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Participants come from all faculties...
The Universities Business Challenge is not just for Business Studies students. Students in Economics, Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, Law, Mathematics, Accounting, Medicine and a wide range of Arts and Sciences faculties have gained an invaluable understanding of the business world.
Improve employability skills....
Participating undergraduates tell us year after year how taking part in the IBM UBC has helped them make the transition from university to the world of work.
"The UBC reflects the ethos that brings out the qualities in the participants that we are looking for in potential employees: team-working abilities, tenacity, persistence..." - says Sonia Bannon of IBM.
Meet potential employers....
IBM is the UBC lead sponsor and together with the regional semi-final sponsors - Procter & Gamble, Citi, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and the Royal Navy - they represent some of the UK's top employers.
You'll be in challenging company....
Previous winners have included: Anglia Ruskin University, Sheffield Hallam University, Manchester Business School, Imperial College, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Durham, Cambridge, Swansea, Farnborough and Sussex. Semi-finalists have included teams from: Sheffield-Hallam, Imperial, Lancaster, Sheffield, Oxford, UCL, UMIST, Reading, Southampton, Loughborough, Anglia Ruskin, Aberystwyth, Bristol, Trinity All Saints, Bournemouth, Oxford Brookes, Essex, Birmingham, Dundee, Bell College, Regents Business School, University of Central Lancashire, Royal Holloway. Click here for the Hall of Fame
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