Course Schedule


Applications for summer 2025 courses will be open in early January in the myRBS portal. Before heading to myRBS, please read the instructions found on the Course Application page. To be considered for the first round of admissions decisions, please submit your application(s) before 17 February. Applications received after that date will be considered on a rolling basis until all seats are filled, but many classes will fill in the first round.

Have a question about your application? The best way to get in touch with us is to email rbsprograms@virginia.edu, to use the request form in myRBS, or to call the office at 434-924-8851.

Rare Book School is offering both in-person and synchronous online courses in 2025. The letter “v” in the Course ID number indicates a course that will be offered virtually. Clicking on the course title below will provide you with more information about the course length, format, cost, and content. The online courses meet synchronously over five consecutive days.

Summer courses will be held at the University of Virginia; the University of Michigan Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center; the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the Newberry Library; the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago; Yale University’s West Campus; the Bodleian Library at Oxford University; the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania; the Free Library of Philadelphia; the Firestone Library at Princeton University; and the Oak Spring Garden Foundation Library.

Participants are expected to attend all sessions of a course, either in-person or online, in order to complete the course and receive a certificate of completion. It is not possible to take two RBS courses in the same week.


Please note: RBS course dates for most of our in-person courses include the Sunday preceding each five-day course. Students should make their travel plans to enable their attendance at the Sunday evening registration for in-person courses.

Scholarships, Fellowships, and Certificates of Proficiency
RBS-awarded scholarships and fellowships may be redeemed for in-person or online courses. A single scholarship or fellowship award may be redeemed for one in-person course, or one 22-hour virtual course, or for a combination of two 12-hour virtual courses or three 6-hour courses, or two 6-hour and one 12-hour courses within the same year (partial awards may not be carried over to a second year). For more information, please contact rbs_scholarships@virginia.edu or your RBS-awarded scholarship or fellowship administrator directly.

The online courses also count toward RBS Certificates of Proficiency.

More Information
If you have questions about the course offerings, please email rbsprograms@virginia.edu. See the Course Application page for details about the application process. For general information about RBS, consult the Frequently Asked Questions page. For information on this year’s tuition, as well as other related costs, please either visit the Program Costs page or click on an individual course’s description page below. Please note that tuition costs for the summer of 2025 have increased by $100. At RBS, we’ve worked hard to keep classes accessible, and this is the first tuition increase since 2017, even as operating costs have risen considerably.

For course schedules from previous years, see the drop-down menu at the bottom of this page.


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Summer 2025



Previous Year Schedules