Showcase your skills
Practice being an analytics professional by using your programming, data wrangling, analysis, visualization, and presentation skills all in one competition. Provide our panel of analytics experts recommendations and actions based on your data analysis. We hope you join us for this year's fabulous case competition.
Solve real-world business challenges with analytics
The Business Analytics Case Competition is a chance for the brightest graduate-level analytics students in the country to come together and solve a real-world business problem. During the competition, teams will perform a deep-dive analysis and consider multiple data points before making their recommendations to a panel of industry experts.
“Getting involved in a case competition was something I never thought of doing because I felt like my skills weren’t there yet. But to be able to compete with others in a real-world situation and try to drive solutions, that’s been great.”
2025 Competition
This year's competition will take place in person on the Iowa City campus on April 3 - 4, 2025.
Rules, Information, and Eligibility
Learn more about the registration process, team eligibility, competition rules, travel information and more.
Pre-registration
Pre-registration is Monday, January 6 - Friday, February 7, 2025.
If selected, registration fees are $200 per team.
Pre-registration is now closed.
2025 Case Sponsor
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Prizes
$ 5,000
First place
$ 3,500
Second place
$ 1,500
Third place
Participants
- Teams of 3-4
- Enrolled in master's program
- No more than 16 teams allowed
- Only 1 team per school
2025 High-level Timeline Overview
| Pre-registration | January 6 - February 7 |
| Team invitations sent | February 10 - 14 |
| Final Team Rosters Due | February 28 |
| Case competition launch | March 20 |
| Final round submissions due | April 3 @ 8 am central |
| Welcome Event | April 3 @ 6 -8 pm central |
| Case competition day | April 4 |
“I keep coming back because I absolutely love what this competition represents. It’s one of the few ones, because I’ve looked around. This is one of the unique ones. I love the energy, I love the structure and I love what I learn from it.”
“How could we say no? Really looking forward to it. Students can be very creative and we can learn something from the new techniques that they are coming up with.”
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Contact us
Have questions about the competition? Need to connect with the organizer? Reach out today.
Kristine A. Arens
Associate Professor of Practice, Business Analytics
1-319-335-0892
Iowa-BACC@uiowa.edu