Kentucky College of Optometry
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
2024 – 2025
This table is an overview of the academic year. Day-by-day schedules will be distributed and are subject to change without notice.
Summer 2024 | Description |
May 13, 2024 | May 13, 2024 Summer Semester Begins (Classes of 2025, 2026) |
May 27, 2024 | May 27, 2024 Memorial Day (No Classes or Clinics – Classes of 2025*, 2026) |
June 19-22, 2024 | June 19-22, 2024 Optometry’s Meeting – Nashville, TN (Classes and Clinics operate normally) |
June 19, 2024 | June 19, 2024 Juneteenth Observance (No Classes or Clinics – Classes of 2025*, 2026) |
July 1, 2024 | July 1, 2024 Mini-Summer Semester Begins (Class of 2027) |
July 4-5, 2024 | July 4-5, 2024 Independence Day Observance (No Classes or Clinics – Classes of 2025*, 2026, 2027) |
August 5, 2024 | NBEO Part 1 (Non-Targeted, Classes and Clinics operate normally) |
August 9, 2024 | Summer Semester Ends (Class of 2025) |
August 12, 2024 | Summer Semester Ends (Classes of 2026, 2027) No clinic class of 2026 |
Fall 2024 | Description |
August 12, 2024 | 2nd year Orientation (Class of 2027) |
August 14-16, 2024 | 1st year Orientation (Class of 2028) |
August 19, 2024 | Fall Semester Begins (Classes of 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028) |
September 2, 2024 | Labor Day (No Classes or Clinics – Classes of 2025*,2026, 2027, 2028) |
November 6-9, 2024 | Fall Break – AAO (No Classes or Clinics – Classes of 2025*, 2026, 2027, 2028) |
November 27- 29, 2024 | Thanksgiving Break (No Classes or Clinics – Classes of 2025*, 2026, 2027, 2028) |
December 3 & 5, 2024 | NBEO Part 2 (Targeted, No Clinics Class of 2025) |
December 13, 2024 | Fall Semester Ends (Classes of 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028) |
Spring 2025 | Description |
January 6, 2025 | Spring Semester Begins (Classes of 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028) |
January 20, 2025 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (No Classes or Clinics – Classes of 2025*, 2026, 2027, 2028) |
February 26-March 2, 2025 | SECO International – Atlanta, GA (Classes and Clinics operate normally) |
March 3-7, 2025 | Spring Break (No Classes or Clinics – Classes of 2025*, 2026, 2027, 2028) |
March 10-14, 2025 | NBEO Part 1 (Targeted – No Classes or Clinics - Class of 2026) |
April 5, 2025 | White Coat Ceremony – Class of 2027 |
April 10-12, 2025 | KOA spring conference (2025*, 2026, 2027, 2028 Classes ONLY) |
April 18, 2025 | Good Friday (No Classes or Clinics 2025*, 2026, 2027, 2028) |
April 22, 2025 | Clinic Orientation (Class of 2027) |
April 24-26, 2025 | Hillbilly Days (UPIKE Campus closed. Online classes and offsite clinics ONLY. 2025*, 2026, 2027, 2028) |
April 29, 2025 | Externship Orientation (Class of 2026) |
May 2, 2025 | Spring Semester Ends (Classes of 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028) |
May 7 - May 9, 2025 | Capstone Graduation Activities (Class of 2025) |
May 10, 2025 | Health Professions Commencement (Class of 2025) |
*Class of 2025 students on 4th year EXTERNAL clinical rotations are subject to the schedule of their clinical sites during
those semesters. Class of 2025 students on 4th year INTERNAL clinical rotations will follow the academic calendar
during that semester.