Fast Facts about Mathcamp

  • Year founded: 1993
  • Annual enrollment: 120 students
  • Student to Staff Ratio: 4:1
  • Location and Length: Mathcamp is held on a different campus each year and lasts for five weeks. In 2025, Mathcamp will take place at Lewis & Clark in Portland, OR from Sunday, June 29 to Sunday, August 3.
  • Program Cost: The camp fee for each student at Mathcamp 2025 will be between $0 and $6,600, depending on financial aid. Mathcamp is free for US and Canadian families with household incomes under $100,000, and need-based financial aid is widely available for middle-income families as well as for international students, including full scholarships.
  • Topics: Material at camp ranges from beginning to the most advanced available to high school students. Some classes discuss topics in theoretical mathematics, such as Abstract Algebra, Topology, or Real Analysis (and if you don't know what these are, come to camp and find out!) – or even more unusual topics, like Model Theory or Spectral Graph Theory. There are also classes on applied mathematics, such as Physics, Quantum Computation, or Linguistics. Learn more about classes.
  • Scheduling: You choose what classes to go to and how much mathematics you want to do each day. Multiple classes are offered simultaneously on different topics and at varying difficulty levels.
  • Projects: Students often work on projects, individually or in groups, under faculty supervision. Projects can range from directed reading projects, to working out a problem in detail, to addressing an open research question. You can write code, build a robot, crochet a nonorientable surface – even prepare and teach a class! Projects are presented at the end of camp in a project fair. Learn more about projects.
  • Instructors: Classes are taught by college faculty and graduate students from top universities across the country. Our teachers have deep and broad mathematical backgrounds and are here to share their passion for mathematics. You'll eat meals with your instructors, play sports or board games or go on field trips with them, and live together in the dorms. We create an environment where it's easy to talk about math, and also to get to know your teachers on a level that's not just about math. Learn more about faculty.