Summer Study Abroad Programs in Melbourne, Australia

Your CIEE Summer Global Internship program in Melbourne lasts 8 weeks and features two key components: A full-time internship with an international organization (approximately 30-40 hours per week) and an internship seminar. Enhance your experience with co-curricular and extracurricular activities while building career skills, expanding your professional network, and immersing yourself in Australian culture. Live, learn, and work in Melbourne! Melbourne is Australia’s vibrant, cosmopolitan city, known for its lively arts scene and diverse cultural influences. It boasts iconic laneways and street art, world-class museums and galleries, trendy cafés and restaurants, stylish shopping districts, and beautiful parks and waterfronts. Whether you're majoring in business, science, engineering, technology, communications, psychology, health sciences, liberal arts, language, or fine arts, Melbourne is the perfect place to study or intern abroad.

Experience all that Australia has to offer while studying in a major city like Sydney or Adelaide. Choose from non-profit, low-cost, direct study programs. These academic-type programs are available all year round and in a range of terms: weekly, monthly, summer, quarterly, semester, and academic year. Plus, stay in low-cost housing on campus or in nearby areas. Overall, avoid expensive, for-profit programs and register directly with a school in Australia. After successful completion, you will earn academic credits that are transferable to your home school. These study abroad programs are open to students worldwide. See more details on the NPSA website. Use this website to review and book your study abroad program in Australia.

The Filmmaking Summer School offers intensive hands-on teaching in many aspects of professional film production. The course is designed to cover the essential skills, basic knowledge and industry insight needed to make films, knowledge that would normally require years of experience to acquire, and will equip participants with the confidence, knowledge and skills to start a career in film or television and translate their own ideas and visions to the screen. The summer school is designed for people with little or no prior filmmaking experience, practising filmmakers wanting to change career direction, media teachers and students. In 2026 we will be presenting 3 choices of courses. The 5 day Script to Screen (Jan 7 to 11, 2026), the 1 day Devising and Bringing a Script to Life - Writing, Directing & Acting (Jan 7, 2026) , and the 4 day Cinematography -Make a Film (Jan 8 to 11 2026). Choose whichever course you want or do it all (Script to Screen).