Barnard College

Experience Summer in New York City at Barnard. With distinct programs to choose from, ranging from entrepreneurship to STEM, you have the unique opportunity to explore an area of interest on a deeper level through both in-class discussions and city exploration. As part of the learning experience at Barnard, you will get a taste of both college life and the city that never sleeps! 

Questions? pcp@barnard.edu or 212-854-8866 

Website: https://precollege.barnard.edu/

Application Fee: 

Pricing: Varies by program

• 3 Week Young Women's Leadership Institute

Tuition (Residential): $7,772

• 3 Week Health and Society Institute

Tuition (Residential): $9,058

• 3 Week Athena Summer Innovation Institute 

Tuition (Residential): $9,058

• 2 Week Summer Sustainable Food Institute

Tuition (Residential): $6,040

Each year the Barnard office provides a limited amount of need-based financial aid to students. Their aid is need-based ONLY. Their office does not provide merit-based scholarships.  

Eligibility: 

-At least 14 years of age at the start of the program

- Maintains strong grades

- Ready to learn and grow in a community of diverse young women.

Courses available: Each program varies in courses available:

• Young Women’s Leadership Program: The Young Women's Leadership Institute embraces the complex relationship between gender and leadership as its focus. Grades 9th-12th

• Health and Society Institute: This program takes up current and historical examples to interrogate how the benefits of advances in science and medicine remain unequally shared while exploring critical tools social scientists have offered as possible interventions. Major themes from this session will address biomedicine as a cultural system, the politics of surveillance and care, the performance and rituals of healing, the structure of the US public health system, and others. This program is open to rising juniors and seniors in high school. 

• Athena Summer Innovation Institute: The Athena Summer Innovation Institute is an intensive, 3-week boot camp that provides young women with the practical skills and knowledge they need to develop ideas that will make a difference in the world.  Students will work in teams to create a new venture — start-up businesses, non-profit organizations, or advocacy campaigns — that have the power to disrupt traditional ways of doing things and create lasting change. Grades 9th-12th

• Summer Sustainable Food Institute:  Barnard’s 2-Week Summer Food Institute introduces students to the U.S. food system, examining food production, distribution, consumption, and waste management through four key lenses: agriculture; health, policy, and justice; food systems and climate change; and soil health. This program is open to rising sophomores, juniors in seniors in high school. 

Mater Alumni:

• Sara Morales (Class of 2017)

• Ivanna Rodriguez (Class of 2017)

Location: Barnard College in New York