World Scholars Academy

The World Scholars Academy offers business courses for kids ages 12 to 18. A wide selection of topics are covered in the courses, with subjects like marketing, economics, entrepreneurship, investment strategy, and several others. Their two programs, World Business Academy and Discover Business Academy, are based on your age group.The prestigious online classes last two weeks and are made up of live sessions. Each class is two hours long and occurs during the weekdays. Students will have the opportunity to work on projects with each other, receive expert feedback, work on assignments, and can even get a future letter of recommendation. Recordings of every class are also made available to participants

Students are taught by the instructor Gerard H. Dericks, who has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and who was worked with some of the biggest companies in the world. Participants will receive two 1 on 1 learning sessions with him. High school students will additionally have the opportunity to participate on a World Scholars Academy Team in the 2023 Wharton Global High School Investment Contest in the Fall.