High School Programs
In response to COVID-19 and in alignment with our obligation to safeguard public health, all NYU Summer 2020 programs and courses being offered will be conducted remotely.
6-Week, 1-Week, & Everything In Between
NYU’s varied array of high school programs offer flexibility and options that can be tailored to your individual needs and schedule. Most programs are offered during the summer, but there are options for weekend workshops during the fall and spring. Application processes, requirements and deadlines are varied; as are housing and financial aid offerings.
Each program draws on the strengths of NYU’s various schools and colleges. Whether it’s by earning college credit or strengthening artistic or professional skills in an intensive non-credit offering, students will experience college and city life, first hand. Many of our programs allow students to increase their academic portfolio, while others enhance performance and studio art experiences. Be sure to visit each specific website to see which program is right for you.
Enhance your future college applications and your professional portfolio with these non-credit weekend workshops in the spring and weeklong intensives in the summer.
Program Duration: 1-week
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: $2,000 - $7,000
Saturday Art Workshop is an 9-week program that allows students to infuse issues of social justice into a dynamic art-making practice. Explore significant social themes while drawing upon a rich array of innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to visually express your ideas.
Program Duration: 9-weeks (Saturdays)
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: Free
Saturday Academy aims to increase diversity in the healthcare professions by introducing underrepresented high school students to the profession of dentistry, while simultaneously preparing them for the college application process. Explore dentistry through hands-on activities and learn about the process of applying to college in this program, which meets two Saturdays a month each fall semester.
Program Duration: 7-weeks
Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: Free
Be a part of an online film crew in the Tisch Online High School Filmmakers Workshop. Learn storytelling through visual language as you direct, shoot, and edit short films and music videos.
Program Duration: 6-weeks (online)
Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Credit
Cost: $6,680 (includes tuition and registration and service fees)
Learn more about the Tisch Online High School Filmmakers Workshop
Learn the fundamentals of writing for film and television as you develop story ideas and characters. Complete a synopsis of a feature film and television series.
Program Duration: 6-weeks (online)
Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Credit
Cost: $6,680 (includes tuition and registration and service fees)
Learn about the Tisch Online High School Screenwriters Workshop
The Future Artists Programs at NYU Tisch School of the Arts are free arts workshops taught by undergraduate faculty to high school students on Saturdays in the spring semester. These workshops are offered in Dance, Drama, Recorded Music, Photography, Filmmaking, Dramatic Writing, Cinema Studies, and Game Design. Our mission is to provide free arts education to qualifying students in the greater New York City Metropolitan area.
Program Duration: 14 Weeks on Saturdays from February - May
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: Free
Earn credits and train in acting, dance, design, dramatic writing, filmmaking, game design, photography and imaging, production and design, or recorded music with one of the top art schools in the country, the Tisch School of the Arts.
Program Duration: 4-weeks
Grade Level: 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Credit
Cost: $12,000 - $13,000, depending on program specific fees
Choose from courses in more than 30 academic areas as well as specialized programs in engineering, business, and journalism all while experiencing life as an NYU student.
Program Duration: 6-Weeks
Grade Level: 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Credit
Cost: $5,000 - $15,000
NYU College & Career Lab will expose middle school students to a top-tier university, and the many exciting career opportunities that college can open up in the fields of business, arts, engineering, law and technology for those who pursue it.
Program Duration: 5-Weeks
Grade Level: 7, 8
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: Free
Learn from game design and coding experts from the CREATE lab at NYU how to design games and how to code! In this two-week session, participants will learn about the elements of game design, will be introduced to Unity, and will code their own game.
Program Duration: 2-weeks
Grade: 10, 11, 12
Credit or Noncredit: Non-credit
Cost: $2,400
Intrigued by smart machines around you? This summer, feed your curiosity with a specialized course in Robotics and Automation at NYU. With a plethora of hands-on tasks involving sensors, actuators, microcontrollers and coding, have the first crack in STEM fields at a precollege level.
Program Duration: 2-weeks
Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: $2,000
Enhance your future college applications and your professional portfolio with these non-credit weekend workshops in the spring and weeklong intensives in the summer.
Program Duration: 1-week
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: $2,000 - $7,000
Dynamic, short-term English language program that provides a wide range of language courses and cultural learning experiences in NYC. Choose from courses specializing in English for global business, Art History & Culture, or academic English intensive.
Program Duration: 3 weeks
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: $2,000 - $5,000
Get an introduction to programming, virtuous hacking, and digital forensics during an intensive and supportive three-week-long program designed to break down barriers and encourage a new generation of students, including young women and minorities historically underrepresented in STEM, to pursue educational opportunities in computer science and cyber security.
Program Duration: 3-weeks
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-credit
Cost: Free
Learn to design and build a connected everyday device from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon. From smart appliances and cars to home automation systems, experience how internet connectivity allows us to intelligently gather information through advanced sensors and provide valuable information to anyone, from anywhere.
Program Duration: 2-weeks
Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-credit
Cost: $2,000
Learn about the Internet of Things: Connecting the Cloud, Your World, and You
Get an introduction to college level math topics while building problem solving skills. You'll explore new topics such as graph theory and combinatorics while working collaboratively in groups.
Program Duration: 3-Weeks
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: $1000; financial support is available
Learn more about college admissions, entrance test prep, essay writing, interviewing skills, and financial aid in this 6-day program for students in underrepresented communities.
Program Duration: 1-week
Grade Level: 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: Free
Learn more about the NYU College Access Leadership Institute
Expand your skills with one of NYU Steinhardt's noncredit summer programs for high school students interested in art, music, and theater.
Program Duration(s): 1-week, 2-weeks, 3-weeks, or 4-weeks sessions available
Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: $1,200 - $5,000
Work on a project alongside researchers in math and physical sciences with this non-credit summer program designed to empower students historically underrepresented in STEM.
Program Duration: 6-weeks
Grade Level: 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-credit
Cost: $4,500
NYU STEP (Science and Technology Entry Program) & BEST (Building Excellence in Science and Technology) is an innovative pre-college enrichment program for talented and motivated middle and high school students in NYC.
Program Duration: Saturdays, Oct-May (academic year); 5-weeks (summer)
Grade Level: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: $200 (Academic Year); $350 (Summer) waivers available
Experience challenging college-level workshops, authentic lab research in such fields as civil & urban engineering, mechanical & electrical engineering, robotics, & more all taking place under the guidance of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, & faculty members in this program designed for students from underrepresented communities in the STEM field.
Program Duration: 7-weeks
Grade Level: 10,11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-credit
Cost: Free
NYU’s Tandon Summer Program in Machine Learning is a two-week, full-day summer program on the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Downtown Brooklyn campus to introduce high school students to the basics of cutting edge applications in data analysis, machine learning and programming. Students learn the systems, tools, and logic behind the systems and artificial intelligence that influence our daily lives.
Program Duration: 2-weeks
Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-credit
Cost: $2,000
Create wearable tech with purpose. Learn the basics of physical computing using Arduino, a microcontroller that facilitates the design of interactive systems that respond to the physical world. Use traditional prototyping materials like breadboards and hook-up wire to create custom game controllers and experimental materials used in wearable technology like conductive fabric, flexible circuit boards, and sewable sensors. Beyond learning how to design and build functional circuits, students will exercise creativity as they consider not just how to make wearable tech, but for whom and why.
Program Duration: 2-weeks
Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-credit
Cost: $2,000
Learn more about Summer Courses @ IDM: Creative Wearable Tech
Get hands-on experience creating VR applications through an intro to basic 3D asset editing and production, animation creation, and audio editing and instruction in the NYU IDM XR Lab. Explore using VR as a storytelling and marketing medium and learn historical contexts and potential applications in education, healthcare, entertainment, fashion, business and engineering.
Program Duration: 2-weeks
Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-credit
Cost: $2,000
Learn the fundamentals of story-driven game design and develop scripting abilities necessary to create narratives and virtual realms. Over the course, students will learn to create games with interactive stories driven by interesting characters, complex world-building, and rich lore to motivate players to keep playing.
Program Duration: 2-weeks
Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-credit
Cost: $2,000
Learn more about Summer Courses @ IDM: Interactive Game Design
Located in NYU’s internationally recognized Art and Art Professions Department, this 4-week program is designed to provide students interested in the broad scope of Visual Arts an introduction to the experience of being an art student at a prestigious New York City institution.
Program Duration: 4-weeks
Grade Level: 10, 11, 12
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: $6,200
Spend 10 days attending an intensive and rewarding journalism "boot-camp" designed to develop the next generation of great journalists.
Program Duration: 10 days
Grade Level: 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-Credit
Cost: Free
Questions?
Office of University Programs
university.programs@nyu.edu
phone (212) 998-2292
