The NEC National Economics Challenge is organized by the Council for Economic Education and is widely supported and recognized by prominent financial institutions on Wall Street and top universities in the United States. Each year, over 20% of the finalists in the NEC Finals are admitted to elite universities such as Harvard, Yale, and Stanford.
Recently, the final of 2025NEC China was successfully concluded. About 500 teams participated in this year's tournament in the DR category nationwide, and only 8 teams finally succeeded in advancing to the global tournament. Among them, VMA team stood out with an excellent result of ranking first in Shenzhen in terms of total team score.For the fourth consecutive year, VMA students have successfully advanced to the NEC Global Tournament.
The VMA team performed well in the national competition, winning the Silver Honor for the National Overall Team , the Silver Award for the National Qualifying test overall team,the Bronze Honor fo the critical thinking overall team,and the first place in the city in terms of the team total score. In addition, team members were awarded the Bronze medal for the top scoring challgenger qualifying test , the distinction honor for the individual qualifying test. One of the students got the microeconomics hall of fame.