Is it the “professional” in Bangladesh University of Professionals doing the work? Might just be the case, because the curriculum actually feels like it is built to manufacture professionals from scratch.

I put this theory to three people who can confirm my assumption. Tousif Kamal, a five-time BizComp winner himself, and Abrar Hasan Sami and Saminul Islam, three-time winners each. With their perspective in hand, let’s call this my opinion, backed by expert testimony.

What is BizComp

A business competition, or BizComp, usually runs through multiple rounds where a team solves a business challenge. It often involves case analysis, OVC, presentation, and more. Here, big stakeholders sit in the room, which makes BizComp less a student exercise and more a bridge into the corporate world.

These competitions are tough and practical enough that winning one isn’t just an ECA achievement. It comes with a huge prize pool, and sometimes it can give winners an upper hand in the job market.

Why BUP is there in every BizComp

Inside BUP, especially the Faculty of Business Studies (FBS), BizComp isn’t a competition. It’s a lifestyle. If you don’t participate, you’ll feel the FOMO.

Tousif put it simply, “It’s the environment all over BUP that makes the students more competitive to stand out as the champions are all over.”

The hype is self-perpetuating. BUPians now show up to competitions with their own floor, because anyone who’s gone up against one knows the odds of winning are not in their favour.

Surprisingly, all three credited BUP’s strict curriculum, which sounds almost ironic until you think about it. The pressure of BizComp’s rounds doesn’t overwhelm them, because apparently nothing overwhelms a BUPian who’s already survived a BUP semester.

I’d know. BUP builds you like a pressure cooker. Just when you think you’ve hit the ceiling, the next semester finds a new one. You can call it universal student life, but you need to be a BUPian to actually feel what I mean.

Clubs here play a major role too. As Sami put it, “BUP clubs are really strong, they tend to teach the juniors and help the peers as much as they can with informal discussions, mentorship and personal friend groups who work in teams to bring out the best of competitions.”

And last but not least, there’s consistency, which is the least glamorous part of any winning streak. Tousif and Sami each entered 10+ competitions before winning their first title. Losing ten times in the same arena and showing up an eleventh time is its own kind of skill, and once the wins started, they didn’t seem to stop.

It is worth noting that most BizComp participants and winners come from a business background, but people from other majors are doing well too. A good team needs diversified minds, not a room full of the same major. At the end of the day, it is the ultimate dedication that makes things work.

Saminul gets the last word that summarises the magic spell, “It does not matter if you win or not, just try to participate. Case Comps give you a learning that can help you be confident during high stake interviews and FGD sessions.” I personally believe that this mindset might be the ultimate reason BUP keeps winning.