Recognized Religious Holidays

SMU Religious Observance Policy for students: Religiously observant students wishing to be absent on holidays that require missing class should notify their professors in writing at the beginning of the semester and should discuss with them, in advance, acceptable ways of making up any work missed because of the absence.

OCRL recommends that you notify your professor in writing during the first two weeks of each semester if you plan to miss class for religious holiday observance.

University Policy 7.22 provides information for faculty and staff religious holiday observance.

Religious Holidays for 2023-2024 Academic Year

Holidays

2023-2024

Christmas

December 25, 2023

Good Friday

March 29, 2024

Easter Sunday

March 31, 2024

Easter Sunday (Orthodox)

May 5, 2024

*All holidays may begin at sundown before the first day noted and conclude at sundown the next day.*


Holidays

2023-2024

Rosh Hashanah

September 15-17, 2023

Yom Kippur

September 24-25, 2023

Sukkot/Simchat Torah

September 29-October 8, 2023

Hanukkah

December 7-15, 2023

Purim

March 23 -24, 2024

Pesach (Passover) 

 April 22-30, 2024

Shavuot

June 11-13, 2024

*Holidays may begin at sundown and conclude at sundown on the next day.*

Holidays

2023-2024

Eid al-Adha

June 28-29, 2023

Islamic New Year

July 18-19, 2023

Ashura

July 27-28, 2023

Mawlid an Nabi

September 26-27, 2023

Ramadan
“dates may vary by one day, dependent on sighting of the moon”

March 10 - April 9, 2024

Eid al-Fitr

April 9-10, 2024

  

Holidays

2023-2024

Janmashtami

September 6-7, 2023

Dussehra (Dasera)

October 24, 2023

Diwali

November 12, 2023

Holidays

2023-2024

Bodhi Day
(Buddha's Enlightenment)

December 8, 2023

Buddha's Birthday

May 15, 2024