Program Overview

UBC Global Masters Postgraduate Challenge

Helping postgraduates achieve their personal best career aspirations

UBC Worldwide Undergraduate Challenge

The world’s leading event for employability and enterprise skills

Welcome to the UBC

Helping universities prepare students for career success

The Universities Business Challenge is the world’s leading online simulation-based inter-university competition designed to develop Undergraduate and Postgraduate employability and enterprise skills. Trusted and supported by leading universities and graduate employers over 46,000 students have benefitted from taking part since 1998.

Inter-university business competitions designed to develop employability, inspire enterprise

The Universities Business Challenge is all about employability skills development. At their core, employability skills reflect a person’s openness to adapt and innovate. In an era where technological advancements and market dynamics evolve rapidly, the ability to acquire and apply new competencies is invaluable.

Key Skills Development

• Develops key outcomes employers are looking for: remote and face-to-face collaboration between team members, the ability to make decisions by consensus and to present ideas in a persuasive way online, the ability to use a range of online tools.

Trusted Experiential Learning

• Provides trusted experiential learning through a range of engaging business simulations developed by the Learning Dynamics authoring team and delivered and facilitated via The Simulation Space online platform.

Eligibility

• The UBC is an annual inter-university competition open to all Undergraduate and Postgraduate students from any faculty, run in two separate competitions for teams of up to 5 students.
• The Undergraduate Challenge is run over 3 rounds starting in October.
• The Postgraduate Global Masters competition is run over 3 rounds starting in January.

Energising and Engaging Content

• Teams will be running a series of simulated companies with carefully designed energising content and exercises not only to make maximum profits, build market share and satisfy customers but aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goals: 12. Responsible Consumption and Production; 14. Life below water and 9. Industry Innovation & Infrastructure.

Fast-track Student Success

• Semi-Finals and Grand Finals: a rich experience with simulations, team work on creative exercises, team video presentations, plus inspiring guest speakers and practical tools such as strengths profiling these events are facilitated by the LD team supported by expert speakers.

Firepower to Land an Internship

• The UBC Undergraduate and Postgraduate Challenges give your students a unique employability experience: ‘My UBC experience gave me the firepower to land an internship with a leading firm of accountants’ – University of Liverpool team member

Certificates of Participation

• Team Members who compete in the UBC can download a personalised certificate of participation to include in their personal academic profile, CV or resume.
• Personalised certificates are awarded for each round completed.

University Registration

• Entries for both challenges are open from April each year so make sure your university is entered.

Testimonials

• ‘The University of Dundee are delighted to engage with the UBC yearly in an ongoing relationship which sees our student teams flourish.’ – Craig Reoch, Careers Adviser – School of Business, University of Dundee
• ‘Participating in the UBC competition has been incredible.’ – Mohammad Idrus, Southampton University Business School – winning team leader.

World-Class Online Simulations

• We provide trusted experiential learning through a range of engaging business simulations developed by the Learning Dynamics authoring team and delivered via The Simulation Space online platform which runs on all devices.

Certificates of Participation

• Team members who compete in the UBC can download a personalised certificate of participation to include in their personal profile, CV or resume.
• Personalised certificates are awarded for each round completed.

University Partners

• Find out more about our university partners.

Insight Partner

• Find out more about our insight partner.

Corporate Partner

• Find out more about our corporate partner.

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