu Dhabi

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Four weeks after the application. Missing this costs the aid, not the place — which at a cost of attendance above USD 90,000 amounts to the same thing for most families.

• 1 February 2027

  Canada Quebec — Concordia University, recommended date for US and international applicants

  Applies to: US and international applicants

  Priority Via each university directly

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Concordia publishes 1 February as advice rather than a rule, explicitly to leave time for immigration documents. The year is projected from a recurring date and is provisional. In Quebec the immigration document is the CAQ, which has to be granted before the federal study permit can be.

  Concordia's wording is "U.S. and international applicants: Apply no later than February 1 to allow time for immigration document processing" — a month before its own general deadline, and the reason is the Certificat d'acceptation du Quebec, which has its own entry below and has to be granted before the federal study permit. Concordia gives a bare "February 1" with no year, as it does for every date in that section, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. Treat it as your deadline; 1 March is for applicants already in Canada.

  Source

• 1 February 2027

  Canada Ontario — University of Toronto, supporting documents

  Hard deadline Via n Ontario university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A separate date from the application, and the one more often missed. Engineering and Music want documents by 15 January instead, alongside the application. Toronto says documents arriving later are considered as space allows, which in a competitive programme means not.

  Two weeks after the application itself, and invisible to a student who thinks submitting the application ended the job. Applied Science & Engineering and Music are the exceptions and want their documents on 15 January with the application. An application whose documents never arrive is not assessed.

  Source

• 1 February 2027, 17:00 Irish time

  Ireland Normal closing date - the one that matters

  Hard deadline Via Ireland

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The last day to apply at the normal fee, and the last day to apply at all for restricted courses such as medicine. A late window, 5 March to 1 May at €65, takes other courses only, and an institution may refuse a late application.

  CAO publishes this as "1st February (17:00) - Normal closing date for applications". Confirmed for 2027 entry by the CAO Handbook 2027 (Timetable of Events and Table 1.1); on 24 September 2026 the Timetable of Events web page still showed the 2026 cycle. The fee at this point is 50 EUR. Restricted-entry courses - those with a test, interview, portfolio or audition, including undergraduate medicine - must be on your course choices list by now, with one narrow escape: the handbook allows them to be "added to your application using the facility to amend course choices (for a fee of 10) before 1 March at 5pm". They cannot be introduced during the free Change of Mind window in May and June, except where a restricted course shares the exact same assessment procedures as one you already listed. The CAO Handbook also advises applying online before this date and time if you need to sit HPAT or GAMSAT.

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

• 1 February 2027

  Iceland University of Iceland, international applicants (undergraduate and master's)

  Hard deadline Via n Icelandic university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Printed as "1 February" with no year. The university's own pages disagree on whether a Nordic citizen may instead use 5 June; work to 1 February unless the university confirms otherwise in writing.

  Published as "1 February" with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake. Certified academic transcripts and previous degree diplomas must reach the university by the same day. The application period opens "around mid December", published without a precise day, so there is no opening date here to count down to. Both the deadline page and the FAQ agree that 1 February is the date for an international applicant — and those are the same two pages that contradict each other about 5 June, which is why this is the deadline to use: it is the one for every non-Nordic applicant, and the safe one for Nordic citizens (Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian or Swedish).

  Source

• 1 February 2027
  Spring 2028

  Japan Ask the Japanese embassy in your country of citizenship for its dates

  Only if: Depends on your nationality: you apply through the Japanese embassy in your country of citizenship, and each decides what it offers.

  Your own plan Via MEXT scholarship, Embassy Recommendation, for arrival in April 2028

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  Not a published deadline and not anyone's rule. The Embassy of Japan in Denmark lists only the Japanese Studies and Research Student types for Danish nationals. If you hold another nationality, ask the Japanese embassy in your country of citizenship whether it offers the undergraduate type; either way, ask in February, because the window itself would fall in April and May 2027, on top of the IB examinations.

• 1 February 2027

  Luxembourg University of Luxembourg applications open

  Via Luxembourg institution

  Details

  One intake a year, in September. The university says its 2027-2028 admission criteria are under review.

  On 23 September 2026 the university's admissions page said: "The application period for the 2026–2027 academic year is now closed. Applications for the 2027–2028 academic year will open on 1 February 2027." The university offers one intake a year, in September, and states there are no spring or summer intakes. The same page warns that "The application criteria for the 2027–2028 academic year are currently under review and may be subject to change", so the eligibility rules you plan around today may not be the ones you apply under. There is an application fee, paid as step five of the application, before you can submit.

  Source

• 1 February to 1 August 2027
  Published without a year on 2026-09-22; expect the same window for the autumn 2027 intake but re-check

  Latvia Turiba University - autumn intake

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "From February 1 to August 1", with no year given, so this site assumes the 2027 intake. Studies begin at the end of September. Turiba also runs a winter intake, "From August 2 to December 1" for a February start; that is a different intake, which is why it has no card of its own: a May 2027 IB candidate cannot start in February 2027 and would be looking at February 2028. All Turiba programmes are available in both intakes.

  Source

• 1 February 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands University College Maastricht closes for non-EU/EEA applicants

  Applies to: applicants from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland

  Hard deadline Via Maastricht University

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Studielink application and every admission task in Maastricht's own MyApplication portal, both by this date.

• 1 February 2027

  Norway Samordna opptak opens for the 2027 admission round

  Via Norway

  Details

  The course catalogue for the year is published the same day.

  Published as "Opent for søking" on 1 February, when the study overview for the round is also released. Nothing can be submitted through Samordna opptak before this day, and the same 1 February opening applies to the University of Agder's and Nord's own English-taught application webs.

  Source

• 1 February 2027

  Sweden First round — supporting documents, and your proof of fee exemption

  Hard deadline Via Sweden

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Also the deadline to document EU/EEA/Swiss citizenship for fee exemption. Five months before IB results are published, which is the problem to solve early rather than in January.

  One day, three things. As an EU/EEA citizen you pay no application fee and no tuition, but you do not get the exemption automatically — you have to document your EU/EEA citizenship by this date, and University Admissions handles that on the same deadline it uses to collect the fee from everyone else. All supporting materials are due the same day.

  Source

• 1 February 2027

  Denmark Optagelse.dk opens for the 2027 intake

  Via optagelse.dk

  Details

  The portal typically opens in early February. Confirm the exact date when the Agency publishes it.

• 2 February 2027, 23:59 CET
  2027 entry

  Hungary CEU (Vienna) bachelor’s - round 2 of four

  Priority

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  All four rounds close at 23:59 CET. CEU’s own financial aid is awarded in the first two rounds only, so apply in October or February if you want it. Accepted students pay a 500-euro registration fee. Note that CEU’s bachelor’s programmes are taught in Vienna, not in Budapest - it appears on this page because it was founded in Budapest, but you would be living in Austria.

  Source

• 2 February 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland University of Warsaw - 2027/28 admissions may not begin before this date

  Details

  A genuine 2027 date, and one of the few in Poland. Senate resolution 278 of 20 May 2026, which governs 2027/28 admissions, states: "Postępowanie rekrutacyjne rozpoczyna się nie wcześniej niż 2 lutego 2027 r. i trwa nie dłużej niż do dnia 30 września 2027 r." It is an outer bound on the whole university, not the opening of any particular round; the round dates come later, in a Rector's ordinance. Resolution 315 of 24 June 2026 amends only the foreign-qualification recognition clause, so these dates are unchanged.

  Source

• 4 February to 1 December 2027

  Spain UNEDasiss accreditation request window

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Hard deadline Via UNEDasiss, then the region's preinscripción

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  UNED states the window as an annual rule, 4 February to 1 December. Ignore the December end: the accreditation is needed for the early-July admission deadline, and processing takes about three weeks plus postage.

  The one Spanish date that is safe to carry forward, because UNED states it as a standing annual rule rather than a calendar entry: "El plazo para solicitar la acreditación de UNEDasiss on line, se abre el 4 de febrero y se cierra el 1 de diciembre de cada año". The 1 December end is misleading on its own and UNED says so in the next sentence: the accreditation has to exist before the university admission round closes in early July, and UNED asks for the request "como mínimo, 6 semanas antes del cierre de inscripción universitaria". It has three months in law to process a request and says the usual turnaround is three weeks from receiving form, payment and documents together. Add postal time: UNED states that documents posted from abroad take more than 15 working days to arrive. And avoid the shutdowns - UNED is closed 29 March to 6 April 2026, 1 to 15 August 2026, and 24 December 2026 to 7 January 2027.

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3 · Source 4

• 5 February 2027, 12:00 Irish time
  2027 entry

  Ireland Facility to amend course choices opens - 10 EUR

  Details

  Course choices can be amended online from 12:00 on this day for a €10 fee; source: CAO Handbook 2027, Timetable of Events and Table 1.1. Nothing can be changed between 1 February and this day.

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

• 5 February 2027
  recurring annual cycle

  Iceland Reykjavik University, applications open, EU/EEA residents, autumn

  Details

  Published as "February 5th" with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake. Nothing can be submitted to Reykjavik University before this day.

  Source

• 7 February 2027
  2027 admission

  Canada British Columbia — Simon Fraser University, Beedie and Contemporary Arts supplemental requirements

  Applies to: applicants to the Beedie School of Business or the School for the Contemporary Arts

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Beedie applicants must complete every item on their To-Do List by this date; School for the Contemporary Arts applicants — excluding Art, Performance and Cinema Studies and Performance Production & Design — must complete an audition, interview or portfolio by it. A portfolio or audition is weeks of work, not an afternoon, and the date is published nowhere a student sees before applying.

  Source

• 8 February 2027, 14:00 CET

  France École polytechnique Bachelor - final round closes

  Hard deadline Via French grande école or private institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Closes at 2 pm, not midnight.

  Published as "January 7, 2027 to February 8, 2027 at 2 PM (CET)" - 2 pm, not midnight. Interviews in March-April, results in April 2027.

  Source

• 11 February 2027

  Hong Kong PolyU Main Round closes

  Priority Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Rolling until 14 May 2027 if places remain.

  Published on the same image timeline as "Main Round Application Deadline — 11 Feb 2027", with admission announcements from late February 2027 onwards. The consequence is priority rather than hard because PolyU's own footnote says applications received after the main round deadline "will still be considered on a rolling basis till 14 May 2027, subject to the availability of study places" — so 14 May 2027 is the real end of the cycle, and it still falls before IB results on 6 July 2027. PolyU adds that "if there is no news by mid-July, you should assume that your application is unsuccessful".

  Source

• 15 February 2027

  Canada Dalhousie - Nursing, Health Sciences, Medical Sciences and Social Work close; entrance scholarships close

  Hard deadline Via each university directly

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published for September 2027 entry. Other Dalhousie programmes are considered where space is available until classes start, but the scholarship deadline is the same day.

  Dalhousie's September 2027 calendar gives 15 February 2027 for Nursing, Health Sciences, Medical Sciences and Social Work and 1 March 2027 for Environmental Design Studies (Architecture). Everything else is considered "where space is available" until classes start, but 15 February 2027 is also the scholarship deadline and 1 May 2027 the date to accept offers and awards, so mid-February is the date that matters. To be guaranteed a place in residence, apply for it by 15 May 2027.

  Source

• 15 February 2027
  2027 entry

  Norway NHH Norwegian School of Economics — BSc in Business, Economics and Data Science, EU/EEA/Swiss

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  NHH publishes "1 January – 15 February 2027: Submit application, test results, and diploma." If you are eligible for a conditional offer, official predicted grades are due by 15 February 2027 and the final diploma can be uploaded later, until 6 July 2027. Decisions for the EU/EEA/Swiss round come in May. Non-EU/EEA/Swiss applicants apply 1–15 November 2026.

  Source

• 15 February 2027

  United States MIT financial aid application, Regular Action

  Applies to: applicants asking MIT for need-based aid

  Hard deadline Via MIT's own application portal

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published on MIT's deadlines page as "February 15" with no calendar year, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. MIT's Regular Action application closes on 4 January, so the aid papers are due six weeks after the application — long enough to forget about.

  Source

• 25 February 2027

  United Kingdom Extra opens

  Via UK

  Details

  For anyone who used all five choices and holds no offer: one further choice at a time.

  For applicants holding no offers.

  Source

• 28 February 2027
  2027 admission

  Canada British Columbia — Simon Fraser University, admission documents

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as the "Admission document submission deadline for all High School Applicants", four weeks after the application. Admission decisions are made on a rolling basis from January to late April, so documents that arrive in February are read against whatever places are left rather than against the whole field.

  Source

• 28 February 2027

  Czechia Masaryk Faculty of Science closes

  Hard deadline Via Czech university or faculty for September 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Submit your application during this period: 1 November-28 February". Masaryk publishes this window with a day and a month but no year at all, and no academic-year heading anywhere on the page, so the year here is projected onto the September 2027 intake. Where the page's summary table and its per-faculty sections disagree, go by the faculty section, which gives the opening dates the table leaves out.

  Source

• 28 February 2027
  2027/28 entry

  Czechia VSE Prague, Bachelor of International Business - application and fee deadline

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Application Deadline: February 28th, 2027", and repeated in the official Conditions of admission for 2027/2028. The 100 EUR fee must be credited to the university by the same day, and it is not refundable.

  Source

• 28 February 2027, 23:59 Paris time

  France Sciences Po - final round closes (apply before 1 March)

  Hard deadline Via French grande école or private institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The dual-degree pages say apply "before 1 March 2027", so aim for 28 February, 23:59 Paris time. Results in early May 2027 — the school publishes only the month. Dual degrees with Freie Universität Berlin, Hong Kong University, Keio, ESCP and Luiss also close on this date. The interview window for this round is a separate entry.

  Source

• 28 February 2027

  Singapore LASALLE College of the Arts — BA (Hons) Music and Diploma in Music

  Priority Via LASALLE or NAFA for August 2027

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Music runs four months behind everything else at LASALLE. MA Art Therapy closes 31 January 2027.

  Music runs four months behind the rest of LASALLE: both the BA (Hons) and the Diploma close on 28 February 2027, against 1 November 2026 for everything else. Outcomes are announced by 20 April 2027 for the BA (Hons) and 2 April 2027 for the Diploma, and shortlisted BA (Hons) applicants are invited to interview from February 2027 — so the interview invitations go out before the application even closes. LASALLE's MA Art Therapy closes on 31 January 2027, which is published on the same page and is mentioned here only so that it is not mistaken for an undergraduate date: it is a master's programme and is not open to a school leaver.

  Source

March 2027

• 1 March to 17 May 2027

  Belgium Flanders - registration for the entrance examinations in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine

  Hard deadline Via Flemish institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  No late registration. One registration and fee per exam.

  A genuine 2027 window, published in Dutch as "Je kan je inschrijven van 1 maart tot en met 17 mei 2027" - 17 May included. This closes more than six weeks before the exam and there is no late entry, so it is the date that decides whether you sit at all. You register and pay separately for each of the three examinations; the fee was 65 euro per examination in 2026 and the 2027 figure is not yet published. At registration you must name which programme is your preference, and that choice is binding: if you qualify for more than one, you are ranked only for the preferred one. Source, in Dutch: the Flemish government's exam pages at vlaanderen.be/toelatingsexamens.

  Source

• 1 March 2027

  Canada McGill - supporting documents due

  Hard deadline Via each university directly

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as 1 March without a year on McGill's IB requirements page; read as the 2027 cycle. McGill wants the school transcript with first-semester results and the predicted IB grades.

• 1 March 2027

  Canada Quebec — Concordia University, fall entry, general deadline

  Applies to: Canadian applicants (US and international applicants: 1 February)

  Hard deadline Via each university directly

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Six weeks after McGill's, two miles away, in the same province. The year is projected from a recurring date. Concordia takes three ranked programme choices on one application.

  Published as "FALL ENTRY (September) Deadline: March 1", with no year, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. It is the date a student applying from Denmark sees first on Concordia's page, and it is the wrong one: the international date is 1 February, four weeks earlier.

  Source

• 1 March to 31 March 2027
  2027/28 entry

  Czechia VSE Prague, Bachelor of International Business - admission interview

  Details

  Published only as a month - "Exam Date: March 2027" - with the prose adding that interviews are scheduled "in the beginning of March". No individual day is published, so the whole month is shown. The exam is a single online interview over MS Teams, 50 points for motivation and 50 for English, with a minimum of 25 in each part. The decision follows: the faculty says only that it "is usually made around the mid of March", with no year and no committed day, so that is customary practice rather than a date to plan against.

  Source

• 1 March 2027

  Germany Start the uni-assist preliminary review

  Your own plan Via Germany

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  Foreign qualifications are normally checked by uni-assist before a university will consider the application. uni-assist says a result usually takes 4 to 6 weeks and asks you to apply at least 8 weeks before the deadline. Starting late is a common and avoidable way to miss an institutional deadline.

• 1 March 2027

  Estonia Tallinn University: bachelor's applications close

  Hard deadline Via n Estonian institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  One university's date, and the only 2027 one published so far. Four months before IB results.

  The only confirmed 2027-entry deadline anywhere in Estonia. Treat it as your anchor date and assume other universities will land in a similar window until they publish.

  Source

• 1 March 2027, 17:00 Irish time
  2027 entry

  Ireland Closing date for amending course choices - last chance to add a restricted course

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  CAO publishes this as "1st March (17:00) - Closing date for amending course choices". Confirmed for 2027 entry by the CAO Handbook 2027 (Timetable of Events and Table 1.1); on 24 September 2026 the Timetable of Events web page still showed the 2026 cycle. After this time no restricted-entry course can be added to your application for the rest of the cycle: the free Change of Mind window that opens in May cannot introduce them, and a late application cannot include them either. If undergraduate medicine, or an art, design, architecture, music or drama course with a portfolio or audition, is not on your list by now, it is not available to you this year.

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

• 1 March 2027

  Latvia RSU: Medicine and Dentistry applications open

  Via Latvian institution

  Details

  Source

• 1 March to 1 May 2027
  September 2027 intake

  Latvia Riga Stradins University - September 2027 intake, non-EU/EEA applicants

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Non-EU applicants close earlier than EU applicants to leave time for the residence permit.

  Source

• 1 March 2027
  2027 entry

  Norway University of Agder — English-taught bachelor's except music performance, EU/EEA applicants

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  UiA's date, published as "Application deadline for EU/EEA applicants" with no year, so this site assumes the 2027 intake. It covers Academic Esports and English; the two music performance degrees close earlier, on 15 December (their own entry). UiA's application web opens 1 February, and results for EU/EEA applicants come on 1 June and 10 July.

  Source

• 1 March to 31 March 2027

  United States UC admission decisions for fall 2027

  Via the University of California application

  Details

  Notification runs through March 2027. Some campuses release earlier.

• 1 March 2027

  Denmark Have your IB coordinator register you for IB results

  Your own plan Via optagelse.dk

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  Not an official deadline, but results must be authorised to travel before the documentation deadline. Get a receipt. Institution codes: Copenhagen 002600, Aarhus 000150, Aalborg 000148, Southern Denmark 000157.

• 3 March to 14 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Hungary University of Pécs - entrance exams, every Wednesday

  Details

  Published with its year: "Entrance exams are organized each Wednesday between 3rd March and 14th July 2027." The window runs weekly, not continuously - there are twenty Wednesdays in it and you sit one of them. Register two weeks in advance. Exams can be sat in Pécs, in Budapest at McDaniel College, or abroad through representative agencies, and there is a 250 USD (about €220 at the ECB rate of 24 September 2026) entrance exam fee on top of the application fee.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 3 March 2027

  South Korea KAIST interview (Regular Admissions)

  Via Korean university for the September 2027 intake

  Details

  KAIST states that interviews are conditional and that applicants are contacted individually if one is required.

• 5 March to 1 May 2027, 17:00 Irish time
  2027 entry

  Ireland Late application window - 65 EUR, and no restricted courses

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  CAO publishes this as two lines, "5th March (12:00) - Late application facility opens" and "1st May (17:00) - Closing date for late applications"; the time shown here is the closing one, because that is the one that costs something. Confirmed for 2027 entry by the CAO Handbook 2027 (Timetable of Events and Table 1.1); on 24 September 2026 the Timetable of Events web page still showed the 2026 cycle. The fee is 65 EUR. Restricted-entry courses cannot be applied for at all in this window, and the handbook warns that individual institutions may refuse late applications outright: "mature applicants, and those presenting qualifications other than recently taken EU school-leaving examinations, should check the relevant HEI website before making a late application". An IB Diploma completed the same summer is a recently taken EU school-leaving examination, but the institution decides, not CAO.

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

• 5 March 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands Third portfolio round closes (Creative Media & Game Technologies)

  Priority Via Breda University of Applied Sciences programme with selection

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

• 8 March to 19 March 2027
  2027 entry

  France Sciences Po — interviews, second round (2027 intake)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "from 8 March 2027 until 19 March 2027". You are interviewed in this window if you applied in the 13 January 2027 round. Missing the interview means rejection.

  Source

• 9 March to 23 March 2027, 15:00 UTC+2

  Finland University of Helsinki, Admission group 2 — the IB route

  Hard deadline Via Finland

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Helsinki runs its own dates. IB Diploma holders are in group 2 and apply in March, not January.

  Published as "9–23 March 2027", closing "at 15.00 UTC+2". Helsinki's Admission group 2 is for applicants who have completed an International Baccalaureate diploma (or a Finnish matriculation examination, EB or Reifeprüfung/DIA); group 1, 5–19 January 2027, covers everyone else, so it is a window you are excluded from, not one you can miss. Åbo Akademi's bachelor round is also 9–23 March 2027, but every one of its bachelor's degrees is taught in Swedish.

  Source

• 10 March to 12 March 2027
  2027

  Finland International UAS Exam — pre-identification window

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "from 10 March 2027 at 8:00 Finnish time (UTC/GMT+2) to 12 March 2027 at 15:00 Finnish time (UTC/GMT+2)". You identify yourself in advance in the Candour ID app, using the same passport or biometric EU/EEA ID card whose number you gave on your Studyinfo application — a different document may get your pre-identification rejected. Miss this window and you cannot sit the exam, whatever else you have done.

  Source

• 15 March 2027

  Canada British Columbia — UBC, documents from high school applicants outside Canada

  Applies to: international applicants

  Hard deadline Via British Columbia university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A separate date from the application. International Scholars applicants have to meet it seven weeks earlier, on 31 January.

  Published as "High school applicants from outside Canada: Deadline to submit required documents to UBC." International Scholars applicants have an earlier date, 31 January 2027, for both their documents and the English Language Admission Standard, and UBC gives 15 February 2027 as the date for documents showing the standard is met. An IB Diploma taught in English usually satisfies the standard, but UBC states it without an automatic IB exemption, so establish in writing which of its routes applies to you before January.

  Source

• 15 March 2027
  2027 entry

  Sweden Second admission round opens

  Details

  This is the realistic round for a May 2027 IB candidate. Fewer English-taught programmes are open here.

  Source

• 15 March 2027, 12:00 CET

  Denmark Applications close

  Hard deadline Via optagelse.dk

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Twelve noon, not midnight. Applies to every applicant with an international or IB qualification, whether the diploma was earned in Denmark or abroad, and whether you are aiming at quota 1 or quota 2.

• 15 March 2027, 12:00 CET

  Denmark Sign the application (signature page if you have no MitID)

  Hard deadline Via optagelse.dk

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  With MitID you sign inside optagelse.dk. Without MitID, print the signature page, sign it by hand and email or post it to every institution you apply to. Never uploaded. The application is not complete without it.

• 16 March to 26 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Poznan University of Medical Sciences - entrance exam sittings in Poznan

  Details

  Six separate sittings in Poznan across this window, published individually on the entrance-examination page. The last falls after the 20 July application deadline, so it is only usable if your application is already in. The application calendar gives only "Mar - Aug 2027" and links onward; the individual days are on the university's entrance-examination page.

  Source

• 19 March 2027

  Singapore NTU applications close

  Hard deadline Via Singapore Autonomous University for August 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Programme choices, application fee, criminal records declaration, scholarship application and Art, Design and Media portfolio materials are all due on this date too. NTU states that an incomplete application after the deadline will not be considered.

  NTU's own table for IB Diploma holders: online application 15 October 2026 to 19 March 2027, with programme choices, the application fee, the criminal records declaration and any scholarship application all due by 19 March 2027, supporting documents by 22 March 2027, and Art, Design and Media portfolio materials by 19 March 2027. Offers are released between March and May 2027. It opens two months before NUS. Application fee SGD 25 for international applicants.

  Source

• 20 March 2027, 12:00 CET

  Denmark SDU uniTEST registration closes

  Hard deadline Via optagelse.dk

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  SDU's admission test, used for quota 2 on nearly all its programmes. You register after you have applied. SDU publishes the day and month without a year. The 2027 test itself is on 17-18 April (Odense) or 20-25 April (online).

• 22 March 2027
  2027

  Finland International UAS Exam — invitation reaches you

  Details

  Published as "on 22 March 2027 at the latest, you will receive an invitation to the exam to the email address you provided in your Studyinfo application". It is here as a date to check rather than a date to act on: if nothing has arrived by the end of this day, the day before the exam, chase it.

  Source

• 22 March 2027

  Singapore Nanyang Technological University — supporting documents due

  Hard deadline Via Singapore Autonomous University for August 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Three days after the application itself. NTU states that an incomplete application after the deadline will not be considered. A fourth NTU date sits a further four days out and has its own entry below: the photograph and appraisal form on 26 March 2027.

  Source

• 23 March 2027, 12:00 Finnish time
  2027

  Finland International UAS Exam

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "on 23 March 2027 from 12:00 o'clock noon onwards (Finnish time, UTC/GMT+2)". Taken remotely on your own computer, proctored by SMOWL.

  Source

• 26 March 2027
  August 2027

  Singapore Nanyang Technological University — photograph and appraisal form due

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A week after the application closes and four days after the supporting documents, and the last of NTU's four staggered deadlines. It is easy to miss because by 26 March 2027 a student believes the application is finished. The appraisal form is completed by somebody at your school, not by you, so it has to be requested in February.

  Source

• 31 March 2027, 23:59 Zurich time

  Switzerland ETH Zurich bachelor applications close

  Hard deadline Via Swiss university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published on ETH's "How to apply" page, not on its admission-prerequisites page: the application period runs "from 1 December to 31 March, 23:59 Central European Time". ETH gives no years; this site assumes the autumn 2027 intake. This closes more than three months before IB results, so you apply on predicted grades and upload the Diploma when it arrives. ETH can only decide whether you need an entrance examination once a complete application has been submitted through eApply, which is why applying early inside the window matters. An application fee is charged; the amount was not stated on the page.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 31 March 2027
  2027

  Finland Results published — SAT-based rounds

  Details

  Aalto Round A (SAT/ACT). Aalto now dates it to the day: results are published "by 31 March 2027". Tampere's SAT-based admission group I comes later, by 15 April 2027.

  Source

• 31 March 2027

  United States Regular Decision decisions

  Via the Common App

  Details

  Late March at Harvard and Amherst, early April at Stanford, 26 February at Illinois. An indicative end-of-March marker rather than a published day.

April 2027

• 1 April 2027

  United Arab Emirates Regular Decision results released

  Via NYU Abu Dhabi

• 1 April 2027

  Finland Predicted IB grades entered on Studyinfo (Jyväskylä's date)

  Hard deadline Via Finland

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published by Jyväskylä as "Deadline for submitting predicted grades on to your online application form on Studyinfo.fi: 1 April 2027", with the exact time still to be announced. Turku set 31 March in the 2026 cycle — that is a date from a cycle that has already passed, kept here only as a warning that Turku runs a day earlier than Jyväskylä, and its 2027 date had not been published by September 2026. If Turku is on your list, assume 31 March until Turku says otherwise.

  Source

• 1 April 2027
  September 2027 intake

  Latvia Riga Stradins University - September 2027 intake, applicants from 'Additional Assessment' countries

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published inside the non-EU/EEA window as "1 March 2027 to 1 May 2027 (1 April 2027 for citizens of 'Additional Assessment' countries)". Non-EU applicants close earlier than EU applicants to leave time for the residence permit.

  Source

• 1 April 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands University College Maastricht closes for EU/EEA and Swiss applicants

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Hard deadline Via Maastricht University

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Neither 15 January nor 1 May. UCM is selective without being numerus fixus and sets its own date.

• 1 April 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands Data Science and AI closes for non-EU/EEA applicants

  Applies to: applicants from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland

  Hard deadline Via Maastricht University

  Details

  After this the door closes.

• 1 April 2027

  Netherlands TU Delft programmes without numerus fixus close (international diploma)

  Hard deadline Via Netherlands

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  TU Delft's own date for anyone applying with a non-Dutch diploma, the IB included: register in Studielink by 1 April, a month before the national 1 May. Its numerus fixus programmes close on 15 January. Published as "1 april" with no year.

• 6 April 2027

  Latvia Stockholm School of Economics in Riga - BSc application deadline

  Hard deadline Via Latvian institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "April 6, 2027". Top 150 candidates are admitted.

  Source

• 7 April 2027, 15:00 JST

  Japan Keio PEARL, Period III, September 2027 entry

  Hard deadline Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The latest closing date of any Japanese route on this page, and the one that fits a Danish school year: predicted grades are settled by then and the result arrives on 24 May, after the examination session. Keio accepts predicted IB grades in as many words.

  The last of three periods sharing about 100 places; Periods I and II close 2 December 2026 and 27 January 2027. Result 24 May 2027 — after the examination session, before results. Keio accepts predicted IB grades explicitly. Application fee JPY 35,000.

  Source

• 8 April 2027

  Sweden First round bachelor results published

  Via Sweden

  Details

  Bachelor's results. Master's results come a week earlier, on 1 April. If you applied in this round at all, this is your day.

  Source

• 13 April to 23 April 2027
  2027 entry

  France Sciences Po — interviews, final round (2027 intake)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "from 13 April 2027 until 23 April 2027". You are interviewed in this window if you applied in the final round. Missing the interview means rejection.

  Source

• 14 April 2027
  2027

  Finland International UAS Exam — results

  Details

  Published as "The results will be published on 14 April 2027 at the latest" — an outside date, so the result may come sooner.

  Source

• 15 April 2027, 23:59 CET
  2027 entry

  Hungary CEU (Vienna) bachelor’s - round 3 of four

  Priority

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  All four rounds close at 23:59 CET. CEU’s own financial aid is awarded in the first two rounds only, so apply in October or February if you want it. Accepted students pay a 500-euro registration fee. Note that CEU’s bachelor’s programmes are taught in Vienna, not in Budapest - it appears on this page because it was founded in Budapest, but you would be living in Austria.

  Source

• 15 April 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands Numerus fixus ranking numbers issued

  Via Maastricht University

  Details

  Also the date on which an applicant is told they failed the International Classroom requirement and are not in the ranking at all.

  Published as "Applicants in the selection procedure will receive a ranking number via Studielink on 15 April". Nothing is required of you on the day itself — but this is the day the two-week clock starts for anyone offered a place, so it is the day to start watching Studielink rather than the day to relax. A ranking number above the number of places is not a refusal: places freed by students who do not accept are offered down the list, so ranking 101 of 100 places can still become an offer.

  Source

• 15 April 2027

  Netherlands Ranking numbers issued

  Via Netherlands

  Details

  Selection runs between 15 January and 15 April and every applicant receives a ranking number through Studielink. Indicative: Nuffic’s date, not the government’s.

• 15 April 2027, 23:59 Oslo time

  Norway Samordna opptak main deadline (Norwegian-taught programmes)

  Hard deadline Via Norway

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Last day to apply or to add further choices. Completed education must be documented the same day.

  Published as "15. april kl. 23.59 er siste frist for å søkje". Up to ten ranked choices. The round opens on 1 February, which has its own entry. Documentation for a regular applicant is due the same day, with the exception for spring-semester results that pushes the upload to 1 July.

  Source

• 15 April 2027
  2027 entry

  Norway Nord University — English-taught bachelor's, EU/EEA and Nordic applicants

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as the window "1 February - 15 April" with no year, so this site assumes the 2027 intake. The application itself is due on this date; the educational documentation has a later deadline of its own, which is the next entry. Nord publishes results to EU/EEA applicants at the beginning of July. The dates are on Nord's central admission page, not on the programme pages.

  Source

• 15 April 2027

  Sweden Second round closes, and rankings lock

  Hard deadline Via Sweden

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The round University Admissions tells a May 2027 IB candidate to use. Many English-taught programmes are no longer open in it, so check your programme is before you plan on it.

  Also the final ranking day: the order you put your choices in on this date is the order that is used. The fee-exemption date (23 April), the document date (21 June) and the deadline for your IB results (5 July) are entries of their own.

  Source

• 17 April 2027, 10:00 Eastern European Time

  Latvia Stockholm School of Economics in Riga - admissions test

  Hard deadline Via Latvian institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Mathematics, logical reasoning and English, about four hours. Top performers are interviewed 11–28 May.

  Published as "April 17, 2027, starting at 10:00" Eastern European Time — eleven days after the application closes, so there is no time to prepare for it once you have applied. Prepare before 6 April, not after.

  Source

• 23 April 2027

  Sweden Second round — document your EU/EEA citizenship (fee exemption)

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Hard deadline Via Sweden

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Eight days after the application deadline. An application whose fee exemption is not documented is not processed.

  Eight days after you apply, and easy to miss because it lands after the part that feels like the deadline. As an EU/EEA citizen you are exempt from the application fee and from tuition, but you must document that exemption by this date; non-EU/EEA applicants pay the fee by the same date. An application whose exemption is not documented is not processed.

  Source

• 27 April 2027
  2027 entry - projected from Wintersemester 2026/27; hochschulstart has published nothing for 2027/28

  Germany DoSV application phase opens

  Details

  Published as "27.04.2026 - Start der Bewerbungsphase (09:00 Uhr)" for Wintersemester 2026/27, with a time as well as a day. The same date governs locally restricted courses: an application filed earlier through a university's own portal becomes visible in the hochschulstart portal only from that morning. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

  Source

• 30 April 2027

  Switzerland EPFL and the University of Zurich close for bachelor applications

  Hard deadline Via Swiss university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Both publish 30 April with no year; read here for autumn 2027. EPFL opens in mid-November and the CHF 150 fee is due by the same day. The University of Zurich opens on 1 January and its later July window is for Swiss certificates only.

  EPFL publishes it as "Applications can be submitted from mid-November to the 30th of April to start your studies at EPFL the following September", so the window opens in mid-November of the preceding year with no day given and there is no opening date here to count down to. 30 April is also the day the application fee must be paid - CHF 150 for a holder of a foreign certificate, CHF 50 for a Swiss one - and the fee is paid when the application is first submitted. Like ETH, EPFL closes before IB results exist.

  Source

• 30 April 2027

  Czechia Masaryk Faculty of Informatics closes

  Hard deadline Via Czech university or faculty for September 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

• 30 April 2027
  2027/28 entry

  Czechia VSE Prague, Bachelor of International Business - second-round deadline, if a second round is announced

  Details

  From the official Conditions of admission 2027/2028: "Should the second admission round be announced, the application deadline will be April 30th 2027, and the exam will be held in May 2027." The Dean announces it only if the first round does not fill the programme, so it is a real dated fallback that may never open. A second-round application must be submitted separately.

  Source

• 30 April 2027
  2027 entry

  Czechia Charles 2nd Faculty of Medicine, entrance exam registration closes

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The faculty publishes it as a separate "Registration deadline" column against each Prague exam date, and it applies to both the regular and the alternative sitting - so registering late does not buy you the July date. It happens to fall on the same day as the application deadline. The page says nothing about what happens if you miss it, and there is no late-registration provision anywhere on it.

  Source

• 30 April 2027

  Iceland Reykjavik University, EU/EEA residents, autumn

  Hard deadline Via n Icelandic university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Opens 5 February; printed with no year.

  Published as "April 30th" with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake. The window opens on 5 February, which is its own entry. Non-EU/EEA residents run a separate and much earlier cycle — open 5 October, close 31 January, autumn semester only — which does not apply to you as an EU/EEA citizen living in Denmark.

  Source

• 30 April 2027

  Lithuania ISM: early admission closes

  Priority Via Lithuanian institution

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  ISM runs four rounds and publishes the whole ladder for one year at a time; on 23 September 2026 it still showed 2026, so this is that calendar rolled forward. Early admission runs "November 1 - April 30", with the online test in the first week of May, the study contract signed by 20 May and the advance payment made no later than 31 May. Worth noting that ISM’s own page carries two stale years inside the 2026 calendar - the early round says "must be submitted by the deadline: April 30th, 2025" under a step headed 30 April 2026, and the additional round says "15th of August, 2025" under a step headed 14 August 2026 - so read the step headings rather than the sentences beneath them, and confirm anything you are relying on.

  Source

• 30 April 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands Technical Computer Science registration closes (University of Twente)

  Hard deadline Via Netherlands

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Twente: "Make sure to complete your registration before 30 April at 23:59 CET", a day before the national 1 May. The page still gives the 2026 intake's date (30 April 2026); the 2027 one is taken to be the same day.

• 30 April 2027
  July 2027 intake

  New Zealand University of Otago — international applications close for semester 2, 2027

  Applies to: international applicants

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its year attached as the "Deadline for international applications commencing in semester 2, 2027", and it is the earliest of the three published mid-year dates — five and a half weeks before Auckland's and more than two months before IB results exist. Otago's international application round for 2027 opened on 1 May 2026, so this is the closing day of a twelve-month window rather than a sudden date. Formal classes begin 12 July 2027 and compulsory international orientation runs 5 to 9 July 2027, which is the same week IB results are released. Otago's page gives "5 July 2026" as the recommended last day to arrive for students starting in semester 2, 2027, directly above "5-9 July 2027" for that semester's compulsory orientation, so the arrival year is probably a misprint. Plan to be on campus before 5 July 2027 so that you make the orientation week Otago does date unambiguously, and confirm the day with Otago's international office before booking flights.

  Source

May 2027

• 1 May to 1 June 2027

  Canada UBC - accept the offer and pay the acceptance deposit

  Hard deadline Via British Columbia university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  UBC assigns 1 May or 1 June in the admission letter itself, so the date is personal rather than published. Your letter gives your date.

• 1 May 2027

  Canada UBC - housing application for the first-year guarantee

  Hard deadline Via British Columbia university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A separate application from admission, with its own deadline, and the guarantee is lost by missing it. Vancouver's private rental market is very expensive and is not a fallback.

• 1 May 2027
  2027 admission

  Canada British Columbia — Simon Fraser University, accept your offer

  Applies to: applicants holding an SFU offer

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Accept your offer — Deadline for most students to accept their offer of admission", and it is also the residence and housing application deadline, so a student who accepts on the last day is applying for a room on the last day too. "Most students" is SFU's own hedge; your offer letter governs. Note how far this is from Ontario's shape: the OUAC's 1 June protection does not exist in British Columbia, and 1 May here is a real date a month earlier.

  Source

• 1 May 2027, 23:59 ET
  2027 entry

  China Duke Kunshan University — Regular Decision acceptance deadline

  Applies to: applicants holding a Duke Kunshan Regular Decision offer

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published on DKU's international-admissions homepage with its year as "May 1, 2027 (11:59 PM ET) — Regular Decision Acceptance Deadline". It is the same day as the American national candidates' reply date, which is no coincidence: DKU recruits against American colleges through the Common App and keeps their calendar. It falls more than two months before IB results are released, so the offer you accept is conditional on predicted grades, and what DKU does if your final results fall short is not published. Ask before you accept. An Early Decision admission does not get this date; that choice was made in November.

  Source

• 1 May 2027
  Spring 2028

  Japan The MEXT application and the IB examination session overlap

  Only if: Depends on your nationality: you apply through the Japanese embassy in your country of citizenship, and each decides what it offers.

  Your own plan Via MEXT scholarship, Embassy Recommendation, for arrival in April 2028

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  Worth putting on a calendar as a warning rather than as a task. The application needs a health certificate signed by a physician and a recommendation letter, neither of which can be produced in a week, and it falls in the same eight weeks as the examinations.

• 1 May 2027
  Spring 2028

  South Korea Start watching each university's international admission page

  Your own plan Via Korean university for the March 2028 intake, with results in hand

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  Not a published date and not anyone's deadline. It is set here because the earliest 2027-cycle window opened in early July and Korean universities publish four to six months ahead, so a student who starts looking in the summer has already missed the first one.

• 1 May 2027

  Latvia RSU: applications close for non-EU/EEA applicants

  Applies to: applicants from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland

  Hard deadline Via Latvian institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

• 1 May 2027

  Netherlands Studielink enrolment application closes for a BUas programme with selection

  Hard deadline Via Breda University of Applied Sciences programme with selection

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  BUas states: "The official deadline to make an enrolment application in Studielink for bachelor programmes with selection is 1 May." This is BUas's own rule and it is later than the 15 January the national page sets for numerus fixus. BUas does not say which national rule this follows; treat 1 May as the outer limit and apply far earlier, because every BUas programme here fills by rounds.

• 1 May 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands Data Science and AI closes for EU/EEA and Swiss applicants

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Hard deadline Via Maastricht University

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Maastricht’s own deadline for the whole application, Studielink and MyApplication tasks included. The programme is not capped, and the date matches the national 1 May.

• 1 May 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands Data Science and AI maths syllabus due, non-EU/EEA (only if Maastricht asks)

  Applies to: applicants from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland

  Hard deadline Via Maastricht University

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Only if Maastricht tells you your mathematics falls short: a syllabus for its mathematics sufficiency check. EU/EEA and Swiss applicants: 1 June.

• 1 May 2027, 23:59

  Netherlands Last day to keep your right to a place (programmes without selection)

  Equal consideration Via Netherlands

  Details

  Applications in by this date are guaranteed to be considered. Later ones may still be read, at the institution’s discretion, against whatever places remain.

  Apply by 1 May and you are entitled to admission to a non-selective programme you qualify for. The government says a first application after 1 May may be refused - the programme can still take you, but does not have to. Some institutions set earlier dates of their own, and theirs is the one that binds.

  Studielink closes at 23:59 on 1 May. The government’s rule is what makes it an equal-consideration date: apply by 1 May and you are entitled to admission to a programme you qualify for ("Aanmelding tot en met 1 mei betekent ook recht op toelating"); a first application after 1 May "kan door de opleiding geweigerd worden" - the programme may still take you, but it does not have to. Some programmes close earlier for capacity or matching reasons, and the programme’s own date is the one that binds.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 1 May 2027
  July 2027 intake

  New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington — Trimester 2 (July) applications close

  Equal consideration

  Details

  Applications in by this date are guaranteed to be considered. Later ones may still be read, at the institution’s discretion, against whatever places remain.

  Published as "Trimester 2 (July)—application deadline 1 May", a bare day with no calendar year, as all three of Victoria's trimester deadlines are, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. Victoria softens it in a way the others do not: "You can apply to study at Victoria University of Wellington at any time" and "Applications received after these dates will be assessed on a case-by-case basis" — so this is a date you should not miss rather than a door that locks, and the university's own reason for it is that it gives you time to arrange a student visa and accommodation.

  Source

• 1 May 2027

  United States Reply deadline — the national candidates' reply date

  Hard deadline Via the Common App

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The national candidates' reply date, confirmed on Amherst's page as 1 May 2027 and on Harvard's, Stanford's, MIT's and Illinois's as 1 May. Until then you may hold every offer you have and compare the aid figures; after it, the one you have not replied to is gone. An Early Decision admission is the exception — that choice was made in November.

  The one date in the American calendar that every institution shares, and the only national one on this page. Until 1 May 2027 you may hold every offer you have and compare the aid figures; after it, the offer you have not replied to is gone, and your place goes to somebody on a waiting list. The University of California states it with its year attached — "Deadline for all fall 2027 admitted first-year students to submit their SIR" — and calls it the Statement of Intent to Register; MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Illinois and the Common App colleges call it the reply date and publish it as a bare "May 1". An Early Decision admission is the exception: that choice was made in November and this date does not belong to you.

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

• 1 May 2027

  United States MIT enrolment reply

  Hard deadline Via MIT's own application portal

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The same national reply date as the Common App colleges and UC.

• 1 May 2027

  United States Statement of Intent to Register (SIR)

  Hard deadline Via the University of California application

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  How you accept a UC place, and it goes to one campus only. Same day as the national reply date used by the Common App colleges, so a student holding offers on both routes decides everything at once.

• 4 May 2027, 17:00 CET

  Netherlands Hotel Management application complete in My Online Application

  Hard deadline Via Breda University of Applied Sciences programme with selection

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Includes a personal video message for applicants with a non-Dutch diploma. Registering in Studielink alone is not an application.

• 5 May 2027, 12:00 Irish time

  Ireland Change of Mind opens - free, and unlimited

  Via Ireland

  Details

  Free, and it lets you rewrite the list entirely — which is why the 1 February deadline is less frightening than it looks. CAO Handbook 2027 gives 5 May at 12:00 as the "expected date".

  CAO publishes this as "5th May (12:00) - Online Change of Mind facility becomes available (Free)". The CAO Handbook 2027 gives this day and time but marks it "(expected date)", so treat it as provisional. You may use it as many times as you like to introduce, remove or reorder courses, but each Change of Mind "cancels and supersedes all previous course choices in any category in which changes are made", so the list you leave behind is the list that is read. Restricted-entry courses cannot be introduced here.

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

• 11 May to 28 May 2027
  Autumn 2027 intake

  Latvia Stockholm School of Economics in Riga - online interviews for top performers

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "from May 11 till May 28, 2027". Only candidates who do well in the 17 April test are invited, and the window falls squarely across the May 2027 IB examination session — so if SSE Riga is on your list, expect to be interviewed during your exams and plan for it now rather than in May.

  Source

• 15 May 2027
  2027 entry

  Hungary University of Debrecen - application closes for September 2027

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its year: "The application period for the September 2027 intake will open later this year, and the final application deadline will be May 15, 2027." In 2026 the deadline was 15 June; for 2027 Debrecen has brought it forward by a month, so a 15 June date you see elsewhere is wrong for 2027. The opening date is still only "later this year" (as of 23 September 2026). Debrecen closed its September 2026 Medicine and Dentistry applications ahead of the published deadline because of demand, so do not plan to use the last week of this window.

  Source

• 15 May 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands Final portfolio, assignment and assessment deadline

  Hard deadline Via Breda University of Applied Sciences programme with selection

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The last round for Creative Media & Game Technologies and Applied Data Science & AI, and the assessment deadline for Creative Business. Interviews for the final round run to the end of May.

• 15 May 2027
  July 2027 intake

  New Zealand University of Otago — accommodation for semester 2, 2027

  Applies to: applicants starting at Otago in July 2027

  Priority

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  "Deadline to apply for accommodation for semester 2 (in residential colleges or Uni Flats)", two weeks after the application itself. Dunedin is a small city built around its university and its residential colleges fill; missing this does not cost you the place, it costs you where you live, which in Otago's case is most of the first year. Applications for semester 2 accommodation open on 1 April 2027.

  Source

• 28 May 2027
  2027

  Finland Results published — certificate-based rounds

  Details

  Aalto Round B by 28 May 2027. Jyväskylä's certificate-based result for Business Innovation and Sustainability by 28 May 2027. Tampere's certificate-based admission group II by 31 May 2027.

  Source

• 31 May 2027

  United Arab Emirates RIT Dubai — Fall 2027 Regular Admission Phase closes

  Priority Via Applying direct to a foreign university's UAE campus

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  The date is published without a year, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis within the phases.

  Source

• 31 May 2027

  China Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University — applications close for most programmes

  Hard deadline Via apply on the university's own portal, 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  XJTLU states "the closing date for September 2027 entry is 31 May 2027" for most undergraduate programmes. International students with the IB are considered for Year Two entry with 30 points; admitted students pay a non-refundable RMB 10,000 deposit towards tuition.

  Source

• 31 May 2027

  Germany Medicine group closes for gap-year applicants (leaving certificate before mid-January)

  Hard deadline Via Germany

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  This deadline applies if your school-leaving certificate predates 16 January of the application year, which for an IB candidate means you took a gap year. Straight from the Diploma, this is not your deadline.

  Published as "31.05.2026 - Ende der Bewerbungsphase (Ausschlussfrist) fuer Alt-Abiturient*innen", qualified "mit einem HZB-Zeugnis vor 16.01.2026". If you take a gap year and apply with your 2027 diploma for 2028 entry, you become an Altabiturient and the deadline moves forward by six weeks. An Ausschlussfrist cannot be extended, and hochschulstart says so explicitly - not even where the applicant is blameless. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

  Source

• 31 May 2027
  2027 entry

  Hungary Semmelweis University - medicine, dentistry and pharmacy applications close for autumn 2027

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its year, as "Application deadline: 31 May, 2027", on all three programme pages, so this is a genuine 2027 date rather than an assumed one. The opening date is not: Semmelweis shows "Application starts: (to be announced soon)". Applications run through the SEMAPHOR system. Entrance exams are held once or twice a week from early March until the end of June, but Semmelweis publishes no calendar - "The exact dates and times will be provided to the applicants having submitted their application(s)" - so the exam dates are only visible from inside the system. One eligibility rule that catches younger IB candidates: you must be 18 by the end of the spring semester of year one, "i.e., by the end of May 2027".

  Source

• 31 May 2027

  Portugal CNAES list of foreign exams accepted in place of provas de ingresso — republished

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Via the national contest

  Details

  Published by this date each year. Until then you cannot be sure which IB subjects will count for your degree.

  The deadline the whole substitution route depends on, and it is a publication date rather than something you do. DGES states it in Portuguese as "A CNAES divulga, anualmente, até 31 maio do ano da candidatura, uma deliberação com a lista dos exames finais estrangeiros homólogos" — the list is republished by 31 May of the year you apply in, so until then you cannot be certain which IB subjects will be accepted in place of which provas de ingresso. It lands under two months before the 29 July substitution deadline.

  Source

June 2027

• 1 June 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands Data Science and AI maths syllabus due, EU/EEA and Swiss (only if Maastricht asks)

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Hard deadline Via Maastricht University

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Only if Maastricht tells you your mathematics falls short: a syllabus for its mathematics sufficiency check. A shortfall is a process rather than a refusal, and it must be cleared before the first year starts. Non-EU/EEA applicants: 1 May.

• 3 June 2027
  2027 entry

  Czechia Charles 2nd Faculty of Medicine, entrance exam in Prague - regular date

  Details

  A genuine 2027 date. The written paper is 75 questions in 90 minutes - 20 biology, 20 chemistry, 20 physics, 15 logic - worth 225 points, with up to 90 more from an interview. Sitting it in Prague on this date means travelling before your IB results arrive.

  Source

• 5 June 2027

  Iceland University of Akureyri: EU/EEA applicants

  Hard deadline Via n Icelandic university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Open from the beginning of March; printed with no year.

  Published as "open at the beginning of March until June 5th" with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake. The March opening is published without a day, so there is no opening date. Akureyri says "EU/EEA residents" where the University of Iceland says "Nordic citizens", and unlike Iceland it says the same thing in one place only — there is no second Akureyri page to contradict it. Non-EEA applicants have earlier deadlines, 1 March for Polar Law and 1 April for everything else, and pay a 50-euro application fee; neither applies to an EU/EEA citizen.

  Source

• 8 June 2027

  Latvia Stockholm School of Economics in Riga - results, EU applicants

  Via Latvian institution

  Details

  A month before IB results.

  Published as "June 8, 2027" for applicants from EU countries; applicants from non-EU countries hear four days earlier, on 4 June 2027, which is context rather than your date.

  Source

• 8 June 2027

  New Zealand University of Auckland: international applications close for a July 2027 start

  Hard deadline Via New Zealand university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  One university's date, and the clearest illustration of the problem. It is a month before the May-session IB results are published, so a mid-year start is applied for on predicted grades or not at all. Domestic applicants for the same intake have until 4 July - the international date is nearly a month earlier, and nothing on a programme page says so. Every other university sets its own; this is not a national deadline.

• 15 June 2027
  2027 entry - projected from Wintersemester 2026/27; hochschulstart has published nothing for 2027/28

  Germany Medicine group - gap-year applicants: signed application and paper documents must arrive by post

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "15.06.2026 - Fristende: Nachreichen von Unterlagen (Ausschlussfrist) durch Alt-Abiturient*innen". The online application is not the whole application: hochschulstart also needs the signed form and supporting documents on paper. Evidence you only obtain after this day may still be sent up to 20 July, provided the online application arrived by 31 May. Since January 2025 German post typically takes three to four working days and the risk of late arrival is yours. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

  Source

• 16 June 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Poznan University of Medical Sciences - entrance exam and open day, Bergen

  Details

  One of three Norwegian sittings, the nearest PUMS gets to Denmark. There is no Copenhagen session on the published 2027 list.

  Source

• 18 June 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Poznan University of Medical Sciences - entrance exam and open day, Kristiansand

  Details

  Source

• 19 June 2027

  Netherlands Creative Media & Game Technologies selection outcome

  Via Breda University of Applied Sciences programme with selection

  Details

  BUas: "The prospective student will be notified by June 19th regarding their selection for the degree program." That is before the IB releases results on about 6 July.

• 20 June to 21 June 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Poznan University of Medical Sciences - entrance exam and open day, Oslo

  Details

  A two-day sitting, the largest of the Nordic sessions.

  Source

• 21 June 2027

  Sweden Second round supporting documents

  Hard deadline Via Sweden

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Everything except the IB results themselves, which have until 5 July.

  The general document deadline for the second round. It is not the date for your IB results: University Admissions gives IB students completing their studies this spring until 5 July 2027 for that (next entry). Anything else you need - an ID copy, other transcripts - goes in by 21 June, and University Admissions asks you to upload documents you already have with the application.

  Source

• 22 June to 5 September 2027

  Austria University of Vienna — application period for the winter semester

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens, and non-EU citizens with equivalent status

  Hard deadline Via n Austrian university for winter semester 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The 2026/27 date carried forward. Other public universities run similar windows; check your own.

  The University of Vienna's page, as of 23 September 2026, dates this window precisely and for the cycle that has just closed: "Winter semester 2026/27: from 22 June to 5 September 2026". The 2027/28 window was not published. The 5 September close is the standard Austrian winter-semester cut-off and Study in Austria repeats it with no year at all, so it is carried here provisionally for 2027; the 22 June opening is the University of Vienna's own and could move. Other universities publish their own periods and usually land on the same September date. Applying is not the same as being admitted: admission itself has its own later period, which is a separate entry here.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 30 June 2027, 18:00 UK time
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom Final date for applications to be sent to universities

  Priority

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  UCAS: "Applications received by this deadline will be sent to universities and colleges." Apply after it and your application goes into Clearing, where you can only apply for courses that still have places. The last day to apply at all is 23 September 2027.

  Source

• 30 June 2027

  Hong Kong HKUST applications close

  Hard deadline Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Closes before IB results day on 6 July 2027, so you must apply on predicted grades.

  Source

• 30 June 2027
  2027 entry

  Hungary University of Pécs - application closes for September 2027

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published with its year: "the application deadline is 30th June 2027 for the academic year 2027/2028". It is on the online-application page, not on the page called "Deadlines & Requirements", which carries no dates at all. Because the entrance-exam window closes on 14 July and exams have to be arranged two weeks ahead, applying at the very end of June leaves almost no room to sit the exam, let alone re-sit it.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 30 June 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Jagiellonian University - 2027/28 admissions must be open by this date

  Details

  From annex 1 to Senate resolution 62/V/2026, in Polish: "Rekrutacja rozpoczyna się nie później niż 30 czerwca 2027 roku i kończy się nie później niż 1 października 2027 roku." A latest-possible opening rather than the opening: in 2026 the School of Medicine in English opened in February and the main rounds on 1 June.

  Source

• 30 June 2027

  Singapore Grant NTU direct access to your IBO transcript

  Hard deadline Via Singapore Autonomous University for August 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  NTU says this is mandatory and must be done before July 2027; 30 June is the last day that satisfies "before July". Without it NTU cannot release an application outcome at all. It is arranged through the IB organisation, not through NTU, and it is the step most likely to be left until it is too late.

July 2027

• 1 July 2027, 17:00 Irish time

  Ireland Change of Mind closes - your final order of preference

  Hard deadline Via Ireland

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The last chance to change what you are applying for, five days before IB results. The list you hold on this date is the list that is scored.

  CAO publishes this as "1st July (17:00) - Change of Mind closes". Confirmed for 2027 entry by the CAO Handbook 2027 (Timetable of Events and Table 1.1); on 24 September 2026 the Timetable of Events web page still showed the 2026 cycle. This is the date the whole Irish system turns on, because offers follow your stated order of preference exactly and this is the last moment you can change it. It closes a few days before IB results are released in early July, so the order you submit is an order you choose without knowing your score. Decide it against your predicted grades and against last year’s points for each course, not against a result you do not have yet.

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

• 1 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Lithuania Vilnius University - applications close for EU/EFTA citizens

  Applies to: EU and EFTA citizens

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Vilnius University has one intake a year and splits the deadline by citizenship. For autumn 2026 the page said: "1 May for applicants from non-EU/EFTA countries" and "1 July for applicants who are citizens of EU/EFTA countries and for non-EU/EFTA applicants with a 90-day visa-free period that has not yet been exceeded". As an EU/EFTA citizen you are in the July group. For the 2027/2028 round admissions.vu.lt now reads (25 September 2026): applications open on 1 December 2026, with 1 May for applicants from non-EU/EFTA countries and 1 July for EU/EFTA citizens and non-EU/EFTA applicants whose visa-free period has not been exceeded. Two things that are not dates but behave like them: the application fee is 100 EUR, non-refundable, and "An online application will be processed only after the application fee is collected and the application is submitted with all the required documents", so an unpaid invoice on the closing day is a missed deadline; and admission can close early, because the published deadline runs only until the limit of study places is reached. EU and EFTA citizens may apply for state-funded as well as fee-paying places. Vilnius gives 1 July with no year, both on this page and on its admissions site for the 2027/2028 round (which opens on 1 December 2026), so this site assumes 2027.

  Source

• 1 July 2027

  Latvia RSU: applications close for EU/EEA applicants

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Hard deadline Via Latvian institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Medicine, Dentistry and International Business & Start-up Entrepreneurship. Five days before IB results.

  Published as "1 Mar – 1 Jul 2027". Worth knowing before you plan around the July closing date: RSU allows IB graduates, alongside German Abitur holders and applicants from Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands, to send their school graduation documents after the deadline provided every other application document is in by it. That concession is published on this page with the previous cycle's year on it ("graduating during the summer of 2026 … submitted by 1 July 2026") and RSU had not restated it for 2027 by 23 September 2026, so confirm it with RSU admissions before you rely on it.

  Source

• 1 July 2027

  Netherlands Waiting-list decisions confirmed (Hotel Management)

  Via Breda University of Applied Sciences programme with selection

  Details

  BUas: "At the latest on 1 July, we will inform applicants that have been placed on the waiting list whether or not they have been selected for the programme."

• 1 July 2027, 23:59 Oslo time

  Norway Documentation deadline for education finished this spring

  Hard deadline Via Norway

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Five days before IB results are published. Samordna opptak's instruction for an IB student graduating this year: you will not be able to upload the diploma in time, so give the institutions electronic access through the IB's Request for Results Service, filled in with your coordinator.

  Falls before IB results are released on 6 July. Samordna opptak's answer for a student graduating this year: you will not be able to upload your diploma by 1 July, so fill in the IB's "Request for Results Service" with your IB coordinator, naming the institutions that handle your application, and they read your results electronically. This is also the omprioriteringsfrist, the last day on which you can reorder your ranked choices.

  Source

• 1 July 2027, 23:59 Oslo time

  Norway Last day to change the order of your choices

  Hard deadline Via Norway

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  An offer on a higher choice removes every lower one permanently, with no wait-list. The order on this date is the order that decides your year.

• 1 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Norway Nord University — documentation deadline for spring school-leavers

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Nord's general rule is that EU/EEA applicants document by 15 April, but applicants who finish secondary school in the spring — which every May-session IB candidate does — have until 1 July to upload their educational documentation. Published without a year, so this site assumes the 2027 intake. It falls on the same day as the Samordna opptak documentation deadline and, like that one, before IB results are released, so the same Request for Results arrangement applies.

  Source

• 1 July 2027

  New Zealand University of Auckland: Medicine, Optometry, Pharmacy and Medical Imaging close for February 2028

  Hard deadline Via New Zealand university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Five days before IB results are released, for an intake starting eight months later. If you are aiming at a competitive health programme in New Zealand, the application is written and submitted during your exam season. Otago runs its own Health Sciences First Year selection on a different basis again.

• 1 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Poznan University of Medical Sciences - entrance exam and open day, London

  Details

  Source

• 1 July 2027

  United States Final official transcript to the campus

  Applies to: applicants who have accepted a University of California offer

  Hard deadline Via the University of California application

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  For students intending to enrol in fall 2027. Postmarked or submitted electronically by this date.

  Published as "Final, official transcripts must be postmarked or electronically submitted". This is a condition of an offer you have already accepted, so missing it costs the place rather than the application. Your gymnasium sends it, not you, and a Danish school in the first week of July is a quieter place than it is in June — ask for it before the summer.

  Source

• 2 July 2027

  Belgium Flanders - entrance examination, medicine (toelatingsexamen arts)

  Hard deadline Via Flemish institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Dentistry is on 3 July, veterinary medicine on 4 July.

  Published as "vrijdag 2 juli 2027" - one of the first 2027 dates Belgium has published. It falls four days before IB results are released on 6 July 2027, so you sit it not knowing your diploma grades. That is survivable, because the rule is about the diploma rather than the marks: you must hold your secondary-school diploma by 30 September of the year you are favourably ranked. The examination has two parts, Kennis in de Wetenschappen and Generieke Competenties, and is taken on paper. It is a ranking competition - only those "gunstig gerangschikt" may start - not a pass mark. Source, in Dutch: the Flemish government's exam pages at vlaanderen.be/toelatingsexamens.

  Source

• 2 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Czechia Charles 2nd Faculty of Medicine, entrance exam in London

  Details

  London on 2 July 2027 is one of the two dated overseas sittings nearest Denmark; the other is Berlin on 13 July. The London sitting falls four days before IB results are released on 6 July. The faculty publishes no registration deadline for its overseas sittings, so ask the organiser when you must sign up.

  Source

• 2 July 2027

  United Kingdom Clearing opens

  Rolling Via UK

  Details

  Considered as they arrive, until places run out.

  For applicants holding no offer, or whose results missed their conditions. Runs on vacancies, so it rewards moving quickly.

  IB results come out 6 July, so Clearing is already open when you get them.

  Source

• 3 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Belgium Flanders - entrance examination, dentistry (toelatingsexamen tandarts)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "zaterdag 3 juli 2027". From 2027 the three examinations are held on three consecutive days, so sitting more than one is physically possible but means three registrations and three fees. Source, in Dutch: the Flemish government's exam pages at vlaanderen.be/toelatingsexamens.

  Source

• 3 July to 4 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Poznan University of Medical Sciences - entrance exam and open day, Dublin

  Details

  Source

• 4 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Belgium Flanders - entrance examination, veterinary medicine (toelatingsexamen dierenarts)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "zondag 4 juli 2027". Veterinary medicine is new to this examination - the Flemish entrance examination now covers arts, tandarts and dierenarts, where it used to cover only the first two. Source, in Dutch: the Flemish government's exam pages at vlaanderen.be/toelatingsexamens.

  Source

• 4 July 2027
  recurring annual date

  Iceland Registration fee payment, University of Iceland and Akureyri

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "The fee needs to be paid by the due date of 4 July", with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake. The fee is ISK 100,000 for a full academic year. The rule on the fees page is the one that matters: if the registration fee is not paid by the due date, the student is considered to have withdrawn from the programme. The University's Help Centre article on the registration fee (https://thjonusta.hi.is/hc/en-gb/articles/21426087664667-Registration-fee) describes a late-payment surcharge and a later, more expensive payment date, but neither figure could be confirmed, so none is given here. Do not plan around paying late.

  Source

• 5 July 2027

  United Arab Emirates American University of Sharjah — Early File Completion for Fall 2027

  Priority Via Applying direct to a UAE private university

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  One day before IB results. A file completed on time cannot contain the diploma, so agree in writing with AUS what stands in for it.

  The only Fall 2027 date AUS publishes between opening and the first day of classes. Note what it collides with: IB results are released on 6 July 2027, the day after. A file expected to be complete by 5 July cannot contain your final diploma, so ask AUS in writing what it will accept instead and when it wants the final transcript.

  Source

• 5 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Ireland IB free results requests close - make sure CAO is on your coordinator’s list

  Applies to: IB Diploma candidates

  Details

  The IB’s cut-off: before 5 July your coordinator sends your results to up to six institutions free of charge; after 5 July you request them yourself through rrs.ibo.org at $19 each, with processing quoted at up to 14 working days and longer in the July–September peak. The IB does not say what happens on 5 July itself, so have it done by 4 July 2027. CAO needs it: the CAO Handbook 2027 says "If you are an IB candidate for May 2027: Ask your school's IB Coordinator to add "Central Applications Office (CAO)" to the list of institutions allowed to access your results", and asks for your IB candidate number so the results can be matched. If it is not done, CAO never receives your results and you are not considered, whatever your score. CAO counts as one of the six, exactly as UCAS does in the IB’s own example, and a late request can turn into a missed 1 August Round One cut-off rather than just a fee. Ask the coordinator before study leave begins, in writing, and ask them to confirm CAO is on the list.

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

• 5 July 2027

  Sweden University Admissions needs your IB results (recipient code UHR)

  Hard deadline Via Sweden

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  University Admissions gives IB/EB students completing their studies this spring until 5 July. Your coordinator releases your results through the IB Result Service. IB results day is expected just after this date, so ask University Admissions now how a late result is handled.

  Published on the autumn 2027 key-dates page: applicants completing an IB/EB programme this spring "have until 5 July to submit documentation of your completed upper secondary studies". For a May 2027 Diploma that means your coordinator releasing your results to recipient code "UHR" through the IB Result Service. IB results day is expected just after this date, so ask University Admissions now how a late result is handled.

  Source

• 5 July 2027, 12:00 CET

  Denmark Last day to reorder priorities; documentation at some institutions

  Via optagelse.dk

  Details

  Priorities can be reordered until 12:00. Documentation deadlines are set by each institution: Aarhus and Aalborg accept documents until 5 July, Copenhagen wants them with the application on 15 March, and some academies set 1 April. Check each one you list.

• 6 July 2027

  United Arab Emirates IB results released

  Via Applying direct to a foreign university's UAE campus

  Details

  This is the date on which the branch campuses stop resembling each other. Two of them will still take an application after it.

• 6 July 2027

  United Arab Emirates IB results released

  Via UAE federal university as an international student

  Details

  Where the federal universities sit relative to this date is not known, because neither publishes a date to compare it against.

• 6 July 2027

  United Arab Emirates IB results released

  Via NYU Abu Dhabi

  Details

  Six months after the last NYUAD deadline and three months after its last decision. Nothing about this route waits for the diploma; how a conditional place is handled once results arrive is set by NYUAD and is not established here.

• 6 July 2027

  United Arab Emirates IB results released

  Via Applying direct to a UAE private university

  Details

  The UAE private universities sit either side of this date and not together. AUS wants a complete file the day before; the American University in Dubai says it takes late applications through July and August. Khalifa has not said.

  Where each UAE institution sits relative to this date matters. NYU Abu Dhabi closes eight months before it and decides on predicted grades. AUS wants a complete file the day before it. RIT Dubai's deadline falls seven weeks after it. Heriot-Watt Dubai will still take an application three weeks before term starts. The UAE is not one calendar, and treating it as one is how a student loses a year. On the date itself: 6 July is when results reach the candidate. 5 July, the day AUS wants a complete file, is also the IB's own transcript-request cut-off: before it your coordinator requests transcripts for you and the first six are free, after it you request them yourself at $19 each. The date is the IB's usual results day and is not yet confirmed by the IB for 2027.

• 6 July 2027

  Austria IB results released

  Via n Austrian university for winter semester 2027

• 6 July 2027
  2027 results

  Australia IB results released

  Details

  Results reach the candidate on 6 July 2027, the IB's usual results day, not yet confirmed by the IB for 2027. An earlier date sometimes quoted is the IB's transcript-request cut-off, a separate IB deadline. UAC's IB applicants page (https://www.uac.edu.au/future-applicants/admission-criteria/ib-applicants) gives no May-session release date; its only date is for the November session, when UAC will notify NSW and ACT applicants of their IB Admissions Score "via email on Friday 18 December 2026". Denmark sits the May session, which is why a July 2027 start is tight and February 2028 is the realistic main option.

• 6 July 2027

  Belgium IB results released

  Via Flemish institution

• 6 July 2027

  Belgium IB results released

  Via French-speaking Belgian institution

• 6 July 2027

  Canada IB results released — what a direct-application offer turns on

  Via each university directly

  Details

  McGill decides on predicted results and confirms on final ones, and expects a student to maintain that performance through to the end of school. What each of the other universities on this route does with a result below the offer is not established here.

• 6 July 2027

  Canada IB results released — what a British Columbia offer turns on

  Via British Columbia university

  Details

  UBC states that initial decisions are made on interim grades reported by the school and that final IB results are used to confirm the decision and any first-year credit. July therefore confirms rather than decides, and a result below the offer conditions costs a place already held.

• 6 July 2027

  Canada IB results released — what an Ontario offer turns on

  Via n Ontario university

  Details

  Every date above falls before this one. Toronto assesses on predicted or final results excluding bonus points and requires the final results to reach it electronically from the IBO, so July confirms a place already held rather than deciding one. How each Ontario university handles a result below the offer conditions is set by that university and is not established here.

• 6 July 2027

  Switzerland IB results released

  Via Swiss university

• 6 July 2027

  China IB results released

  Via the Common App, on the American calendar, 2027

  Details

  No Chinese university waits for this date. Every date on this page that has been established falls before it: Duke Kunshan closes Regular Decision in January and wants your acceptance on 1 May, and NYU Shanghai's binding early rounds are decided in December. So a Chinese joint-venture offer, like an American one, is made on predicted grades and accepted before you have real ones, and what happens if the results fall short is set by each university and is not established here. The Chinese universities' own timing is unknown for the same reason their deadlines are. The date is the IB's usual results day and is not yet confirmed by the IB for 2027.

• 6 July 2027

  Czechia IB results released

  Via Czech university or faculty for September 2027

• 6 July 2027

  Germany IB results released

  Via Germany

  Details

  Early July, which is what places an IB candidate in the later medicine group rather than the earlier one.

• 6 July 2027

  Estonia IB results released

  Via n Estonian institution

  Details

  After Tallinn University's deadline. Ask each institution how it treats results that arrive after you apply.

• 6 July 2027

  Spain IB results released

  Via Spanish private university

  Details

  Confirms a conditional offer. The university may still ask for UNEDasiss accreditation for enrolment.

• 6 July 2027

  Spain IB results released

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Via UNEDasiss, then the region's preinscripción

  Details

  Days before the preinscripción closes.

• 6 July 2027

  Finland IB results released

  Via Finland

• 6 July 2027

  France IB results released

  Via French grande école or private institution

  Details

  Every round above closes before this. Offers are made on predicted grades.

• 6 July 2027

  France IB results released

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Via Parcoursup

• 6 July 2027

  United Kingdom IB results released

  Via UK

  Details

  The point of the conditional offer. Universities confirm or release places against results that have only just arrived, which is what the whole UK calendar is built around.

• 6 July 2027

  Greece IB results released

  Only if: At least one parent is not of Greek descent. You also need a B2 Greek certificate to enrol.

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Via the ministry's foreign-nationals route, 2027

• 6 July 2027

  Hong Kong IB results released

  Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

• 6 July 2027

  Hungary IB results released

  Via Hungarian university

  Details

  After most Hungarian deadlines. You apply on predicted grades and entrance exams, and upload the Diploma once you have it.

• 6 July 2027

  Ireland IB results released

  Via Ireland

  Details

  After Change of Mind has closed. An IB applicant straight from school competes in Round One, with Irish school leavers.

• 6 July 2027

  Iceland IB results released

  Via n Icelandic university

• 6 July 2027

  Italy IB results released

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Via n Italian university

  Details

  Selective rounds decide on predicted grades well before this; open-access degrees may still be taking applications.

• 6 July 2027

  Japan IB results released

  Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

  Details

  Every Japanese decision in this route is made before this date — the earliest by four and a half months. What each university does with a place held against a predicted grade once the diploma arrives is set institution by institution and is not established here.

• 6 July 2027

  South Korea IB results released

  Via Korean university for the September 2027 intake

  Details

  Every Korean decision above is made before this date. What each university does with a conditional place once the diploma arrives is set institution by institution and is not established here — ask, in writing, at the point of accepting an offer.

• 6 July 2027
  Spring 2028

  South Korea IB results released

  Via Korean university for the March 2028 intake, with results in hand

  Details

  The whole argument for this route. It is the only Korean intake a May 2027 IB candidate can apply to holding an actual diploma rather than a prediction, which changes both what can be submitted and how an offer is read.

• 6 July 2027, 00:00

  Lithuania LSMU - primary application deadline, and it closes at midnight the night before

  Priority Via Lithuanian institution

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  The system closes at 00:00, so in practice the night before. An additional round for selected programmes opens the next day and runs to 30 July.

  The trap is the time, not the date. LSMU publishes "6 July 2026 - Application deadline. The online application system will be closed on 6 July at 00:00", which means the system is already shut when 6 July begins - the last day you can actually submit is 5 July. LSMU publishes a dated "Application calendar" for one intake at a time; on 23 September 2026 it still showed the 2026 intake, headed "RULES FOR ADMITTING STUDENTS TO THE LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES IN 2026". The date here is that calendar rolled forward by one year and is provisional until LSMU publishes the 2027 one. It falls in the same week as IB results, so assemble and submit the application before results day rather than after it. An additional round for selected programmes opens the following day, but LSMU does not name those programmes. A Medicine applicant should therefore treat 5 July as the last submission day and not rely on the extra round.

  Source

• 6 July 2027

  Lithuania IB results released

  Via Lithuanian institution

• 6 July 2027

  Lithuania IB results released

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Via LAMA BPO

  Details

  Before the main round closes, if 2027 follows 2026.

• 6 July 2027

  Luxembourg IB results released

  Via Luxembourg institution

  Details

  If the 2027 EU window matches 2026, some University of Luxembourg programmes are still open when results arrive.

• 6 July 2027

  Latvia IB results released

  Via Latvian institution

• 6 July 2027

  Malta IB results released

  Via Maltese institution

• 6 July 2027

  Netherlands IB results released

  Via Netherlands

  Details

  Both Dutch deadlines fall well before this. How a conditional place pending results is handled is set by each institution; ask yours.

• 6 July 2027

  Norway IB results released

  Via Norway

  Details

  After the Norwegian documentation deadline. The institutions read your results through the IB's Request for Results Service, which you arrange with your coordinator in advance.

• 6 July 2027

  New Zealand IB results for the May 2027 session

  Via New Zealand university

  Details

  The date the whole page bends around. Two of the milestones above fall before it. The IB has not yet confirmed the May 2027 release date; early July is the long-standing pattern.

• 6 July 2027

  Poland IB results released

  Via Polish university

  Details

  Some Polish deadlines fall after this — Poznan Medical closes on 20 July. Where one closes earlier, ask the university how it takes IB results that arrive later.

• 6 July 2027

  Portugal IB results released

  Via Universidade Católica Portuguesa

  Details

  Final results confirm the conditional offer.

• 6 July 2027

  Portugal IB results released

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Via the national contest

  Details

  Before the national contest opens, so you apply with real results.

• 6 July 2027

  Sweden IB results released

  Via Sweden

  Details

  After every first-round date. In the second round University Admissions wants your IB results by 5 July, so ask them how a late result is handled; second-round results come on 9 July.

• 6 July 2027

  Singapore IB results released

  Via LASALLE or NAFA for August 2027

  Details

  Eight months after LASALLE's main deadline. The arts route is decided on predicted grades and on a portfolio or audition, and the diploma is close to an afterthought in it.

• 6 July 2027

  Singapore IB results released

  Via Singapore Autonomous University for August 2027

• 6 July 2027

  Singapore IB results released

  Via Singapore private institution or foreign branch campus, 2027

  Details

  These institutions mostly run trimesters with several intakes a year rather than one August start, so results landing in July are less of a cliff here than at an autonomous university. That is a statement about the structure and not about any deadline, because none is published.

  NTU takes your application on predicted grades and then requires the actual results within three days of release, in the middle of the Danish summer holiday. NUS is gentler and tells IB applicants sitting the May 2027 session that they will hear by the third week of July, and its own three-day rule names Advanced Placement, Gaokao, HKDSE, Indian Standard 12 and STPM and does not name the IB. LASALLE, by contrast, closed the previous November and never sees your results before it decides. The date is the IB's usual results day and is not yet confirmed by the IB for 2027.

• 6 July 2027

  Slovenia IB results released

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens

  Via eVŠ

  Details

  Your results go into eVŠ after this. How late they may arrive for the first-round decision is set by the call.

• 6 July 2027

  United States IB results released

  Via the Common App

  Details

  Every date above falls before this one, which is the whole shape of an American application: the offer is made on predicted grades, a school report and everything else in the file, and the real results arrive after the student has already chosen. What each college does if the actual results fall short of the predictions is set by that college and is not established here. Ask before you accept.

  Every American decision in this cycle is made before this date, on predicted grades, a school report and everything else in the file — which is the whole shape of an American application and the reason the calendar above stops in May. What each college does if your actual results fall short of the predictions is set by that college and is not established here; ask before you accept. The date is the IB's usual results day and is not yet confirmed by the IB for 2027. The IB result that does have a hard American consequence is not this one — it is the University of California's 15 July deadline nine days later, which is the entry below.

• 6 July 2027

  Denmark IB results released

  Via optagelse.dk

  Details

  After the Danish documentation deadline, which is why the results service exists.

• 9 July 2027

  Sweden Second round results published

  Via Sweden

  Details

  The first notification of selection results for the round a May 2027 IB candidate actually uses. What you must do next has its own entry, one week later, and it is the date on this page most worth putting in a calendar now.

  Source

• 9 July 2027

  Singapore Nanyang Technological University — actual IB results due

  Hard deadline Via Singapore Autonomous University for August 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Within three days of the results release, by NTU's rule. The date here is 6 July plus three days. Plan the first fortnight of July 2027 around it.

  NTU does not publish a calendar date. It says actual IB results must be submitted within three days of the results release in July 2027, and the IB releases on 6 July 2027, so 9 July 2027 is arithmetic on those two facts rather than a date NTU has printed. It is a very tight deadline and it lands in the Danish summer holiday. NTU also makes it mandatory to grant it direct access to your official transcripts through the IBO before July 2027, which is a separate action you take months earlier.

  Source

• 10 July 2027
  2027 entry - published with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake

  Switzerland EPFL - deadline for uploading supporting documents

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  EPFL publishes 10 July as the deadline for uploading supporting documents, with "September 30th exceptionally for certificates/diplomas delivered after July 10". That is four days after IB results are released on 6 July. If your school cannot put the Diploma in your hands inside those four days, this is the exception you will be relying on - and the 30 September backstop is its own entry here, because missing that one cancels the admission.

  Source

• 13 July to 31 October 2027
  2027/28 entry — projected from the 2026/27 period; the 2027/28 dates were still not published on 2026-09-24

  Austria University of Vienna — admission period, when admission is actually granted and you enrol

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The University of Vienna's page, as of 23 September 2026, gives it as "Winter semester 2026/27: from 13 July to 31 October 2026". Submitting an application inside the June-to-September window does not enrol you; you complete admission, pay the OeH fee and are matriculated inside this later period, and 31 October is the statutory end of it for the winter semester. The 13 July opening is a week after IB results, which is why the Austrian calendar works for an IB student at all.

  Source

• 13 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Czechia Charles 2nd Faculty of Medicine, entrance exam in Berlin

  Details

  Run through the agency Medical Doorway, and with London (2 July 2027) the nearest dated sitting to Denmark - reachable in a day. Oslo, nearer still, has no date yet. Unlike the Prague sittings, the faculty publishes no registration deadline for Berlin, so ask the agency when you must sign up.

  Source

• 13 July 2027

  Finland Official final IB grades (Jyväskylä's date)

  Hard deadline Via Finland

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  How a January application meets July results: offers are made on predicted grades and confirmed by the final ones.

  Jyväskylä's published date, comfortably after IB results are released in early July.

  Source

• 15 July 2027

  Germany Medicine and neighbours close — for applicants with a 2027 certificate

  Hard deadline Via Germany

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The deadline for a student applying straight from the May 2027 session. Roughly a week after results, so the paperwork has to be ready before they arrive.

  Published as "15.07.2026 - Ende der Bewerbungsphase (Ausschlussfrist) fuer Neu-Abiturient*innen", qualified "mit einem HZB-Zeugnis nach 15.01.2026". Your IB results arrive 6 July 2027, so you fall in the Neuabiturient group and this is the deadline that matters. Which group you are in turns on the date printed on the certificate, not on when you apply. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

  Source

• 15 July 2027
  Typical deadline - each university sets its own, and some English-taught programmes close as early as January

  Germany Most other bachelor's programmes, winter semester

  Details

  uni-assist publishes this only as a hedge: "The application deadline is often July 15th if the course starts in the winter semester", under a heading saying the deadlines listed "apply for many, but not all, university courses in Germany". No year is attached, and it is not stated as a bachelor's rule. The German version of the same page goes further than the English one - "Immer mehr Hochschulen setzen aber fruehere Fristen", more and more universities are setting earlier deadlines - so treat 15 July as a fading default rather than a deadline. uni-assist's own rule is that its deadline is whatever deadline the university set. Always take the date from the programme page.

  Source

• 15 July 2027, 23:59 CET
  2027 entry

  Hungary CEU (Vienna) bachelor’s - round 4 of four

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  All four rounds close at 23:59 CET. CEU’s own financial aid is awarded in the first two rounds only, so apply in October or February if you want it. Accepted students pay a 500-euro registration fee. Note that CEU’s bachelor’s programmes are taught in Vienna, not in Budapest - it appears on this page because it was founded in Budapest, but you would be living in Austria.

  Source

• 15 July 2027

  United States Official IB examination results to UC

  Applies to: IB candidates who have accepted a University of California offer

  Hard deadline Via the University of California application

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  This is UC's answer to the July problem. The IB publishes results on 6 July; UC wants the official results by 15 July. Nine days. Request the transmission from the IB as soon as you have accepted a place, not when the results appear.

  Published as "Deadline for official AP and IB examination results to be postmarked or electronically submitted". This is a deadline for IB results specifically, and a tight one: results are released on about 6 July 2027 and the University of California wants them, officially, nine days later. You request the transmission from the IB yourself, through candidate results services — it is not automatic and the university will not chase it.

  Source

• 16 July 2027
  2027 entry - projected from Wintersemester 2026/27; hochschulstart has published nothing for 2027/28

  Germany DoSV coordination phase opens

  Details

  Published as "16.07.2026 - Start der Koordinierungsphase". From this day universities may make admission offers for locally restricted courses, subject to their releasing their ranking lists. An offer is not a place: hochschulstart issues a Zulassungsbescheid only after you accept an offer or after the coordination rules convert one automatically, which is what the priority deadline four days later is for. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

  Source

• 16 July 2027

  Sweden Reply to your second-round offer

  Hard deadline Via Sweden

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  You have seven days from the 9 July notification to reply, and a place you do not reply to is a place you lose — including a place you have been offered while still waiting on a higher choice. Set this one before you apply, not after you are offered.

  Source

• 20 July 2027
  2027 entry - projected from Wintersemester 2026/27; hochschulstart has published nothing for 2027/28

  Germany Medicine group - signed application and paper documents must arrive by post

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "20.07.2026 - Fristende: Nachreichen von Unterlagen (Ausschlussfrist) durch Neu-Abiturient*innen". This is the one an IB candidate is most likely to be caught by: results on 6 July, online application by 15 July, and then paper documents physically in hochschulstart's hands five days later. It is an Ausschlussfrist, so it cannot be extended, and German post is quoted at three to four working days. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

  Source

• 20 July 2027
  2027 entry — indicative

  Norway Samordna opptak results published

  Details

  The main admission result. Applications for vacant places (ledige studieplassar) open the same day. What you do next has its own entry and its own deadline, four days later.

  Source

• 20 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Poznan University of Medical Sciences - Fall 2027 MD application deadline

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  One of the few autumn-2027 application deadlines in Poland published in full, and it is stated identically on two PUMS pages.

  Source

• 21 July 2027

  Singapore NUS outcome for May 2027 IB candidates

  Via Singapore Autonomous University for August 2027

  Details

  NUS says IB applicants sitting the May 2027 examination will hear by the third week of July 2027. The exact day is an estimate of "third week".

• 22 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Czechia Charles 2nd Faculty of Medicine, entrance exam in Prague - alternative date

  Details

  The second Prague sitting, and the one that falls after IB results are released on 6 July 2027. You still have to register for it by 30 April.

  Source

• 22 July 2027
  2027 entry - projected from Wintersemester 2026/27; hochschulstart has published nothing for 2027/28

  Germany DoSV - last day to rank your offers before the coordination rules take over

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The hidden deadline in the German system. Published as "22.07.2026 - Stichtag, bevor die Koordinierungsregeln greifen". Until this day you set the priority order of your applications yourself. From the next day - "23.07.2026 - Beginn der Anwendung der Koordinierungsregeln" - the system converts your highest-ranked offer into an admission automatically and deletes every lower-ranked one. Leaving your list in the wrong order therefore does not lose you a place; it loses you the place you wanted. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

  Source

• 22 July 2027
  2027 entry

  Sweden Second notification of selection results

  Details

  This is where a place you were waiting on can arrive, after the 16 July replies have cleared the lists. No reply is required to this notification — which is precisely why it must not be confused with the 9 July one, where a reply is required.

  Source

• 24 July 2027

  Lithuania ISM: main admission closes (visa-free countries)

  Applies to: citizens of visa-free countries, which includes Denmark

  Hard deadline Via Lithuanian institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  This is the ISM deadline that actually applies to an EU/EEA applicant. ISM runs main admission twice, on different dates for different passports: "Main admission. For candidates from visa regime countries (May 1 - May 31)", closing 31 May with the contract signed by 12 June, and "Main admission. For candidates from visa - free regime and CIS countries (May 1 - July 24)", closing 24 July with the contract signed by 31 July. An EU citizen is in the second group and has nearly two more months than the first. Rolled forward from the 2026 calendar, which was still the one published on 23 September 2026.

  Source

• 24 July 2027, 23:59
  2027 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published; 2026 pattern shown

  Norway Accept or decline your Samordna opptak offer

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Siste frist for å svare", at 23:59. Put it in a calendar the day you apply, not the day you are offered a place.

  Source

• 25 July 2027

  Canada UBC - final transcript from applicants outside Canada (except US and A-Level)

  Applies to: applicants holding a UBC offer

  Hard deadline Via British Columbia university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The date that confirms a UBC offer for an IB candidate at a school in Denmark. Request the electronic transmission of your results from the IB in the spring.

  Published as "Out-of-country applicants (except US and A-Level applicants): Deadline to submit your final transcript to confirm your offer of admission." That is the row for an IB candidate at a school in Denmark; the 30 June date on the same page is for US and Canadian applicants. UBC decides on interim grades reported by your school and uses the final IB results to confirm the offer and any first-year credit, so request the electronic transmission from the IB in the spring so that it goes the day results are released, about 6 July 2027.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 25 July 2027
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom LNAT (law) - late applications from international applicants: book your test

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The LNAT dates page runs a separate late route for international applicants who send the UCAS form by 30 June 2027: book the test slot by 25 July 2027 and sit it by 31 July 2027. As an international applicant this is the only LNAT window still open after the January deadlines have passed, so it is worth knowing it exists — but it depends on the law course still having places.

  Source

• 25 July 2027
  Autumn 2027 intake

  Latvia Stockholm School of Economics in Riga - registration deadline, EU applicants

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "July 25, 2027" for applicants from EU countries. This is the day an offer stops being yours: you have from 8 June to register, and a place you have not registered by this date is gone. Non-EU applicants must register by 20 June 2027, over a month earlier, to leave time for a residence permit — not your deadline, but it explains why the EU date is the later one. Studies begin 23 August 2027.

  Source

• 28 July 2027

  Denmark Offers and quota 1 cut-offs published

  Via optagelse.dk

  Details

  Every programme's cut-off average is published the same day. Vacant places appear in the same week.

• 30 July 2027, 00:00

  Lithuania LSMU: final application deadline

  Equal consideration Via Lithuanian institution

  Details

  Applications in by this date are guaranteed to be considered. Later ones may still be read, at the institution’s discretion, against whatever places remain.

  The last LSMU deadline, and the system again closes at 00:00. LSMU says an application after the deadline could be considered only if the programme still has places.

  The second and last LSMU deadline, with the same midnight trap as the first: "30 July 2026 - Application deadline. The online application system will be closed on 30 July at 00:00." LSMU publishes a dated "Application calendar" for one intake at a time; on 23 September 2026 it still showed the 2026 intake, headed "RULES FOR ADMITTING STUDENTS TO THE LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES IN 2026". The date here is that calendar rolled forward by one year and is provisional until LSMU publishes the 2027 one. The last published entrance test sits on the same calendar day at 10:00, after the application system has already closed, so the test is for people who applied earlier. LSMU adds that an application after the deadline "could be considered only in case of available study places in a certain degree programme" - possible, but not something to plan on. After it: the 150 EUR application fee and the 250 EUR registration fee are invoiced with their own deadlines, and LSMU says twice that "Failure to pay the fee on time will result in stopping your admission procedure", as does failing to sign the study contract by the date in the Dean’s letter.

  Source

• 31 July 2027
  2027/28 entry

  Czechia VSE Prague, Bachelor of International Business - hard copies of secondary-education documents

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The deadline that decides whether an IB candidate can actually take the place up. VSE requires the physical documents by "31st July, 2027", stated twice on its required-documents page. IB results are issued on 6 July 2027, which leaves about three weeks to obtain, certify and post the diploma. One older page on the same site, last updated nine months earlier, says "at the latest by 1st July" - the two disagree; go by the later page, but confirm with the programme office before relying on either.

  Source

• 31 July 2027
  2027 entry - projected; the page still reads "WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 31st July 2026" for September 2026 enrolment

  Czechia Palacky University Olomouc, General Medicine in English - outer application deadline

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  This is the outer boundary, not the deadline you work to. The faculty states twice that a complete application, documents uploaded and fee paid, is due "two weeks before the selected entrance exam at the latest". Since the 2027 examination dates are not published, the operative deadline cannot be calculated yet. The application fee is 80 EUR and is not refundable.

  Source

• 31 July 2027
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom LNAT (law) - late applications from international applicants: sit the test

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The last sitting date on the whole LNAT calendar for this cycle. Booking for it closes on 25 July 2027, which is its own entry.

  Source

August 2027

• 1 August 2027
  2027 entry, projected from an undated annual rule

  Hungary Corvinus - final diplomas, certificates and proof of English due

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "1 August" with no year, twice: the application-information page lists "Step 8 Submit final diplomas and certificates by 1 August", and the admissions-requirements page says Corvinus "accepts the following proof of English language proficiency (minimum equivalent B2 level) submitted no later than 1 August". This site assumes the 2027 intake. Comfortable for an IB candidate - the diploma is issued in early July - but it is the last gate before enrolment, and an offer is conditional on it.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 1 August 2027
  2027 entry, projected from the 2026 booklet

  Ireland Your IB results must reach CAO to be read in Round One

  Applies to: IB Diploma candidates

  Equal consideration

  Details

  Applications in by this date are guaranteed to be considered. Later ones may still be read, at the institution’s discretion, against whatever places remain.

  The CAO entry-requirements booklet for EU/EFTA/UK applicants says: "Results should arrive with CAO no later than 1 August. We cannot guarantee that results received after that will be processed in time for inclusion in Round 1. Inclusion in later rounds is subject to availability of places." The general rule behind it is "documents should be with CAO 12 days before the relevant offer round". Published as "1 August" with no year, in a booklet dated November 2025 for 2026 entry; this site assumes the 2027 intake. If your coordinator has listed CAO as an institution permitted to see your results this happens by itself when results are released in early July; if not, you must upload or post them, with an English translation where the document is not in English, and with your CAO number on every page. Missing it does not end the application - it moves you out of Round One and into whatever places are left. The CAO Handbook 2027 states the general rule for this cycle: results "must arrive in CAO a minimum of 12 days before the relevant offer round".

  Source 1 · Source 2 · Source 3

• 1 August 2027

  Lithuania ISM University - submit your final IB Diploma

  Hard deadline Via Lithuanian institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  It applies to every ISM round and appears in none of their headings: each of the four admission rounds lists "Copy of Final diploma of Secondary Education submitted by the 1st of August". You can be admitted on predicted grades months earlier and still lose the place here. Your IB Diploma is issued in early July, so the gap is about four weeks. Rolled forward from the 2026 calendar.

  Source

• 1 August 2027

  Latvia Turība: autumn intake applications close

  Hard deadline Via Latvian institution

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "February 1 to August 1" with no year. The only window here that stays open after IB results.

• 1 August 2027
  February 2028 intake

  New Zealand Accommodation applications open for a February 2028 start

  Applies to: anyone planning to live in a hall or residential college

  Priority

  Details

  Later applications are considered after these.

  Otago and Victoria open hall applications on the same day, 1 August of the year before you start, and both say the same thing about it: apply as early as possible. Otago opens residential college and Uni Flats applications on 1 August, Victoria opens its Trimester 1 halls on "1 August (the year before you begin your studies)". Neither publishes the year, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. This falls three and a half months before the application deadlines below, which is the opposite of the order a student expects — in New Zealand you apply for the room before you apply for the place.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 2 August 2027

  Denmark Accept your place

  Hard deadline Via optagelse.dk

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Set by each institution, a few days after offers: check the date in your offer. In 2026: Copenhagen 2 August, Southern Denmark 3 August, Aalborg 5 August. Dated here at the earliest known; a school that publishes its own date shows that instead.

• 3 August 2027

  Austria University of Vienna closes — non-EU/EEA applicants

  Applies to: applicants from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland

  Hard deadline Via n Austrian university for winter semester 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The 2026/27 date carried forward.

  Published on the same page as "Winter semester 2026/27: from 22 June to 3 August 2026", so this site assumes the same window in 2027, and the day could move. If you are not an EU/EEA/Swiss citizen the window closes about a month earlier than everyone else's and you also need a residence permit, which takes months and cannot be started until you are admitted.

  Source

• 3 August 2027

  Denmark SDU: accept your place

  Hard deadline Via optagelse.dk

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  SDU: "you must confirm your admission via sdu.dk/admission by 3 August to secure your place". Published without a year.

• 14 August 2027
  2027 entry, projected from the 2026 cycle

  Lithuania ISM University - additional admission round, visa-free countries only

  Applies to: citizens of visa-free countries, which includes Denmark

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A genuine second chance, and one only an EU or other visa-free applicant gets: "Additional admission. Only for candidates from visa - free regime and CIS countries (July 22 - August 14)", with the study contract signed by 18 August and studies starting in early September. Note that ISM’s own page contradicts itself here - the step heading says 14 August 2026 and the sentence under it says "15th of August, 2025" - so work to the earlier of the two and confirm with the admissions office. Rolled forward from the 2026 calendar.

  Source

• 16 August 2027

  Japan UTokyo College of Design: final IB results due

  Hard deadline Via Japanese university for the September or October 2027 intake

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  An offer made on predicted grades is conditional, and final scores must reach the university by 16 August 2027.

• 21 August 2027

  Hungary Semmelweis: upload your school-leaving certificate

  Applies to: applicants who applied before their diploma was issued

  Hard deadline Via Hungarian university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Semmelweis only. Published as a standing rule, '21st of August the year of application', so this site assumes 2027. Other universities set their own document deadline.

  Published as "the 21st of August the year of application", with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake. Semmelweis lets you apply and sit the entrance exam while still in your final year - "Those who have not yet received this certificate can also submit their application and take the entrance examination" - but "The final deadline for uploading the Matriculation Certificate is the 21st of August." Your IB Diploma is issued in early July, so the gap is about six weeks; the risk is not the date but forgetting the step exists.

  Source

• 22 August 2027

  United Arab Emirates RIT Dubai — Fall 2027 application deadline

  Equal consideration Via Applying direct to a foreign university's UAE campus

  Details

  Applications in by this date are guaranteed to be considered. Later ones may still be read, at the institution’s discretion, against whatever places remain.

  Seven weeks after IB results. RIT Dubai says applications received after this date are reviewed based on space availability, so a late application is not automatically shut out. The date is published without a year, so 2027 is expected.

  RIT Dubai states that an application received after the deadline will be reviewed based on space availability, which is consideration at the university's discretion rather than a closed door. The date is published without a year, so 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. It falls after IB results on 6 July 2027, so you can still apply to RIT Dubai with a finished diploma in hand.

  Source

• 23 August 2027

  United Arab Emirates American University of Sharjah — first day of classes

  Hard deadline Via Applying direct to a UAE private university

  Details

  After this the door closes.

• 24 August 2027
  2027 entry - projected from Wintersemester 2026/27; hochschulstart has published nothing for 2027/28

  Germany DoSV coordination phase ends

  Details

  Published as "24.08.2026 - Ende der Koordinierungsphase". The portal is locked for the two days before it - "22.08.2026 - Beginn der Portalsperre (ab 00:00 Uhr)" to "24.08.2026 - Abschluss der Portalsperre (24:00 Uhr)" - so you cannot change anything over that weekend. Remaining admission and deferral decisions are published the following day. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

  Source

• 25 August to 27 August 2027
  2027 entry - projected from Wintersemester 2026/27; hochschulstart has published nothing for 2027/28

  Germany DoSV - registration window for Koordiniertes Nachrücken (the clearing round)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "25.08.2026 - Beginn der Anmeldephase Koordiniertes Nachruecken" to "27.08.2026 - Ende der Anmeldephase Koordiniertes Nachruecken". Three days, and you have to opt in: if you have no place after the coordination phase, this is the only route left, and missing the registration window closes it whatever places later fall free. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

  Source

• 25 August 2027, 12:00 HKT

  Hong Kong HKU applications close

  Hard deadline Via Applying direct to a Hong Kong university as a non-local student (non-JUPAS), 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Well after IB results are published on 6 July 2027, so a late application is possible. HKU also warns non-local applicants to allow four to six weeks for assessment and eight to ten weeks for a visa after an offer, which is the real reason the August date is not as generous as it looks.

  Source

• 30 August 2027
  2027 entry

  Sweden Semester start

  Details

  Date given by Stockholm University; other universities start in late August or early September.

  Source

• 31 August 2027, 23:59 CET

  Netherlands All enrolment tasks complete

  Hard deadline Via Maastricht University

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Including the certified copy of your diploma — which is why IB results arriving in early July is workable here: the diploma is an enrolment task, not an admission task.

September 2027

• 1 September 2027
  2027 entry, projected from the 2026 calendar

  Lithuania LSMU - studies begin

  Details

  Published for the 2026 intake as studies beginning at the start of September, with "Student Registration Week takes place a week before" - so the week of late August is not optional and not a holiday. LSMU publishes a dated "Application calendar" for one intake at a time; on 23 September 2026 it still showed the 2026 intake, headed "RULES FOR ADMITTING STUDENTS TO THE LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES IN 2026". The date here is that calendar rolled forward by one year and is provisional until LSMU publishes the 2027 one. Before you travel there is the 1,500 EUR deposit for EU/EEA students to pay on top of the application and registration fees.

  Source

• 5 September 2027

  Austria General closing date at public universities — EU/EEA/Swiss applicants

  Hard deadline Via n Austrian university for winter semester 2027

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  5 September is the general public-university date for the winter semester. Fachhochschulen and private universities set their own, usually earlier.

• 6 September to 12 September 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Poznan University of Medical Sciences - Fall 2027 orientation week

  Details

  Published on the application calendar as "6 - 12 Sep 2027", described as "Orientation week for incoming students in Poznan".

  Source

• 23 September 2027, 18:00 UK time

  United Kingdom Final date for 2027 entry applications

  Hard deadline Via UK

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  After this the cycle is closed.

  Last date to apply at all for autumn 2027.

  Source

• 24 September 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Jagiellonian University - last day to hand in documents promised at enrolment

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A genuine 2027 date with a stated penalty, from annex 1 to Senate resolution 62/V/2026: a candidate who undertook at enrolment to supply a missing document has until 24 September 2027, with the date of arrival at the faculty counting rather than the date of posting, and failure produces an administrative decision that blocks starting the course. This matters to an IB candidate whose apostilled diploma may be slow to arrive.

  Source

• 30 September 2027
  2027 entry

  Belgium Flanders - deadline to hold your secondary-school diploma if you are favourably ranked

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The rule that makes the July examination workable for an IB candidate, published as: you must be favourably ranked for that specific programme and "ten laatste op 30 september van het jaar van gunstige rangschikking je diploma secundair onderwijs behaald hebben". Your IB diploma is issued in early July, comfortably inside it. Source, in Dutch: the Flemish government's exam pages at vlaanderen.be/toelatingsexamens.

  Source

• 30 September 2027
  2027 entry - published with no year; this site assumes the 2027 intake

  Switzerland EPFL - final deadline for the diploma itself, after which admission is cancelled

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  EPFL's wording: "The document attesting the successful completion of the title granting admission to EPFL ... must be submitted no later than September 30th. Admission is otherwise canceled." That is after term has started. An IB Diploma issued in July is comfortably inside it; a re-mark, a November retake or a certificate held up in the post is not.

  Source

• 30 September 2027
  2027 entry - projected from Wintersemester 2026/27; hochschulstart has published nothing for 2027/28

  Germany DoSV - Koordiniertes Nachrücken ends

  Details

  Published as "30.09.2026 - Ende des Koordinierten Nachrueckens", the end of the whole allocation procedure. Decisions go out twice a week through September, on Monday and Thursday afternoons. hochschulstart.de carries only two tables, Wintersemester 2026/27 and an archive of Sommersemester 2026, and no Wintersemester 2027/28 dates exist anywhere on the site. Judging by this cycle the winter table appears in spring, so recheck from about March 2027.

  Source

• 30 September 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland University of Warsaw - 2027/28 admissions must conclude by this date

  Details

  The closing half of the same sentence in Senate resolution 278: admissions last "nie dłużej niż do dnia 30 września 2027 r." Like the 2 February opening bound, it is an outer limit on the whole university, not the closing date of any round. Resolution 315 of 24 June 2026 changes only the foreign-qualification recognition clause, not this date. The same day is the deadline for asking a recruitment committee to correct your result after a successful matura appeal.

  Source

October 2027

• 1 October 2027
  2027 entry

  Poland Jagiellonian University - 2027/28 admissions must be closed by this date

  Details

  The closing bound in annex 1 to Senate resolution 62/V/2026. The Rector may allow a further round after 1 October 2027, but only on showing that it will not disturb teaching and that those admitted can still attend the full programme.

  Source

• 4 October 2027

  Malta University of Malta: first semester begins for first-year students

  Via Maltese institution

  Details

  Published on the University’s academic calendar: "Monday 4 October 2027 to Saturday 5 February 2028 - For first year students", with continuing students starting a week earlier on 27 September 2027 and the opening ceremony on 4 October. First-semester examinations run 17 January to 5 February 2028, the second semester runs 7 February to 28 June 2028, and there is a September assessment period from 1 to 15 September 2028.

  Source

• 31 October 2027
  2027/28 entry

  Italy Visa application for 2027/28, which pre-enrolment on Universitaly must precede (not for EU/EEA or Swiss citizens)

  Details

  Set in the MUR/MAECI circular "Procedure per l'ingresso, il soggiorno, l'immatricolazione degli studenti internazionali", which is explicitly valid for two years: "VALIDE PER GLI ANNI ACCADEMICI 2026-2027 e 2027-2028". Its wording is "Per l'anno accademico 2027/2028 [...] il termine ultimo per la presentazione delle domande di visto è fissato al 31 ottobre 2027"; the 2026/27 equivalent in the same paragraph is "entro e non oltre il 30 novembre 2026". Note what the date actually is: it is the last day to lodge the visa application at the consulate, and the Universitaly pre-enrolment has to be submitted and validated by the university before that — the circular adds that institutions may set their own earlier dates, "Tali date potranno essere anche antecedenti a quella del 30 novembre 2026 e del 31 ottobre 2027". The visa procedure does not apply to EU/EEA or Swiss citizens: the circular lists among those the visa procedures do not apply to "i cittadini appartenenti ai Paesi dell'Unione Europea, nonché a quelli provenienti da Norvegia, Islanda, Lichtenstein e alla Confederazione Elvetica, alla Repubblica di San Marino e alla Santa Sede".

  Source

November 2027

• 15 November 2027
  February 2028 intake

  New Zealand University of Otago — offshore international applications close for semester 1, 2028

  Applies to: offshore international applicants — anyone applying from outside New Zealand

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Otago splits its international applicants in two and gives them different days, and the split is the trap for a student applying from Denmark. An offshore applicant — one applying from Denmark — closes on 15 November; an onshore one, already in New Zealand, has until 10 December. Take the later date and you have missed by twenty-five days. Otago published these as 15 November 2026 and 10 December 2026 for semester 1, 2027; the 2028 equivalents are not published, but Otago states that "The main international student application period is 1 May–15 November, for most studies commencing in semester 1 (February)", so 15 November 2027 is expected. Some programmes run different periods — teaching, oral health and dental technology are named — so check yours rather than assuming this date.

  Source

December 2027

• 8 December 2027
  February 2028 intake

  New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington — Trimester 1 (February) applications close

  Equal consideration

  Details

  Applications in by this date are guaranteed to be considered. Later ones may still be read, at the institution’s discretion, against whatever places remain.

  Published as "Trimester 1 (February)—application deadline 8 December" with no calendar year, so for a February 2028 start 2027 is expected rather than confirmed. Applications after it "will be assessed on a case-by-case basis", which is Victoria's phrasing for every intake. Note that this is three weeks after Otago's offshore date and that the University of Auckland's Semester One 2027 equivalent is the same day, 8 December 2026 — the three universities cluster in this window without agreeing on it, and there is no body that would make them agree.

  Source

February 2028

• 5 February 2028
  Summer semester 2028, the first an IB student finishing in May 2027 could enter

  Austria Summer semester intake — application closes

  Applies to: EU, EEA and Swiss citizens; third-country nationals close a month earlier

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Study in Austria publishes the summer-semester close as "February 5" with no year, which is why this is resolved here to the summer semester of 2027/28. The University of Vienna page dates the matching window for the cycle just gone as "Summer semester 2027: from 16 November 2026 to 5 February 2027", so the window opens in mid-November of the preceding year — about eleven weeks, not a single day. Third-country nationals get a shorter window, published as closing 7 January rather than 5 February. Not all degrees admit in the summer semester, and most IB students will be aiming at the September start instead.

  Source 1 · Source 2

• 1 September 2025

  Germany Check the KMK subject rule against your IB choices

  Your own plan Via Germany

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  Not a deadline anyone sets, and the most important date on this page. The rule governs which six subjects you take, so it has to be checked while those are still changeable. Nothing later can repair it.

• 31 March 2026
  2027 entry

  Switzerland ETH Zurich - application when an entrance examination will be needed (autumn 2027 entry)

  Applies to: applicants whose IB subject combination does not meet the ETH exam-free rule

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  ETH publishes one cycle at a time, and the cycle live on 23 September 2026 is this one: "You must apply by 31 March 2026 at the latest" in order to sit the examination of 18-28 January 2027 and begin in autumn semester 2027. If your IB subject combination does not meet the exam-free rule, you had to be in the system eighteen months ahead. That deadline has now passed, so a student reading this in autumn 2026 who needs the examination is realistically applying for autumn 2028 instead - ETH had not published that cycle's dates on 23 September 2026. The other two steps of this timetable have their own entries here.

  Source

• 12 May 2026

  United Kingdom UCAS applications open

  Via UK

  Details

  You can register and start writing. Nothing reaches a university yet.

  You can start filling in the application from this date.

  Source

• 20 May 2026, 14:00 UK time
  2026 UCAT cycle, used for 2027 entry

  United Kingdom UCAT (medicine and dentistry) - account registration, bursary and access arrangements open

  Details

  Published on UCAT's test dates page as "20 May 2026 (14:00 UK Time)". You create the account first; test booking opens a month later.

  Source

• 23 June 2026, 14:00 UK time
  2026 UCAT cycle, used for 2027 entry

  United Kingdom UCAT (medicine and dentistry) - booking opens

  Details

  Published on UCAT's test dates page as "23 June 2026 (14:00 UK Time)". The 2026 cycle is the one that feeds 2027 entry — UCAT's own home page says registration instructions for UCAT 2027 will be published later, and that cycle belongs to 2028 entry. Booking deadline and testing window are separate entries.

  Source

• 30 June 2026

  United States Sit the SAT or ACT, if any college on your list requires it

  Your own plan Via the Common App

  Details

  Not published by anyone — a date worth setting yourself.

  Not a published deadline — a date worth setting yourself, worked back from the round dates. Yale requires the SAT or ACT from every applicant and states that IB results may accompany it but not replace it; Harvard requires it too and accepts IB predicted grades only where testing is genuinely inaccessible, which Copenhagen is not. Sitting it by the summer leaves a retake before the November round. NYU, Michigan and Amherst are test-optional, so the requirement is per college and has to be checked per college.

• 13 July to 24 September 2026
  2026 UCAT cycle, used for 2027 entry

  United Kingdom UCAT (medicine and dentistry) - testing window

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published on UCAT's test dates page as a window beginning "13 July 2026" and ending "24 September 2026", which the page labels the "Last test day". Your sitting must fall inside this window, and the window closes eight days after the booking deadline, so a late booking leaves almost no choice of slot. Context, not a milestone: UCAT publishes results to universities in "Early November" with no day given — you get your own score on the day you test.

  Source

• 20 July to 28 September 2026, 18:00 BST
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom UAT-UK admissions tests (ESAT, TMUA, TARA) - test booking for the October sitting

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Test booking opens for October 2026" on 20 July 2026 3pm BST, closing 28 September 2026 6pm BST. The time is the closing time. Accounts for 2027 entry opened on 1 June 2026. Oxford and Cambridge applicants must use this October sitting apart from a few exceptions. Used for 2027 entry by Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford and UCL (ESAT); those four and LSE, Warwick and Durham (TMUA); and Oxford and UCL (TARA), per the test pages on esat-tmua.ac.uk.

  Source

• 31 July 2026

  United States Common App opens for the cycle

  Via the Common App

  Details

  The 2026-27 Common App season — the one that leads to entry in autumn 2027 — opened on 31 July 2026. Nothing is lost by starting later and a great deal is gained by starting now: the account, the college list, the essay prompts and the recommender invitations are all available from this date.

  Each college's rounds and dates are listed under the Common App route. The Common App opened its 2026-27 season on 31 July 2026; that is the season that leads to entry in autumn 2027.

  Source

• 1 August 2026
  2026/27 LNAT cycle, used for September 2027 entry

  United Kingdom LNAT (law) - registration opens

  Details

  Published as "LNAT registration begins" on 1 August 2026. You cannot book a slot before this. Oxford and Cambridge applicants have only six weeks from here to register and book.

  Source

• 1 August 2026

  United States UC application opens for fall 2027

  Via the University of California application

  Details

  You can start working on the application from 1 August 2026, two months before you may file it.

• 1 September 2026

  United Kingdom Completed applications can be submitted

  Via UK

  Details

  A reference from the school is required before anything can be sent, so the school’s internal deadline is earlier than every date on this page.

  Nothing is sent to universities before this date.

  Source

• 1 September 2026
  2026/27 LNAT cycle, used for September 2027 entry

  United Kingdom LNAT (law) - testing begins

  Details

  Published as "LNAT testing begins" on 1 September 2026. The first day a booked slot can actually be sat; the sitting deadlines that follow differ by university.

  Source

• 1 September 2026
  2027 entry

  Poland Poznan University of Medical Sciences - Fall 2027 MD admissions open

  Details

  Source

• 2 September to 29 September 2026, 15:00 Italian time
  2027/28 entry

  Italy Bocconi — Early Session for 2027/28 entry: applications

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published on Bocconi's 2027-28 admissions page as "2 - 29 September 2026 (3:00pm Italian time)", with results in mid November 2026. The time given is the closing time. Bocconi runs only two sessions for 2027-28, Early and Winter — the page states "There are two selection sessions available for the admission to the 2027-28 AY: Early and Winter", so unlike earlier years there is no spring round to fall back on.

  Source

• 15 September 2026
  2027 entry

  United Kingdom LNAT (law) - register and book, Oxford and Cambridge

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "Register and book by 15 September 2026". Registration opening and the start of testing are separate entries.

  Source

• 16 September 2026, 15:00 UK time
  2026 UCAT cycle, used for 2027 entry

  United Kingdom UCAT (medicine and dentistry) - booking deadline

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published on UCAT's test dates page as "16 September 2026 (15:00 UK Time)". Miss it and you cannot apply to UCAT medical schools this cycle; UCAT's home page states the consortium makes no exceptions. The last day you can actually sit the test is 24 September 2026, which is its own entry.

  Source

• 24 September 2026
  2027/28 entry

  Italy Bocconi — Early Session for 2027/28 entry: last date to sit the Bocconi online test

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Bocconi's 2027-28 admissions page publishes the Early Session test cut-off as "until 24 September 2026" and warns that "the web testing platform will be closed a few days before each application deadline". You must already hold a score — Bocconi online test, SAT, LSAT or ACT — before you can apply, so this falls five days before the application deadline it feeds.

  Source

• 1 October 2026

  Canada Applications open

  Via British Columbia university

  Details

  Simon Fraser opens Fall 2027 high school applications on 1 October 2026. UBC says early October without naming a day.

• 1 October 2026

  Netherlands Maastricht applications open in Studielink

  Via Maastricht University

  Details

  Applications for 2027-2028 open on 1 October. University College Maastricht reviews them on a rolling basis from then until its deadline.

  Published with its year by the University of Amsterdam: "You can submit your enrolment application for the academic year 2027-2028 in Studielink from 1 October 2026 till 15 January 2027." Studielink's information site info.studielink.nl states the 15 January and 1 May deadlines without saying when applications open, so the opening date is taken from the university's page.

  Source

• 1 October 2026

  Singapore LASALLE opens applications for August 2027

  Via LASALLE or NAFA for August 2027

  Details

  Source

• 2 January to 6 February 2026
  2026/27 entry

  Portugal University of Porto — special contest for international students, phase 1 (not for EU citizens)

  Details

  EU citizens cannot use this route: U.Porto runs it for applicants "who do not have Portuguese nationality or the nationality of another member state of the European Union". U.Porto offered 712 places across this contest for 2026/27.

  Source

• 9 February to 2 April 2026
  2026/27 entry

  Portugal University of Porto — special contest for international students, phase 2 (not for EU citizens)

  Details

  Not open to EU citizens; see phase 1.

  Source

• 23 February to 29 April 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian School of Medicine in English - applications

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Note how much earlier this closes than the rest of the university. If the pattern repeats, you would be applying in February 2027 on predicted grades. The university's Polish timetable adds a detail the English page omits: the window shuts at 12:00 CEST on the closing day, not at midnight.

  Source

• 14 April to 16 June 2026, 17:00 Lisbon time
  2026/27 entry — 2027/28 dates not yet published

  Portugal Nova SBE — international bachelor admission, autumn intake (not for EU/EEA citizens)

  Details

  Published as "From April 14 to June 16, 2026, until 5.00 pm Lisbon time"; the time is the closing time. EU/EEA citizens cannot use this route. The page states that international student status does not apply to nationals of an EU Member State or of a state signatory to the EEA Agreement, so an EU applicant to Nova SBE goes through the Concurso Nacional de Acesso instead. The spring intake is a separate entry.

  Source

• 30 April 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian School of Medicine in English - application payment deadline

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "payment by 30 April", the day after applications close. The Polish timetable adds that the payment must be posted by 12:00 CEST.

  Source

• 18 May to 5 July 2026
  2026 session - the 2027 window is not published

  Belgium French-speaking Belgium - ARES concours registration window

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The official dates-cles page gives "Ouverture des inscriptions - 18 mai 2026" and "Cloture des inscriptions - 5 juillet 2026 a 23h59"; note the 23h59 closing time. The 50 euro fee must be paid online before registration closes, and an unpaid application is not processed. The window opens roughly fourteen weeks before the examination, which is why it is recorded even though the 2027 equivalent has not been set: if the rhythm repeats, registration for the August 2027 concours would open in May 2027, before your IB results.

  Source

• 23 May 2026, 10:00 CEST
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian School of Medicine in English - Dentistry entrance exam

  Details

  Sat online.

  Source

• 23 May 2026, 16:00 CEST
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian School of Medicine in English - Medicine entrance exam

  Details

  Sat online, the same day as the Dentistry exam.

  Source

• 1 June 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian School of Medicine in English - ranking published

  Details

  Source

• 1 June to 8 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian University - first round registration and payment, programmes with entrance exams

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Source

• 1 June to 9 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian University - first round registration and payment, programmes without entrance exams

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  One day later than the window for programmes that set an entrance exam.

  Source

• 1 June to 9 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland AGH University of Krakow - registration and application fee, first-cycle studies

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  AGH's deadlines page prints "from 1 June till 9 July, 10 am CEST" with no year, under the heading "the academic year 2026/2027", so these are 2026 days. Registration and the fee share one cut-off, and it is 10:00 CEST rather than the end of the day. Read the table carefully: its columns are headed first, second and third cycle, and those are bachelor, master and doctoral study rather than successive admission rounds, so there is no later bachelor round to fall back on.

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• 1 June 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Wroclaw Tech - registration opens (bachelor's for foreign candidates)

  Details

  One timetable covers both of Wroclaw Tech's foreigners' routes: the fee-paying one for non-EU students and the free-of-charge one that EU/EEA/Swiss citizens use. Only the document hand-in days differ between them.

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• 2 June to 22 July 2026
  2026/27 entry

  Portugal University of Porto — special contest for international students, phase 3 (not for EU citizens)

  Details

  Not open to EU citizens; see phase 1.

  Source

• 20 June 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Wroclaw Tech - application and fee deadline

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Printed as "20th June 2026", with a footnote that the IRK system closes at 14:59 local time rather than at midnight.

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• 2 July 2026, 10:00 CEST
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Wroclaw Tech - compulsory maths entrance exam

  Details

  Published as 10:00-11:30 CEST. The maths entrance exam is compulsory for every foreign candidate with no IB exemption. Wroclaw Tech's own standing notice says the exact date is fixed only in April of the application year, so the 2027 date will be late to appear.

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• 9 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland University of Warsaw - registration closes, full-time first-cycle and long-cycle

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Taken from the university's Polish admission timetable ("Ostatni dzień rejestracji w systemie IRK"); the IB and EB information page does not carry this date.

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• 10 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland University of Warsaw - application fee deadline

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The day after registration closes. Published in the Polish timetable as "Ostatni dzień wnoszenia opłat rekrutacyjnych".

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• 10 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Wroclaw Tech - documents deadline

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  This is the deadline for uploading first-stage documents into IRK. Handing in physical documents is a separate, later set of windows running from mid-July to late September.

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• 13 July to 17 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian University - first round entrance exams

  Details

  Source

• 14 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland AGH University of Krakow - compulsory online mathematics exam, first cycle

  Details

  Printed as "14 July" with no year, on a page headed "the academic year 2026/2027". You declare during the registration window that you intend to sit it. This is the first-cycle date; the master's and doctoral columns sit a fortnight and two months later.

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• 14 July to 17 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Wroclaw Tech - results

  Details

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• 17 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland AGH University of Krakow - mathematics exam results and qualification results, first cycle

  Details

  Published as "17 July" with "after 3 pm CEST". AGH announces the exam result and whether you are qualified at the same moment, so this single day tells you where you stand.

  Source

• 17 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian University - first round results, programmes without entrance exams

  Details

  Source

• 18 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland AGH University of Krakow - declare your chosen field of study, first cycle

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "till 18 July". One day after the qualification results, and it is the step that turns a qualification into a claim on a specific programme. Do not confuse it with enrolment, which for a candidate without a Polish maturity certificate is two months later.

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• 20 July to 29 July 2026
  2026 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published

  Portugal Concurso Nacional de Acesso — 1st phase applications: candidates substituting provas de ingresso with foreign exams, and the emigrant priority quota

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  This is the deadline that applies to an IB candidate, and it is a week earlier than the one everybody else sees. DGES's Portuguese calendar page names the group as "candidatos com pedido de substituição de provas de ingresso por exames estrangeiros" and gives them 20 a 29 de julho, against 20 de julho a 06 de agosto for the rest. If you are asking a Portuguese university to accept IB subjects in place of the Portuguese provas de ingresso — which is the normal route for an IB candidate — you are in this group. The 2026 calendar was approved by Despacho n.º 9359-A/2026 of 23 July 2026; the 2027 calendar will be approved by its own despacho and is not published yet.

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• 20 July to 6 August 2026
  2026 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published

  Portugal Concurso Nacional de Acesso — 1st phase applications, all other candidates

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published as "20 de julho a 06 de agosto". Do not plan against this date if you are substituting provas de ingresso with foreign exams — that group closes on 29 July and has its own entry. The 2026 calendar was approved by Despacho n.º 9359-A/2026 of 23 July 2026. The 2027 calendar will be published separately — re-check it.

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• 23 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian University - first round results, programmes with entrance exams

  Details

  Source

• 26 July 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Wroclaw Tech - tuition payment deadline (fee-paying route only)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Printed as "the deadline for the tuition fee payment (if applicable)". EU/EEA/Swiss citizens on the free-of-charge route pay no tuition for full-time study and can ignore it.

  Source

• 23 August 2026
  2026 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published

  Portugal Concurso Nacional de Acesso — 1st phase results

  Details

  Placement lists go to the institutions the day before publication.

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• 24 August to 27 August 2026
  2026 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published

  Portugal Concurso Nacional de Acesso — 1st phase enrolment

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published in Portuguese as "Matrícula: 24 a 27 de agosto". Four days from the placement list to being enrolled, which is why a fallback and a place to live matter before the result arrives.

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• 24 August to 20 September 2026
  2026 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published

  Portugal Concurso Nacional de Acesso — 2nd phase applications

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  DGES publishes the places left for this phase while the window is open (on 1 September in 2026); you do not have to do anything then. The date you act on is the closing date.

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• 27 August 2026
  2026 session, the pattern for 2027

  Belgium French-speaking Belgium - ARES concours 2026 session and results

  Details

  "Le concours d'entree est organise une seule fois par an, le jeudi 27 aout 2026", at Brussels Expo, in person only, 09h30 to 17h00 with no admission after 10h30. Results followed on 4 September 2026. The rule for 2027 is that results come within three days of the jury's deliberation and at most ten days after the examination. Two structural points a candidate applying from Denmark needs: non-residents compete for a capped share of places, 15 per cent for medecine and dentisterie and 20 per cent for sciences veterinaires, and you may sit the concours in at most two different academic years within any five-year period, with sittings from 2023 onwards already counting.

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• 28 August 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian University - medical certificate deadline, Collegium Medicum programmes (first round)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Published in Polish only, as a row of the admission timetable: "termin doręczenia zaświadczenia o braku przeciwwskazań do podjęcia studiów wydanego przez lekarza medycyny pracy", with "studia prowadzone na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim – Collegium Medicum – 28 sierpnia". You are sent for the occupational-medicine examination when you enrol, and the certificate has to be back with the faculty by this day. The 2027/28 Senate resolution keeps the requirement but leaves the date to a Rector's ordinance not yet issued, so read 28 August as the pattern rather than as the 2027 date.

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• 7 September 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian University - medical certificate deadline, all other programmes (first round)

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The same Polish timetable row as the Collegium Medicum deadline, but for "pozostałe studia – 7 września" - every other programme that requires the certificate. The timetable says nothing about what happens if you miss it; that sits in the Senate resolution annex, which for 2027/28 says only that failing to produce the certificate makes it impossible to begin studies.

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• 13 September 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian University - second round closes

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The second round runs only if the first did not fill the admission cap, and on many programmes it does not run at all. Its medical-certificate deadline is 5 October, not the August and September dates that apply to the first round, and it has its own entry.

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• 16 September to 30 September 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland AGH University of Krakow - enrolment window for candidates without a Polish maturity certificate

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  This is the row an IB candidate actually needs. AGH splits enrolment by certificate type: holders of a Polish świadectwo dojrzałości enrol in late July, while "candidates without Polish maturity certificates" enrol "from 16 September till 30 September, on working days" - ten weeks later, and working days only.

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• 30 September 2026
  2026 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published

  Portugal Concurso Nacional de Acesso — 2nd phase results

  Details

  Published as results on 30 September, with enrolment in the three days after.

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• 1 October 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland AGH University of Krakow - studies start

  Details

  From AGH's published academic-year schedule, which gives the 2026/27 winter semester as 1 October to 28 February. That page has no 2027/28 schedule; it says only that 13 to 30 September 2027 is set aside for closing 2026/27 and opening 2027/28, which implies but does not state a 1 October 2027 start.

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• 1 October to 3 October 2026
  2026 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published

  Portugal Concurso Nacional de Acesso — 2nd phase enrolment

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  Three days, starting the day after the placement list.

  Source

• 5 October 2026
  2026 entry - 2027 dates not published as of September 2026

  Poland Jagiellonian University - medical certificate deadline, second round

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  The second-round timetable carries a single date for the certificate, "5 października", with no split between Collegium Medicum and other programmes. Note that it falls after the academic year has started.

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• 10 October to 12 October 2026
  2026 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published

  Portugal Concurso Nacional de Acesso — 3rd phase applications

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  A three-day window. The places for the third phase are announced the day before it opens (9 October in 2026). DGES must decide any complaints about its results by 16 November 2026; that deadline binds DGES, not you.

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• 18 October 2026
  2026 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published

  Portugal Concurso Nacional de Acesso — 3rd phase results

  Details

  Results and the start of enrolment fall on the same day, 18 October.

  Source

• 18 October to 20 October 2026
  2026 entry — 2027 calendar not yet published

  Portugal Concurso Nacional de Acesso — 3rd phase enrolment

  Hard deadline

  Details

  After this the door closes.

  It opens on the day the results appear and closes two days later.

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• 10 November to 4 December 2026, 17:00 Lisbon time
  2026/27 entry, spring start

  Portugal Nova SBE — international bachelor admission, spring intake (not for EU/EEA citizens)

  Details

  Published as "From November 10 to December 4, 2026, until 5.00 pm Lisbon time"; the time is the closing time. Same eligibility rule: international student status does not apply to EU or EEA nationals, so EU/EEA citizens cannot use this route. It falls in this window and is easy to mistake for an EU-open one.

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