The University of San Francisco has maintained a dedication to educating students about data and business analytics. For the last few years, USF has sent teams to participate in hackathons and analytics competitions, reflecting the university’s dedication to these topics. In the last year, one undergraduate team and one graduate team represented the University of San Francisco.

Undergraduate Experience

Led by advisors, Mouwafac Sidaoui and Shivani Shukla, the undergraduate team traveled to New York to compete in a business analytics competition last May. The team was rewarded for their work and analysis by getting third place in presentation. To learn more about this competition, click here to read an article by USF’s Lonny Wysard. The students were grateful for the opportunity to work with data and compete with other schools.

“It was so rewarding to be recognized and display our hard work.” -Mansi Gupta

“It was a great hands-on experience to use everything we have been taught and putting it into practice.” -Sam Alberto

“The competition opened my eyes to the power data has on the world around us” -Mohammad Kaddoura

“It taught all of us extremely marketable skills that are in growing demand worldwide” -Kaishvi Parikh

Graduate Experience

 

In a collaboration with the University of San Francisco’s MBA program and GoodData, graduate students competed to display how using data can transform business decisions for the better.