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Course choices

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How long do you want to study for?

You can choose to study for one, two, three or four weeks allowing flexibility for when you are free. We ask you to arrive in Cambridge the Sunday before your week(s) of study and depart on the Saturday morning after breakfast following your last Friday classes.

  • Week 1: Sunday 13 – Saturday 19 July 2025
  • Week 2: Sunday 20 – Saturday 26 July 2025
  • Week 3: Sunday 27 July – Saturday 2 August 2025
  • Week 4: Sunday 3 – Saturday 9 August 2025

Courses run from Monday to Friday. For each week of study, you select a morning (Am) course and an afternoon (Pm) course. We offer a range of 5- and 10-session courses. Some 10-session courses run over one week and others run over two weeks. If you sign up for a 10-session course running over two weeks, you need to attend both weeks. Our 5-session courses run over one week. The maximum class size is 25 students.   

What do you want to study from our subject streams?

Courses fall into one or more of five different subject streams:

  • Business and Innovation (including Finance, Marketing, Creating Innovative Ideas)
  • Global Challenges (including Politics, International Relations, Climate Change)
  • History (including Archaeology, Medieval Studies, Ancient and Classical Worlds)
  • Literature, Philosophy, the Visual Arts (Creative Writing, Shakespeare, Modern Literature, Art History)
  • Science (including Psychology, Genetics, Sustainability, Astronomy, Physics, Microbiology)

Course choices

If you're just coming for one week you can select either:

  • Two short courses (5 sessions each): one in the morning and one in the afternoon. OR
  • One longer course (10 sessions): split between morning and afternoon sessions across one week.
  • 2 x 5-session courses (one Am and one Pm) or 1 x 10-session course delivered over one week (one Am and one Pm).

If you're coming for two consecutive weeks you can mix and match:

  • Four short courses (5 sessions each): two mornings and two afternoons OR
  • Two longer courses (10 sessions each): one per week OR
  • A combination of short and longer courses. 

Still not sure? Don’t worry, once you click to apply, you’ll go through to our student portal where step-by-step programme builder will help you to tailor your own programme of summer courses at Cambridge.