Academics

Curriculum

All students in the Oxford Summer Program enroll in two courses and participate in three additional mandatory components.

Comparative Strategic Management

This course gives a general examination of comparative management topics including the impact of environment and public policy on European business decisions, competitor analysis, market signaling, evaluation of strategic position, comparative industry structures, market behavior and interaction of firms, managing across cultures, and value systems and intercultural differences.

International Finance

A comprehensive overview of the field of international finance, this course includes study of international market structures, trends in international development, and principal problems facing participants in international markets. The course covers topics such as European capital markets, international money management, treasury management, and foreign exchange.

Tutorials

Tutorials are a significant academic component of the Oxford program. Centered on a topic previously assigned by the tutor, a typical tutorial is taken by a trio of students who assume the intellectual initiative to develop fluency in the topic area.

Guest Speakers

Each Wednesday, a guest speaker is brought in before the evening High Table meal. Past speaker topics have included Volkswagen investor relations, human resource practices at the BMW Oxford plant, and shopping habits in an economic downturn.

Business Visits

Students interact with top-level management and attend seminars orchestrated by British business leaders.
Firms visited during the program have included Goldman Sachs & Co., Skadden Arps, Fuller, Smith & Turner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Bank of England, and the MWI manufacturing facility.

Academic Credit

Upon successful completion of the Oxford Summer Program, students receive six Georgetown University undergraduate semester credits: three credits for STRT-283 (Strategic Management) and three credits for FINC-250 (International Finance). Students who have taken either STRT-283 or FINC-250 previously are ineligible for the Oxford Summer Program.

The six credits do not count as transfer credits. Georgetown BSBA candidates may use these credits toward their degree requirements. Neither course can be taken pass/fail.