The National Mathematical Modeling Competition for College Students was founded in 1992 and held once a year. It has become the largest basic subject competition in domestic universities and the largest mathematical modeling competition in the world.

In 20 18, 1449 colleges/campuses and 42 128 teams (38,573 undergraduate teams and 3,555 junior college teams) from 34 provinces/cities/regions (including Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan Province) and the United States and Singapore signed up for the competition.

Proposition requirement

Competition topics generally come from practical problems in the fields of science and engineering technology, humanities and social sciences (including economic management) that have been properly simplified and handled; As long as the contestants have studied mathematics courses in colleges and universities, they are not required to master in-depth professional knowledge in advance, but the contestants (a team of three) have more room to complete the competition tasks within three days.

Because the competition allows the contestants to consult all kinds of materials (including the Internet), it is impossible to find the answers to the application questions directly in the published literature. The competition is divided into undergraduate groups and specialist groups, which can be indicated in the application questions or materials of the competition questions.