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How participants rate the UBC:
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Some of the comments students and student societies make about the Universities Business Challenge!
"The Universities Business Challenge is an outstanding experience, combining the pressure of working under time constraints while harnessing the strengths of all the team-members to make an efficient group. It is an excellent point on a CV and our members have found it a useful talking point at interviews. I would thoroughly recommend it to everyone – if they are lucky enough to get the chance".
Peter Kwok, President, Imperial College Students Society
"The UBC Worldwide was an outstanding event that has developed our employability skills. It combined fun with a great competitive challenge which brought out team-work, time management and working under stress and pressure. We had to apply theory in a realistic business situation with tight deadlines. I would thoroughly recommend participating in the UBC in their country to other students".
Anglia Ruskin University
"We worked very hard and got to the Grand Final. It was a fantastic experience. We learned to work together as a team and deal with pressure....I would say have a go....it's a great experience".
Regents Business School
"The Universities Business Challenge is a very helpful tool in order to understand the inter-relationship between all the different subjects and matters we have been taught in school. It is a real problem solving case study and should be continued as long as possible. The great advantage is, that there is a kind of challenge amongst the universities, which makes this event even more interesting".
Lancaster University
"The UBC was an excellent chance to experience the highs and lows of team work and to learn how to manage a successful company. Also an invaluable opportunity to meet top employers".
Durham University
"I really enjoyed working on the UBC. It helped me put a lot of the business theory I was learning into practice, and it's a good thing to have on your CV as well. I would definitely recommend it to other students to develop their commercial awareness".
Oxford Brookes University
"I think it was good practice, actually trying to put some of the theory learnt from business courses into practical use. I also think it was good working in teams and making decisions together. People should enter if they would like some more practical style experience".
Birmingham University
"The challenge is an all-round excellent experience. It's been extremely useful for gaining a clearer understanding of the key elements running a business and particularly helpful for getting to grips with financial information, an area I've always been intimidated by previously. It has also been very rewarding on a personal level, through working within a great team and the excitement of getting good results. I would definitely recommend it to anybody with an interest in fun and business".
Lancaster University
"I think the UBC is a good thing because it is the closest thing to gaining real experience in operational and strategic, corporate management. I gained more insight into the complexities of competitive management; a better team-working ability, and improved time-management skills. I think others should participate in order to experience the pragmatic applications of theoretical academic knowledge. It's also a lot of fun".
Sheffield University
"Want to know how to do business properly, without getting sacked? Fantastic".
Buckingham University
"I think that the Universities' Business Challenge has been a brilliant opportunity to learn about business functions and decision making. However I think that it has helped me mainly with my personal skills. I have become much more confident in group situations and discussions, and competing (and winning!) in the semi-finals gave me a great confidence in my presentation skills. In addition I have interviews coming soon with major firms for summer placements and I think that having this competition on my application forms was a major reason for me getting these interviews".
Lancaster University
"The UBC competition was a good experience for me. I found the competition both challenging and enjoyable. I would recommend entering the competition to anyone who would like to gain experience of what is involved with being a practising management accountant". Trinity and All Saints University. "I thought the UBC was an exciting challenge and helped to give me insight into the business world. Thank you for providing me with this opportunity".
Sheffield University
"I found the challenge to be an interesting practical application of the theory I've been learning. It is also a good chance to develop team work skills and have fun in the process".
Oxford Brookes University
"Our team members very much enjoyed taking part in the business challenge. It was useful in the fact that it allowed us to practice the theory of accounting that we had been learning. This should be beneficial both in our exams and when we finally brave the real work. I would definitely recommend it".
Essex University
"I found the Business Challenge very helpful for final year students. The fact that the Challenge required us to run a company helped us to put this information into practice. It gave me a deeper understanding of the factors involved in running a business and how a market can be affected by management decisions. I would encourage other people to take part in this Challenge for all the reasons above, as well as the fact that this would look good on anyone's CV ".
Westminster University
"We really enjoyed the UBC and found that it gave us a deeper insight into the workings of a business by allowing us to apply out learnt theories, whilst also learning the market responsiveness of our decisions. We found it great fun and also helped us bond well together as a team".
Bournemouth University
