Important Dates
For Beginning Your Graduate Degree Program in Fall 2025
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April 15, 2025 - Deadline to accept an offer of admission to the graduate program. |
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May 1, 2025 - Deadline for international students to initiate visa request. |
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June 1, 2025 - Deadline for New Student Health Evaluation Forms. Requirement applies only to full-time students. (There is a grace period through August 31, 2025 for graduate students, though we request you submit as soon as possible). |
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July 31, 2025 - Deadline for W&M-sponsored Student Health Insurance Enrollment and Waivers. Required for all full-time students; part-time students must submit a part-time student status form to be exempt from the insurance requirement. |
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August 1, 2025 - New Student Registration Begins |
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August 9, 2025 - Deadline for Photo Submission for W&M Student ID Card. |
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Mid-August 2025 - International New Student Orientation at W&M |
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August 25, 2025 - Graduate Assistantship Start Date. Last day to provide original I-9 verification documents to Academic Affairs Finance & Program Administrator. |
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August 25-26, 2025 - Mandatory In-Person New Student Orientation at the Batten School & VIMS Gloucester Point, VA campus. Required for all matriculating graduate students. |
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August 27, 2025 - First Day of Fall Classes |
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September 12-14, 2025 - Mandatory In-Person New Student Field Orientation at the Batten School & VIMS Eastern Shore Lab Campus in Wachapreague, VA. Required for all matriculating graduate students. |
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September 16, 2025 - First pay date for graduate assistantships starting August 25, 2025. |
Last updated by J. Dahnke on May 20, 2025.