Exciting programs exist for a myriad of 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 | Language Immersion | Literature | Marine Science | Outdoor Skills | Paleontology | Psychology & Social Sciences | Real Estate | Sports Analytics, Medicine, and Management | Study Abroad | 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

Drexel University Discovering Architecture

Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Experiment in Architecture

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

Tulane Pre-College Architecture Program

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

Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association Scholarship Program

Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) Aviation Careers Education (ACE) Academy

National Business Aviation Association Student Membership

Rice University Aerospace & Aviation Academy by Envision WorldStrides

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

CLASSICAL STUDIES

Lukeion Project Classical Workshops

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & SUSTAINABILITY

Broadreach Wildlife Biology Summer Travel Programs

Brown Pre-College Environmental Leadership Labs

Columbia Climate School in the Green Mountains

Drexel University Environmental Science Leadership Academy

Harvard Chan C-CHANGE Youth Summit on Climate, Equity, & Health in Collaboration with Putney Pre-College

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

University of Nebraska Global Challenges Summer Camp

University of Wisconsin Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Weather Camp

USDA AgDiscovery Program

WUSTL Environmental Studies Institute

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

HISTORY

Gettysburg College American Civil War Camp

William & Mary Pre-College Program in American History

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

LANGUAGE IMMERSION

Amigos International Summer Service & Language Immersion Programs

Arcos Journeys Abroad

Asis Spanish Institute

Concordia Language Villages

Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) High School Summer Abroad

Estudio Hispanico

Lacunza IH San Sebastian

LITA Spanish Summer Language Immersion Programs

Middlebury Language Schools

See also Summer - Community Service page

See also Study Abroad (below)

LITERATURE

Dickens Universe at UC Santa Cruz

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

MARINE SCIENCE

Auburn Coastal Fisheries Camp

Broadreach Marine Biology Summer Travel Programs

Catalina Sea Camp Marine Biology

Cornell Pre-College Shoals Marine Laboratory

Oregon State Summer Scholars Sea Grant

SEACAMP San Diego

Sea Education Association (SEA) Summer High School Programs

The Island School Cape Eleuthera Institute

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

OUTDOOR SKILLS

California Survival School

Montana Wilderness School

Outward Bound

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

PALEONTOLOGY

University of Chicago Stones & Bones Paleontology Program

PSYCHOLOGY & SOCIAL SCIENCES

Boston University Academic Immersion (AIM) Intro to Experimental Psychology

Gettysburg College Camp Psych

Oxford Royale Experimental Psychology Summer School

Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition

UT Austin Developmental Positive Psychology

Wake Forest Pre-College learn the Science of Human Nature

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

REAL ESTATE

Fordham Real Estate Summer Institute

LEADing for Life Global Summer Learning Institute (GSL) REEX (Commercial Real Estate)

Real Estate Exchange (REEX) Summer Programs

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

SPORTS ANALYTICS, MEDICINE, AND MANAGEMENT

Fordham Sports Business Institute

LMU Global Sports & Entertainment Business

Longhorns Sports Medicine Camp

UCLA Anderson Summer Discovery Sports Business Academy

UMass Amherst Pre-College Program

University of the Pacific Pre-College Sports Analytics Camp

UPenn Wharton Global Youth Program - Moneyball Academy

UPenn Wharton Global Youth Program - Sports Business Academy

See also Summer - Business page

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

STUDY ABROAD

Abbey Road Programs

AFS Intercultural Programs

Brown Pre-College Location-Based Studies

International Summer Schools (ISSOS) in St. Andrews, Cambridge & Yale

Notre Dame Study Abroad

Oxbridge Academic Programs by WorldStrides

Putney Pre-College Abroad

SAI Partner Schools for High School Study Abroad Programs

School for International Training (SIT) Study Abroad

Transitions Abroad

Walking Tree Travel

Where There Be Dragons

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page

See also Language Immersion (above)

VETERINARY SCIENCE

Boston Leadership Institute Veterinary Medicine Program

Broadreach Veterinary Summer Travel Programs

Envision by WorldStrides Veterinary Medicine Program at the Texas Zoo in Partnership with LOOP Abroad

Global Academy Pre-Vet Camp

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

North Carolina State VetCamp

Oregon State Summer Veterinary Experience

UC Davis Pre-College Equine Science Program

UCONN Pre-Vet Marine Animal Health & Veterinary Science

UMass Amherst Pre-College Program

See also Summer - Multidisciplinary page