Biology Summer Programs for High School Students (2027)

TL;DR

Below you’ll find 19 biology summer programs, with details on cost, deadlines, length, and eligibility. They’re sorted into three groups: free, local, and paid. Eight offer a stipend. Most deadlines fall between December and March. If you’re not eligible for your top choices, or it’s past the deadline, consider Horizon. With Horizon, you work one-on-one with a professor or PhD mentor from anywhere, in any grade, and finish with a research paper that’s yours. New cohorts start three times a year.

Every summer, thousands of high school students look for ways to go beyond the classroom and gain real experience in the life sciences. Biology summer programs can open doors to lab work, field research, and mentorship that aren’t available during the school year, and for some, they’re the first step toward a future in science, medicine, or research. But with so many programs, each with its own requirements, costs, and deadlines, finding the right fit can be overwhelming.

Biology summer programs fall into three main types, and what sets them apart matters more than the labels.

​Free research programs give you hands-on lab experience for six to ten weeks at places like MIT, Stanford, and the Jackson Laboratory. Most pay you, but they’re also the toughest to get into; RSI, for example, accepts fewer than 2.5% of applicants.

Local programs are similar, but only open to students from a specific city or state. That’s why eight of the nineteen listed below aren’t available to most readers, no matter their grades.

Paid programs are university courses, ranging from $2,500 to $18,771. They’re generally easier to get into than the free options, and two even offer real college credit.

So the useful questions are what they cost, how to pick between them, what you’d actually do all day, and whether any of it helps your application.

What do you actually do in a biology summer program?

It depends on which kind you picked. In a research program, you do one thing properly: two weeks of duckweed genetics at LLNL, isolating plasmid DNA, running PCR and gels, then uploading your sequences to GenBank. Or dissecting stranded sharks at UC Santa Cruz to reconstruct a food web. It’s narrow on purpose, and you come out knowing a few techniques well enough to use them again. A course goes the other way. UChicago’s RIBS covers molecular biology, microbiology, and cell biology in four weeks, and Boston Leadership Institute adds CRISPR and a trip to Ginkgo Bioworks. You get breadth and a cohort, but not the experience of being useful to a working lab. Either way, the basics transfer, and these programs are built for beginners if you’ve never done any of it.

Do biology summer programs help with college applications?

Some help a lot; others barely, and the difference isn’t what most people assume. Six or seven weeks in a working lab with a named supervisor is verifiable and specific, and a transcripted Stanford or Brown credit has a registrar behind it. A two-week course with a certificate reads as interest, which is fine, but it isn’t the same claim. Selectivity is a real signal here too, unusually: RSI publishes under 2.5% for 100 places, and Monell publishes 10% or less, while every other program on this page publishes a cohort size or nothing, so any acceptance rate you see quoted for them was invented. But the program is only the input. Describe the specific thing you did, not “I did cancer research at Fred Hutch” but “I ran viability assays on 40 samples testing whether X changes Y,” then turn it into a competition entry or a paper.

Choose this group if	Group
You have strong grades and can apply anywhere	Free programs
You live in one of the right cities or states	Programs near you
You can pay, or you want college credit	Programs you pay for

Looking for something narrower? Separate lists are available for biotech summer programs, bioinformatics research programs, genetics summer programs, molecular biology courses, and life science summer programs.

Free biology summer programs

No tuition, open to students anywhere in the country. Four of the five pay you. They are also the hardest to get into on this page.

1. Research Science Institute (RSI), MIT

Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Cost: Free. All educational, housing, and dining expenses covered. No stipend
Selectivity: 100 students. Under 2.5% acceptance, from over 2,500 US and 600 international applications
Dates: 6 weeks. The 2026 cycle ran June 28 to August 8. One week of classes, a five-week research internship, then a final week of presentations
Application Deadline: December 10 for the 2026 cycle. The pattern is the Wednesday of the second full week in December. 2027 dates are not yet posted
Eligibility: High school juniors only, stated explicitly. Seniors are not eligible. Test scores are required for US applicants, with recommended thresholds of PSAT Math 740, SAT Math 750, or ACT Math 33. International students from participating countries apply through country-specific channels

The Center for Excellence in Education runs RSI, hosted at MIT. The first week is intensive STEM coursework taught by distinguished faculty. The following five weeks are an individual research project with a scientist-mentor, working from current primary literature, and the program closes with conference-style written and oral reports. It publishes both a cohort size and an acceptance rate, which almost nothing else on this page does, and at under 2.5% it is the most selective entry here by a wide margin.

Who is it right for? Juniors with exceptional test scores who want the most recognizable research credential available to a high schooler, and who can meet a December deadline.

2. Stanford Institutes of Medicine Summer Research Program (SIMR)

Location: Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Cost: $40 application fee, waived for households under $80,000. Minimum $500 stipend, rising to $2,500 or more on a need-based scale
Selectivity: Around 50 students. No acceptance rate published
Dates: 8 weeks. The 2026 cycle ran June 8 to July 30, full-time. Two weeks of lectures and training, then six weeks of independent research
Application Deadline: February 21 for the 2026 cycle
Eligibility: Juniors and seniors, 16 or older, living and attending school in the US. Preference is given to Bay Area students, though others are accepted

SIMR places students in a Stanford lab with a graduate student or postdoctoral mentor across eight tracks: immunology, neurobiology, cancer biology, stem cell and regenerative medicine, bioengineering, cardiovascular biology, bioinformatics, and genetics and genomics. Students develop a hypothesis, run experiments, analyze data, and present at the end. The stipend is means-tested rather than flat, which is unusual and means the published $500 figure understates what many students receive. The widely circulated “under 3% acceptance rate” for SIMR appears on no official page.

Who is it right for? Juniors and seniors who want a named medical-school lab and can commit to a full-time eight-week summer.

3. The Jackson Laboratory Summer Student Program

Location: The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Cost: Free. $7,500 stipend, with housing, travel, and meals covered
Selectivity: Around 40 high school and undergraduate students combined. No acceptance rate published
Dates: 10 weeks, late May to early August
Application Deadline: Late January. Jackson Lab is one of the few programs here that has posted 2027 information
Eligibility: High school seniors who have completed grade 12, are at least 18 at the start, and are US citizens or lawful permanent residents

Jackson Laboratory is a genetics and genomics institute, and students work an ongoing research project under a scientist with the option to develop an independent one. The work runs across genomics, bioinformatics, computational biology, cancer biology, developmental biology, immunology and neurobiology. Results are presented to researchers, fellow students and families at the end. The combination of a $7,500 stipend with housing, travel and meals covered makes this the best-funded program on the page by some distance, and the 18-and-graduated requirement is the reason more people don’t apply.

Who is it right for? Graduating seniors turning 18 before the summer starts. If that’s you, apply. If it isn’t, this one is genuinely closed to you.

4. Summer Science Research Program (SSRP), Rockefeller University

Location: The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Cost: Free. Stipends available for students with demonstrated financial need
Selectivity: Around 32 students a year. No acceptance rate published
Dates: 7 weeks, late June to early August. Around 35 hours a week
Application Deadline: Early January, with applications opening in October
Eligibility: High school juniors and seniors, 16 or older

SSRP runs out of Rockefeller’s RockEDU outreach laboratory and works in small teams led by an experienced trainee and supported by scientist-mentors, across immunology, neurobiology, and genetics. Students learn standard lab protocols, keep detailed notebooks, design their own research question, and choose weekly electives in areas like imaging methods and computational analysis. It ends in a poster symposium. Note that Rockefeller’s SSRP landing page has been slow to update in past cycles, so the FAQ page is the more reliable source for dates.

Who is it right for? New York students, and anyone who can get themselves to the Upper East Side daily for seven weeks, who wants a real bench summer without a residency requirement.

5. Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program

Location: Placements nationwide, matched to a mentor near the student
Cost: Free. A $3,000 stipend across eight weeks, paid in four instalments, plus a trip to the Hutton Scholars Summit. This figure appears only on the program’s 2024-era FAQ
Selectivity: Not published
Dates: 8 weeks, June to August, at 32 to 40 hours a week
Application Deadline: The most recent published cycle closed in January 2025. No 2026 or 2027 cycle has been posted
Eligibility: Current high school students at least 16 by the close of applications. Open to residents of the US, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada

Run by the American Fisheries Society, Hutton is the only program here that solves geography structurally: instead of bringing students to one site, it matches each student with a professional mentor near where they already live. Past placements include freshwater mussel work at Virginia Tech, ecological restoration in Puerto Rico and marine technology in Baltimore. A status warning applies. The program’s homepage still reads “Applications are closed for 2022,” the students page describes the 2025 cycle, and no cancellation notice exists anywhere. Treat everything above as prior-cycle reference and check the site before planning around it.

Who is it right for? Students anywhere in North America who want fieldwork and can’t relocate, if the program posts a new cycle.

Biology summer programs near you

Free or paid, but you have to live in the right place. Seven of the eight pay you, and several are easier to get into than the national programs because the applicant pool is smaller.

6. Biotech Summer Experience, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Cost: Free. Unpaid, and students arrange their own transport
Selectivity: Not published. The site says applications are competitive and space is limited
Dates: 2 weeks. The 2026 cycle ran July 13 to 24, weekdays, 8:30am to 4:00pm
Application Deadline: February 26 for the 2026 cycle, with recommendation letters due March 6. Applications opened January 19
Eligibility: Must attend a Northern California high school, public, charter, private or homeschool. 16 or older by the start, entering grades 11 or 12, cumulative GPA 3.3 and science GPA 3.5. Biology and chemistry must be complete. Students who are 18 at the start must be US citizens

Students work on the genetics of duckweed, Landoltia punctata, across two weeks: isolating and purifying plasmid DNA, running PCR, restriction digests and gel electrophoresis, then analyzing gene sequences with professional bioinformatics tools. The distinctive part comes at the end, when students submit their DNA sequences to GenBank, the international DNA repository. That makes this one of very few programs here whose output other scientists can find and cite, and for two weeks of work that is an unusually good deal. The Northern California requirement is missing from nearly every listicle that carries this program.

Who is it right for? Northern California students with strong science grades who want a real technique set and a citable output without giving up a whole summer.

7. Broad Summer Scholars Program

Location: The Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
Cost: Free. $3,600 stipend
Selectivity: Typically 15 to 20 students. No acceptance rate published
Dates: 6 weeks, late June to early August
Application Deadline: Late January, with applications opening in mid-November
Eligibility: Rising seniors at a Massachusetts high school within commuting distance of the Broad. US citizens, permanent residents, or non-citizens with employment authorization including DACA. A B or better in science and math

The Broad is a genomics institute run jointly with MIT and Harvard, and scholars are paired with a Broad scientist for original research across cancer biology, infectious disease, computational biology and psychiatric genetics. The technical work covers DNA extraction, PCR, cell culture and bioinformatics, and the program closes with a poster presentation. Alongside the research there’s a college fair, career talks, and a structured networking program. Explicitly accepting DACA recipients is unusual and worth noting.

Who is it right for? Massachusetts rising seniors within commuting distance who want genomics at one of the field’s best-known institutes.

8. Biorocket Research Internship, Genspace

Location: Genspace, Brooklyn, NY
Cost: Free. $2,000 stipend
Selectivity: 15 students
Dates: Runs February to August, spanning a spring block and a summer block, with both required
Application Deadline: Applications run from November to early January
Eligibility: 16 or older, attending an NYC public or charter school within a 45-minute commute of Genspace

Genspace is a community biology lab, which makes this the least institutional entry on the page and one of the more interesting. The work covers DNA sequencing, bioinformatics and genetic modification, with access to equipment most high schools don’t have and visits to labs and biotech companies. Because it spans February to August rather than running as a summer block, it asks for a longer commitment than anything else here at this stipend level. Several listicles publish July and August dates for it, which describe only the second half.

Who is it right for? NYC public and charter school students who want genuine molecular biology and can commit across two seasons rather than one summer.

9. Monell Science Apprenticeship Program

Location: Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, PA
Cost: Free. Paid hourly, though the rate is not published
Selectivity: 18 to 24 students from around 200 applicants, roughly 10% or less
Dates: 7 weeks, mid-June to end of July. Full attendance required, and vacations are not permitted
Application Deadline: Not published. Applications for the 2027 cycle open in October 2026 and are due in December
Eligibility: High school or undergraduate students from greater Philadelphia, including Camden, NJ. Must have legal US work authorization to be paid. Working papers required if under 18

Monell is a 40-year-old independent institute studying taste and smell, making it one of the few places a high schooler can work in sensory biology. Apprentices run full-time structured research with a Monell scientist, supported by lectures, public speaking and scientific writing training, and ethics teaching covering human and animal research. The program ends in a public conference. It is also one of only two programs here that publish an acceptance rate, and at around 10% it is more competitive than most programs that don’t.

Who is it right for? Philadelphia-area students, including undergraduates, drawn to a field almost nobody gets exposure to before college.

10. Summer High School Internship Program (SHIP), Fred Hutch

Location: Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, WA
Cost: Free. Paid on completion, though the amount is not published. No housing provided
Selectivity: Not published
Dates: 8 weeks, June to August. Two weeks of training, then six weeks in a lab
Application Deadline: Varies by cycle, with the most recent published window closing in March
Eligibility: Rising seniors living in Greater Seattle or the surrounding area

SHIP opens with a two-week block on safety and core laboratory methods, then places each student with a research team for six weeks of biomedical work in cancer biology and infectious disease. Weekly sessions run alongside on bioethics, health disparities, data visualization and biostatistics, and students present at the end. Fred Hutch is a major cancer research center and the training-first structure makes it a realistic option for students with no prior lab experience, which is not true of everything at this level.

Who is it right for? Greater Seattle rising seniors who want cancer research and would rather be trained than thrown in.

11. University of Michigan Aspirnaut Program

Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Cost: Free. Paid, though the amount is not published. On-campus housing provided
Selectivity: 6 to 10 students a year
Dates: 6 weeks, mid-June to late July
Application Deadline: February, with applications opening December 1
Eligibility: High school juniors in Michigan, 16 or older

Aspirnaut runs out of the Life Sciences Institute and pairs each student with a research mentor for biomedical lab work: sample preparation, pipetting, data analysis. Alongside the bench work it covers lab safety, research ethics and responsible conduct of research, plus standardised test preparation and science career guidance, and ends with a presentation of findings. At 6 to 10 places a year this is one of the smallest cohorts here, and providing housing is unusual for a state-restricted program.

Who is it right for? Michigan juniors who want biomedical research with housing included and a small enough cohort to get real attention.

12. SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station

Location: SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station, Cooperstown and Otsego Lake, NY
Cost: Free. $3,500 stipend on completion. No housing for high school interns, though a free daily shuttle runs from the main campus
Selectivity: 1 to 3 positions, with at least one reserved for an Otsego County resident
Dates: 8 weeks, scheduled flexibly between late May and August. The workday runs 8:00am to 4:00pm
Application Deadline: Not published. Application materials are released in January
Eligibility: New York State residents, 16 or older by late June, with a strong background in environmental or natural sciences

Interns join the field station’s continuing work on the Otsego Lake watershed, splitting time between fieldwork and lab analysis: fisheries surveys, plant surveys and water sampling on the lake, then sample processing and data analysis in the central lab. With one to three high school places a year this is the numerically smallest opportunity on the page. Note that the $3,000 stipend, nine-week length and March deadline widely published for this program all belong to the undergraduate internship, not this one.

Who is it right for? New York students who want genuine field ecology rather than bench work, and who can get to Cooperstown daily.

13. Summer High School Internship Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Location: National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
Cost: Free. $5,600 stipend, paid as $700 a week across eight weeks. Lunch and transit support provided
Selectivity: Not published
Dates: 8 weeks, late June to mid-August. Tuesday to Friday, 10:00am to 4:00pm, 24 hours a week
Application Deadline: Mid-March for the most recent cycle. 2027 dates are not yet posted
Eligibility: Currently enrolled high school students in grades 9 to 12, ages 15 to 18, living within commuting distance in the DC, Maryland and Virginia area. Fluent written and spoken English

Interns work a departmental project with a staff supervisor two to three days a week across botany, anthropology, paleobiology, science education, or exhibits and communications, and spend the remaining days on behind-the-scenes collections tours and field trips. At $700 a week this is the highest weekly rate on the page, and the 24-hour schedule leaves room for a summer job alongside it. Note that this program was previously called YES! or Youth Engagement Through Science; that name is retired, though the old URL still resolves, which is why listicles keep using it.

Who is it right for? DC-area students in any high school grade, including freshmen, who want natural history collections work and the best-paid part-time option here.

Biology summer programs you pay for

Tuition programs. Easier to get into than the free ones, broader in what they cover, and the only route to transcripted college credit.

14. Horizon Academic Research Program

Location: Online, worldwide
Cost: $6,950 per course. Need-based aid for households under $75,000
Selectivity: 26% acceptance from 6,539 applications. Seminar cohorts of 3 to 6 students
Dates: The summer trimester runs 10 weeks, fall and spring run 15. Labs run 12 to 16 weeks. About 8 to 10 hours a week
Application Deadline: Rolling, with three cohorts a year
Eligibility: High school students with an unweighted GPA of 3.67 or above. The admitted-student average is 3.93

Horizon pairs each student with a professor or PhD mentor for a trimester of one-on-one research ending in a paper of roughly 5,000 words. Life science courses are named for what they cover rather than for a subject area: Gene Editing and CRISPR, Protein Biophysics, Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Environmental Health and Engineering, and Bio-Industry. The Labs format runs 15 one-on-one mentor sessions plus four with a writing coach; the Seminar format runs 20 sessions with a professor or teaching assistant in a cohort of 3 to 6, plus the same writing support. Students keep full ownership of the finished paper and may submit it to journals or competitions. It is also the only entry here with no residency requirement, no grade restriction and no fixed summer deadline.

Who is it right for? Students ruled out by geography, grade or a closed deadline, and anyone who wants a written output rather than a poster.

15. Research in the Biological Sciences (RIBS), University of Chicago

Location: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Residential
Cost: $15,200. Partial need-based scholarships available
Selectivity: Not published
Dates: 4 weeks, mid-June to early July
Application Deadline: Mid-January
Eligibility: Current sophomores and juniors who have completed one year of high school biology

RIBS is four weeks of intensive laboratory work in molecular biology, microbiology and cell biology, with students spending most of their time at the bench rather than in lectures. The technique set covers PCR, gel electrophoresis and microbe cultivation, and the program ends with students presenting the results of an independent project. It is the most expensive four weeks on this page, and worth weighing against the free programs you could apply to with the same January effort. The $13,600 price published on most listicles, including our own, is out of date.

Who is it right for? Sophomores and juniors who want serious bench time, can’t yet compete for the free national programs, and can absorb the cost.

16. Stanford Summer Session

Location: Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Residential or commuter, no online option
Cost: Tuition starts at $8,226 commuting with a five-unit minimum, or $18,771 residential with an eight-unit minimum and meals included. Tuition grants available, with a separate February deadline
Selectivity: Not published
Dates: 8 weeks, late June to mid-August
Application Deadline: Three rounds. Early decision in mid-December, regular decision in late January, late decision in early March
Eligibility: Current sophomores, juniors or seniors. At least 16 at the start and no more than 19 at the end. International students eligible

Stanford Summer Session puts high school students into real Stanford undergraduate courses alongside matriculated students, for graded credit and an official Stanford transcript. Biology offerings span microbiology, biotechnology and cancer biology, with lab components covering microscopy, DNA analysis and cell culture. The transcript is the point: it is one of only two genuinely transcripted options here, and it transfers in a way a certificate does not. Watch the deadlines, since the tuition grant deadline in February is separate from and later than the regular application round.

Who is it right for? Students who want real college credit and can fund it, or who can make a case for a tuition grant.

17. Brown University Pre-College

Location: Providence, RI, plus a genuine online track and off-campus sites
Cost: On-campus from $2,940 for a one-week course, or $3,748 residential. Online from $3,364. The credit-bearing Pre-Baccalaureate track is $8,973 for one course over seven weeks. Scholarships and fee waivers exist, though amounts are not published
Selectivity: Not published. Brown enrolls over 6,000 Pre-College students a year
Dates: Summer@Brown runs mid-June to late July in one-, two-, three-, and five-week sessions. Pre-Baccalaureate runs seven weeks
Application Deadline: Mid-May, with rolling decisions from mid-January
Eligibility: Summer@Brown is for students completing grades 9 to 12, ages 14 to 18. Pre-Baccalaureate is for rising or recently graduated seniors, 17 or older. International students eligible

Brown runs two distinct things under one name, and the difference matters. Summer@Brown is non-credit: over 230 courses across all subjects, including biology and biomedical topics, with Course-Based Research Experiences that run genuine lab and field work. Pre-Baccalaureate is credit-bearing, placing students in actual Brown undergraduate courses on a Brown transcript with possible advanced standing. The flexible one-week option makes this the easiest entry point on the page for younger students, and the online track is the only serious non-Horizon remote option here.

Who is it right for? Freshmen and sophomores testing whether they like this, and rising seniors who specifically want transferable Brown credit.

18. Scholar Immersion Program (SIP), UC Santa Cruz

Location: University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Cost: Not free. $68 application fee, waivable. The 2027 tuition and program fee is not yet published and is due in December 2026. Need-based scholarships cover 25% to 100% of fees, and admission is need-blind. Campus housing is offered but not priced, and SIP states it cannot fund travel this year
Selectivity: Not published overall. Individual research projects take 3 to 4 interns each
Dates: 8 weeks. One week of online preparation, then seven weeks in person
Application Deadline: Late February, with the portal opening mid-January and offers from early April
Eligibility: Students aged 14 to 17 for the duration of the program. Some projects require a minimum age of 16. Students graduating by the summer are generally ineligible. An academic reference is required. International students eligible from a range of visa categories

SIP, renamed from the Science Internship Program in 2026, places students on open-ended research projects with UC Santa Cruz researchers and ends with a Final Presentation Day. The 2026 biology projects give a fair sense of the range. One had students dissecting stranded sharks, seals and dolphins, then preparing samples for mass spectrometry to reconstruct the Monterey Bay food web. Another mapped sequencing reads and ran variant calling to work out how repetitive DNA breaks bioinformatics pipelines. A third used multispectral imaging and R to track nitrogen cycling in farm soils. It grants no academic credit, which its FAQ states plainly. It also appears on several lists, including our own, under “free programs,” which it is not.

Who is it right for? Younger students, 14 to 16, who want genuine research rather than coursework and whose families can fund it or who qualify for a substantial scholarship.

19. Biological Research: Synthetic Biology, Boston Leadership Institute

Location: Session 1 at Babson College, Wellesley, MA. Session 2 at Gann Academy and Bentley University, Waltham, MA. No online version of this course
Cost: $2,500 tuition, plus a $2,097 residential fee if you board. A GI Partners Scholarship is named, with no amounts or criteria published
Selectivity: Described as competitive admissions. No cohort size or acceptance rate published
Dates: 3 weeks. Two sessions, one from late June and one from mid-July
Application Deadline: Not published. Sessions have sold out in past years
Eligibility: High school students. No grade, age, GPA or prerequisite published

Boston Leadership Institute runs a three-week synthetic biology course taught by Dr. Maria Lazebnik and Dr. Aaron Bradford, both of Bentley University. The technical content covers DNA construction and CRISPR gene editing, DNA barcoding from environmental samples, and microarray gene expression analysis, and students develop and present an original research proposal. Field trips go to the Koch Institute, the Broad Institute, Ginkgo Bioworks, and Vertex, which is a stronger industry exposure list than most academic programs offer. At $2,500, it is the cheapest tuition option here by a wide margin.

Who is it right for? Students who want CRISPR and synthetic biology specifically, with no grade or GPA gate to clear, at the lowest price on this page.

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