Our International Summer Programme allows you to create a personalised summer learning experience. To explore our 140+ courses, simply search for topics, or use the filters to refine by week, number of sessions or subject. Once you click ‘Apply to the programme’, you’ll go through to our student portal where you can select your courses and submit your application.
You need to commit to at least one week, and attend courses in the morning and in the afternoon. The dates for this year's programme are:
Week 1: 12 to 18 July
Week 2: 19 to 25 July
Week 3: 26 July to 1 August
Week 4: 2 to 8 August
Need more help building your programme? Check out our how-to guide.
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How to build your programme
You can choose to study for 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks. We ask you to arrive in Cambridge the Sunday before your week(s) of study and depart on the Saturday morning after breakfast following your last Friday classes.
- Week 1: 12 to 18 July
- Week 2: 19 to 25 July
- Week 3: 26 July to 1 August
- Week 4: 2 to 8 August
Courses run from Monday to Friday. For each week of study, you select a morning (Am) course and an afternoon (Pm) course. We offer a range of 5- and 10-session courses. Some 10-session courses run over 1 week and others run over 2 weeks. If you sign up for a 10-session course running over 2 weeks, you need to attend both weeks. Our 5-session courses run over 1 week. The maximum class size is 25 students.
Courses fall into one or more of 5 different subject 'streams':
- Business and Innovation (including Finance, Marketing, Creating Innovative Ideas)
- Global Challenges (including Politics, International Relations, Climate Change)
- History (including Archaeology, Medieval Studies, Ancient and Classical Worlds)
- Literature, Philosophy, the Visual Arts (Creative Writing, Shakespeare, Modern Literature, Art History)
- Science (including Psychology, Genetics, Sustainability, Astronomy, Physics, Microbiology)
If you're just coming for one week you can select either:
- 2 short courses (5 sessions each): 1 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon. OR
- 1 longer course (10 sessions): split between morning and afternoon sessions across 1 week.
- 2 x 5-session courses (1 Am and 1 Pm) or 1 x 10-session course delivered over 1 week (1 Am and 1 Pm).
If you're coming for 2 consecutive weeks you can mix and match:
- 4 short courses (5 sessions each): 2 mornings and 2 afternoons OR
- 2 longer courses (10 sessions each): 1 per week OR
- A combination of short and longer courses.