Key dates
Bac results, orientation, registration and scholarship deadlines in one place. Every date links to its source and shows when it was last checked.
Coming up
ExpectedExpected means not announced yet: the date is estimated from last year, and the note says how.
Université de Nouakchott: registration on Khidmaty
Not announced yet for 2026-2027. Last year, new Bac holders placed at the university registered from 8 October to 9 November 2025 on the Khidmaty portal.
Eiffel scholarship: French schools send nominations
For a master's or PhD in France. You cannot apply directly: apply to a French programme and ask it to nominate you, usually between October and December. For the 2026 session the deadline was 8 January 2026.
Türkiye Scholarships: applications
Bachelor's, master's and PhD in Türkiye. The official calendar gives these dates every year; YTB confirms them in its yearly announcement. Results come out in early August.
Bac 2027: first session
The 2026 written exams ran from 29 June to 2 July. The Ministry of Education announced the 2026 exam calendar in December 2025.
Rhodes Scholarship for West Africa: next round
The 2026 round ran from 1 June to 27 August.
Bac 2027: first-session results
The 2026 results came out on 22 July.
Orientation 2027 on etudiants-mesrs.app
In 2026 the platform opened on 7 August and placements were published on 19 August.
Chevening 2028-2029: applications
Chevening opens each round in August and closes it in October, at 11:00 UTC.
No upcoming dates right now.
Already passed
Kept for reference: next year's dates usually fall around the same time.
Chevening 2027-2028: application deadline
One-year master's in the UK. Applications opened in August and closed at 11:00 UTC; results are announced from mid-June 2027.
Université Moderne Chinguitti: 2026-2027 registration opens
Rhodes Scholarship for West Africa: applications
Postgraduate study at the University of Oxford. Mauritania is one of the eligible countries. Closed at 23:59 GMT.
Orientation 2026: platform reopens
For complementary-session graduates, earlier graduates who want to change course, and anyone who missed the first round.
Orientation 2026: first-session placements
160 programmes were on offer, 29 of them abroad. The platform shows the first and last rank placed in each one.
Orientation 2026: rank your choices
First-session Bac graduates and licence graduates ranked programmes on the ministry platform, from the evening of 7 August to the evening of 16 August.
Bac 2026: complementary session results
Bac 2026: complementary session begins
Second chance for candidates who did not pass the first session.
Bac 2026: first-session results
Published online from 18:00 on the Ministry of Education website.
Bac 2026: written exams, first session
Dates set by the Ministry of Education in its calendar of national exams.
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