Global Student Challenge
Global Student Challenge is an online construction business game open to students across the world, studying an honours course within the built environment.
About Global Student Challenge
Launched in 2014, Global Student Challenge is an annual competition run by the Chartered Institute of Building that provides built environment students with an opportunity to apply their learning to a real-world scenario of running their own virtual construction company.
Competition Timeline
Phase One: Registration
Entry for the competition is open now and will close on the 7 April 2021. You can register for the competition here.
Phase Two: Pre-Competition
The first phase of competition begins on the 15 March 2021. In this phase, your team will be able to access the game software and begin to refine your strategy.
Phase Three: Competition
On the 14 April 2021 the first round of data will be released to all teams. There will be six rounds of competition, taking place over six weeks.
Phase Four: The GSC Final
The top six teams after the Early Years will be announced as our finalists on the 25 May 2021. The finals week is scheduled to be held virtually in June 2021.
Year Established
Teams Competed
Possible Finalist teams
Universities competed
“University provides all the theory and information but it’s the experiences such as Global Student Challenge that really put all the pieces together, which is an invaluable learning experience”
Luke Lubrano, 2015 Finalist, University of Newcastle, Australia