Start exploring Business & Entrepreneurship summer programs for high schoolers

Dates:

Jun 19–30, 2027

Length:

10-day seminar (12 days on campus)

Cost:

$0

Location:

Notre Dame, IN (University of Notre Dame)

Grades:

Completed 11th grade

Format:

Residential

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Credit:

1 transferable Notre Dame credit (on satisfactory completion)

Students choose one course or track.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$6,850

Location:

Madrid, Spain

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Group Housing

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Students develop a marketing plan for their own brand and pitch it to a panel of experts, meeting local fashion entrepreneurs along the way; a fashion-photography workshop and visits to Museo del Traje and the Zara flagship store. Excursions to Segovia and Valencia.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$7,850

Location:

Milan, Italy

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Residential (Homestay)

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Students pitch a marketing strategy for their own imagined brand to a panel of experts. Visit to the Fondazione Prada campus. Excursions to Lake Como and Florence.

Dates:

Jul 8–28, 2027

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$9,450

Location:

Paris, France; Milan, Italy; Madrid, Spain

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Group Housing

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Three-country fashion marketing program culminating in a student-developed marketing plan pitched to a panel of experts. Includes a jewelry design workshop in Milan and a visit to the Fragonard Perfume Museum in Paris.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$6,700

Location:

Berlin, Germany

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Residential (Homestay)

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Visit to a Berlin startup incubator; students develop and pitch a business concept. Overnight excursion to Leipzig (Völkerschlachtdenkmal monument, music history).

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$6,700

Location:

Dublin, Ireland

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Group Housing

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Tours of Dublin's 'Silicon Docks' tech hub and small businesses (Container Coffee, Rolling Donut). Visit to Windmill Lane Recording Studios (U2's creative home). Students pitch a business venture to a panel of experts. Minimum age 15.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$6,150

Location:

São Paulo, Brazil

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Residential (Homestay)

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Students develop a startup concept and pitch it to local mentors. Includes a visit to an Indigenous (Guarani) community at Tenondé Porã Territory, a hike in Serra da Cantareira urban forest, and a churrasco (Brazilian barbecue).

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$7,350

Location:

Singapore, Singapore

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Group Housing

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Students use the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a framework to pitch a sustainable business concept and present a prototype at an 'ideas fair,' including business-owner interviews in the Kampong Glam district. Includes a ropes course at Forest Adventure; excursions to Pulau Ubin and Malacca (UNESCO World Heritage Site).

Dates:

Jul 8–28, 2027

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$9,200

Location:

Dublin, Ireland / Copenhagen, Denmark / Berlin, Germany

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Group Housing

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Traveling program across three capitals; students develop a business concept and pitch to a panel of professionals. Visits Station (Copenhagen's student-run innovation hub) and the Berlin Wall Memorial. Minimum age 15. Only the Academic Merit Award applies; the need-based Global Navigator Scholarship is not available.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 16–Jul 28, 2027 (3 weeks options)

Length:

3 weeks

Cost:

$8,300

Location:

London, England

Grades:

Current grades 9-12

Format:

Group Housing

Deadline:

Jan 20, 2027

Students propose a sponsorship business plan for a local sporting event or club. Behind-the-scenes tours of Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Stadium/World Rugby Museum. Must have completed freshman year of HS before traveling.

Dates:

Jul 11–16, 2027

Length:

6 days

Cost:

$449

Location:

Online

Grades:

Entering 9th grade (fall 2027) through college age

Format:

Online

Six-day live-streamed leadership and entrepreneurship program for high school and college-aged students, with daily speaker sessions, goal-setting and life-skills workshops, and small-group meetings over Zoom.

Dates:

Jul 11–17, 2027

Length:

6 days

Cost:

$2,595

Location:

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Grades:

Entering 9th grade (fall 2027) through college age

Format:

Residential

Six-day leadership and entrepreneurship program at UCLA for high school and college-aged students, with motivational speakers, entrepreneur panels, goal-setting and communication workshops, a mentor workshop with more than 100 professionals, and daily small groups of same-age participants.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jul 4–Jul 24, 2027 (1 week and 2 weeks options)

Length:

1 week–2 weeks

Cost:

$2,998–$7,498

Location:

Seattle, WA (UW Foster School of Business)

Grades:

Completed 9th-12th grade

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Students choose one course or track.

Dates:

6 weekly sessions, Jun 20–Jul 31, 2027

Length:

1 week

Cost:

$2,498–$4,298

Location:

New Haven, CT (Yale University)

Grades:

Completed 8th-12th grade

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Students choose one course or track.

Dates:

4 sessions between Jul 11–Jul 24, 2027 (7 days, 10 days, and 14 days options)

Length:

7 days–14 days

Cost:

$3,899–$7,299

Location:

New York, NY

Grades:

Completing grades 9-12

Format:

Residential / Commuter

Students choose one course or track.

Dates:

Jul 17–24, 2027

Length:

8 days

Cost:

$4,499

Location:

Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Grades:

Students currently in grades 9–12

Format:

Residential

Credit:

Yes (2 George Mason University college credits included)

Eight-day residential business program where students work through case studies and team challenges in customer journeys, company finances, and product design, learn from industry professionals, and deliver professional-style team presentations.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 26–Jul 13, 2027 (8 days options)

Length:

8 days

Cost:

$4,599

Location:

New Haven, CT (venue pending)

Grades:

Students currently in grades 9–12

Format:

Residential

Credit:

Yes (2 George Mason University college credits included)

Eight-day residential business program where students work through case studies and team challenges in customer journeys, company finances, and product design, learn from industry professionals, and deliver professional-style team presentations.

Dates:

June 27-July 9, 2027 (single session)

Length:

13 days

Cost:

$13,680

Location:

Shenzhen, China & Singapore

Ages:

14-18 per program site (matches completed grades 8–12 in search filters)

Format:

Group Housing

A corporate/urban-planning comparative program: inside DJI, Huawei, BYD and the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, then Singapore's City Gallery planning model, Gardens by the Bay, BLOCK71 startup hub, and the National University of Singapore. Because the itinerary continues from China onward to a third country (Singapore), US citizens travel visa-free under China's 240-hour transit rule entering/exiting at Shenzhen Bao'an. Max 15 students.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jul 4–Jul 30, 2027 (2 weeks options)

Length:

2 weeks

Cost:

$3,298–$5,998

Location:

New York, NY (Barnard College, Columbia University)

Grades:

Completed 8th-12th grade

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Students choose one course or track.

Dates:

7 weekly sessions, Jun 13–Aug 6, 2027

Length:

2 weeks

Cost:

$3,298–$6,298

Location:

Berkeley, CA

Grades:

Completed 8th-12th grade

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Students choose one course or track.

Dates:

2 sessions between Jun 27–Jul 23, 2027 (2 weeks options)

Length:

2 weeks

Cost:

$2,998–$5,798

Location:

Durham, NC (Duke University)

Grades:

Completed 8th-12th grade

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Students choose one course or track.

Dates:

Jun 20–Jul 2, 2027

Length:

2 weeks

Cost:

$2,998–$5,798

Location:

Washington, DC (Georgetown University)

Grades:

Completed 8th-12th grade

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Students choose one course or track.

Dates:

Jun 13–25, 2027

Length:

2 weeks

Cost:

$3,298–$5,798

Location:

Atlanta, GA (Georgia Tech)

Grades:

Completed 8th-12th grade

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Students choose one course or track.

Dates:

4 weekly sessions, Jun 20–Aug 6, 2027

Length:

2 weeks

Cost:

$3,298–$5,998

Location:

San Diego, CA (UC San Diego)

Grades:

Completed 8th-12th grade

Format:

Commuter / Residential

Students choose one course or track.