Explore VPUE Programs

As the office of Academic Advising, we introduce and orient undergraduates to Stanford.  We guide students in exploring their interests, setting goals, and finding meaning in academics and co‑curricular activities.

Approaching Stanford will help you launch your Stanford journey. Our team will guide you to the resources that can address any curiosities or concerns you might have as you prepare to come to Stanford. 

The closest you'll get to being in an art college at Stanford. Arts Intensive offers students time to focus on a single, project-based arts class with campus faculty and guest artists. Part of September Sessions. A perfect way to end your summer.

Bing Honors College (BHC) is a two-week program that runs in September for students actively engaged in researching and drafting their honors thesis.

Every Stanford undergraduate should give serious consideration to studying away. Regardless of the academic path you choose, you will be enriched by your journey in one of our study away programs. 

CTL helps students thrive in their studies through academic coaching, peer tutoring, language conversation practice, and specialized support for neurodiverse students. We also help faculty, lecturers, and TAs design, teach, and improve courses and curricula.

Enroll in courses that connect classroom learning with community knowledge, working collaboratively with local, national, and international partners to address real-world social and environmental challenges.

Frosh 101 and Transfer 101 are student-led, discussion-style courses designed to support you as you transition to Stanford’s dynamic campus. In each course, upperclass students help build community and serve as “guides” for the first quarter.

Through the Haas Center, explore Cardinal Service—community-engaged courses, funded service internships, post-graduation careers in service, and student-led service opportunities—to build meaningful engagement with communities locally, nationally, and around the world into your Stanford experience.

The Hume Center for Writing and Speaking works with all Stanford students to help them develop rich and varied abilities in every aspect of written and oral communication.

IntroSems are small, interactive, quarter-long academic courses offered by departments across Stanford, designed for frosh, sophs & first-year transfers. IntroSems can help you explore a major, meet a mentor, satisfy GenEd requirements, and build a community with other students outside of your dorm.

The NCR emphasizes the rhetorical traditions and practices of communities of color that have not always been foregrounded in rhetorical study, as well as examinations of ways race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality bear on rhetorical production and reception.

OGS empowers Stanford students to pursue educational, experiential and research opportunities abroad. We help current undergraduates, graduate students, and recent alumni match their interests to global scholarships opportunities, and support them through the application and interview process. 

Faculty at Stanford are engaged in groundbreaking original scholarship, and undergraduates can join their efforts in laboratories, libraries, studios, and beyond. Connect your classroom learning and intellectual interests by working on an independent project under faculty mentorship.

Spend the last three weeks of summer focusing on a single class. Classes are 10-15 students that live together, and emphasize field trips and hands-on activities to forge faculty relationships beyond the classroom. Part of September Sessions. A perfect way to end your summer.

The Summer Bridge Program is designed to foster academic preparation, build community, and equip students with the tools and confidence they need to succeed and feel a sense of belonging as they begin their Stanford education.

The Stanford Summer Fellows Program (SSFP) is an 8-week summer residential cohort program for rising sophomores seeking to explore research, strengthen academic confidence, and build community with peers as they enter their second year at Stanford.