Summer English Course at Fordham University, New York

General English for students aged 11 to 19 on Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx, taught by St Andrew's College Language Schools. Levels are set by an entry test, and the school accepts A1+ and A2 through B1 and B2 to C1 and C1+. Groups hold up to eighteen students, each lesson lasts an hour and a half, and the week carries an average of fifteen hours of teaching arranged on a zig-zag timetable — mornings on some days, afternoons on others — so that lessons and the excursion programme share the day.

The stay is sold as a thirteen-night residential programme. The school publishes three versions of it — Classic, Gold and Platinum — and, as at its other American centres, prints a separate full programme price for each rather than an upgrade supplement; the Gold and Platinum options are therefore listed here by name and content only, without a surcharge figure. Classic includes paid entry to the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Edge observation deck. A damage deposit is collected on arrival, a fee applies to a lost key, and airport transfers are priced separately in the school's own transfer price list. The school also runs a Platinum version that adds Washington DC.

Students live on campus in Walsh Hall, in small apartments of two to three bedrooms holding four to six students between them. Bedrooms are twin, and air conditioning covers both bedrooms and the shared lounges. Each flat has a kitchen with a fridge, though the cooking appliances are disconnected and no utensils are provided. Linen is provided and changed weekly: students are given a pack and make up their own bed. The university's cleaners clean all rooms before arrival, and the school's own staff clean the bathrooms between the sixth and eighth day of the stay. Laundry inside the building is free — washers and dryers at no charge — but students bring their own detergent. The hall has secure entry systems and a twenty-four-hour security presence, with security also posted at the campus entrances.

Meals are served in the campus dining halls. On excursion days the school provides a pre-paid card for lunch rather than a packed lunch. Vending machines are on site; the fact sheet records no café on the campus itself, and a convenience store is nearby.

Full-day excursions run three times a week — six over a fortnight — and take students into Manhattan and the wider city: Central Park, Times Square, Wall Street, the Brooklyn Bridge and the museums. There are no half-day excursions. Every trip on the student excursion programme goes by subway or train rather than coach, with Fordham Road station a ten-minute walk from the campus. Evenings are given to the activity programme, and the centre has its own disco venue.

A compact campus known for its grounds and historic buildings, with modern classrooms, a lecture theatre, the Keating building, dining halls and open gardens. There is a common room, and air conditioning in the accommodation's bedrooms and shared lounges. Wi-Fi covers the site, vending machines and first-aid-trained staff are on site, laundry in the residence is free, and security is posted twenty-four hours at the accommodation and at the campus entrances. The centre has no study room, computer room or safe box, and the fact sheet records no indoor or outdoor sports facilities and no swimming pool access at this centre.

The campus sits in the Bronx, ten minutes' walk from Fordham Road subway station, and the school's own page puts Manhattan about thirty minutes away; its fact sheet gives an hour by train to Midtown. Either way, the city is the point: Times Square, Central Park, the Statue of Liberty, Broadway, the museums and the Brooklyn Bridge are all reachable on a supervised day out, and students travel by subway and train like New Yorkers do. Staff live on site around the clock — a centre manager, activities and excursions managers, a welfare coordinator and a director of studies — in purple shirts and green lanyards, while students wear purple lanyards at all times. The school states on this centre's page that the course is independently organised and is not officially endorsed by Fordham University.