HORIZON ACADEMIC RESEARCH
Horizon Academic is a trimester-long online research program for extraordinary high school students to refine their interest in an academic subject by developing a college-level research project under the individualized guidance of a professor, lecturer, or graduate researcher from a globally renowned university, allowing them to stand out in their future academic careers. Horizon scholars choose their own field of inquiry and work with their professor to develop a unique research proposal. After a trimester of reading, writing, and exploring, Horizon scholars finish their final projects, most often a 20-25 page research paper. By showcasing a student's very best work, Horizon gives students the opportunity to get letters of recommendation, seek outside recognition of the quality of their work, and demonstrate their exceptional talent to universities.
By the numbers
We have had the privilege of working with some of the best high school students in the world on academic research projects since 2016.
We have worked with 391 students to complete independent research projects though our program.
Our team of instructors, teaching assistants, and program staff have a combined total of more than 450 years of teaching, mentorship, and program management experience.
Of class time with professors and our instructional staff.
Is the final product that students complete.
With whom we collaborate, drawn from every Ivy League university, as well as Oxford, Cambridge, UCLA, Stanford, Georgia Tech, and MIT.
65% of our students in Summer 2020 hailed from the United States.
Our international students and faculty hail from 34 countries.
We offer 14 subjects and more than 300 subtopics for student research.
Administered from New Jersey, Horizon works with students around the world and faculty members at every Ivy League university, as well as renowned universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, Duke, Georgia Tech, and the University of Chicago. Our faculty range from PhD candidates to tenured professors, but they are united in their passion for instilling research skills among high school students and the satisfaction of witnessing their students develop causal research interests into fully fledged research manuscripts.
