First-Year
Health Administration
Case Competition

The Ohio State University First-Year Health Administration Case Competition provides first-year graduate students from health administration programs across the country an opportunity to put what they have learned into practice with a real-life case. It is designed to be a superb supplementary exercise to the graduate school experience, especially for first year students, who often do not have the chance to participate in case competitions.

Our case competition is capped at 24 teams.

This is the only health administration case competition in the country that is organized, coordinated, and executed solely by students. The Association for Future Healthcare Executives (AFHE) is the student group that is responsible for the planning and execution of the event. The Ohio State University is very proud of the effort made by its MHA students to put on this annual event, and of how the case competition has grown every year to include more top-tier programs and schools. This year's case competition will allow teams an opportunity to present their recommendations before a national team of judges who are all working professionals in fields related to health administration.

Thanks to generous OSU MHA alumni contributions, we have increased our prize amounts, and we are now awarding 1st, 2nd, 3rd, AND 4th place!

1st place: $6,000

2nd place: $4,500

3rd place: $3,000

4th place: $1,500

Questions?

Email us at MHA-CaseComp@osu.edu

13th Annual
Case Comp Details

April 4-5, 2024

The Blackwell Inn &

Pfahl Conference Center

Located on OSU's campus. Teams will receive a link to book in our hotel room block upon registering.

Rooms are limited.

Registration opens 1/8/24

Registration closes 2/16/24 at 11:59pm

Case Comp is limited to 24 teams.

Registration is now OPEN!

Email MHA-CaseComp@osu.edu for the link.

Case Writing Partner

The case will released on March 1st at 5pm, and teams will have 3 weeks to complete the case (due 3/22 at 11:59pm). All teams who submit a case will travel to OSU to present. Teams will submit a slide deck as their final deliverable. Once submitted, teams may not make changes to their slide deck. Teams will be assigned a team letter. Teams may name themselves in their slide deck, but names must not be identifiable to team members or related to school names.

Tentative Schedule

April 4, 2024 (The Blackwell Inn)

Early afternoon....................................................Teams arrive in Columbus & Check in @ The Blackwell

5:00PM.......................................................................................................................................Team Registration & Team Photos

5:30PM...................................................................................................................................Networking Happy Hour (Cash Bar)

6:30PM.................................................................................................Dinner & Leadership Development Symposium

A unique aspect of this case competition experience include the keynote speaker address from the Case Writing Partner and dinner at the annual Leadership Development Symposium (LDS), an event that takes place the evening before the case competition itself. This networking opportunity allows student teams to interact with one another, as well as students, faculty and MHA alumni from The Ohio State University. Preliminary Round presentation times will be drawn at the end of LDS.

April 5, 2024 (Multiple Locations)

7:00AM.................................................................................................................................Breakfast provided (location TBD)

8AM - 11:30AM.................................................................................................................Preliminary Round (location TBD)

12:00PM.........................................................................................................................................Lunch provided (location TBD)

1:00PM..................................................................................................................................Final Round, Top 6 (The Blackwell)

5:30PM...............................................................................................................................Awards Ceremony (The Blackwell)

6:00PM.................................................................................................................................Dessert Reception (The Blackwell)