As an official Yale University program that is administered by University officials, students can expect a first-rate summer experience studying in beautiful campus lecture halls and classrooms, living in our famed residential colleges, eating in our award-winning dining halls, engaging with world renowned professors, and interacting with extraordinary visiting practitioners.

Yale Young Global Scholars brings the best of the academic and policy communities together in a scholarly and learning environment. Although our programs are designed for top-performing high school students, our faculty members teach the same material and in the same manner as in their undergraduate courses here at Yale.

Our five summer programs – Politics, Law, & Economics; Applied Science & Engineering; Biological & Biomedical Science; Literature, Philosophy & Culture; Solving Global Challenges – are interdisciplinary in scope. Students learn from leading authorities in their areas of expertise; read primary source materials, articles, and books on a wide variety of issues; participate in lively team exercises and simulations; and gain invaluable instruction in university-level writing.