2025 Principal Dates


JANUARY
1 Wednesday Public Holiday (Fiji, Cook Islands, Niue, RMI, Samoa, Solomon Is, Tonga, Tuvalu,  Vanuatu, Kiribati, Nauru) – New Year’s Day
2 Thursday Public Holiday (Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa) –Day after New Year’s Day
3 Friday
4 Saturday
5 Sunday
6 Monday
7 Tuesday
8 Wednesday
9 Thursday  
10 Friday PDLP: Deadline for late registration and adding of courses
11 Saturday  
12 Sunday
13 Monday PDLP: Orientation and lectures commence & Invoice available on SOLS
14 Tuesday  
15 Wednesday PDLP: Orientation and lectures commence & Invoice available on SOLS
16 Thursday  
17 Friday  
18 Saturday Trimester 1: Orientation (Graduate School of Business Students ONLY)
19 Sunday Trimester 1: Deadline for adding courses
20 Monday Trimester 1: Lectures commence and Invoice available on SOLS
21 Tuesday
22 Wednesday
23 Thursday
24 Friday Trimester 1: Deadline for withdrawal from trimester 1 courses with no financial penalty
25 Saturday PDLP: Deadline for withdrawal of courses with no financial penalty
26 Sunday
27 Monday
28 Tuesday  
29 Wednesday  
30 Thursday  
31 Friday Public Holiday (Nauru) – Independence Day
FEBRUARY
1 Saturday Public Holiday (Nauru) – Day following Independence Day
2 Sunday  
3 Monday  
4 Tuesday
5 Wednesday
6 Thursday Staff Policy Committee 1/25
7 Friday PDLP: Deadline for payment of fees

Semester 1: Deadline for application for admission from students new to USP, and students applying after a lapse of six semesters. Applications received after this date will incur alate application fee

8 Saturday
9 Sunday
10 Monday  
11 Tuesday Governance and Nominations Committee 1/25
12 Wednesday
13 Thursday  
14 Friday Trimester 1: Deadline for Payment of Trimester 1 fees

Semester 1: Deadline for application to resume studies from student applying within six semesters since they were last registered

15 Saturday Trimester 1: Late Payment of Fee Period Start: Students who have not paid their fees in full will be required to clear all outstanding fees and a Late Payment fee of FJ$125.00 within the 1st four (4) weeks.

(15th February – 14th March)

16 Sunday
17 Monday Semester 1: Orientation and Academic Advisory week; Registration continues. (17th – 21st February)
18 Tuesday  
19 Wednesday Semester 1: Deadline for late application for admission
20 Thursday Executive Committee 1/25
21 Friday Semester 1: Deadline for registration for all campuses. Students who register for courses after this date will be charged a late registration fee. Deadline for Campus Transfer applications
22 Saturday  
23 Sunday
24 Monday Semester 1: Lectures commence and Invoice available on SOLS
25 Tuesday Medals and Prizes Committee 1/25
26 Wednesday  
27 Thursday
28 Friday Semester 1: Deadline for applications for change of programme

Public Holiday (RMI) Remembrance Day observed

MARCH
1 Saturday
2 Sunday  
3 Monday  
4 Tuesday Global Engagement Strategy Committee 1/25
5 Wednesday Pacific TAFE: Semester 1: Application for Admission Closing Date

Public Holiday (Vanuatu) – Customs Chiefs’ Day

6 Thursday University Scholarship Committee 1/25

Tender Board 1/25

7 Friday Semester 1: Deadline for late registration; Deadline for adding of courses for those who registered within the registration period (no fee charged for this cohort).

Pacific TAFE: Semester 1: Last Day of Registration (No late Registrations) 

Public Holiday (Kiribati) – In honour of International Women’s Day

Governance and Nominations Committee 2/25

Teaching Quality Committee1/25

8 Saturday Public Holiday (Nauru) – International Womens Day
9 Sunday
10 Monday Public Holiday (Tuvalu) Commonwealth Day
11 Tuesday Audit & Risk Committee 1/25
12 Wednesday  
13 Thursday University Research Committee 1/25
14 Friday Semester 1: Deadline for dropping of courses without incurring any tuition fee. Any courses dropped after this date will incur the full tuition fee.

Medals and Prizes Committee 2/25

15 Saturday Trimester 1: Late Payment of Fee Period continue: Students who have not paid their fees in full by this date will be liable for Late Payment fee as follows:

• $150.00 (next 4 weeks after 15th March).

• $200.00 thereafter.

16 Sunday
17 Monday  
18 Tuesday  
19 Wednesday
20 Thursday Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee 1/25 
21 Friday Student Discipline Committee 1/25

Semester 1: Deadline for payment of semester 1 fees for all campuses

PDLD: Deadline for Late Registration and adding of courses

22 Saturday  
23 Sunday
24 Monday PDLD: Lectures commence
25 Tuesday Medals and Prizes Committee 3/25
26 Wednesday
27 Thursday Academic Programmes Committee 1/25
28 Friday Medals and Prizes Committee 4/25
29 Saturday
30 Sunday
31 Monday  
APRIL
1 Tuesday Audit & Risk Committee 2/25
2 Wednesday
3 Thursday University Scholarship Committee 2/25 
4 Friday Campus Life Committee 1/25

Pacific TAFE Semester 1: Deadline for payment of semester 1 fees for all campuses

PDLD: Deadline for withdrawal of courses with no financial penalty

Trimester 1: Lectures end. Deadline for students to withdraw from courses they do not wish to be assessed in.

5 Saturday Trimester 1: Study week and Examination period (5th – 17th April (18th April – Easter Friday)
6 Sunday
7 Monday Space Management Committee 1/25

Public Holiday (Kiribati) – National Health Day

8 Tuesday Finance & Resource Committee 1/25
9 Wednesday
10 Thursday Laucala Campus Graduation
11 Friday Laucala Campus Graduation
12 Saturday MID-SEMESTER BREAK (12th April – 21st April (Easter Monday)
13 Sunday
14 Monday
15 Tuesday Communication and Information Technology Committee 1/25
16 Wednesday
17 Thursday Remuneration and People Committee 1/25

Staff Policy Committee 2/25

PDLD: Deadline for Payment of Fees -17th April (18th April – Easter Friday

18 Friday Public Holliday (Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati,  Niue, RMI, Samoa, Solomon Is, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nauru, Vanuatu) Good Friday

TRIMESTER 1 BREAK – 18th April (Easter Friday) – 4th May

19 Saturday Public Holiday (Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Is, Tuvalu) – Easter Saturday
20 Sunday
21 Monday Public Holiday (Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Is, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nauru, Vanuatu) Easter Monday
22 Tuesday PDLP: 1st Intake Placement Commences

Public Holiday (Nauru) – Easter Tuesday

23 Wednesday
24 Thursday Executive Committee 2/25
25 Friday Public Holiday (Cook Islands, Tonga) ANZAC Day
26 Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday Senate1/25
30 Wednesday
MAY
1 Thursday Public Holiday (Vanuatu) Labour Day
2 Friday Emalus Campus Graduation

Public Holiday (Kiribati) – In honour of International Labour Day

3 Saturday
4 Sunday Trimester 2: Deadline for adding courses
5 Monday Trimester 2: Lectures commence and Invoice available on SOLS
6 Tuesday Space Management Committee 2/25
7 Wednesday
8 Thursday Library Advisory Committee1/25 
9 Friday Trimester 2: Deadline for withdrawal from trimester 2 courses with no financial penalty
10 Saturday
11 Sunday
12 Monday Public Holiday (Samoa) Mother’s Day

Public Holiday (Tuvalu) Aso Ote Tala Lei

Public Holiday (Fiji) Girmit Day

13 Tuesday
14 Wednesday
15 Thursday  
16 Friday PDLP: Last Day of Placement
17 Saturday Public Holiday (Nauru) – Constitution Day
18 Sunday
19 Monday
20 Tuesday Council C99
21 Wednesday Council C99
22 Thursday
23 Friday
24 Saturday
25 Sunday
26 Monday
27 Tuesday
28 Wednesday  
29 Thursday Communication and Information Technology Committee 2/25

Public Holiday (Vanuatu) Ascension Day

30 Friday Samoa Campus Graduation

Semester 1: Last day of lectures

Trimester 2: Deadline for Payment of trimester 2 fees

Public Holiday (Fiji) Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day

31 Saturday Trimester 2: Late Payment of Fee Period start: Students who have not paid their fees in full will be required to clear all outstanding fees and a Late Payment fee of FJ$125.00 within the 1st four (4) weeks.

(31st May – 27th June)

Semester 1: Study Week (31st May – 8th June)

JUNE
1 Sunday Public Holiday (Samoa) Independence Day
2 Monday Public Holiday – (Niue) King’s Birthday, (Cook Islands) Sovereign Birthday, (Tonga) – Day off for Emancipation Day, (Samoa) – Independence Day (1st June – Observed)
3 Tuesday University Research Committee 2/25 
4 Wednesday Public Holiday (Tonga) – Emancipation Day
5 Thursday Teaching Quality Committee 2/25

Governance and Nominations Committee 3/25

6 Friday Campus Life Committee 2/25

Student Discipline Committee 2/25

Semester 1: Deadline for students to withdraw from courses they do not wish to be assessed in.

7 Saturday
8 Sunday
9 Monday Semester 1: Examination Period (9th June – 20th June)
10 Tuesday Academic Programmes Committee 2/25

Tender Board 2/25

11 Wednesday  
12 Thursday Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee 2/25

Remuneration and People Committee 2/25

13 Friday PDLP: Last Day for Lectures
14 Saturday PDLP: 2nd Intake Application deadline

Public Holiday (Tuvalu, Solomon Is) Kings’ Official Birthday

15 Sunday
16 Monday
17 Tuesday Global Engagement Strategy Committee 2/25

Audit & Risk Committee 3/25

18 Wednesday
19 Thursday Staff Policy Committee 3/25
20 Friday
21 Saturday MID YEAR BREAK (21 June – 20 July)
22 Sunday
23 Monday Public Holiday (Kiribati) – In honour of National Police Day
24 Tuesday
25 Wednesday
26 Thursday
27 Friday
28 Saturday Trimester 2: Late Payment of Fee Period continue: Students who have not paid their fees in full by this date will be liable for Late Payment fee as follows:

• $150.00 (next 4 weeks after 28th June)

• $200.00 thereafter

29 Sunday
30 Monday
JULY
1 Tuesday Public Holiday (Nauru) – RONPHOS Handover
2 Wednesday  
3 Thursday Senate 2/25 
4 Friday Public Holiday (Cook Islands) Ra O Te Ui Ariki, (Tonga) Birthday of His Majesty King Tupou VI
5 Saturday
6 Sunday
7 Monday Public Holiday (Solomon Is) Independence Day
8 Tuesday Academic Regulations & Policy Review Committee 2/25
9 Wednesday  
10 Thursday Tender Board 3/25

Public Holiday (Kiribati) – Gospel Day

11 Friday PDLP: Deadline for late registration (adding of courses)

Semester 2: Deadline for application for admission from students new to USP, and students applying after alapse of six semesters. Applications received after this date will incur a late application fee

Public Holiday (Kiribati) – National Culture and Senior Citizens Day

12 Saturday Public Holiday (Kiribati) –National Day
13 Sunday
14 Monday PDLP: Orientation and Lectures Commence Invoice available on SOLS

Semester 2: Academic Advisory week; Registration continues

(14th July – 18th July)

Public Holiday (Kiribati) – In honour of National Day

15 Tuesday Finance & Resource Committee 2/25

Public Holiday (Kiribati) – Kiribati Special Day

16 Wednesday Semester 2: Deadline for application to resume studies from student applying within six semesters since they were last registered.
17 Thursday Executive Committee 3/25
18 Friday Trimester 2: Lecture end, Deadline for students to withdraw from Trimester 2 courses for which they do not want to be assessed in

Semester 2: Deadline for registration for all campuses. Students who register for courses after this date will be charged a late registration fee. Deadline for Campus Transfer applications

19 Saturday Trimester 2: Study week and Examination period (19th July – 1st August)
20 Sunday MID YEAR BREAK (21st June – 20th July)
21 Monday Semester 2: Lectures commence and Invoice available on SOLS
22 Tuesday  
23 Wednesday  
24 Thursday Public Holiday (Vanuatu) Children’s Day
25 Friday Student Discipline Committee 3/25

PDLP: Deadline for withdrawal of courses with no financial penalty

Semester 2: Deadline for applications for change of programme

26 Saturday
27 Sunday
28 Monday
29 Tuesday Public Holiday (Vanuatu) Independence Day
30 Wednesday Pacific TAFE Semester 2: Application for Admission Closing Date
31 Thursday
AUGUST
1 Friday Space Management Committee 3/25

Semester 2: Deadline for late registration; Deadline for adding of courses for those who registered within the registration period (no fee charged for this cohort).

Pacific TAFE: Semester 1: Last Day of Registration (No late Registrations)

Public Holiday (Kiribati) – In honour of National Youth & Children’s Day

2 Saturday TRIMESTER 2 BREAK (2nd – 17th August)
3 Sunday
4 Monday Public Holiday (Cook Islands) Constitution Day, (Tuvalu) Children’s Day
5 Tuesday Academic Programmes Committee 3/25

Audit & Risk Committee 4/25

6 Wednesday  
7 Thursday  
8 Friday PDLP: Deadline for Payment of fees

Semester 2: Deadline for dropping courses without incurring any tuition fee. Any courses dropped after this date will incur the full tuition fee

9 Saturday
10 Sunday
11 Monday Public Holiday (Samoa) Father’s Day
12 Tuesday University Research Committee 3/25

Teaching Quality Committee 3/25

13 Wednesday Public Holiday (Samoa) – White Sunday (Lotu a Tamaiti)
14 Thursday Governance and Nominations Committee 4/25

Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee 3/25

15 Friday University Scholarship Committee 3/25

Semester 2: Deadline for payment of semester 2 fees for all campuses

Public Holiday (Vanuatu) Assumption of Mary

16 Saturday Trimester 3: Deadline for adding courses
17 Sunday
18 Monday Trimester 3: lectures commence and Invoices available via SOLS
19 Tuesday Communication and Information Technology Committee 3/25

Public Holiday (Nauru) – Ibumin Earoeni Day

20 Wednesday
21 Thursday Staff Policy Committee 4/25
22 Friday Trimester 3: Last day for withdrawal from trimester 3 courses with no financial penalty
23 Saturday  
24 Sunday
25 Monday
26 Tuesday Campus Life Committee 3/25
27 Wednesday  
28 Thursday Global Engagement Strategy Committee 3/25
29 Friday Pacific TAFE Semester 2: Deadline for payment of semester 2 fees for all campuses

Trimester 2: Late Payment of Fee Period continue: Students who have not paid their fees in full by this date will be liable for Late Payment fee as follows:

• $150.00 (next 4 weeks after 28th June)

• $200.00 thereafter 

30 Saturday
31 Sunday  
SEPTEMBER
1 Monday  
2 Tuesday Library Advisory Committee 2/25
3 Wednesday
4 Thursday Laucala Campus Graduation
5 Friday Laucala Campus Graduation
6 Saturday MID-SEMESTER BREAK (6th September – 14th September)
7 Sunday
8 Monday Public Holiday (Fiji) Prophet Mohammed’s Birthday
9 Tuesday University Scholarship Committee 4/25
10 Wednesday
11 Thursday Senate 3/25
12 Friday Trimester 3: Deadline for Payment of trimester 3 fees
13 Saturday Trimester 3: Late Payment of Fee Period start: Students who have not paid their fees in full will be required to clear all outstanding fees and a Late Payment fee of FJ$125.00 within the 1st four (4) weeks (13th September – 10th October (Fiji Day)
14 Sunday
15 Monday  
16 Tuesday Academic Regulations & Policy Review Committee 3/25
Tender Board 4/25
17 Wednesday Public Holiday (Tonga) – Birthday of Crown Prince Tupouto’a-‘Ulukalala
18 Thursday Audit & Risk Committee 5/25
19 Friday  
20 Saturday  
21 Sunday  
22 Monday  
23 Tuesday Academic Programmes Committee 4/25

Finance & Resource Committee 3/25

24 Wednesday  
25 Thursday Public Holiday (Nauru) – Sir Hammer DeRoburt Day
26 Friday Student Discipline Committee 4/25

Solomon Campus Graduation

27 Saturday
28 Sunday  
29 Monday  
30 Tuesday  
OCTOBER
1 Wednesday Public Holiday (Tuvalu) Independence Day
2 Thursday Tender Board 5/25

Public Holiday (Tuvalu) Independence Day

3 Friday Communication and Information Technology Committee 4/25
4 Saturday
5 Sunday
6 Monday Public Holiday (Kiribati) – In honour of World Teachers Day, (Vanuatu) Constitution Day
7 Tuesday University Research Committee 4/25
8 Wednesday
9 Thursday Space Management Committee 4/25

Remuneration and People Committee 3/25

10 Friday Tonga Graduation

Public Holiday (Fiji) Fiji Day

11 Saturday Trimester 3: Late Payment of Fee Period continue: Students who have not paid their fees in full by this date will be liable for Late Payment fee as follows:

• $150.00 (next 4 weeks after 11th October)

• $200.00 thereafter

12 Sunday
13 Monday Public Holiday (Samoa) White Sunday
14 Tuesday Teaching Quality Committee 4/25
15 Wednesday
16 Thursday Campus Life Committee 4/25

Executive Committee 4/25

17 Friday Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee 4/25
18 Saturday PDLD: Last day for Lectures
19 Sunday Public Holiday (Niue) Constitution Day
20 Monday PDLP: 2nd Intake Placement Commences
21 Tuesday Public Holiday (Fiji) Diwali
22 Wednesday
23 Thursday Staff Policy Committee 5/25
24 Friday Student Discipline Committee 5/25

Semester 2: Last day of classes

25 Saturday Semester 2: Study Week (25th October – 2nd November)
26 Sunday Public Holiday (Cook Islands) Gospel Day, (Nauru) – Angam Day
27 Monday Public Holiday (Cook Islands) Gospel Day (Observed) , (Niue) Peniamina’s Day
28 Tuesday Global Engagement Strategy Committee 4/25
29 Wednesday
30 Thursday  
31 Friday Semester 2: Deadline for students to withdraw from courses they do not wish to be assessed in.

Trimester 3: Lectures end Deadline for students to withdrawal from Trimester 3 courses for which they do not want to be assessed in

NOVEMBER
1 Saturday Trimester 3: Study week and Examination period (1st –14th November)
2 Sunday  
3 Monday Semester 2: Examination Period (3rd – 14th November)

Public Holiday (Tonga) – ‘Constitution Day’ day off

4 Tuesday Public Holiday (Tonga) – Constitution Day
5 Wednesday  
6 Thursday Senate 4/25
7 Friday  
8 Saturday  
9 Sunday  
10 Monday Public Holiday (Tuvalu) Heir to The Throne’s Birthday
11 Tuesday  
12 Wednesday  
13 Thursday
14 Friday PDLP: Last day for Placement
15 Saturday TRIMESTER 3 BREAK
16 Sunday  
17 Monday Summer Flexi School Period Begins
18 Tuesday  
19 Wednesday  
20 Thursday Audit & Risk Committee 6/25
21 Friday
22 Saturday  
23 Sunday  
24  Monday Council (C100)
25 Tuesday Council (C100)
26 Wednesday
27  Thursday
28 Friday
29  Saturday Public Holiday (Vanuatu) National Unity Day
30 Sunday  
DECEMBER
1 Monday  
2 Tuesday  
3 Wednesday  
4 Thursday Public Holiday (Tonga) – Anniversary of the Coronation of King Tupou I
5 Friday
6 Saturday
7 Sunday
8 Monday Public Holiday (Tonga) – ‘Anniversary of the Coronation of King Tupou I’ day off
9 Tuesday
10 Wednesday  
11 Thursday  
12 Friday PDLP: Last day for Lectures

Public Holiday (Kiribati) – In honour of Human Rights Day

13 Saturday  
14 Sunday  
15 Monday  
16 Tuesday  
17 Wednesday  
18  Thursday Tender Board 6/25
19      Friday  
20 Saturday  
21 Sunday  
22 Monday  
23 Tuesday  
24 Wednesday  
25 Thursday Public Holiday (Fiji, Cook Is, Kiribati, Niue, RMI, Samoa,Solomon Is,  Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Nauru) Christmas Day
26 Friday Public Holiday (Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue, Tonga, Tuvalu Samoa) – Boxing Day,  (Vanuatu) – Family Day,  (Nauru) –Day following Christmas, (Solomon Is) Thanksgiving Day
27 Saturday  
28 Sunday  
29 Monday  
30 Tuesday  
31 Wednesday