Live BCG Case Interview – Higher Education Sector

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On June 30 at 12PM ET, Management Consulted coach Yusuf Shaikh runs a live candidate through a BCG-style strategy case set in the higher education sector, expert difficulty. You'll watch every stage: 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 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

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 outside-the-box cases.

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