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CCIR Academy
Highly-selective online research programmes designed and taught by top Oxbridge and Ivy League faculty
Join one of our small-group research courses.
Spring 2025 Admission OPENS now
Early Admissions Deadline: 1 March 2025
Regular Admissions Deadline: 15 March 2025
Programme Start Date (rolling admissions and opening): March/April 2025
Summer 2025 Pre-application Deadline: 1 April 2025
Embark on a bespoke research mentorship experience.
Admission Open All Year
Rolling admissions
Our faculty come from
Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Yale, Brown, UC Berkeley, UPenn, Princeton, and Stanford.
Our alumni go on to
Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, NYU, MIT, UC Berkeley, Emory, Pomona, Cornell, LSE, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and more.
Our students publish in
• Technology Conference
• Columbia Undergraduate Research Journal
• Microbiology Society Annual Conference...
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CCIR Academy provides rigorous online research programmes for talented high school students around the world, working with leading researchers and professors from top US and UK universities, to each produce an independent research paper that showcases academic passion and commitment.
Programmes like CCIR Academy to inspire the next generation of researchers can have a huge impact.
Conducting In-person Research
@ CCIR Lab at MIT
The Cambridge Centre for International Research (CCIR) is proud to announce the opening of the CCIR Lab at MIT.
Starting in Spring 2025, current and future CCIR student researchers from both the Future Scholar Programme and the 1-on-1 Research Mentorship Programme will be able to conduct their own research and experiments (or choose from a list of pre-approved experiments), at the state-of-the-art lab on the campus of MIT.
Located in the heart on the MIT campus, the CCIR Lab at MIT is situated next to the iconic MIT Great Dome on the busy Main Street in Cambridge, MA.
Founded in 1832, the building have became home of a host of innovations of technology advancement, including the original birthplace of Polaroid and the world’s first long distance phone call between Thomas Watson and Alexander Graham Bell.
With millions of new funding from leading life sciences corporate sponsors (including Johnson & Johnson, Biogen, Pfizer, and Bayer), the lab has become a hub of innovation for mostly Harvard and MIT affiliated startups. Recent ventures at the lab included Affinivax, later acquired by GSK for $3.3 billion for its groundbreaking vaccine design.
For nearly 200 years, this facility has been the forefront of driving revolutionary advancements in life sciences.
CCIR student researchers can reserve the CCIR Lab at MIT through the CCIR Academics Team at no additional cost.
CCIR’s PhD level lab managers will also be on site to supervise each student researcher’s project.
Programmes Highlights
Backed by a Think Tank
Our non-profit work at the CCIR Think Tank enables the Academy to be uniquely connected to the broader academic world.
Rigorous Standards
Our rigorous academic standards aim to find the best students and push the bounds of their intellectual horizon.
Oxbridge & Ivy League Faculty
We only partner with current teaching faculty members at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, or Ivy League Universities.
A Network of Knowledge
Our students develop close and lasting friendships with their peers and mentors as a part of the CCIR network.
Admitted Student Profile
Median SAT score
1500
Countries and regions
40+
Average GPA (4.0 scale)
3.90
Overall Acceptance Rate
<20%
Our Alumni
