2009 Summer Session at Binghamton University
"the premier public university in the Northeast"
— Fiske Guide to Colleges, 2008
Join Us This Summer!
NEED TO MAKE UP A COURSE? Earn extra credit or complete pre-professional requirements? Explore special interests? Whatever your goals, Summer Session at Binghamton University has the programs you are looking for. Summer Session offers both traditional and distance education courses in terms of five weeks in June and July (Term I) and five weeks in July and August (Term II). Courses of variable length are offered throughout the summer (Term III). Both traditional and non-traditional students are welcome. We encourage you to browse through the Summer Session course descriptions; you are sure to find a course — or two or three — that satisfies your needs among the many offerings available. We also invite you to read about the range of services and facilities Binghamton offers Summer Session students.
This summer at Binghamton discover how continuing education can enrich your life throughout your degree studies, your career and beyond.
A Distinctive Learning Environment
At Binghamton, students enjoy a vast campus of open spaces and modern buildings surrounded by hills, fields and forests. The atmosphere is relaxed and congenial. Yet the intellectual excitement that characterizes Binghamton University during the fall and spring semesters carries over into the Summer Session. Only a distinguished university faculty like Binghamton's can offer such a range of high-quality traditional and distance education courses. Located in New York's Southern Tier, Binghamton is one of four university centers in the nation's largest public system of higher education. During the regular academic year, Binghamton enrolls more than 14,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.
The University consists of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, the Decker School of Nursing, the College of Community and Public Affairs, the School of Education, the School of Management, the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Division of Health, Physical Education and Athletics. The Graduate School administers advanced-degree programs in each of the schools. The Division of Continuing Education & Outreach administers Summer Session — which offers more than 300 courses each year — as well as Winter Session, non-credit course offerings, professional development programs and academic advising services to CEO (non-degree) students.
Binghamton is known for its excellent research libraries, computer facilities and performing art center. The campus also offers Summer Session students a variety of recreational facilities including two comprehensive gymnasiums with swimming pools, numerous tennis courts, playing fields, and indoor and outdoor tracks. The University's 182-acre nature preserve is just a five-minute walk from the center of campus.
And, Off Campus....
The city of Binghamton is home to the Eastern League Mets and host numerous special events and festivals throughout the summer. Nearby are such notable attractions as the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, Cornell University in Ithaca, and the wineries and waterfalls of the Finger Lake region.
