You can wait around all summer for something great to happen.
Or you can Make It Happen.
Summer 2025 course registration is now open.
Home for the summer but want to keep busy while working towards your degree and taking classes that will engage your mind and challenge your assumptions? Join us for a summer session in Lake Forest on North Shore.
We offer small classes with high impact. Students from all walks of life can join us and connect with top faculty in college courses and programs near Chicago that will engage, challenge, and excite. Our summer classes are open to current and visiting university students, advanced high school students, and community members.
Make it productive. Make it immersive.
Make it a summer at Lake Forest College.
Contact Information
For-Credit Summer Classes
Annette Nault 847-735-5005
summer@lakeforest.edu
Free course for transfer students
Transfer students entering in Fall 2025 are eligible to take one free course this summer. Additionally, incoming Psychology and Neuroscience majors are able to take PSYC 150 for no charge, in addition to another free course.
What You Want, When You Want It
In Summer 2025, we offer three summer sessions:
- May Term: May 13 – June 6, 2025 (4 weeks)
- June Term: June 9 – July 3, 2025 (4 weeks)
- July Term: July 7 - July 31, 2025 (4 weeks)
We offer remote and in-person course options so you can take the classes, gain the knowledge, and apply the education you want the way you need to. Our remote options allow you to take classes at home or on the go while still giving you access to top-tier resources.
We'll help you get where you want to be.
Lake Forest College’s small class sizes mean you are never just a number or a cell in a spreadsheet. Generally, classes have three hours a day set aside for synchronous work, four days a week, either in the mornings, afternoons, or evenings, leaving time to read and study, complete homework, and make the most of your summer.
Prerequisites? Don’t worry. Most of our Summer Session classes do not have prerequisites. All courses are open to Lake Forest College students, visiting college students, and advanced high school students. Check out the 2025 complete summer academic calendar.
Where You Want to Work: Internships
Summer internships can give you a jump-start on your career. Lake Forest College’s summer internship programs come with the support of your own career success team.
Your Internship Specialist will put learning front and center, with well-designed assignments that will lead you further along your path toward CEO, creative writer, or chemist.
Summer internships are only open to current Lake Forest College students.
At the Right Price
Our Summer Session tuition is $3,500 per course or internship. Each Lake Forest College course is equivalent to 4.0 semester hours.
Lake Forest College students behind on credits are eligible to take a course at $750. See the Forester Finish page for details.
Lake Forest College students and visiting college students are also eligible for a need-based financial grant.
Tuition is $3,500 per four-credit course for advanced high school students. Summer Merit Scholarships are available in award amounts up to $1,500, bringing tuition for award recipients to $2,000.
Note: a $100 deposit is required for visiting college student and advanced high-school student course registration, with deadlines for each term.
In addition to the cost of tuition, students living on campus have a separate charge for housing and meals (“room and board”). See our Residence Life page for details.
Requesting Accommodations
Students with disabilities who require academic accommodations must submit the request and necessary documentation. Read more about requesting accommodations here.