BYU Education Week 2027 will run Monday, August 16 through Friday, August 20, 2027.
That is a confirmed date from BYU, published on BYU's own site, and it is findable today. It is also, as of this week, almost invisible.
Where the dates actually are
The 2027 dates appear on the Education Week Apply to Teach page — a page reached through the More menu, behind the Frequently Asked Questions link. They are not presented as an announcement. They appear as a parenthesis qualifying something else entirely:
The page gives its application period as September 15–30, 2026, and then notes, in brackets, that this is for the program held August 16–20, 2027.
Checked the same day, the Education Week homepage was still headlined August 17–21, 2026. The registration page was still describing 2026 purchase windows. The class schedule page was still describing the 2026 booklet and the 2026 mobile app guide. None of them mentioned 2027.
There is nothing improper about that. The Apply to Teach page has to state which program applicants are applying for, so the date lands there first out of necessity rather than as a reveal. The consequence is simply that the earliest confirmed answer to "when is Education Week next year" is sitting on the one page written for presenters rather than attendees.
The dates match the pattern, but they are not derived from it
It is worth separating two things that look alike.
August 16–20, 2027 is Monday through Friday, and it falls in the third full week of August — the same shape as 2026, which ran August 17–21. That consistency is real and it is why guessing next year's dates usually works.
But this is not a guess. Every year that guessing works is a year the guess was unnecessary, and every year the program moves is a year the guess is wrong. The distinction matters for anyone about to spend money on it.
Why a year of notice is worth something here
Education Week is the largest thing that happens in Provo in August that has nothing to do with football or student move-in. BYU's own count puts it near twenty thousand participants. For five days it fills a campus that is otherwise between semesters, and its effects run well past campus boundaries — hotel rooms from Springville to Lehi, restaurant waits, and University Parkway slowing to a crawl in the morning. It is one of three August pressures that stack on the valley at once, alongside student move-in and the opening of BYU's football season.
The people for whom twelve months of notice is materially better than four:
- Anyone who needs a specific hotel. The valley's inventory is finite and Education Week competes with late-summer travel. Our hotels near BYU guide covers what fills first.
- Groups traveling together. Extended families coordinating a shared week are the bookings that get hardest to assemble late.
- Anyone wanting campus housing. It sells in defined windows and it is not available with partial-day registrations.
- First-time visitors to campus. Education Week is many people's only trip to BYU all year; our BYU campus visitor guide covers getting on to campus and finding your way around it.
- Presenters. For them the relevant deadline is not next August at all — it is six weeks from now.
The deadline that is actually imminent
The genuinely time-critical item on that page is not the 2027 program. It is the application window to teach at it: September 15 through September 30, 2026. Sixteen days.
BYU asks for four things — an online application, class titles and outlines in Microsoft Word, a résumé, and a video of at least twenty minutes showing one of the applicant's presentations. Materials arriving after September 30 are not considered, and BYU says it responds by February 2027. Our guide to applying to teach at Education Week covers the eligibility standard, the four-lecture series format BYU prefers, and the fifteen-word cap on class titles.
One detail on that page is unusual enough to note on its own. BYU warns applicants — twice, in two separate places — that the use of AI often generates inaccurate quotes, and asks them to verify every quotation against original sources. Proposals must carry complete citations for each teaching point and are cleared by a review committee, so a misattributed quotation is a live risk to an application rather than a stylistic quibble.
What is still unknown about 2027
Pricing. Not published. The 2026 tiers ran from $30 for a single session bought during the week to $115 for the full Monday–Friday program, with campus housing at $150 per person.
Registration opening. Not announced. Registration for 2026 opened April 2 and ran through the final evening of the program.
The program itself. Classes and presenters are settled after the September application window closes and the review committee works through several hundred submissions — which is why the class booklet has historically arrived in July.
Our Education Week 2027 listing tracks what is confirmed against what is not, and the full Education Week guide covers how the program works in practice — costs, the under-14 rule, parking, accessibility, campus housing and the deadlines that catch first-timers.
The short version
Next year's Education Week is August 16–20, 2027, confirmed by BYU. If you are attending, that is twelve months of lead time on lodging. If you are hoping to teach, the window is September 15–30 this year, and it does not reopen.
