NOTICE 19/04/2025 16.00 GMT: The EWC 2025 is close to capacity and early bird sign ups will close in coming hours.
NOTICE 19/04/2025 16.00 GMT: The EWC 2025 is close to capacity and early bird sign ups will close in coming hours.
Get a world-class extracurricular and win amazing prizes. No preparation required.
Registration deadline on March 10!
Registration deadline on March 10!
Get a world-class extracurricular and win amazing prizes. No preparation required.
Join students across international schools!
100+ Schools
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1000+ Students
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40+ Countries
Prizes in collaboration with:
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It’s going to be fun, it’s going to be interesting, and it’s going to be exciting.
Dr. Craig Holmes, Economist and Senior Academic Fellow at the University of Oxford
No Barriers to Entry
Innovative Competition Structure
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1. 100% Virtual Experience
2. No Prior Economics Knowledge Required
3. Minimal Time Commitment
1. Internet Allowed
Because real economists need all their tools!
2. Multiple Choice Exam
In the individual round
3. Real Development Case
You and your team will help a real community.
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Win the best prizes ever offered by a high school competition:
The above prizes are selected in order of ranking — 1st place team picks first, then 2nd, then 3rd!
Win the best prizes ever offered by a high school competition:
All-Expenses Paid Trip to Hong Kong!
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Earn a well-deserved holiday and represent the EWC at a World Youth Forum Global Conference
Ivy Consultants Gift Card ($10,500 per team member)
Mentorship to help you get into an Ivy League university!
Finance Internship at StudyPDF
Liaise with investors and support the StudyPDF team with their Series A fundraising round!
Prizes are selected in order of ranking — 1st place team picks first, then 2nd, then 3rd!
Win the best prizes ever offered by a high school competition:
All-Expenses-Paid Trip to Hong Kong!
Earn a well-deserved holiday and represent the EWC at a World Youth Forum Global Conference
Ivy Consultants Gift Card ($10,500 per team member)
Mentorship to help you get into an Ivy League university with scholarships!
Finance Internship at StudyPDF
Liaise with investors and support the StudyPDF team with their Series A fundraising round!
Prizes are selected in order of ranking — 1st place team picks first, then 2nd, then 3rd!
Win the best prizes ever offered by a high school competition:
All-Expenses Paid Trip to Hong Kong!
Earn a well-deserved holiday and represent the EWC at a World Youth Forum Global Conference
Ivy Consultants Gift Card ($3,000 per team member)
Mentorship to help you get into an Ivy League university!
Finance Internship at StudyPDF
Liaise with investors and support the StudyPDF team with their Series A fundraising round!
Prizes above are selected in order of ranking — 1st place team picks first, 2nd place picks second, then 3rd place picks third!
All-Expenses Paid Trip to Hong Kong
Earn a well-deserved holiday and represent the EWC at a World Youth Forum Global Conference
Finance Internship at StudyPDF
Liaise with investors and support the StudyPDF team with their Series A fundraising round!
Ivy Consultants Gift Card ($10,500 per team member)
Mentorship to help you get into an Ivy League university!
These prizes are selected in order of ranking — 1st place team picks first, then 2nd, then 3rd!
Award for Solo Performance:
The top 10 individual performers in Round 1 will get featured on Business Insider as 2025’s Young Economics Talents!
Students who place in the top 20% in Round 1 will receive a certificate of recognition.
All participants get a certificate of recognition.
Top 10 individual performers in Round 1 will get featured on Business Insider as 2025’s Young Economics Talents!
Students who place in the top 20% in Round 1 will receive a Certificate of Recognition.
All participants get a certificate of participation.
Tip: Sharing these with your admission officers will impress them!
BONUS: Wild Card Prizes for
◆ Best Speaker
◆ Most Creative Solution
◆ Most Pragmatic Solution
... and many more secret ones 🤫 🤐
How do I register?
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1. You talk to your friends and fellow students to organize a team of 2-6 students.
2. You sign up for the Economics World Cup individually using your personal email.
3. After you sign up, we will send you a form where you can register your teammates and team name.
What is the exam structure like?
Round 1: Individual online test
30 multiple choice questions
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Note: You and all your teammates will take this exam individually.
+3 points for correct answer
-2 points for a blank answer
(in the real world, there is an opportunity cost to doing nothing)
-5 points for the wrong answer
(in development economics, real lives are at stake, and we cannot risk making mistakes)
If you or anyone in your team places in the top 15% of individual test takers, the entire team qualifies for the Finals.
(Tip: signing up in larger groups will increase your odds of qualifying)
Round 2 - Final Round: Team Project
1 week to submit group project
1. Your team receives a real development project, developed at the University of Oxford.
2. Your team comes up with a solution for a real community. You can share your solution as either:
a. A Video (max 5 minutes)
b. A Report (max 2 pages / 1000 words)
c. A Presentation (max 10 slides)
d. A Podcast (max 10 minutes)
3. A jury reviews your submission.
Get a chance to impress Oxford Economist Dr. Craig Holmes!
By this point, you'll have wowed your teachers, mastered the mechanics of real-world markets, and—if all goes to plan—earned an award that marks you as one of the brightest young minds in economics.
"With acceptance rates of top colleges reaching new all-time-lows every year, there has never been a greater need to differentiate yourself."
Why Join?
No Background Knowledge Required
In 2025, knowledge is abundant but critical thinking is scarce.
So, the Economics World Cup tests your ability to think like an economist, not your knowledge of economics.
There are 0 technical questions (you don't need to have studied economics to succeed!)
Takes Minimal Effort
Round 1 is only 1 hour long. No prep necessary.
For Round 2, your team has 1 week.
When you become a World Champion, don't tell anyone it took you just 1 week ;-)
Why Join?
Win Amazing Prizes
Do we need to say more?
Boost Your University Application
Many students aspiring to study economics, political science, business administration, or finance in university have not actually studied these topics in high school.
Admissions officers look for demonstrated interest and thinking skills, so participating in EWC is a great way to get ahead.
Network with Elite students and professors
Get mentored by students just like yourself who got accepted into the world's most elite universities like Oxford, Yale, and Cornell.
Many of these students now intern at global firms like Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and Co, Amazon, and Microsoft.
You’ll get honest insights on how to present your story in a way that resonates with top universities and companies.
Network with Elite students and professors
Get mentored by students just like yourself who got accepted into the world's most elite universities like Oxford, Yale, and Cornell.
Many of these students now intern at global firms like Goldman Sachs, McKinsey and Co, Amazon, and Microsoft.
You’ll get honest insights on how to present your story in a way that resonates with top universities and companies.
You've heard from the professor already, now hear what the students have to say:
I really wish I had something like the EWC when I was in high school. I remember feeling totally lost when writing my Common App. It was very difficult to prove I actually cared about economics beyond just grades or a personal statement. Everyone talks about 'passion,' but how do you show you have more of it than 30 thousand other students?
Carolina
Economics at Cornell
I didn’t know about the Economics World Cup when I was in school, and I wish I had. Opportunities like that give you clarity early on about whether this path is really for you.
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Hao
Mathematics at Oxford
2024 EWC Winner
It has been a pleasure to take part in this challenge; it has given me much needed confidence to pursue economics at university after facing 4/5 rejections which made me feel I wasn't good enough. This has reassured self-confidence in my own ability.
Participant
I took Physics and History in high school, but doing the EWC made me realize my passion for Development Economics. Now I major in political science.
2024 EWC Finalist
I really enjoyed participating in the Economics World Cup. Funnily, in the week of the competition, I was pushing back FIFA to work on our team solution.
2024 EWC Finalist
I like how the case studies are very creative (but still related to real life) and open-ended; It provides us with space and flexibility to devise our solution. It also helped me realize that even basic services such as fire protection required immensely complicated decision-making processes behind the scenes.
2024 EWC Winner
There was no 'right answer' so to say. It was a good change to the sort of stuff we're expected to do in school.
Participant
What I valued most wasn't the competition itself, but how it redefined what academic excellence can look like.
2024 EWC Finalist
In class, I am normally the quiet one who enjoys econ but never really speaks up. EWC changed that. Being on a team forced me to voice my ideas, especcialy because of the time pressure.
2024 EWC Finalist
Most competitions test what you know. The EWC tested how well I could think. It asked questions Google couldn't answer, and that made it feel awesome and worthwhile.
2024 EWC Finalist
There was 'no right answer' so to say. It was a good change to the sort of stuff we're expected to do in school.
2024 EWC Winner
What I valued most wasn't the competition itself, but how it redefined what academic excellence can look like.
2024 EWC Finalist
In class, I am normally the quiet one who enjoys econ but never really speaks up. EWC changed that. Being on a team forced me to voice my ideas, especially because of the time pressure.
2024 EWC Finalist
Most competitions test what you know. The EWC tested how well I could think. It asked questions Google couldn't answer, and that made it feel awesome and worthwhile.
2024 EWC Finalist
There was 'no right answer' so to say. It was a good change to the sort of stuff we're expected to do in school.
2024 EWC Winner
What I valued most wasn't the competition itself, but how it redefined what academic excellence can look like.
2024 EWC Finalist
In class, I am normally the quiet one who enjoys econ but never really speaks up. EWC changed that. Being on a team forced me to voice my ideas, especially because of the time pressure.
2024 EWC Finalist
Most competitions test what you know. The EWC tested how well I could think. It asked questions Google couldn't answer, and that made it feel awesome and worthwhile.
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Hear what the students have to say:
I took Physics and History in high school, but doing the EWC made me realize my passion for Development Economics. Now I major in political science.
Participant
I really enjoyed participating in the Economics World Cup. Funnily, in the week of the competition, I found myself pushing back FIFA to work on our team solution.
2024 Finalist
There was 'no right answer' so to say. It was a good change to the sort of stuff we're expected to do in school.
2024 Finalist
I like how the case studies are very creative (but still related to real life) and open-ended; It provides us with space and flexibility to devise our solution. It also helped me realize that even basic services such as fire protection required immensely complicated decision-making processes behind the scenes.
2024 Finalist