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Summer Sessions

Welcome!

Get ready for summer 2025!

Summer 2025 applications open March 1!

Summer Session 2025 Dates

  • Summer Session 1: June 23, 2025 - August 1, 2025
  • Special Session: June 13, 2025 - September 12, 2025
  • Summer Session 2: August 4, 2025 - September 12, 2025

Grow beyond your expectations with UC Davis Summer Sessions in California’s College Town of Davis.

With more than 700 courses available over two 6-week sessions and the Special Session with exciting courses offering varying start and end dates, UC Davis Summer Sessions provide students the opportunity to:

  • Get ahead
  • Catch up
  • Stay on track
  • Graduate early

Incoming transfer and first-year students, high school seniors and other college students are welcome to apply, too!

Summer Sessions, affectionately known as UC Davis’s Fourth Quarter, lets you concentrate on challenging courses a few courses at a time, meet new friends and learn more about the campus and Davis, the ultimate college town.

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Current UC Davis students

Meet with your advisor now to prepare for 2025 Summer Sessions. Watch for your Pass Time email from the Office of the University Registrar in mid-April and enroll in Schedule Builder. One Pass Time is assigned and applies to all Summer Sessions.

Other students

Summer Sessions welcomes incoming new students entering UC Davis in fall 2025, students from other UC campuses or other universities, visitors to our campus, as well as UCD alumni. Join us! 

Announcements

Didn't take summer courses? Sign up for our focus group!

If you didn't take courses in summer 2024, we want you to sign up for our focus group! We’re looking for 15 participants to share their insights on why they chose not take summer courses at UC Davis! All participants will receive free snacks, a summer session's gift bag and a raffle ticket to be entered to win one of two $25 Amazon gift cards! Deadline to sign up with October 29

Must be available November 6, 2024 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. 

Applications now open for Summer Sessions

The application for Summer Sessions 2024 is available  March 1 through Aug. 8! While current UC Davis students don’t need to apply, high school students, community college students and other UC students must apply for Summer Sessions 2024 before registration. Summer Sessions students receive Pass Times April 22.