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Welcome to GW DECA

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Synthesizing tomorrow’s leaders

DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the globe.

Our student members leverage their DECA experience to become academically prepared, community oriented, professionally responsible, experienced leaders.

DECA enhances the preparation for college and careers by providing co-curricular programs that integrate into classroom instruction, applying learning in the context of business, connecting to business and the community and promoting competition.

For the last 60 years, we have built a network of over 10 million people from three continents. Join us as we become the future.


Tomorrow's Faces of Business Around the Globe

Image 1 Academically Prepared Students who participate in DECA, on average, have a GPA that is one point higher than their peers.
Image 2 Community Oriented DECA prides itself on giving back to the community and being environmentally responsible. We are proud to support the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Image 3 Professionally Responsible Not only teaching ethics, but demanding them, is at the core of our organization. We groom tomorrow's leaders to be accountable leaders.
Image 4 Experienced Leaders Competitions, exams, role-plays, presentations are only part of the DECA experience. Our leaders are proven in and out of the classroom.