IMPORTANT DATES:

• PROGRAM DATES
  June 30 – August 1, 2008
  (No Class: July 3 and 4)
• Housing App. Deadline:
  May 9, 2008
• Admission App. Deadline:
  May 30, 2008
• Registration Deadline:
  June 6, 2008
• Orientation: (for students not living in HSSI housing)
  June 14, 2008 11:00 AM
  at 1104 S. Wabash
• Housing Orientation:
  (mandatory for students living on campus)
  June 28, 2008
• NO CLASSES:
  JULY 3 and 4, 2008
• Course Withdrawal Deadline:
  July 8, 2008
• Showcase:
  August 1, 2008

Summer in the City

The High School Summer Institute is an intensive 5-week program for creative high school students that have completed their sophomore, junior, or senior year of study who want to immerse themselves in the visual, media, and communication arts. Students spend the summer exploring their ideas, developing the technical skills that bring their ideas to life, and earning college credit while they’re at it!

High School Summer Institute students study with the same working professionals and scholars who teach Columbia’s undergraduates. Students also hone their craft in Columbia’s state-of-the-art facilities—film and video production and post-production studios, photography labs, animation labs, graphic design labs, dance studios, concert halls, theater stages, radio station, recording facilities, art studios, performance spaces, television studios, and more.

Columbia’s campus is located in the heart of downtown Chicago—smack dab in the middle of the South Loop and Chicago’s Arts and Education Corridor. We are steps from Grant Park (literally, 45 steps - we’ve counted), Millennium Park, Buckingham Fountain, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Field Museum, The Theater District, Orchestra Hall, The Chicago Cultural Center, and The Magnificent Mile (the best shopping in Chicago)!