Business Analytics Competition

1st Place

Oklahoma City University

2nd Place

University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce

3rd Place

Washington University in St. Louis

Honorable Mentions

University of Minnesota Duluth

Minnesota State University Mankato

• Teams must consist of 2 - 4 undergraduate students currently enrolled in a program at the accredited higher education institution they will represent.
• Each team must include a faculty advisor from their home institution. Student teams must register for the competition under the name of their faculty advisor.
• Students and their faculty advisor must attend the conference to compete.

BAC@MC features a two-round competition, both of which require student teams to analyze and glean business insight from a competition-specific dataset.

Round One:

• Data and questions for the first phase of the competition are made available to registered teams in January.
• Student teams work at their home institutions to analyze the supplied dataset to develop solutions to the Round One questions.
• Each team prepares and submits a slide deck summarizing their analysis and answers to the questions.
• Team members will need to be able to be available to answer questions on their analysis from a panel of judges.

Round Two:

• Finalist Teams will be announced. Teams may choose to focus on a specific part of their analysis from Round One or a particular aspect of their conclusions or recommendations. 
• No additional data analysis is required for this round.
• Finalist teams have approximately 1.5 hours to prepare and present a 10-minute slide-based summary of their findings, which they will present to Round Two judges.

Faculty advisors attending the conference will constitute the set of Round One judges. Round One scores will be based on the ratings given by faculty advisors (advisors will not be asked to evaluate their own team).

Round Two will be evaluated by a panel of practitioners representing various industries who value business analytics. A team’s overall score will be determined by a combination of their Round One and Round Two scores.

The top three teams will be recognized during the award ceremony and will receive monetary awards:

• First Place: $2,500
• Second Place: $1,500
• Third Place: $1000

Other honorable mentions will be recognized.