Summer Study
Where the only thing hotter than the weather is the classes.
Every summer, William & Mary students can earn invaluable experience (and full credit!) during two academic summer sessions. Some students even qualify for free on-campus housing through paid research internships with faculty members.
At the main Williamsburg campus, students choose from over 100 full-credit classes that meet daily for five weeks. Another new and exciting option is to take classes at the W&M Washington, D.C. Office near Dupont Circle.
Summer is an ideal time to study abroad. W&M offers 14 different summer abroad programs co-taught by W&M faculty and professors from the host universities. The law school offers full academic credit for summer study in Madrid, with typical course offerings including European Union law, comparative European and American corporate law, and international environmental law.
The Collegiate Summer Program in Early American History is a five-week program for college-level students combining visits to museums, historic buildings, archaeology projects, living history, historic landscapes and material culture with the very best scholarly literature, daily seminar discussions and extensive writing exercises to produce an in-depth examination of the American experience from the seventeenth century deep into the nineteenth.
Some of the most popular summer session courses are the two hands-on Archaeological Field Schools, in Colonial Williamsburg and at the 17th-century Native American political center of Werowocomoco, along with the one-of-a-kind Architectural History Field School.
Advanced theatre students and recent graduates can also apply for coveted acting and production internships with the on-campus Virginia Shakespeare Festival. Annually, the Summer Intern Program at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science places twelve to fifteen undergrads with faculty mentors for a summer research experience in many areas of marine science.
And once a student is accepted to W&M, we offer the summer PLUS program (Preparing for Life as a University Student), so that all freshmen—no matter what kind of high school they attended, or where they grew up—can start college life on equal footing.
