Hoya Summer High School Sessions applications are now open.
Georgetown's Business & Leadership Academy introduces you to the ins and outs of the business world. You'll spend your time engaged in a combination of classes, workshops, simulations, group discussions, and activities preparing you with practical skills and critical thinking abilities that will benefit you in your future academic and professional endeavors.
This program provides you with a framework to help you understand important business principles and explains how to go about recognizing business opportunities, challenges, problems, and solutions. 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.
The Business & Leadership Academy gives 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.
Price includes tuition, housing, and meals. Commuter Student tuition is $5,800.
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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 a 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
As a student in the Business & Leadership Academy, you’ll spend your time engaged in a combination of class sessions, field trips, hands-on workshops, group discussions, and extracurricular activities. Throughout the program, you will have the opportunity to explore a number of subject areas, including:
Recognizing business opportunities, challenges, problems, and solutions
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
Want to learn more?
Request information to find out the latest on the Summer Programs for High School Students.
