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Spring Break 2025 Treks

Our Spring Break treks will take place the week of March 17th. We will begin accepting applications for the following Spring Break treks via Handshake on December 16, 2024, and applications will be due by Tuesday, January 21 at 9:00 a.m.

• Cape Town, South Africa - Public Policy Leaders Program

• Los Angeles, CA - Game Design

• Los Angeles, CA - Aerospace Engineering

• Los Angeles, CA - Cinematic Arts, Media, and Entertainment

• New York, NY & Greenwich, CT - Financial Markets

• New York, NY - Private Equity

• New York, NY - Finance

• New York, NY - Consulting

• New York, NY - Visual Arts, Curation, and Theater

• Philadelphia, PA - Education

• San Francisco, CA - Tech

• Seattle, WA - Biological Sciences

• Washington, D.C. - Women in Climate and Energy Policy in collaboration with the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth

Spring Quarter 2025

• Chicago, IL - Architecture and Urban Design | April 4, 2025

Program Costs

Students are responsible for the following costs associated with the trek:

• A program fee that will be charged to your student account by the Office of the Bursar upon completion of the trek. These fees support program benefits such as hotel accommodations and ground transportation. Please visit each Handshake application page for more information, as a different fee will be assessed for each trek.

• Airfare to and from the trek destination

• Transportation to and from the airport and between the airport and hotel

• Lunches and dinners during the trek

Financial Assistance

Career Advancement’s trek financial assistance fund is designed to ensure that all students, regardless of income level, can participate in treks. For treks outside of the Chicago area, undergraduate students with demonstrated need are eligible to have their program fee waived and receive funding for their airfare to and from the trek destination. If approved, qualifying students will be awarded an amount up to the total cost of their transportation. These funds are not loans and will not need to be paid back.

All trek acceptance decisions will be made independently of funding requests.

To request funding, please submit the travel assistance application form before the trek application deadline.

If your paperwork is incomplete, please review the list of materials required to apply for need-based aid. You can contact the Office of College Aid with any questions about the financial aid process at 773-702-8666 or college-aid@uchicago.edu.

If you have any questions about the trek financial assistance fund, please contact Erwin Paderanga at CATreks@uchicago.edu.

Summer 2024 Treks

Career Advancement offered the following treks this summer to the following locations:

• London - Humanities Study Abroad Program

• Hong Kong - Finance

• Singapore - Business & Innovation

• Zurich & Basel, Switzerland - Business & Healthcare

• New York - Business

• New York - Finance

• New York - Law

• New York - Real Estate

Winter Break 2024 Treks

Career Advancement offered the following treks this Winter Break to the following locations:

• Beijing & Shanghai, China - Business

• Berlin & Hamburg, Germany - STEM & Startups

• Hong Kong - International Markets

• Nairobi, Kenya - Global Health

• Paris, France - Humanities Study Abroad Program

• Prague, Czech Republic - Humanities

• New Delhi, India - Climate & Energy

• New Delhi, India - Languages & Humanities

• Atlanta, GA - Civil Rights

• Houston, TX - Healthcare

• Los Angeles, CA – Trott Emerging Business Leaders

• New York, NY - Wall Street

• New York, NY - Humanities: Publishing, Creative Writing, and Arts

• San Francisco, CA - Finance

• Santa Clara & San Jose, CA - Computer Science & Biotech

• Washington, D.C. - Public Policy Leaders Program

• Washington, D.C. - Energy & Climate Policy

If you have any questions about the program, please contact Erwin Paderanga at CATreks@uchicago.edu.