Summer schools

A one-week, non-credit residential summer institute at Wake Forest University for high school students. Explore the future of technology and the power of artificial intelligence.

• Grades 9–12
• Fee: $3,500 USD

A year-long University of Reading programme for Year 12 students with campus events, a four-day residential and mentoring, offering a guaranteed interview or conditional offer. The 2027 cycle has not been announced.

• Year 12
• Cost not published

A free University of Sussex programme for college and sixth form students, with taster sessions, subject days, a UCAS-focused conference and priority access to a July 2027 summer school. Applications for the 2026 intake are open.

• Year 12–13 / S5–S6
• No fee

A hands-on summer project in which about 180 school children from Pune spend a week each at IUCAA attached to a working astronomer. Schools nominate students; individuals cannot apply directly.

• Grades 9–10
• Cost not published

Four- to five-day residential STEM summer schools at UK universities for Year 12 and S5-6 students, leading to an Industrial Cadets Silver Award.

• Year 12–13 / S5–S6
• Cost not published

A week on the University of Glasgow campus for S5 pupils at Glasgow City Council schools, in one of four academic streams, including the Academic Skills module and the University Open Day.

• S5
• Cost not published

A statewide residential summer program on Georgia Tech's Atlanta campus for talented rising 11th graders nominated by rural Georgia school districts.

• Grade 10
• Cost not published

A free four-day residential for Year 12 students from under-represented backgrounds, with a reduced-grade offer if you later apply to Birmingham.

• Year 12
• No fee

A five-day residential science camp at NUS for high school students from Singapore and around the world, with lectures by professors, workshops, demonstrations, microscopy, hands-on chemistry and biology and an introduction to machine learning.

• Sec 4 – JC2
• Cost not published

Choose a two-week Oxford course in business, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence or global strategy.

• Grades not published
• Fee: £8,995

An eight-day land-based science and Indigenous knowledge camp at the Tundra Ecosystem Research Station on Daring Lake for high-school-aged students from the Northwest Territories.

• Grades 9–12
• Fee: $300 CAD

A one-week cultural, health and science camp at UBC Vancouver for Indigenous students entering Grades 9-12, in two sessions by grade.

• Grades 9–12
• Fee: $200 CAD