PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Thousands of high school students from across the globe arrived in Providence in late June, marking the start of Brown’s dynamic summer Pre-College Programs — one- to six- week sessions designed to give high schoolers a sampling of academic and collegiate life. 

While each of Brown’s 11 Pre-College Programs is distinct, they are all engineered to prepare students for their eventual college experience, wherever they end up studying, said Dean of Pre-College and Undergraduate Programs Adrienne Marcus.

“Pre-College students get to experience the challenges and opportunities of a Brown education through their coursework, extracurricular activities, engaging with peers from across the country and around the world who are just as inquisitive as they are and, for those participating in in-person programs, living and learning within a community of young scholars,” Marcus said.

Over the course of six weeks, 6,000 students from nearly every U.S. state and 74 countries across the globe are studying with Brown. Nearly 5,300 students are living on campus or at several locations both in the U.S. and abroad. Just over 700 students are participating in remote offerings, some of whom are taking multiple classes, contributing to a total of 6,300 summer course enrollments.

Summer@Brown, the largest Pre-College offering, features roughly 300 one- to six-week courses that reflect a wide range of topics and offer young students the opportunity to live on College Hill, or join remotely from anywhere around the world, and embrace new perspectives on how to work, learn and live.

“However Pre-College students are learning with us this summer, we are helping to prepare them for their next steps on their academic journey by providing them opportunities to learn new skills, new academic material, new ways to learn and, for those in Providence, practice navigating a research university’s campus,” Marcus said.