18-month Master of Real Estate Development Program students Rachel Bradshaw, Jalecia Coley, Brendan Swinehart, and Joseph Toledo comprised the MRED graduate student team for the Spring 2020 CASE Competition hosted by the Columbia Business School. Out of twenty-seven teams that submitted entries, the Clemson team was selected as one of the twelve semi-finalists and were invited to compete in New York in late March 2020. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CASE competition was cancelled and the team did not travel to New York to present.
About the CASE: The CASE is an international real estate development competition that provides graduate student teams the opportunity to showcase their real estate knowledge, creativity, and problem solving abilities by analyzing and programming a complex real world site. The CASE is organized and hosted by The CASE Collaborative. The CASE is not an invitation-only competition; it is open to any graduate student team in the world.
We are proud that the MRED student team was chosen as one of this year’s semi-finalists among teams from other prestigious universities:
Brandeis University
Clemson University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Georgetown University
Insituto de Empresa (Spain)
London Business School
MIT
NYU
York University
Unlike other competitions, The CASE focuses on real estate acquisition, development programming, and investment underwriting at the asset level. The competition mimics the circumstances and challenges that students of real estate finance, construction, planning, and design will encounter in the development industry after graduation.
Learn more about the CASE Competition here.