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Study at Harvard Extension School

Registration for Spring 2025 is closed. Registration for Fall 2025 will open in mid-July.

Study at Harvard Summer School

Registration for Summer 2025 is now open.

1. Learn more about Harvard Summer School.
2. Whether you’re interested in taking a course or working towards a certificate or degree program, Harvard Summer School offers a variety of options to meet your interests. Visit our course catalog to search for courses of interest to you.
3. You can learn more about the steps involved before, during, and after course registration. We also strongly recommend reviewing the Academic Calendar for all important dates and deadlines.
4. How to use your discount: During pre-registration, please use Boston Children’s Hospital as employer and 2425BCHP for your discount code. Do not share this code with anyone outside the organization as this information will be verified. This code will need to be re-entered each semester for the discount to be applied.
5. The deadline to submit documents for the summer session is Thursday, May 22, 2025. You should expect to receive a response within 2–3 business days. You can also request help with submitting discount codes until these dates.

If you have any questions about your discount code or enrollment in general, please contact Enrollment Services at Inquiry@Summer.Harvard.edu for assistance. In your email, let us know that you are from Boston Children’s Hospital so we can better understand and address your inquiry.

Enroll in a Professional & Executive Development Program

 To take advantage of this discount, please follow these steps:  

1. Select an upcoming program offering on the Professional Development Programs website. 
2. Create a profile using your company email address and register using the code BCH_PDP_2425. This can be entered at the bottom of the first page of the shopping cart. Once you click “Apply Promo Code,” you will notice on the payment page that the tuition has been adjusted to reflect the discount. Registrations without a valid company email address will be rejected. 

Please note the professional development programs do not allow more than six participants from one organization in any single open-enrollment program to encourage diversity of industry and experience in the classroom. Should registrations from Boston Children’s Hospital exceed this limit, you will be notified and requested to select a different program offering.

If you have any questions, please reach out to ExecDev@DCE.Harvard.edu. In your email, let us know you that you are from Boston Children’s Hospital so we can better understand and address your inquiry. 

Contact

Questions about this partnership or interest in a private professional development program for your team/organization? Reach out to Kathryn Wight, Director of Partnerships.

Additional Harvard DCE Resources

Career Services

Harvard Extension School offers career services to employers and current students. If you are hiring, we encourage you to promote your open roles through the Harvard Office of Career Services, where positions can be viewed by current degree students and alumni at Harvard Extension School. See instructions about posting open roles.

If you are taking Harvard Extension School classes and you are interested in information on developing your career, you may find information about Career Services at Harvard Extension School.

DCE Celebrates 50 Years of Access, Innovation, and Impact

This year we’re celebrating our founding in 1975 and the beginning of the modern era of Harvard University’s commitment to continuing education, open enrollment, and access.

Throughout 2025, Dean Nancy J. Coleman will lead events to recognize the achievements of our students, staff, faculty, and alumni as well as reflect on the myriad of ways DCE has expanded access to Harvard for learners around the world; contributed to programmatic, academic, and technological innovation; and impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals and their communities.