Summer Session

Current NYU Law Students

Current NYU Law students may register for summer tax courses by following the steps below during the summer session registration period: Friday, May 1, 2026 through Friday, May 29, 2026. You will not be bidding in COURSES. Please follow the instructions below.

1. Log into the NYU VPN.
2. Navigate to the Law Registrar's Service Desk and log in with your NetID and password.
3. Click on the link to "Add a Course."
4. Enter the requested information, including course section number. Your name will prepopulate the form.
5. Click "Create" to submit your registration request.
6. Repeat this process if you would like to register for additional summer tax courses.

Students Admitted for Fall 2026

Students admitted to the Graduate Tax Program for Fall 2026 may matriculate early to enroll in summer courses, though we highly recommend you first speak with Director John Stephens at (212) 998-6394. Contact the Office of Graduate Admissions to request summer matriculation. 

NYU Law Alumni

Please email the Graduate Tax Program for information on how to register.

Non-Degree Students

Please email the Graduate Tax Program for information on how to register.

Tuition and Fees

Liability for tuition and fees attaches when you register. To reduce that liability, you must drop your course(s) by the relevant "refund" deadline.

Summer 2026 tuition is $3,498 per credit. Tuition is assessed at the time of registration. Registration and services fees are $848 for the first credit and $77 for each additional credit. You will also be assessed a technology fee of approximately $121. Students living outside of the U.S. are charged an Office of Global Studies fee of $90 per semester. Additional expenses are listed on the website for the Office of the Bursar. 

Students can view their bill in eSuite, accessible via Albert (NYU's student information system). Please note that non-degree and newly matriculated students will need to activate an NYU NetID before accessing Albert. Please email law.taxprograms@nyu.edu for assistance if you have not received an NYU NetID. Visit the website of the NYU Bursar for more information on when and how to pay your tuition.

New York University will assess a health insurance fee for students taking six or more credits during the summer session. Information on enrolling in or waiving health insurance is available on the Student Health Insurance website. Students taking fewer than six credits should not be billed for health insurance, but we suggest you check your tuition statement to verify that you have not been charged a health insurance fee.

Financial Aid

Degree candidates taking five or more credits during the summer session are eligible to apply for federal educational loans, assuming other conditions are met.

Degree candidates taking three to five credits in this abbreviated summer session may also call John Stephens at (212) 998-6394 to discuss eligibility for half-time enrollment status, which makes one eligible to apply for loans. Other conditions aside from half-time status may also factor into loan eligibility.

For other information on student loans, both federal and private, please contact NYU Law Student Financial Services.

Summer tax courses are open to:

• NYU School of Law students in LLM, MSL, and Advanced Professional Certificate programs;
• NYU Law alumni; and
• Attorneys who wish to take classes without being enrolled in a degree program. Many of the summer tax courses require a student to have completed a basic law school course in U.S. Federal Income Taxation, though some courses do not require this prerequisite. Please contact law.taxprograms@nyu.edu for more information eligibility and registration procedures.

Course Auditing

Degree candidates must register for academic credit and may not audit a course. NYU Law alumni and non-degree students may register to audit a course. Auditors are required to meet NYU Law attendance requirements by watching all online class recordings; however, auditors do not sit for the exam and do not receive a grade or any academic credit. Auditing incurs the same cost as taking a class for credit. Auditors receive a transcript with a grade of “R.”

Transfer Credit

LLM students from other law schools should contact their home school to determine its transfer credit policy, including whether an online course will be accepted for credit. We will require students to provide an email from a school official stating that they will accept credit for an online course, and students should also confirm that they understand any limitations on online coursework from a bar exam qualification perspective. 

A non-matriculated student has the option to take summer classes for a letter grade, and if the student receives a C or better, he or she may apply to have the credits earned count towards an NYU School of Law degree or certificate, should the student be admitted into a degree or certificate program at a later date. (The first graduate tax course taken at NYU begins an admitted student’s five-year period of study for an LLM degree.)

Additional Restrictions

Typically, JD students may not register for online courses, as many law schools, the ABA, and state bar examiners have rules restricting online coursework. (Foreign-trained attorneys looking to use a Tax LLM to qualify to sit for the New York bar exam should contact John Stephens, as their requirements are complex. Non-tax LLM students should contact the Office of Graduate Affairs for academic advising.

Students living in the following locations may not register for online courses: Guam, Australia, Taiwan. Students from Maryland should contact us at (212) 992-8150 prior to enrolling for additional information.

Credit Limit

Students may register for up to six credits, though realistically, most working students shouldn’t register for more than two or three credits during the summer session. The 2026 summer session is expected to be roughly ten weeks long, which is about three-quarters of the length of our fall or spring semesters. It may be possible to take more credits if you have a light workload (or no work/time off) over the summer.

Enrollment Status for Educational Loans

Degree candidates taking five credits are eligible to apply for federal educational loans, assuming other conditions are met. Students taking three to five credits in this abbreviated summer session may also call John Stephens at (212) 998-6394 to discuss eligibility for half-time enrollment status, which makes one eligible to apply for loans. Other conditions aside from half-time may also factor into loan eligibility. For other information on student loans, both federal and private, please visit Student Financial Services.

Once registered for a course, students may drop or withdraw from a course by emailing a written request to law.taxprograms@nyu.edu. NYU Law students enrolled in degree programs may alternatively submit a course drop request through the Law Registrar's Service Desk.

The date of receipt by the Law School of the drop request, not the last date of attendance in class, is considered the official date of the student's withdrawal. It is this official date that serves as the basis for computing any refund granted to the student. Registration and services fees are non-refundable after a certain date, and tuition becomes non-refundable after a certain date, regardless of whether a student has viewed class videos. Online courses additionally have a limit on how many class videos can be launched before tuition and fees become non-refundable.

Please note that registering for a course incurs tuition and fee liability. When we use the term “refund” we are referring to a reduction in that liability, not just the situation where we return some portion of the money we have already received from you. Thus, if you register for a course and have not yet paid for the course, you are still liable for the cost of the course. Please do not register for a course without familiarizing yourself with the rules and deadlines regarding refunds, i.e., reducing tuition and fee liability. Carefully review the follow refund schedule to determine the appropriate refund for the course(s) in which you are registered.

2026 Summer Session Refund Schedule

• TBA

Courses with insufficient enrollment will be canceled with a full refund of tuition and fees.

The portion of our website relating to summer courses does not contain all academic policies applicable to summer students. Please refer to the Academic Policies Guide and general NYU policies.

NYU Non-Degree Candidate

Summer session students who are not candidates for a degree will not automatically be enrolled in the NYU-sponsored Student Health insurance plan. Therefore, non-degree students do not have to waive coverage to avoid health insurance fees. Still, it is a good idea to check to make sure that you are not being charged for health insurance.

NYU Degree Candidate

NYU students in a degree-granting program (e.g., JD and LLM students) who register for at least six credits during the summer will be enrolled automatically in and charged for an NYU-sponsored Student Health Insurance Plan unless:

a) The student was enrolled in an NYU-sponsored Student Health Insurance Plan for Spring
or
b) The student waives insurance coverage before the summer deadline, typically June 5th.

Students who were enrolled in an NYU-sponsored Student Health Insurance Plan for the Spring semester will continue to be covered for the summer at no additional charge.

Students who submitted a waiver during the current academic year do not have to file another waiver for the Summer term, but they will have to file a new waiver for the next academic year beginning in Fall.

Students have the option of waiving coverage or selecting enrollment in a different plan, by submitting a Student Health Insurance Selection/Waiver Form to the Student Health Insurance Services Office by the June 5th deadline. Students may only waive coverage or select enrollment in a different plan by submitting a selection/waiver form online by the deadline.

Student Health Insurance Office
New York University Health Center
726 Broadway, Room 346
New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 443-1020
www.nyu.edu/health/insurance
health.insurance@nyu.edu

Rules of the American Bar Association, the New York State Court of Appeals, other state high courts and the Law School itself all require regular attendance. For online classes, we track attendance by examining the records of which videos students have viewed. Failing to watch the required number of class videos may result, without further warning, in: 1) grade lowering or 2) denial of permission to complete coursework and/or sit for the exam, and receipt of a grade of WD or FAB.

Missing more than one-fifth of the classes or videos for any course is presumptively excessive. Any student who finds themself at risk of this should immediately speak with the instructor and/or the director of the tax program and explain the situation.

In general, tax faculty members may establish a higher standard of regular attendance than that described above, and may also take attendance, class participation, and the quality of class performance into account in determining the student's grade (regardless of whether participation was mentioned as a grading factor in the first class meeting or syllabus). All that said, for many online-only courses there is little expectation of participation other than viewing the class videos and taking the exam.

Visit the NYU School of Law Exams website for comprehensive information on exam policies and procedures.

Exam Schedule

We expect summer session exams to be held August 5-7, 2026 (fixed-time computer-proctored exams) and July 27-August 3, 2026 (full-period take-home exams). Before registering for a summer course, please confirm that you can take the final exam at the scheduled time by visiting the link below. 

Exam Accommodations

Students requesting accommodations should contact the Moses Center for Accessibility and Inclusive Culture. To preserve anonymity, students should not discuss accommodations with the course instructor.

Please visit the School of Law website on Academic Accommodations & Accessibility Support. 

Grading Policies

Review the NYU Law Academic Policies Guide section on the Grading System and Academic Standards.