BYU Education Week 2026: What It Costs, How It Works, What Nobody Tells You

JoAnn Giordano Editor-in-Chief, Provo.com

BYU Education Week is the largest thing that happens in Provo in August that has nothing to do with football or move-in. For five days it puts close to twenty thousand adults — BYU's own count is nearly 20,000 participants — on a campus that is otherwise between semesters, fills hotels from Springville to Lehi, and turns University Parkway into a slow crawl at 8:15 in the morning.

It is also, for a first-timer, surprisingly hard to plan. The official site is thorough but scattered across a dozen pages, the prices are buried behind three separate tables, and the rule that catches the most families is stated once, in bold, on a page most people skip.

Here is the whole thing in one place, for 2026.

The basics

Education Week 2026 runs Monday, August 17 through Friday, August 21, on the BYU campus in Provo. Registration is required, and every attendee wears a name badge to get into classes.

Classes are 55 minutes long, run in blocks from 8:30 a.m. through about 9:25 p.m., and are first-come, first-seated — there is no reserved seating and no pre-booking of individual classes. Subjects run across religion, marriage and family, history, finance, health, family history, communication, and personal development. The program is designed for adults and for youth aged 14 and up.

The Tuesday devotional is the anchor event: August 18 at 11:10 a.m. in the Marriott Center, with Elder Patrick Kearon of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speaking.

Note Monday's shorter day. Monday classes end at 4:05 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday run to 9:25 p.m. That asymmetry shows up in the pricing too, and it catches people who assume all five days are identical.

What it costs in 2026

This is the part that is hardest to find on the official site, so here it is in full. These are 2026 prices and they change year to year.

Full event (available through August 21):

• Monday–Friday — $115
• Tuesday–Friday — $105

Partial and single day (available June 1 through August 21 — note that campus housing cannot be added to any of these):

• Tuesday–Friday mornings, four mornings, 8:30 a.m.–12:05 p.m. — $50
• Tuesday–Friday afternoons, four afternoons, 12:30–4:05 p.m. — $50
• Tuesday–Friday evenings, four evenings, 4:30–9:25 p.m. — $50
• One day only, Monday, 8:30 a.m.–4:05 p.m. — $38
• One day only, Tuesday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–9:25 p.m. — $48

During the program (August 17–21, self-register online):

• One morning only, Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–12:05 p.m. — $30
• One afternoon only, Monday–Friday, 12:30–4:05 p.m. — $30
• One evening only, Tuesday–Friday, 4:30–9:25 p.m. — $30

Note the last one: single evening sessions are Tuesday through Friday. There is no $30 Monday evening — Monday's program ends at 4:05 p.m.

The arithmetic is worth a second look. Four mornings costs $50; a single morning bought during the week costs $30. If you are on the fence about whether you will actually come back for a second day, the four-session block pays for itself almost immediately.

Campus housing is priced separately at $150 per person and is not available with any partial-day or single-day registration.

If the tuition itself is the obstacle, there are two ways around it — one still open for 2026, one already closed until next spring. Both are below.

If the price is the problem

Two routes exist and neither is advertised on the pages most people read.

Volunteer, and the week is free. BYU staffs Education Week with hosting volunteers, and the deal is better than most people assume: fill one shift each day Tuesday through Friday and you receive free admission to classes Monday through Friday. You attend anything you like except during your own shifts. Against a $115 full-week registration, four half-days of work is a real trade.

The shifts BYU lists — assignments can vary — run Tuesday through Friday at 8:00–11:30 a.m., 11:20 a.m.–2:45 p.m., 2:35–6:10 p.m. and 6:00–9:30 p.m., with two extra Monday blocks at 8:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. and noon–4:15 p.m. The work itself is straightforward: check name badges at the door of your assigned class, count attendance, keep the hallway moving between sessions.

The conditions are where people get caught:

• You must be 18 by August 15, 2026.
• Saturday, August 15 training is mandatory — 10:00 a.m., rooms 3220–3224 of the Wilkinson Center. That is the day before the program starts, and it is not optional. Refreshments are served.
• Applying is not the same as being accepted. BYU says plainly it cannot anticipate how many applications will come in and may not take everyone. It also asks people not to apply unless they are confident they can serve, because cancellations are a genuine problem for them.
• Dress is business casual while you host — no leggings, no shorts, no flip-flops for anyone; closed-toe shoes for men, who are not required to wear a tie.
• Housing is not included, and the workaround is worth knowing. Campus housing can only be attached to a paid registration, so a volunteer who wants a dorm bed has to register and pay for both. BYU then refunds the registration portion after your hosting shifts are done. It works, but you are out the money in the meantime.
• Evening performances are ticketed separately and are not covered by the complimentary registration.

Volunteers also fall under BYU's Minor Protection Policy. Questions go to 801-422-6214, and the application lives on the volunteering page of the Education Week site.

The Single Parent Fund — closed for 2026, worth a calendar note for 2027. The Maurine R. and Joseph A. Humphris Fund helps single parents in financial need attend Education Week. For 2026 it took applications from April 3 through July 18, and BYU's page now states flatly that applications are no longer being accepted. If you are reading this in the weeks before the program hoping it is a fallback, it is not — volunteering is the one that is still live.

For next year: the criteria are being a single parent, being guardian of one or more dependent children, financial need, and being a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or tax resident, or a non-citizen living outside the United States. A committee reviews applications and awards the minimum each applicant needs to attend, with preference given to people who have not received assistance before. One wrinkle BYU flags: financial assistance from Continuing Education may count as taxable income, and totals of $600 or more in a year are reported on a Form 1099-MISC. The window opened in early April this year and closed in mid-July. BYU has not published 2027 dates, so watch the page from early spring rather than assuming the same ones.

Registering, and the deadline that has two dates

Register online, by phone at 801-422-8925 or 1-877-221-6716 toll-free, or in person at 116 of the Harman Continuing Education Building. Phone and pre-program walk-in registration close August 14 at 5:00 p.m.; online registration stays open until August 21 at 8:30 p.m.

Register early enough and your name badge is mailed to you. BYU's registration page states this cutoff two different ways on the same page — once as "register by August 10" and once as "register by August 9." Treat August 9 as the real deadline and you cannot be wrong either way. One wrinkle: August 9 falls on a Sunday. Online registration is automated and runs regardless, but BYU's offices are closed and nobody will be available if something goes wrong with your transaction. Aim for Friday, August 7 and give yourself the margin.

If you register later than that, pick up your badge at will-call:

• August 10–15 — the early will-call desk just inside the west doors of the Harman Building, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. weekdays and 1:00–5:00 p.m. Saturday.
• August 17–21 — the Wilkinson Student Center Garden Court and the northeast concourse of the Marriott Center. Both run Monday 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday the two diverge: the Wilkinson Center stays open until 8:30 p.m., the Marriott Center closes at 5:00 p.m. If you are registering late in the day for an evening class, the Wilkinson Center is the one that will still be open.

Two practical notes that trip people up. Badges are individual and non-transferable — they can't be shared or handed off, and each person needs their own registration. And online registration only handles one person per transaction, so if you are signing up a spouse, a parent and two teenagers, you need to call rather than click.

The printed class schedule arrives later than you would guess. BYU's Program Updates page says booklet mailings began July 22, sent bulk rate, which its FAQ puts at three to ten business days in transit — so a booklet in the first batch lands somewhere between the end of July and the first week of August. (The same FAQ still says booklets go out "by the second week of July." The two pages disagree; the July 22 date is on the page BYU actually updates during the run-up.) If you would rather not wait, the full schedule is posted online, and the mobile app follows in August. Registered in the last three years? You are on the mailing list automatically. If not, ask to be added on 801-422-6214.

Changing your mind: refunds

Registration is not transferable, so if plans fall apart the only route back is a refund, and it runs on paper and on deadlines.

Through June 23 you could withdraw or change a registration with no processing fee at all. That window has closed. What remains:

• Campus housing — refund request must reach BYU by August 7, with a $20 processing fee.
• Program registration — by August 13, with an $8 processing fee.
• After those dates, no refunds are granted. BYU also states that no refund is issued if someone is removed from the conference for not following program policies.

The part that catches people is what "refund request" means. BYU wants a written request, your receipt, and your physical name badge delivered to the Education Week office — Education Week Refunds, 116 HCEB, BYU, Provo UT 84602. If your badge was already mailed to you, you have to mail it back, and it has to arrive by the deadline rather than be postmarked by it. Allow for the post. Refunds go back to the card used at registration. Questions go to customer support on 801-422-0877.

Note the collision on August 7: it is both the last day to buy campus housing in the second window and the last day to get housing money back. If you are wavering on the dorm, that is the date to have decided by.

The rule that catches families: no children under 14

This is the single most important line in this guide.

Children younger than 14 as of December 31, 2026 — explicitly including babies — are not permitted in Education Week classrooms or in Education Week campus housing. BYU states the reasoning directly: campus is not set up to be a place for children to entertain themselves while their parents are in class.

Youth who turn 14 by the end of the year are welcome, but registration must be completed by a parent, and the parent remains responsible for supervising them all week.

Plan childcare before you register, not after. Every year some families arrive expecting to trade off classes with a baby in a stroller and discover the policy at the classroom door.

Dress and conduct

BYU is a private university with standards that apply to visitors as well as students, and the expectations are stated plainly rather than left implied:

• No smoking, alcohol, coffee or tea on campus. Other caffeinated drinks are fine. BYU's own guidance acknowledges that many attendees have made no such commitment and notes that local businesses off campus sell all of it.
• Modest dress. Skirts, dresses and shorts knee-length or longer; nothing strapless or revealing.
• The facial hair rule does not apply to you. BYU students commit to grooming standards under the CES Honor Code; conference attendees are explicitly exempt. Beards are fine. This is worth saying because it is one of the most persistent myths about visiting campus.
• Language. BYU asks attendees to keep their language free of obscenities and vulgarity while on campus. It sits on the same page as everything above, stated as plainly.

Accessibility and accommodations

This is the part of the program most write-ups skip, and it deserves more room here than it usually gets: the Education Week audience skews older, and BYU's campus is large, hilly, and connected by a lot of stairs.

BYU runs a dedicated Special Needs page, and it splits requests into two kinds. Housing preferences that are not disability-related — a first-floor room, a building with an elevator — get marked during registration. Disability accommodation requests go through BYU Continuing Education's accommodation process, and BYU asks that they be started at least 30 days before the program begins — by emailing educationweek@byu.edu or calling the registration desk at 801-422-8925 (toll-free 1-877-221-6716). If any part of the request touches housing, you flag that during registration too.

For an August 17 start, that 30-day window has already closed. So has the July 17 deadline for submitting an interpreting class list, below. Neither makes a request impossible — it makes it a phone call instead of a form, and it makes an early call better than a late one. If you need something, ring the registration desk rather than assuming the door is shut.

What BYU actually provides:

• ASL interpreting may be available when requested at least 30 days out. There's a second step people miss: once the class schedule posts in early July, you send the day, date, time, title and location of every class you plan to attend to the University Accessibility Center — uacfrontdesk@byu.edu, or 2170 WSC, BYU, Provo UT 84602. BYU's stated review date for that list was July 17. Interpreting is planned for the Marriott Center devotional: enter through Portal H and sit in Section 8, Row 3.
• Assistive listening devices at the Marriott Center are limited in number and checked out against a photo ID. Enter through Portal G — the sound booth is on the left. For other buildings, the University Accessibility Center handles them: 2170 WSC or 801-422-2767.
• Wheelchair seating in the Marriott Center is on the concourse level at Portals G, J and K. There's limited main-floor seating for someone accompanied by a companion who could push the chair up a steep ramp in an emergency. Those areas are reserved for actual wheelchair users — if your concern is stamina rather than a chair, BYU's answer is to arrive early, because everything else is first-come. Marriott Center restrooms are also on the concourse level.
• One wheelchair-accessible van circulates between campus locations. One. It carries a single wheelchair plus a companion, and the driver has a direct line: 801-674-5405.
• BYU does not lend wheelchairs. Its Special Needs page points to Provo rental businesses — Alpine Home Medical, 1481 N State St, 801-852-0077, and IHC Medical Equipment & Supply, 289 W 1230 N, 801-357-8250. BYU lists them as examples rather than a complete or endorsed set, so call around if neither works.
• Disability parking runs off a state-issued placard, in the lots marked on the program map plus the blue-signed spaces around campus. Not in spaces reserved for emergency vehicles, university officials or service vehicles, and not past the limit in timed lots.

The honest summary: these accommodations are real and thought through, but several are single-resource — one van, a limited pool of listening devices — and all of them run on advance notice. This is not a week to improvise.

Where to stay

Campus housing — $150 per person — covers up to seven nights, from Saturday, August 15 at 7:00 p.m. through Saturday, August 22 at 9:00 a.m. Checkout is firm; the university has a maintenance turnaround immediately after. Housing can only be added to a Monday–Friday or Tuesday–Friday registration.

The booking window matters more than the price, and most write-ups miss it. BYU sold campus housing in two stages. The first — individuals, roommates and groups — ran through July 23. It has closed. A second window opens July 27 and runs to August 7 at 5:00 p.m., and in that one BYU sells individual spots only: no roommate pairing, no groups. If you meant to book with a friend and didn't, that option is gone even though housing itself may not be.

What you get is a dorm room, and the details matter:

• There is no couples' housing. Men and women are assigned to separate buildings, because Helaman Halls has one restroom per wing or bathrooms shared between rooms. The only exception is registered family housing. A married couple attending together will be sleeping in different buildings — plan around it or book a hotel.
• Family housing takes four to six related family members registering as one group, in Heritage Halls, no refrigerator. Fall below four within a week of the first registration and BYU breaks the group up.
• Anyone under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian to stay in campus housing, and nobody under 14 (as of December 31) may stay at all.
• Only one building in Helaman Halls has an elevator. Every Heritage Halls building has one. For an audience that skews older this is the most consequential line in BYU's housing FAQ, and a non-disability request for a lower floor or an elevator building is something you mark during registration — not something to raise at check-in.
• Helaman Halls rooms include a small refrigerator and sit near the Cannon Commons cafeteria.
• Heritage Halls women's units are filled to capacity at two people per room and may combine separate groups into one unit. No refrigerators.
• No cooking facilities, no private rooms, no rooms with private baths. Register alone without requesting a roommate and one will be assigned.
• Rooms have two twin beds and BYU provides linens — sheets, pillow, blanket, towel, washcloth, soap — with central bathrooms on each floor. Laundry exists; bring quarters. Wi-Fi generally reaches the common areas of housing buildings rather than every room.
• You find out where you are staying in the second week of August — assignments go out by email. Anything wrong with yours goes to educationweek@byu.edu.
• Requests for disability accommodation in campus housing had a published deadline of July 17, in writing. That has passed, which makes it a phone call rather than a form.
• BYU dining is closed on Sunday, August 16 — with one exception. Cannon Commons opens 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. for dinner, and BYU flags even that as subject to change. If you check in Saturday evening, that ninety-minute window is the only meal on campus until Monday.

Bringing an RV? BYU would rather you used a local campground, but RVs are allowed in lot 37, north of the Indoor Practice Facility, from Saturday, August 15, first-come. Completely self-contained only — no hookups, restrooms, showers or dump sites, and the Richards Building and Smith Fieldhouse facilities are off-limits to RV guests. No pets on campus property. Courtesy vans do run between that lot and main campus.

If a dorm bed is not what you had in mind, the alternative is a hotel — and this is the week the valley fills. Rooms in Provo and Orem go early and rates rise. Our guide to where to stay in Provo breaks down the neighborhoods by how far you'll actually be walking, which matters more during Education Week than at any other time of year.

BYU publishes its own hotels-and-motels list too, grouped by area from the BYU vicinity out through Orem, Springville and Lehi. Worth knowing it exists — but know what it is: BYU sources it from Explore Utah Valley, attaches no endorsement to any property on it, and says outright that it isn't comprehensive. Use it as an index, not a recommendation.

Getting to campus and parking

Education Week parking is restricted to specific marked lots shown on the program map. BYU is direct about enforcement: park outside those lots, along an unpainted curb, across two stalls, or in a motorcycle area, and you can be ticketed or towed. Disability parking requires a state-issued plate or permit.

Courtesy vans run at intervals between the perimeter lots and main campus, which is the intended solution for the lots that are a genuine walk away. They run 7:45 a.m.–4:45 p.m. on Monday and 7:45 a.m.–10:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday — note the short Monday, which catches people who plan a late first day. Vans reach key points on campus, not individual doors.

One thing to check before you drive: the campus map BYU links from its parking and housing pages is still the 2025 file, and BYU says the map will be updated as the program approaches for construction changes. Look at it again in the week before you come rather than printing it now.

The better answer for most people is UVX. BYU actively encourages it, and the practical case is strong — Route 830X stops at four campus stations:

• BYU Stadium Station, near the Marriott Center
• BYU North Campus Station, near the Conference Center
• BYU Central Campus Station, near the Music Building and the Wilkinson Center
• BYU South Campus Station, about 300 yards south of the Wilkinson Center

Buses run every 6 to 10 minutes from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays, and every 15 minutes in the early-morning and late-evening windows. Both ends of the line — Provo Central Station and Orem Central Station — connect to FrontRunner, and BYU is roughly an 18-minute bus ride from either. FrontRunner does not run Sundays.

One correction worth making loudly: UVX is not free for you. BYU's own Education Week page notes that a fare applies. Free UVX rides ended for the general public in August 2024 and are now limited to BYU and UVU students showing a school ID. Education Week attendees pay like any other rider, and a fair number arrive expecting otherwise because of how long "the free UVX" circulated as local shorthand.

Flying in? Provo Airport is fifteen minutes from campus and a dramatically easier arrival than Salt Lake, if the route works for you.

BYU does publish an airport-shuttle page — just read it for what it is. It doesn't describe a shuttle BYU operates. It's a referral list: a private shuttle company for the Salt Lake run, the UTA chain of TRAX to FrontRunner to UVX, rideshare apps, and for Provo Airport, UTA plus taxis. BYU attaches an explicit note that it neither endorses nor recommends any business on it. Treat it as a starting list, not as a ride the university is providing.

Eating on campus

Cannon Commons is the all-you-care-to-eat hall and the default answer, and the hours matter more than the menu. BYU lists it as open Monday through Saturday, 6:30–9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m. and 4:00–7:30 p.m., and Sunday, August 16, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. only — that ninety-minute Sunday window is the single meal available on campus between a Saturday check-in and Monday morning, and BYU flags even that as subject to change.

Read the weekday hours against the class schedule and a problem appears. Cannon Commons closes at 7:30 p.m.; classes run to about 9:25 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. If you are staying for a full evening block, dinner has to happen before your 4:30 session or it happens off campus. The gap between 1:30 and 4:00 catches people too.

The dining gift card is a genuine discount and almost nobody knows about it. BYU sells dining gift cards in $25 increments that carry discounted rates at Cannon Commons and work at any BYU Dining location on campus. From Monday, August 17 they are sold at the Cougar Express convenience store in the Cougareat and at the BYU Creamery stores — the Wyview Creamery is the exception. From Sunday, August 16 you can also buy one at Cannon Commons itself, by credit card only; they take no cash for it. The cards never expire and can be used through the year, but they are not refundable, so buy against what you will actually eat. BYU Dining is on 801-422-4935.

They are not valid off campus or with non-BYU vendors, which is the natural segue: for anything beyond the dining halls, our guide to eating near BYU covers what is within a short walk or drive, and it is the better call at noon when campus dining is at its worst.

Evening entertainment

The evenings are a real part of the week, not an afterthought.

AMERICA 250 in Concert — Millennial Choirs & Orchestras, at the Marriott Center, Wednesday and Thursday, August 19–20, at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $22, mobile delivery only, sold through the BYU Ticket Office online or at 801-422-2981, with a limit of 12 per transaction. All seating is reserved, and single-performance online purchases let you pick your own seat. All sales are final. House rules: no babies, children over six are welcome, and no cameras or recording devices.

Guys & Dolls, produced by SCERA, runs Monday and Tuesday, August 17–18, at 8:00 p.m. at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre in Orem, with tickets through SCERA directly.

A warning about that address. BYU's Education Week page lists the SCERA venue two different ways on the same page — as 745 S. State Street, and as 600 South 400 East. These are two different places. The SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre, where Guys & Dolls is staged, is at 600 South 400 East, in the middle of SCERA Park. 745 South State is the SCERA Center for the Arts — the indoor building and box office, about half a mile away. Put 600 South 400 East in your maps app.

Also note: BYU's Education Week shuttles do not run to SCERA. Getting there and back is on you. Parking around the Shell is free and spread across several nearby lots, including the SCERA Park pool lot, Orem High School, and along 400 East.

For attorneys: CLE credit

Education Week carries a Continuing Legal Education track sponsored by the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, and it's more open than the name suggests — designed primarily for attorneys, but any registered Education Week participant may sit in.

The mechanics run separately from everything else on this page:

• The CLE credit fee is $50 for the week, on top of Education Week tuition.
• Registering for a full Monday–Friday or Tuesday–Friday section? Pay it in advance by selecting the attorney CLE option during registration, which asks for your state and bar number. That advance window runs through August 14.
• Registering for a single day or any partial option? You pay the CLE fee at the classroom door — 214 Crabtree Building, August 18–21 — and you'll need your Education Week name badge to do it.
• CLE classes run Tuesday through Friday, not Monday.
• BYU posts a CLE class schedule and a set of class outlines with credit notations, plus an attendance form you mark as you go and submit only after the program ends — not per class, and not before you leave.

One caveat that is BYU's own, and not ours to smooth over: BYU tells attendees to check with their own state bar to confirm these classes will be accepted for CLE credit. Acceptance isn't guaranteed, and it isn't BYU's to guarantee. Confirm before you count the hours.

For teenagers

Youth aged 14 to 18 have a dedicated slate of classes alongside the main program, and the week ends with the Education Week youth dance.

The dance runs Thursday evening, and it's substantial — BYU puts attendance at roughly 700 young men and women. Eligibility follows the same rule that governs the rest of the program: a young person must turn 14 by December 31 of the year they attend. A 13-year-old with a December birthday is in; a 13-year-old with a January birthday is not.

A change worth knowing: dance registration and tickets are no longer required. Youth attend on their own Education Week name badge, at no additional fee. Older write-ups still describe a separately purchased $5 ticket — that is out of date.

What else is happening that week

Education Week does not land in a quiet week. It lands in the busiest stretch of the Utah Valley calendar outside of July.

UVU's Weeks of Welcome runs August 17–28, and UVU's fall classes begin Wednesday, August 19 — squarely in the middle of Education Week. BYU's own semester starts much later, on September 2, with orientation in late August. The practical consequence is traffic and hotel pressure: two campuses at peak activity in the same five days, on the same corridor.

If you are in town that week for any reason, our Welcome Week guide covers the student side of the same stretch, and the BYU hub collects everything else about campus. Visiting campus generally — where to park, what's open to the public, what's worth seeing — is covered in our BYU campus visitor guide.

First-timer tactics

A handful of things regulars do that nobody tells newcomers:

• The app is coming in August — get it then. BYU says the Continuing Education app and its "BYU Education Week 2026" guide arrive in August, so as of late July there is nothing to download yet. When it lands: install the "BYU Continuing Education" app, open it, select "BYU Education Week 2026," tap Download. Two things stop people at that point, and both are non-problems — there is no passphrase, so ignore the "Enter Passphrase" button if it appears, and you do not need to create a login. The guide lists classes and instructors and lets you flag several favorites for each hour, which is exactly the tactic below.
• Pick two options per hour, not one. Classes are first-come, first-seated. Popular presenters fill rooms early, and a backup in the same building saves the hour.
• Respect the walking distances. BYU's campus is large and hilly, and a 55-minute class ending at 12:05 followed by one starting at 12:30 across campus is a real jog. Cluster your day by building where you can.
• Eat off-peak or off-campus. Campus dining is overwhelmed at noon. Our guide to eating near BYU covers what's within a short drive.
• The devotional fills. For a Marriott Center devotional featuring an apostle, arriving at 11:05 is arriving late.
• If the room is full, ask about overflow. BYU often opens overflow rooms for the busiest presenters. When there is not one, the advice from BYU and from regulars is identical: walk into whatever is nearby and open. A striking number of people say the class they fell into beat the one they came for.
• No recording, and no eating in class. Recording is off the table for copyright reasons — note-taking is encouraged. Food and drink stay out of classrooms as well, the Marriott Center being the one exception.
• Lost or misspelled badge? A replacement comes from any registration area; a misspelling gets fixed at the information table in the Wilkinson Center Garden Court.
• Consider volunteering. Four half-day shifts buy the whole week — the section on price above has the mechanics, and note the mandatory Saturday training on August 15.

One last thing

The classes are the reason people come, but the campus in mid-August is its own argument — mountains sharp behind the buildings, everything green under sprinklers, and a student body that hasn't arrived yet. If you have never spent a weekday walking BYU in the summer, come a day early.

For dates, the official schedule and registration, see the Education Week event listing or go straight to BYU Continuing Education. Verify prices and deadlines before you pay — this guide reflects what BYU published for 2026, and event details do move.

JoAnn Giordano

Editor-in-Chief

JoAnn Giordano is the editor-in-chief of Provo.com. Having lived in and around Utah Valley for years, she leads the site's editorial direction with a focus on the comprehensive, honest local coverage that helps residents, students, and newcomers feel at home. When she's not shaping Provo.com's restaurant and neighborhood coverage, she's exploring the valley's trails and tracking down the best new spots on Center Street.