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.
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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
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, production and imaging, 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: $2,300
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
The NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is excited to announce Internet of Things (IoT) Summer Challenge Program. Internet of Things is open to students interested in designing and building a connected every day device. From smart appliances and cars to home automation systems, IoT has extended internet connectivity well beyond phones and computers. Experience how these new capabilities enable us to intelligently gather information through advanced sensors and provide valuable information to anyone, from anywhere. The Internet of Things program will take place at the Engineering campus in Downtown Brooklyn and no prior experience is required.
Program Duration: 2-weeks
Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-credit
Cost: $2,000
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: $4,000
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 (TSP in ML) 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. This program is best suited for academically strong students with an interest, but not necessarily experience, in data science.
Program Duration: 2-weeks
Grade Level: 8, 9, 10, 11
Credit or Non-Credit: Non-credit
Cost: $2,000
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
