Summer Term Studies

McGill Summer Studies offers over 600 credit courses in various disciplines. Courses begin in either May, June, or July, and are usually one-month intensive. These courses may be accepted for transfer credit by other universities. For more details, see Summer Studies.

If you take a McGill summer course to complete your graduation requirements, you will receive your degree at the Fall convocation (normally held in November).

It is your responsibility to follow University and Faculty regulations. You cannot register for more than 12 credits (Music students, 18 credits) during the Summer term, at McGill or at other universities, except by special permission of your Associate Dean or Director.

You may take a maximum of two courses in Arts, Education, Engineering, Management, or Science, in any one Summer session (May, June, or July session).

Please note that the schedule of lectures in Summer courses is very intensive and that two courses in one session is considered a very heavy workload. For students from all faculties (other than Arts) seeking to register for more than two courses in a single session:

• Current McGill students must obtain written permission from their Faculty; 
• Special students must obtain written permission from the Faculty in which they are registered;
• Visiting students must obtain written permission from both their home university and the Faculty in which they are registered.

Quebec Inter-University Transfer (IUT) students may take, in one Summer term, a maximum of one course regardless of credit weight. Permission to register for more than one course per term must be obtained from the McGill Faculty in which the student is registering by using the BCI (Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire) IUT website at bci-qc.ca (see Quebec Inter-University Transfer Agreement: Visiting IUT Students).