Summer Enrichment
Other Niche Areas of Study
Exciting programs exist for multiple disciplines and interest areas—the sky’s the limit. Some popular niche areas of study are addressed on this page: Architecture | Aviation | Classical Studies | Environmental Science & Sustainability | History | International Adventure & Study Abroad | Language Immersion | Literature | Marine Science | Outdoor Skills | Paleontology | Psychology & Social Sciences | Real Estate | Sports Analytics, Medicine, and Management | Veterinary Science.
Also explore the Summer - Multidisciplinary page, where these same niche areas (and dozens more) are included in university-specific pre-college programs on campuses across the U.S.
ARCHITECTURE
Berkeley embARC Summer Design Academy
Cal Poly SLO CAED Summer Career Workshop
Carnegie Mellon Pre-College Architecture Program
LSU Pre-College Architecture Camp
Pratt Institute Summer Pre-College Program
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Architecture Career Discovery Program
Roger Williams University Summer Academy in Architecture
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) Design Immersion Days
UMass Amherst Pre-College Summer Design Academy
USC Summer Program Architecture Courses
WUSTL Sam Fox School Architecture Discovery Program
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
AVIATION & AEROSPACE
Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association Scholarship Program
National Business Aviation Association Student Membership
Rice University Aerospace & Aviation Academy by Envision WorldStrides
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
CLASSICAL STUDIES
Lukeion Project Online Classical Courses
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & SUSTAINABILITY
Broadreach Wildlife Biology Summer Travel Programs
Brown Environmental Leadership Labs (BELL) Pre-College Program
Columbia Climate School in the Green Mountains
LOOP Abroad Costa Rica Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Summer Program
North Carolina State Horticultural Science Summer Institute
North Carolina State Resource Conservation Workshop
Smith College Sustainable Futures Program for Women
Stanford Sustainability Young Investigators
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
HISTORY
Gettysburg College Young Civil War Historians Summer Conference
William & Mary Pre-College Program in American History
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
INTERNATIONAL ADVENTURE & STUDY ABROAD
Asia Pacific Adventure (Camp APA) in Hong Kong, Thailand, or South Korea
International Summer Schools (ISSOS) in St. Andrews, Cambridge & Yale
Notre Dame Pre-College Study Abroad
Oxbridge Academic Programs by WorldStrides
SAI Partner Schools for High School Study Abroad Programs
School for International Training (SIT) Study Abroad
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
See also Language Immersion (below)
LANGUAGE IMMERSION
Amigos International Summer Service & Language Immersion Programs
Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) High School Summer Abroad
LITA Spanish Summer Language Immersion Programs
Spanish Institute for Global Education
US Dept of State National Security Language Intensive for Youth (NSLI-Y) (competitive, very early deadline)
See also Summer - Community Service page
See also Study Abroad (above)
LITERATURE
Dickens Universe at UC Santa Cruz
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
MARINE SCIENCE
Broadreach Marine Biology Summer Travel Programs
Catalina Sea Camp Marine Biology
Cornell Pre-College Shoals Marine Laboratory
Oregon State Summer Scholars Sea Grant
Sea Education Association (SEA) Summer High School Programs
The Island School (Bahamas) High School Summer Term
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
OUTDOOR SKILLS
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
PALEONTOLOGY
University of Chicago Stones & Bones Paleontology Program
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
PSYCHOLOGY & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Boston University Academic Immersion (AIM) Intro to Experimental Psychology
Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC)
Wake Forest Pre-College Learn the Science of Human Nature (year-round options)
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
REAL ESTATE
NYU SPS High School Academy - Real Estate NYC: From Design to Development
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
SPORTS ANALYTICS, MEDICINE, AND MANAGEMENT
UCLA Anderson Summer Discovery Sports Business Academy
University of the Pacific Summer High School Institute - Sports Analytics Camp
UPenn Wharton Global Youth Program - Moneyball Academy
UPenn Wharton Global Youth Program - Sports Business Academy
UT Austin Longhorns Sports Medicine Camp
See also Summer - Business page
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
VETERINARY SCIENCE
Boston Leadership Institute Veterinary Medicine Program
Broadreach Veterinary Summer Travel Programs
Envision by WorldStrides Veterinary Academy
LOOP Abroad Australia High School Pre-Vet Wildlife Medicine Summer Program
LOOP Abroad Thailand High School Pre-Vet Medicine Summer Program
Michigan State 4-H Animal & Veterinary Camp
Mississippi State Veterinary Camp
Oregon State Summer Veterinary Experience
UCONN Pre-Vet Marine Animal Health & Veterinary Science
See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page
Summer opportunities are constantly evolving, and CMCA strives to provide up-to-date resources. If you’d like to recommend a program your student loved, notice a discontinued offering, or encounter a broken link, share your feedback here.