The 7th Annual Big Data Health Science Student Case Competition will be held virtually between February 6th- 8th 2026, before the University of South Carolina’s National Big Data Health Science Conference, scheduled for the following weekend, February 12th-13th 2026. Last year’s champions hailed from Oklahoma State University—now it’s time for others to step up and try to take the title!

The Big Data Health Science Student Case Competition is intended to provide enthusiastic teams of graduate and senior undergraduate students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge to analyzing big datasets in health care. Specific details about this year’s challenge will be provided later.

Each participating team will analyze the case and datasets to be released on Friday, February 6th, 2026, at noon EST. During this period, team members will work together to present their methods, analyses, and results at the Big Data Health Science Center Case Competition virtually. A panel of industry and academic experts will judge the presentations based on each team’s use of full analytics tools/processes, from framing the problem to data use, model building, innovation, and communicating the solutions to decision-makers. 

Applications are open until January 28th, 2026. More details Here!