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Summer Schools

Join us for a study holiday in Oxford – for personal enrichment, academic progression or professional development.

You'll live and study at Oxford's historic colleges or at Rewley House, experience dining in hall, and exploring the world's most famous university city.

Choose from more than 100 one-week introductory courses; or opt for a longer, specialist summer school in a single topic. Subjects include history, music, literature, creative writing, politics, environment and more. Many classes can be taken for credit; others require no coursework, and are non-assessed.

The Oxford Experience

The Oxford Experience

Held at Christ Church, the 16thC Oxford college built by Cardinal Wolsey. Choose from 80+ week-long, non-assessed courses. Live and dine in college, explore the city and the River Thames and enjoy all that Oxford has to offer.

Oxford University Summer School for Adults

Oxford University Summer School for Adults

60+ one-week courses: spend your mornings studying for credit, afternoons exploring the nearby Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’s many sights and colleges and the local area. Held at Rewley House on iconic Wellington Square.

Oxford summer schools for academics and professionals

Oxford summer schools for academics and professionals

Devote one to four weeks to your favourite subject, living and studying in an historic Oxford college. For teachers, writers, lawyers and others who want in-depth learning for personal or professional advancement.

Upcoming courses

A History of the English Language

Summer schools • Short courses

Exploring some of the key elements of the history of English: its origins; development; vocabulary; changes in meaning; uses and different varieties - studying the changing language helps us understand the literature of the past.

Sun 03 Jul 2022 – 09 Jul 2022

Mediterranean Shakespeare

Summer schools • Short courses

Explore Shakespeare's Mediterranean worlds through 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'The Merchant of Venice'.

Sun 03 Jul 2022 – 09 Jul 2022

Power and Intimacy: Elizabeth I and Her Court

Summer schools • Short courses

The manner of Elizabeth I's rule and survival have been of enduring interest to scholars of history and government. This course will focus on the queen's relations with those closest to her at the court, addressing questions of power and intimacy.

Sun 03 Jul 2022 – 09 Jul 2022

Samuel Pepys' London

Summer schools • Short courses

The tumultuous years of the 1660's in London, including the Plague and the Great Fire, will be explored through the eyes of the city's most famous diarist. These provide a vivid picture of a court and capital city on the verge of profound transformation.

Sun 03 Jul 2022 – 09 Jul 2022

Scandal, Satire, Sensibility: 18th-Century Women Novelists

Summer schools • Short courses

Exploring the fascinating lives, novels of 18th-century women who defied public opinion and family pressure to write and publish fiction for enjoyment, money, and fame: Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Lennox, and Maria Edgeworth.

Sun 03 Jul 2022 – 09 Jul 2022