College Summer Programs
Intensive summer study in an arts discipline can open your eyes to passions you didn't know you had and/or prepare you for college study and a career. Most of the programs listed below are college-based, which gives you the opportunity to familiarize yourself with a school you may be considering applying to, and sometimes allows you to earn college credit and preferential application status. Applications to summer programs are accepted as early as February. Please see an arts teacher or your college counselor if you need a recommendation or assistance with your application. The list below constitutes a starting point for research, and does not represent every existing program. While we encourage students to experience summer study, inclusion on this list does not signify an endorsement by Park Tudor of these particular programs.
Indianapolis
- Ball State University Architecture + Planning Camp @CAP: Indy
- Butler University Music Performance Camps
Indiana
- Anderson University PreCollege Summer Programs (multiple visual and performing arts disciplines)
- Ball State University DesignWorks Academy 2023
- Indiana University High School Journalism Institute
- Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Summer Music Clinic
- Notre Dame Precollege Summer Scholars program (multiple visual and performing arts disciplines)
- Taylor University PreCollege Academic Summer Camps (journalism, musical theatre, and filmmaking)
Outside Indiana
- Barnard College The Young Women's Leadership Institute
- Boston Architectural College Summer Academy High School Design Exploration
- Boston University Tanglewood Institute (music, theatre, visual arts)
- Boston University Visual Arts Summer Institute
- Brandeis University Precollege Programs (multiple visual and performing arts disciplines)
- California State Summer School for the Arts (multiple visual and performing arts disciplines)
- Columbia College Chicago Summer at Columbia (filmmaking, digital music, game development, illustration, entrepreneurship)
- FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising) Signature Summer Program
- Georgetown University Summer High School Programs (multiple visual and performing arts disciplines)
- Harvard University Summer Programs for High School Students (multiple performing arts disciplines)
- Interlochen Summer Camps: Dance, Filmmaking, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts
- International Film Institute of New York Filmmakers Collective Sarah Lawrence College
- Ithaca College Summer College for High School Students (acting, media and communication studies, musical theatre)
- Johns Hopkins Pre-College summer programs (multiple visual and performing arts disciplines, programs of varying lengths)
- Juilliard Summer Dance Intensive
- Maine Media Workshops + College Young Artist Workshops (book art, photography, filmmaking, film acting, and zine making)
- MassArt Summer Intensives and Summer Studios (visual arts)
- MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) Summer Pre-College Art and Design Residency Program
- NYU Steinhardt Performing Arts Summer Programs
- NYU Tisch High School Programs (multiple visual and performing arts disciplines)
- Oberlin College & Conservatory Summer Programs (music composition and performance)
- Otis College of Art and Design Summer of Art
- Parsons School of Design Summer Intensives in New York or Paris
- Pratt Institute Summer PreCollege
- The Putney School Summer Arts (multiple visual and performing arts disciplines)
- Rhode Island School of Design Pre-College
- Ringling College of Art and Design PreCollege (computer animation, fine arts, film, game art, graphic design, illustration, motion design, photography & imaging, virtual reality development, visual studies, business of art & design)
- SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design) Pre-college summer programs
- SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Summer Institute Residency Program
- Skidmore Pre-College Program (liberal arts, science, and visual arts classes)
- Spelman College Early College Program
- Stanford University Summer Arts Institute (interdisciplinary arts courses)
- Tulane University (Architecture, STEM, and Gender Studies)
- Walnut Hill School for the Arts Summer Dance and Theater programs
- UCLA Art Summer Institute (visual)
- University of Cincinnati (College Conservatory of Music) - CCM Prep Teen Programs
- University of Michigan MPulse Summer Performing Arts Institutes
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC Courses for High School Students (visual arts)
- University of Pennsylvania Art: Summer at Penn (visual arts)
- University of Rochester (Eastman School of Music) Summer Programs
- Yale Summer Drama Program