Oxbridge Academic Programs - The Cambridge Tradition (Grades 10-12)

  England

• Cambridge: 
Cambridge

Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: July 6 - Aug 2, 2009

Description: A residential academic program for high school students (grades 10-12) held at Jesus College, Cambridge University, England. 25 courses covering humanities, sciences, social sciences and creative arts, supplemented by a wide variety of extracurricular activities and field trips.

Highlights: Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of this summer of study, enrichment, and fun is the amazing opportunity you have to live as a student at Cambridge University - academically, the highest-ranked university in Britain today. In doing so, you enter a world of elaborate tradition, great history, and endless respect for academic excellence that has evolved over eight centuries. Quite simply, outside of its historical rival in Oxford, there is no other institution like it, and, as you start to look beyond high school, try to imagine how formative a month-long learning experience in such an environment can be for your future college career.

Where better than Cambridge to pursue courses that lie outside of the usual curriculum and appeal to your deepest interests? In small classes, you study with some of the most outstanding young academics and professionals in Cambridge today. Faced with many other options, they choose to join our program because of the sheer enjoyment and satisfaction they get from teaching students like you. By extension, an exciting curriculum awaits you, featuring course offerings as diverse as Molecular Medicine, International Espionage, Religion and Ethics, Classical Greece, and Criminology.

Jesus College is the perfect venue for The Cambridge Tradition. Situated minutes from the medieval marketplace in the city center, it is close to shops, museums, famous monuments, and other Cambridge colleges. Within its walls, Jesus College also holds some of the most spacious grounds of any Cambridge college, including an orchard, cricket pitch, football, rugby and hockey fields, tennis courts, and beautiful gardens.

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to England Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Essay
• Transcript
• Written Application

Year Founded: 1984