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EY CAFTA Case Championship

Ernst & Young

EY's flagship case competition combining finance, strategy, and consulting tracks. Teams work on real advisory challenges across Tax, Transaction Advisory, and Consulting services.

Mark your calendar

Registration usually opens in Jan–Apr. Visit the official site for updates.

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Most case comps are team events · find your co-founder early.

Usual Season

Jan–Apr

Prize & Perks

PPO at EY + ₹3 Lakhs prize pool

Eligibility

All MBA students

Format

Corporate Comp

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Why this competition matters

PPO / PPI opportunity · top finishers get a pre-placement offer or interview, bypassing the regular shortlist.

Resume signal · recognised by recruiters across consulting, FMCG, tech, and finance recruiters.

Real-world problem · cases mirror live business issues from Ernst & Young, not textbook exercises.

PPO at EY + ₹3 Lakhs prize pool · prize and recognition that travel on your resume for years.

Your prep checklist

  1. 1Read the brief 3x. Note the exact ask · don't solve the problem you wish was asked.
  2. 2Pick 2 frameworks max · Market Entry, Profitability, or GTM cover 80% of finance cases.
  3. 3Run a 30-min hypothesis sprint with your team before opening Excel.
  4. 4Build your deck back-to-front: recommendation first, then evidence, then appendix.
  5. 5Stress test: have one teammate red-team your numbers and assumptions.
  6. 6Rehearse the 60-second pitch · judges decide in the first slide.

Topics & themes

#finance#consulting#strategy#advisory#ppo

Recent winners

1
IIM Ahmedabad
2
IIM Bangalore
3
ISB

Frequently asked questions

What is EY CAFTA Case Championship?

EY's flagship case competition combining finance, strategy, and consulting tracks. Teams work on real advisory challenges across Tax, Transaction Advisory, and Consulting services.

Who is eligible for EY CAFTA Case Championship?

All MBA students

When does EY CAFTA Case Championship take place?

EY CAFTA Case Championship usually runs around Jan–Apr.

What are the prizes and rewards for EY CAFTA Case Championship?

PPO at EY + ₹3 Lakhs prize pool

Does EY CAFTA Case Championship offer a PPO or PPI?

Yes — EY CAFTA Case Championship offers pre-placement offer (PPO) / pre-placement interview (PPI) opportunities with Ernst & Young.

How do I register for EY CAFTA Case Championship?

Open EY CAFTA Case Championship on CaseCompass and sign in to get the official registration link, plus a prep checklist and free AI practice cases.

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The Indian MBA case competition directory

We track 76 case competitions open to Indian MBA and PGDM students — corporate flagships, B-school club events and platform-hosted challenges — and keep each listing current with its registration deadline, eligibility, team size, prize pool and whether it has historically converted into a pre-placement offer or interview. 15 are accepting registrations right now. Listings are refreshed daily from organiser announcements; nothing here sits behind a paywall or a sign-up.

What is a case competition, and why do MBA students chase them?

A case competition is a time-boxed business problem set by a company or B-school club. Teams of two to four get a real brief — a declining category, a new market, a broken supply chain — and a few days to build a recommendation, then defend it on slides in front of a jury of managers. For an MBA student in India they matter for three reasons: national finalists routinely convert into pre-placement interviews or offers, the prize money is real, and a shortlist on your CV signals structured problem-solving in a way coursework cannot.

Which competitions actually offer a PPO or PPI?

Corporate flagships are where the interview conversions sit — the ones run directly by companies rather than by student clubs. We flag every listing that has historically offered a pre-placement offer or interview with a PPO/PPI badge, and you can filter the directory down to just those. Club-run competitions are still worth entering for the practice and the prize pool, but treat the PPO tag as the signal if placement conversion is your goal.

Who is eligible?

Most corporate competitions are open to first- and second-year students of full-time MBA/PGDM programmes, and many restrict entry to a named list of campuses. A few are open to any postgraduate student, and some run separate undergraduate tracks. Every listing here carries its own eligibility line and, where the organiser publishes one, the list of colleges allowed — check it before you build a team, because campus restrictions are the single most common reason a registration gets rejected.

When do they open?

The Indian case-competition calendar clusters around the academic year. The heaviest run is roughly July through November, when corporates launch their flagship seasons ahead of final placements, with a second wave from January to March aimed at first-years. Deadlines are short — often two to three weeks from announcement to first-round submission — which is why the directory lists a usual month for recurring competitions and a live deadline countdown for the ones currently open.

How should I prepare?

The judged skill is the same one consulting interviews test: break an ambiguous problem into parts, size the parts, pick the one that moves the number, and say it in a way a busy executive can act on. That is trainable. Work through structured frameworks so your first slide is not improvised, drill guesstimates so your market sizing holds up under questioning, and run live cases against our AI interviewer, which pushes back on loose logic the way a jury does.

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