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Experience Yale

Yale Summer Session offers many ways to learn, explore, and make the most of your summer. Earn Yale College credit, discover a new academic interest, develop your skills, or pursue a passion through programs designed for students at different stages of their educational journey.

Study on campus, online, or abroad. Take a Yale College course, immerse yourself in art history, develop your writing, study acting, strengthen your English, or explore the humanities in a residential setting. Whatever brings you to Yale, you’ll find a program designed to help you make your summer your own.

The Yale Summer Experience

From the classroom to life in Yale’s residential colleges, learning and community come together to create a uniquely Yale summer experience.

Learn from Yale faculty through courses offered on campus and online.

Learning at Yale


Live the Yale experience. Make yourself at home in Yale’s residential colleges, build friendships with students from around the world, and enjoy campus activities, shared traditions, and support from Yale College student residential counselors.

Living on Campus

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Choose from a wide range of Yale College courses and earn Yale College credit while studying alongside Yale students and visiting students from around the world.

Spend a week at Yale developing your writing, learning from accomplished authors and instructors, and connecting with a community of writers from around the world.

Build your academic and professional English through immersive, non-credit programs for international students, with opportunities to live and learn at Yale.

Immerse yourself in five weeks of intensive actor training and develop foundational skills rooted in Stanislavski’s approach to the craft.

Combine online learning with an immersive week at Yale. Spend four weeks completing coursework online, followed by a full week on campus with hands-on work, field trips, and other course experiences.

Explore how materials and making shape artistic meaning through lectures, collection visits, and hands-on experiences led by Professor Ned Cooke.

Live and learn at Yale during a four-week exploration of a major literary work. Read deeply, write thoughtfully, and join a community of students passionate about the humanities.

Study abroad with Yale instructors, explore another part of the world, and earn Yale College credit.

Yale Summer Session

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