Georgetown University Summer Programs Marketing & Personal Branding Academy

In Georgetown's sample weekday schedule, class runs from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Lectures, off-site visits or labs fill the morning and early afternoon on either side of a 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. lunch, and the last hour goes to discussion or work on your capstone project.

After dinner (5:00 to 7:00 p.m.), the evening from 7:30 to 11:00 p.m. is for optional activities and free time under residential life supervision until curfew. Georgetown's examples include movie and game nights, cookouts, a resume workshop and college essay sessions, plus outings such as the National Mall, Smithsonian museums and Nationals baseball games, though the lineup changes from year to year.

You leave with work you can point to: an integrated pitch and marketing plan, a marketing campaign of your own that you pitch at the end, and a personal brand strategy that Georgetown says is useful for job and college interviews and networking. Along the way you work in a small team with a real DC-based client.

On paper, you get a grade on a Georgetown non-credit transcript: Pass if you complete all coursework and attendance requirements, Fail if you don't, or W if you withdraw after the start. Georgetown's academy overview talks about earning credit, but the academies are non-credit, so this one won't give you college credit. Academy students also get access to The Edge, a soft-skills learning platform from Ascend Now.

Any current 8th to 12th grader with at least a 2.0 GPA can apply, and the age-15 minimum Georgetown sets for its medical, nursing and a few other academies doesn't apply to this one. Admissions looks at your high school grades, the courses you've taken, your School Official Reviewer Form and your personal statement, and decides on a rolling basis.

If you're homeschooled, your reviewer can't be a family member or paid tutor. International students don't need TOEFL scores, an I-20 or an F-1 or J-1 visa for the academies, and Georgetown gives no visa help for them. It does recommend English good enough to follow technical discussions and talk easily with native speakers.

Georgetown takes applications through its Academy application portal, and one application covers every academy.

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   Start the Academy application once Georgetown posts its Summer 2027 academies, which it plans to do on 16 November 2026. You'll get a NetID when you start, and you'll need to set up Duo two-factor login on your own phone.

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   Upload a 300- to 500-word personal statement on why you want to attend before you submit.

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   Name your school counselor (preferred), advisor, teacher or principal, who gets an automatic email asking them to complete the School Official Reviewer Form and verify your GPA.

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   Submit by 31 January 2027 to have the $50 application fee waived, or by the final deadline of 15 May 2027, after which applications are reviewed case by case.

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   Expect an emailed decision within three weeks of a complete application.

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   Once approved, register for the residential or commuter section in the MySCS portal and pay full tuition by credit card. Registration is first come, first served, and your seat isn't held until you pay.

For Summer 2026 the academy cost $6,465 if you lived on campus, covering tuition, housing and 19 meals a week, or $5,075 if you commuted, which covered tuition only. Georgetown says all tuition rates and fees can change, so check the 2027 price before you register.

On top of that come a non-refundable $50 application fee, waived if you apply by 31 January 2027, a $90 health insurance fee for international students and, for commuters, any meal plan you choose from Georgetown Dining.

The refund shrinks quickly once you're within three weeks of the start. Dropping three weeks or more ahead gets back all tuition and fees. After that you get 90% two weeks out, 85% one week out and 75% up to the first day, then 50% of tuition only up to the third day, and nothing from the fourth day on. Later drops have to be emailed to Georgetown, and the refund depends on the date your request arrives.

Georgetown also offers a limited number of need-based scholarships for admitted students. They cover tuition only and aren't guaranteed. The academy scholarship application for 2027 is due to open in late December 2026, asks for two essays and closes on 2 March 2027, with decisions by the last week of March.

Resident counselors live in every residence hall and supervise all students, with one on duty throughout the day, and commuters are assigned a counselor too. Georgetown has a Protection of Minors Policy for under-18s, and its own police department, which has full arrest powers, patrols the campus.

Possessing, drinking or even being around alcohol or drugs means immediate dismissal from the program and the residence halls. Commuters must stay with a parent or an adult the parent designates within 45 minutes of campus at any time of day, including rush hour, and Georgetown can turn down a commute request with no appeal. Campus leave rules are set out in the academy welcome packet.