All holidays and collective closing days are listed in the BSc Mechanical Engineering academic calendar.
The University of Twente is closed on all recognised general and Christian holidays and on all collective closing days. No educational services will be provided on these days. The library is an exception and has different opening hours.
There are three general holidays and all three fall on fixed dates:
- New Year's Day (1 January)
- King's Birthday celebration (27 April; as of 2014) if the King's Birthday celebration falls on a Sunday, it is celebrated on the preceding Saturday.
- Liberation Day (5 May)
There are six Christian holidays and not all six by definition fall at the weekend:
- Good Friday (always a Friday)
- Easter Monday (always a Monday)
- Ascension Day (always a Thursday)
- Whit Monday (always a Monday)
- Christmas Day (25 December)
- Boxing Day (26 December)
In addition there are holiday weeks in which no educational acticities are scheduled but the univestiy buildings are open:
- Christmas holiday, two weeks in the second quarter coinciding with the Christmas holidays dates for primary, secondary and special education recommended by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science.
- Spring holiday, one week in the third quarter, coinciding with the recommended spring holiday (voorjaarsvakantie) dates established by the Minister of Education, Culture and Science for the region Nord (Noord).
- Summer holiday, the weeks between the week of the last resits and the start of the next academic year (this period mostly covers the month August).