Live BCG Case Interview – Higher Education Sector

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Most candidates have practiced cases in the most commonly known industries – healthcare, retail, financial services. The education sector is different: different stakeholders, different success metrics, different motives.

And with top firms increasingly turning to non-traditional cases – every McKinsey interviewee in 2025 received at least 1 non-traditional case – candidates must be prepared for these types of cases.

On June 30 at 12PM ET, Management Consulted coach Yusuf runs a live candidate through a BCG-style strategy case set in the education sector, expert difficulty. Watch and follow along during every piece: opening structure, quantitative analysis, creative problem-solving, final recommendation.

Yusuf is a former BCG Associate out of the Johannesburg office, where he ran case prep workshops for BCG's own recruitment programs. He knows what top candidates do differently – and the mistakes they avoid – to land an offer.

What you'll see:

• How to build a structure for an ambiguous, multi-stakeholder strategy problem with no obvious profit lever
• How a strong candidate works through layered quantitative analysis under time pressure
• How to deliver a clean, evidence-backed final recommendation when the answer isn't clean

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