Summer Program Finder

Academic

Academic Connections is an advantageous program that provides college-level academics through exposure and access to state-of-the-art courses, technology, and facilities.

The University of California San Diego MRSEC Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program provides full-time summer undergraduate research opportunities at the forefront of materials science and engineering. Participants in our highly collaborative and interdisciplinary program, which focuses on predictive assemblies and engineered living materials, will be fully immersed in the research laboratories of the MRSEC faculty from 5 departments across campus (Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Molecular Biology, NanoEngineering, Physics), as they engage in projects with a focus in either or both experiment and theory.

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE

This internship program will be centered on developing skills and providing early exposure to AI, data science, and research, as well as the opportunity to gain exposure to faculty with expertise in AI and biomedical, clinical, and behavioral research. The program will include direct mentorship for a cohort of interns from AI-READI investigators/faculty mentors, as well as opportunities for career development.

Recreation

UC San Diego Athletic Camps are hosted for multiple sports. Join the UC San Diego coaches and student-athletes for fun and educational instruction at the various Triton Athletic Camps.

Interact with our exciting startup community. Learn about entrepreneurship and innovation from UCSD faculty, startup founders, and community leaders. Simulate financing, staffing, marketing, and inventory management decisions to grow sales and maximize profits. Create and pitch your original business idea to a panel of experts.

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE,PHYSICAL SCIENCE

The California Shaman Outreach Program exposes high school students to ecology and botany, chemistry, and neurobiology throughout the course of the week. Students’ experiences include a hike and guided tour of the UC San Diego Scripps Natural Reserves with explanation and extraction of plants for further chemical analysis, hands-on laboratory experimentation at UC San Diego biochemistry laboratories, neurobiology experimentation and neurochemistry discovery, and a tour of Dr. Siegel's Organic Chemistry lab at the UC San Digeo Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

CASP 101 is a summer transition program required of all new CASP scholarship recipients.

Academic

Competitive Edge Fellowship Program is an eight-week summer transition program for incoming graduate students that allows them to begin research prior to starting their graduate program.

Technology

COSMOS provides students with an opportunity to work side-by-side with outstanding university faculty/researchers, covering topics extending beyond the typical high school curriculum.

Established in 1968, the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop is the oldest workshop of its kind and is widely recognized as a premier proving and training ground for aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Our goals are to motivate, mentor and facilitate the transition of undergraduate students at UC San Diego that come from disadvantaged economic and social backgrounds, as well as students with disabilities, into Ph.D. programs with significant relevance to neuroscience. The CoB-KIBM Scholars Program consists of a paid ($7,000 stipend to cover housing expenses and other needs, in-campus housing is not provided), full-time research position across 10 weeks within a UC San Diego or Salk laboratory, along with mentorship and support for navigating academic research for the remainder of their undergraduate education.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,PHYSICAL SCIENCE

The goal of the CW3E Summer Intern Program is to provide summer research opportunities to undergraduate students who are interested in one or more of CW3E’s research areas. This program welcomes applications from both students with prior research experience and students who have not had prior research experience or may not have access to a research lab at their home institution

ENGINEERING,MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE

The overarching goal of this CEER REU Summer Program is to immerse students in a meaningful and highly interdisciplinary research environment within the structural engineering domain and to teach them that design does not end with construction. Instead, designing for safety embodies: quantifying potential load conditions, damage mechanics, and uncertainties; monitoring for anomalies during operations; processing this information through cyber-modeling via digital surrogates; and translating the information to actionable knowledge for improving current and future system designs.

Academic

Discover UC San Diego gives high school students a chance to take online college courses, free-of-charge, giving all students equitable access to experience college-level classes regardless of what opportunities are provided through their high school or other local programs. Each offering is designed to engage students in an intensive online exploration of a specific topic.

Engineers For Exploration is a group of students who develop and use technology to drive the future of exploration. Our projects span aquatic, terrestrial, and aerial environments, opening new perspectives of the planet. With international collaborators in ecology, conservation, and archaeology, we apply remote imaging, sensing, and robotic technologies to extend the limits of human exploration

BUSINESS,SOCIAL SCIENCE

Program to explore new electromobility cooperation between the U.S.-Mexico.

SOCIAL SCIENCE,BUILDING COMMUNITY/NETWORKS

Summer program for energy-related officials of the Mexican government.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING,MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE,PHYSICAL SCIENCE

The ENLACE summer research program aims to encourage the participation of high school and college students, in research in the sciences and engineering, while promoting cross-border friendships.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,SOCIAL SCIENCE

The workshop will provide background information on epigenetic research questions of anthropological interest and hands-on experience with basic lab techniques for isolating DNA, amplifying specific gene regions, bisulfite conversion, and pyrosequencing to measure DNA methylation at certain regions of the genome. The workshop will also include a basic introduction to coding in R so students can visualize and analyze their findings. The workshop is free of charge, and requires no prerequisites. Students must be able to attend in person for the week-long workshop (8/18/25 - 8/22/25). We encourage students with underrepresented backgrounds in science to apply. To apply, email Dr. Non with a CV and a statement of interest in the program.

FinDS is a 3-week summer program that is designed to provide high school students a strong base in the Mathematical Foundations of Data Science, with in-person and virtual options available. Visit mathfinds.ucsd.edu for more details.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES,BUSINESS,SOCIAL SCIENCE,BUILDING COMMUNITY/NETWORKS

Since 2008, talented undergraduate and graduate students have had the opportunity to enhance their understanding of the U.S. higher education in the Future Global Leaders (FGL) Program. International students have the opportunity to learn from graduate-level professors and engage with peers from other top universities in a collaborative and intellectually-stimulating environment.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES,BUSINESS,SOCIAL SCIENCE,BUILDING COMMUNITY/NETWORKS

This unique program is designed for high school students to develop problem-solving and diplomacy skills in global affairs, with a focus on the interconnected roles of China, the U.S., Pacific and Indo-Pacific region countries, including Mexico and India.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES,BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,BUSINESS,ENGINEERING,MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE,SOCIAL SCIENCE,SELF-DEVELOPMENT

UC San Diego Global Seminars are summer session global experiences led by a UC San Diego professor. These programs are designed to provide a supportive environment where students can pursue an academically meaningful experience with highly rated faculty members focused on socially relevant topics for credit towards their degree.

ENGINEERING,PHYSICAL SCIENCE

This 2-week summer school will promote scholastic development through technical lectures given by field experts as well as professional development sessions aimed at early-career researchers in HEDS fields of study.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING,PHYSICAL SCIENCE,SELF-DEVELOPMENT

High School OFFERS (Opportunities For Future Engineers, Researchers & Scientists) provides High School students with an opportunity to learn and teach basic science concepts to younger students and encourages exploring careers in STEM.

The IDEAS residential summer program will provide an opportunity for undergraduates to spend 1-2 weeks in either Boston or San Diego to learn from world experts on data science, ethics, computer science, philosophy, law, and more.

The summer workshop-in-residence at IGCC, known as the Public Policy and Nuclear Threats (PPNT) Boot Camp, gives participants the knowledge and analytic tools they need to contribute to the debate on future U.S. nuclear policy.

ENGINEERING,PHYSICAL SCIENCE

This is IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School on Magnetism for PhD students from all over the world. The program will include lectures given by distinguished professors in the field of magnetism as well as social activities.

The Jane Teranes, Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program (JT-SURF) is a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site program in the area of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences and related fields.

Knock Around and Summer Camps are a variety of camps that focus on sports, leadership, and other topics.

oceanography, applied mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology

The MPL Summer Internship program is a paid ten-week research program where students complete their own individual research project under the mentorship of some of the most notable scientists in the world. In addition to their research, students will attend weekly seminars, participate in hands-on activities, and more. Undergraduate college students majoring in oceanography, applied mathematics, engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology and related majors are encouraged to apply.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,BUSINESS,ENGINEERING,MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE,PHYSICAL SCIENCE

All REU students from the 16 NNCI sites will make presentations about their summer research project, and we will also have fun activities and guest speakers.

Managed by the Division of Extended Studies, the Research Scholars program at UC San Diego provides high school students with unparalleled educational opportunities that leverage the intellectual capital of an internationally ranked research university and teaches highly sought-after skills that can make students more competitive candidates for college admissions and internship opportunities.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING,MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE

The UCSD IEM OPALS high school internship program is committed to providing pre-college students with a strong foundation in STEM. Our program emphasizes the importance of setting realistic expectations and fostering a thoughtful and rigorous research mindset. Interns will have the unique opportunity to engage with researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students who are actively involved in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of engineering and medical science.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES

The PATH program at UC San Diego is a collaborative initiative between the UC San Diego School of Arts and Humanities and the San Diego Community College District. It is designed to support transfer students majoring in the arts and humanities, offering individualized guidance, and resources to help students navigate the university system. Through a week long immersion program, PATH provides students with academic and professional development opportunities, helping them build a foundation for success at UC San Diego and in their future careers.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING,MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE,PHYSICAL SCIENCE

The PATHways to STEM through Enhanced Access and Mentorship (PATHS) Program’s mission is to increase the number, persistence, and success of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) and medicine.The PATHS Program is a four-year undergraduate scholarship and student support program that provides an annual scholarship, enhanced access to stratified mentorship, campus support, hands-on training, and academic preparation support. The programs’ all-access model for support, empowerment, and professional exposure will mobilize a new, diverse generation of STEM leaders by fostering STEM scholar identity development and early career identification through summer research programs as well as lab and internship placement.

Academic

Selected students will gain hands-on research experience while working on an interdisciplinary and transformative approach to reduce pathogens in built environments.

ENGINEERING,PHYSICAL SCIENCE

esearch Immersion in Materials Science and Engineering. Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of the UC San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), the RIMSE Summer Schools are immersive, hands-on courses meant to prepare trainees to work in Materials Science and Materials Engineering research laboratories. The UC San Diego MRSEC currently runs four RIMSE schools: Silicon Nanotechnology, Predictive Assembly, Engineering Living Materials, SPEC Battery Bootcamp

ENGINEERING

Robomaster is an annual collegiate robotics competition that mirrors popular MOBA-style video games. Featuring different competition styles, such as robot 3v3s and 1v1s, Robomaster has a little bit of everything for all!

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

The Undergraduate Summer Research Award provides $7500 in funding for UC San Diego undergraduate students majoring in the physical sciences (chemistry & biochemistry, mathematics, physics, and astronomy & astrophysics) to conduct a summer research project under the guidance of a UC San Diego faculty member. The program immerses students full time in a research topic for 10 weeks.

The Academy offers science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) workshops for students, in which they assume the roles of space explorers, ocean engineers, computer scientists, and more as they take part in hands-on projects.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING,PHYSICAL SCIENCE,SELF-DEVELOPMENT

Students will work on a research project throughout the summer and will present the outcomes at the 2025 UCSD Summer Research Conference. Other programmatic activities are included in the program to enhance the learning experience.

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCE

The STRIVE program will provide full-time ophthalmology and vision health research and clinical support for 10 consecutive weeks at UC San Diego during the summer for 4 qualifying medical students per year from across the country. The program will include hands-on research experience, career development, and long-term mentorship.

UC San Diego Summer bridge is a year-long transition program that begins with a 5-week credit bearing experience during summer session 2, and continues throughout the academic year, ending in June of the following year.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES

A summer program for incoming UC San Diego students with an interest in philosophy. The program will specifically help students adjust to upper-division courses in philosophy at UC San Diego. As part of the SPLASH program, students enroll in two philosophy summer courses (6 units total) specifically designed to help the transition into the philosophy minor or major at UC San Diego.

SPIS is for admitted CSE majors and students interested in pursuing CSE as a career option. The program provides an excellent student experience with individual meetings with faculty, tutoring, collaborations with fellow and individual advising.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING,PHYSICAL SCIENCE,BUILDING COMMUNITY/NETWORKS

STEMULATE (STEM Undergraduate Learning & Teaching Empowerment) is a Research Experience for Undergraduates in San Diego Community Colleges. Students are placed in research labs on campus and receive weekly personal and professional development seminars.

Get a jump start on your academic career at UC San Diego's 5-week, residential Summer Engineering Institute (SEI), and earn credits towards your engineering degree.

The Summer Research Program (SRP) offers full-time research experience to students who are interested in preparing for careers in research. As research assistants, students work on their respective faculty mentor's project for at least 30 hours/week.

UC San Diego Summer Session offers a variety a courses for students to take during two 5-week sessions.

This is a program designed to connect community college students in San Diego with STEM Internships!

Welcome to the ECE Summer Internship Preparatory Program! While the past two years has been turbulent and challenging, we believe students should not be hindered in their opportunity to learn, network, and build their engineering career.

Transfer Prep is a 4-day program held over the summer for incoming transfer engineering students. This FREE program provides incoming students with the opportunity to acclimate to campus life, build skills and habits necessary for success in engineering, and develop community amongst their peers before beginning their courses in the fall.

The Summer Transfer Enrichment Program (STEP) prepares incoming Triton Transfers for their first quarter and beyond. This summer transition program is designed exclusively for incoming transfer students by providing a variety ways they can connect with information, resources, and each other, all before stepping onto campus for the first time in September.

The Triton Community Leadership Institute (TCLI) is a yearlong leadership and mentorship program for new UC San Diego freshmen students who are primarily first-generation college students and/or have financial need.

University of California, San Diego Division of Extended Studies International Programs offers English language, university credit, professional certificate, and customized programs for personal, academic, and professional development.

Academic

The program's goal is to create a home-based environment where supportive learning takes place, using a holistic approach focusing on a student's academic, cultural, and social experience at UC San Diego.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING,PHYSICAL SCIENCE,SOCIAL SCIENCE

The Virtual Education Research in STEM Academy (VERSA) is a hybrid program that allows college students to conduct research in STEM education, across a variety of disciplines.

SOCIAL SCIENCE,BUILDING COMMUNITY/NETWORKS

Summer program for Mexican public servants on the U.S.-Mexico Relationship

TIME MANAGEMENT,STUDY SKILLS,BUILDING COMMUNITY/NETWORKS,SELF-DEVELOPMENT,Other

US San Diego TRIO Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math Science are federal grant programs that offer free college ready and academic preparation services to local target schools in the region. UB/UBMS serves 300 students annually.

Mathematics

This program aims to bring together undergraduate mathematics students at UCSD and nearby universities in Southern California for a ten-day workshop on complex variables and geometry.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES,BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,ENGINEERING,PHYSICAL SCIENCE,SOCIAL SCIENCE

UCSD Young Scholars is a Summer Camp with offerings in various subjects.

SOCIAL SCIENCE,BUILDING COMMUNITY/NETWORKS

USPI Summer Seminar focuses on U.S. institutions and decision-making processes, border dynamics and U.S.-Mexico relations

Humanities

The Young Writers' Camp inspires students to explore creative thinking and writing in a small group setting.