Georgetown University Summer Programs Summer College

Most 2026 campus courses met Monday to Thursday for about two hours, in time slots running from 8:30 AM to 7:25 PM, so a single course leaves much of each day and usually your Fridays free. Calculus classes ran two and a half hours, and the 6-credit intensive Spanish courses met every weekday morning for three hours or more. Take two courses and you're in class for roughly four hours a day.

Georgetown fills the rest of the time if you want it to. Evenings bring movies, game nights, cookouts and concerts, along with lecture series and seminars, and the residential program runs off-campus outings and weekend trips. Past examples Georgetown lists include the Smithsonian museums, Nationals baseball games, kayaking and a beach day, though activities change from year to year. Art and acting courses add one hard rule: miss the first class and you lose your seat.

Georgetown's online courses cover the same content as the campus versions, but most of the 2026 online courses ran fully asynchronously, with no live meetings at all. Georgetown says an online course can also be bi-synchronous, with at least one weekly Zoom meeting, and Photo I: Digital added five 45-minute live sessions to check your camera setup. It still isn't self-paced. You start on the set start date, follow a detailed weekly schedule with no flexible deadlines and finish by the official end date.

In 2026 Georgetown offered three online section options of six to eight weeks, and its 2027 dates sheet lists an eight-week online session from 30 May to 23 July 2027. Online courses aren't open to residents of Belarus, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Crimea or the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, or to non-US citizens living in Germany, Kenya, Spain or Canada outside Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec. Georgetown gives no visa help to students taking only online courses.

You leave with Georgetown credit recorded on an official Georgetown University transcript. A typical course carries 3 credits, though some 2026 courses carried 4 (calculus) or 6 (intensive languages). Take two courses in one session and you also receive a Summer Honors Intensive Certificate. Two courses in each of two sessions brings you to as many as 12 credits, which Georgetown calls a full semester at most universities.

Georgetown doesn't say how other colleges treat this credit. If you're counting on it toward a degree, check with the colleges you're considering rather than assuming it transfers.

You need to be in 10th, 11th or 12th grade during the school year before the summer, with at least a 3.0 GPA. The application asks for a 300- to 500-word personal statement on why you want to come, one recommendation, your transcript and a $50 fee. Georgetown decides on a rolling basis from your grades, the courses you've taken, the recommendation and the statement, and aims to email a decision within three weeks of a complete application. It publishes no acceptance rate or class size.

Admission doesn't hold you a seat in a particular course. After you accept with a $500 non-refundable deposit, an advisor approves your course choices, and registration opens in early February on a first-come, first-served basis. Some courses keep only a few seats for high school students, such as five in Ecology & the Environment in 2026, and language courses may need a placement test first. Georgetown gives 31 May 2027 as the final application deadline for Session 2, while its 2027 dates sheet sets 12 May 2027 as the final enrollment deadline for Session 1 and the online session.

• Homeschooled students

  Add a transcript covering 9th grade onward, a recommendation from someone who isn't family or a paid tutor, course descriptions and details of your homeschool program.

• English proficiency

  If English isn't your school's language of instruction, send a TOEFL iBT score of 90 (original scale) or 4.5 (new scale), IELTS 7.0 or Duolingo 115. A bilingual school can send its school profile instead.

• Visas

  Studying on campus on an F-1 visa means taking at least 6 credits, which is two 3-credit courses, and Georgetown asks visa applicants to apply by 15 April 2027.

Georgetown hasn't published 2027 prices. In 2026, one 3-credit course with campus housing came to about $10,435, made up of $7,113 tuition, $2,542 for housing for the session and the $780 pre-college fee. Commuting brought that down to about $7,893. A second course in the same session adds another $7,113, which puts a residential student at about $17,548, and because tuition is charged at $2,371 a credit, 4-credit calculus and 6-credit language courses cost more.

Meals are separate. Georgetown lists an optional meal plan, bought from Georgetown Dining at a price set by the plan you choose, and books and course fees depend on what you take. On top of that come the $50 application fee and, for international students, $225 a session for health insurance. Optional extras in 2026 were the $900 Academic & Test Prep seminar series and one-off $250 seminars on the SAT and ACT and on college essays.

The $500 deposit you pay to accept your place is non-refundable. Georgetown's 2027 dates sheet makes 5 June 2027 the last day for a 100% refund on Session 1, and 7 June 2027 for the online session. Need-based scholarships exist but are limited, cover tuition only and are open only to admitted students. The scholarship form opens on 26 January 2027, asks for two essays and is due 31 March 2027, with decisions by the last week of April.

Resident counselors live in every residence hall and supervise all students, with one on duty in each hall throughout the day, and commuters are assigned one too. Georgetown's Protection of Minors Policy sets the rules for everyone working with under-18s, and the university police patrol campus. Outside office hours, families can call the university police at (202) 687-4343 and ask for the summer staff member on duty.

The rules are strict. Possessing or using alcohol or drugs, or even being around them, means immediate dismissal from the program and the residence halls. Missing too much class can also get a student dismissed. The campus leave policies are set out in the Summer College welcome packet, and they're worth reading before you arrive.