Georgetown's Business Academy introduces you to the ins and outs of the business world. Combining investment challenges and group presentations with dynamic faculty lectures and case studies, our program prepares you with the practical skills and critical thinking abilities that will benefit you in your future academic and professional endeavors.
You'll register for one of two distinct tracks: Business & Leadership or Global Business. In each track, you’ll gain valuable exposure to important business topics and methods of analysis while learning from Georgetown McDonough School of Business professors and leading experts in the field. Throughout the program, you'll also participate in business simulations that take you through the process of becoming an entrepreneur and starting a company.
Estimated Tuition:
$7,299
Price includes tuition, housing, and meals. Commuter Student tuition is $5,499.
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How You'll Benefit
Study with professors from Georgetown's McDonough School of Business
Engage with Washington, D.C., business experts
Participate in an engaging, hands-on business simulation where you'll collaborate with classmates to run a startup
Understand how to invest in hard assets and manufacturing
Conduct advertising and financial management practices
Receive a Certificate of Participation upon successful completion
Program Format & Subject Areas
Business & Leadership Track
The Business & Leadership Track is designed to give you a broad overview of business fundamentals. The program should be of interest to high school students who want to pursue a business education at the undergraduate level.
This program will provide you with a framework to help you understand important business principles and explain how to go about recognizing business opportunities, challenges, problems, and solutions. As a student in the Business & Leadership track, you'll spend your time engaged in a combination of classes, workshops, group discussions, and activities. Each class day will begin with a business briefing discussing domestic and global issues. To understand a business education framework, it is important to introduce you to business decision making, investing, strategy, finance, management, marketing, international business, law, ethics, communications, writing a business plan, and, most importantly, leadership.
Global Business Track
The Global Business track is designed to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of global business. Although there is an underlying universality to the basic principles of business, the application of these principles presents unique challenges to those involved in international business.
This program explores the current drivers of international business including the globalization of business linking markets, companies, and financial markets; the growth and importance of technology; and the emergence of national economies with a particular focus on China, India, Brazil, Africa, and the Middle East. This course uses lectures and the case study method of teaching to explore the business realities, opportunities, and threats presented in global business. Presentations will use real-world case examples to illustrate the concepts.
You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the marketing strategies companies use to compete and win in international business. The course will examine the institutions important in international business including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization. A major focus of the course is on the practical application of the material presented so that students will understand how to identify international market opportunities, provide financing for international customers, and understand which strategies are likely to be most effective in emerging as well as developed global markets.
All in all, I fell in love with the program. I got to meet so many amazing people not only from the D.C. area but all around the country.
Zeyneb Sekin
Having the chance to experience once in a lifetime opportunities and getting to meet people from around the world made it so I got to really experience what college life was like.
Anthony DuPrau
My #SummerHoya experience was enriching, inspiring, and rewarding; if I could turn back the clock, I’d do it all over again.
Trevor Dalton
It was amazing to be surrounded by such high caliber students and staff who were all encouraging and fabulous to work with. I took away many positive things from my week as a Summer Hoya.
Nicole Lyon
As I am filling out my college applications, I am able to think back to my memories from the summer and I am reassured that I am pursuing the right educational path.
Grace Hermes
The program offers so much–from the off-site visits to the daily lectures and the on campus activities. The lectures were interesting, meeting new people was great and the off-site visits were interactive and intriguing.
Jazzelle DeLaney
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