Orientation

Parcoursup: all dates for 2026

Publié le 14 octobre 2025 - Mise à jour le 17 octobre 2025 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

The Ministry of Higher Education has just released the calendar for the 2025-2026 Parcoursup session. Opening date of the platform, deadline to express your wishes... Public Service gives you all the information and offers you a calendar of key dates to put in your agenda.

The opening of the Parcoursup platform is fixed on December 17, 2025.

The national platform for pre-enrollment in the first year of higher education is intended to high school students, reorientation students and candidates for resumption of studies. It allows them to consult the entire offer of post-baccalaureate training, find the essential information related to each training, build their application file, formulate their wishes, receive the admission proposals and accept them.

The procedure follows a calendar in 3 steps organized as follows:

  1. Information and discovery of training by students (November 2025 - January 2026).
  2. Registration and creation of the file by the candidate (from 19 January to 1er April).
  3. Receipt of replies and decisions (2 June to 11 July).

Dates to remember

  • Wednesday, 17 December : opening of the platform with the offer of training for 2026.
  • Monday, 19 January : opening of registrations.
  • Thursday, 12 March : last day to express his wishes.
  • Wednesday 1er april : last day to complete his file according to the requests of the trainings and to confirm his wishes.
  • Tuesday, 2 June : start of the main admission phase (students begin to receive the answers of the trainings).
  • From Friday 5 to Monday 8 June : classification of pending wishes.
  • Thursday, 11 June : start of the complementary admission phase.

Suspension of response times during the written exams of the baccalaureate.

  • Tuesday, 7 July : administrative registration with the institution when a training course has been definitively accepted.
  • Saturday, 11 July : end of the main intake phase.
  • Thursday, 10 September : end of the additional admission phase.

Please note

To memorize and see at a glance the key dates of the next session, use the Parcoursup 2025-2026 procedure calendar module proposed by Public Service.

You will be able to download the dates in your calendar and the associated infographic.

What you will find in Parcoursup

For each course, Parcoursup offers a detailed sheet to help the student in his choices:

  • information on the establishment and content of the training;
  • the criteria and procedures for applying (criteria for analyzing applications, advice on how to prepare an application, timetable for any selection tests with any costs);
  • the rate of access to the training (level of demand/selectivity, profiles of candidates admitted at previous sessions);
  • the rate of integration into employment with the training concerned.

FYI  

The practical booklet “Choosing a post-bac course. The right reflexes to adopt” , developed by parents and higher education stakeholders, offers simple advice on how to ask the right questions before choosing a course.

Find all the information to build your orientation project on the Parcoursup site.

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Agenda

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