Rochester Pre-College Programs give high school students a taste of life at a prestigious university.
Stay on a beautiful campus. Work with real professors. Dig into your favorite subjects in science, the humanities, and the arts, and discover what truly fascinates you. You'll come away ready to apply to college and thrive when you get there.
Enrollment for the 2024 summer session is open—and limited.
This course teaches students how to evaluate philosophical values and develop their own answers to important questions about how to live.
Queer New York: Exploring the History of the LGBTQ+ Community in New York State
Dive into Rochester’s extensive archives to learn about the queer experience in New York from the 1970s to the 1980s.
Intro to Visual and Media Studies
Learn how different media have impacted ways of perceiving the world across the 20th and early 21st centuries, including a visit to the George Eastman Museum.
Mysteries of the Human Mind
Explore the mysteries of human behavior and the mind, such as mass hysteria and déjà vu, through discussion, experiments, games, videos, and guest speakers.
Students can take a full-day intensive course or combine two half-day courses. If you take two courses, you can go all-in on Social Sciences and Humanities, or choose from our other offerings in Health Science, Engineering and Natural Sciences, or Business.
