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VIEWPOINT, TEXAS I McCOMBS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 

Denis Diderot, French writer and philosopher, 1713-1784 

2010-2011 Annual Report I 2

Welcome to 

Viewpoint, Texas 

I hope you will take some time to explore www.mccombs.utexas.edu/ 

viewpointtx/ to see your business school through a fresh, 360-degree 

lens. You may be surprised at the breadth and diversity of what happens 

within these walls. 

You know us as one of the truly great undergraduate programs in the 

country, a top-tier MBA program residing in four major cities and the 

number-one accounting program anywhere, but let’s keep going. The 

school is home to a red-hot technology commercialization degree, we’re 

a top-10 business research powerhouse, the benchmark of teaching 

excellence at the university, a productive Ph.D. incubator, the highestranked 

graduate entrepreneurship program in Texas, and we just 

launched a consumer poll that will shape energy production, innovation, 

and policy decisions in the years ahead. 

Companies from Beijing to São Paulo fly executive teams to Austin for 

our customized education. High school teachers from El Paso to Houston 

to Brownsville send teenagers to our campus for leadership immersion. 

Elite academic institutions post their faculty here to enrich and enlarge 

their perspective. And parents all across Texas just hope their children 

will study hard enough to get in! 

When you add the number of university students who take Business 

Foundation courses to our total enrollment, it’s clear that McCombs 

positively impacts the lives and careers of 10,000 students each year— 

about 20 percent of the total UT Austin student population. As the 

popular T-shirts say, Texas Means Business. 

2010 – 2011 ADVISORY 

COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT… 

4 

New and Growing 

8 

Education Dollars and Sense 

10 

Research and Teaching 

Share Spotlight 

13 

Student Body Snapshots 

16 

Positive Jobs Picture 

18 

Rankings: A Top-Tier View 

From this viewpoint, you will quickly realize that the school of business 

at Texas is not a singular academic experience; our goals are not easily 

pigeonholed, nor does our model match a one-size-fits-all analysis. 

Our mission is to educate leaders who create value for society, an 

objective approached in myriad and thoughtful ways, with efficiency and 

superlative outcomes. 

I’m personally grateful for your loyal support and involvement in this 

meaningful work and ask you to raise your voices and your influence on 

behalf of our mission in the year ahead. 

DEAN 

Thomas 

W.Gilligan 

Dean Thomas W. Gilligan 


New and Growing 

It’s been a year of challenge and opportunity in which budget and resource 

realities have been faced down and the hot summer has sizzled with debate 

about the priorities of higher education. The push for excellence at McCombs 

continues nonetheless. 

Texas Executive Education continues two-year rebound from 2008-09. Significant new 

custom programs this year included Sinopec, ExxonMobil, USAA, National Oilwell Varco, and 

Polycom, with a diverse mix of new programs in the pipeline. Revenues are up 40 percent and 

faculty participation has gone from fewer than 70 to more than 80 in the past two years. 

TOTAL EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM DAYS 

+40% 

Revenue 

AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center revenues and cash flow impress. 

Given current performance the center will easily provide sufficient revenues to maintain its 

four-star status and continue to contribute to the academic mission of the McCombs School of 

Business. 2011-to-2010 comparison: 

• Total revenues up 17 percent 

• Cash flows up 141 percent 

Energy careers gain in popularity. More McCombs students are focusing on energy thanks 

to increased interest in energy careers and the work of the Energy Management and Innovation 

Center (EMIC) in facilitating new energy offerings. The energy sector, which accounted for 5 

percent of post-MBA jobs in 2008, has accounted for 9, 8, and 10 percent of positions in 2009, 

2010, and 2011, respectively. The growth in interest is seen in classes like these: 

ENERGY FINANCE CLASS 

SHERIDAN TITMAN AND JOHN BUTLER 

OIL AND GAS ACCOUNTING CLASS 

WAYNE SCOTT 


“I came to McCombs because I want to take the MSTC Program 

to the next level. More than at anytime in our lifetimes, our 

country needs professionals who can take technologies from the 

idea stage to the marketplace—the very skills the MSTC Program 

teaches.” Gary Cadenhead, Director, Master of Science in 

Technology Commercialization Program 


In the spring of 2011, EMIC offered four energy practicum 

opportunities for graduate students, featuring projects for 

ConocoPhillips, Deloitte, Walmart, and Waste Management. 

EMIC publishes viewpoint on energy use. President William Powers Jr. and Dean 

Thomas W. Gilligan announced the first University of Texas Energy Poll, a comprehensive 

survey of energy consumers’ attitudes and behaviors, in Washington, D.C., in October 

2011. Created under the guidance of advisory board member Peter Zandan and McCombs 

Marketing Department Chair Wayne Hoyer, the energy poll is an objective overview of 

consumer viewpoints on energy consumption, pricing, development, and regulation. 

Texas Venture Labs enables more than $11 million in funding. TVL continues 

to mature as an experiential learning program that advances commercialization. Crossdisciplinary 

student teams work to advance startups along specific timelines under faculty 

supervision. In 2010-11, 50 students worked on 20 initiatives. Eight of those companies 

received venture funding of more than $11 million. Great strides have been made this 

year to forge cross-campus collaborations with the Cockrell School of Engineering, the 

Office of Technology Commercialization, and other innovation hotspots at the university. 

MSTC Program nearly doubles in size. The MSTC Class of 2011 was the 15th 

class and the first to begin and graduate at McCombs. The reputation of McCombs 

has enhanced the status of the MSTC degree and greatly expanded its exposure to 

prospective students. The Class of 2012 began with 65 students, nearly twice the number 

of the preceding class. The goal for the Class of 2013 is two cohorts of 50 students each. 

The Class of 2012 will be the first to have an internship program designed to provide 

commercialization experience and to supplement their income. Four entrepreneurial 

teams from the MSTC Class of 2011 are launching ventures, including: Vocal Media, 

ClearBrook Imaging, Blast Therapeutics, and Cloudmason. 


McCombs increases exposure in health care. Moving to expand the school’s influence in 

health care, Professor Reuben McDaniel took the lead in 2010 to establish the Innovation in 

Health Care Delivery Systems Symposium, in which academics and health care professionals 

discuss knowledge discoveries impacting health care management, decision making, and 

information utilization. The second symposium in 2011 drew experts from several programs at 

McCombs and from schools and colleges across the university. The third will expand the reach 

of this impactful initiative. 

Business Government & Society Department engages. Creation of the new BGS Department 

marked the first new academic department at the business school in more than 50 years. In its first 

full year of operation, major accomplishments included: 

• Ethics in Action video series funded by the Deloitte Foundation 

• Partners in Business Ethics Conference 

• Business ethics scholar Lamar Pierce brought in as a Harrington Fellow 

• Business ethics now a required course for MBAs and undergraduate business majors 

(MPA already had this requirement) 

• New MBA concentrations in Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility and Public & 

Governmental Affairs 

Top U.S. accounting schools collaborate with McCombs. The number-one-ranked Texas 

MPA program is driving the creation of an accounting consortium of top U.S. programs, which will 

address key academic and operational objectives. Member programs (The University of Texas at 

Austin, Brigham Young University, Indiana University, Texas A&M University, University of North 

Carolina, and University of Southern California) graduate more than 1,300 outstanding accounting 

students each year. 

More alumni enjoying Knowledge To Go. Advisory board member Sean McDonald, MBA ’86, 

helped launch the monthly Knowledge To Go webinar series in 2009 to give faculty, students, and 

alumni the opportunity to enhance their personal and professional development. Thirty sessions 

later, it has become one of our most popular alumni benefits. 

KNOWLEDGE TO GO 

The 

McCombs 

Alumni 

Network 


“This will be the year I will be more involved. I will take 

a leadership position so I can start creating change in 

my community.” Juan Pablo Gevaudan, BBA student 


New publications open lively view of school. Three freshly conceived publications arrived 

on the scene this year. OPEN magazine (formerly, Texas) features a stylish and thoughtful 

presentation of stories and knowledge relevant to alumni and friends. McCombsTODAY.org 

was revamped as an expanded online chronicle of the people, happenings, and accomplishments 

within the McCombs community. TexasEnterprise.org, launched in January, presents “Big 

Ideas in Business” from around the university, including career help, new research findings, 

and business best practices. The online sites draw thousands of visitors each week. 

Undergraduates share adventure in leadership. During spring break 2011, 23 seniors 

traded their vacations for a trip to Belize to teach entrepreneurship to vocational students, 

helping them create business plans and apply for loans. The students created the curriculum 

themselves after a semester of entrepreneurship and cultural training. 

Supply chain trek attracts national press. Students in Michael Hasler’s introductory 

operations management class spent five weeks during the summer tracking manufactured 

products upstream through the supply chain, from an Austin Target store to a factory in 

Shenzhen. The experiential learning initiative received national attention in the education 

press as an innovative application of global learning. The trip is one of several international 

education programs enabled by the Center for International Business Education and Research 

(CIBER) at McCombs. 


Education Dollars 

and Sense 

Higher education costs are in the spotlight and solutions are being discussed on 

blogs and Facebook pages, in public pronouncements, and within homes across 

Texas and the nation. Looking for models of innovation and efficiency — how 

about a school that manages to combine top-tier outcomes with one of the best 

education values in the country? 

• Among the business schools that rank in the top 20 in both Bloomberg Businessweek and 

U.S. News and World Report, McCombs has the third-highest return on investment based 

on tuition cost relative to starting salaries. 

• McCombs has one of the least expensive tuitions among elite undergraduate business 

schools. (Small wonder our undergraduate business program at McCombs received more 

than 7,000 applications for 800 spaces this year.) 

• McCombs is also a best value among elite MBA programs. Forbes ranks McCombs as 

the 17th-best graduate business program in the country, with the fifth-best return on 

investment among top public MBA programs. 

• The Wall Street Journal ranks our executive MBA program No. 12 in the nation. 

Out of 25 ranked programs, only two have lower tuition. 

New Forty Acres Scholarships attract top 

students. Of 10 talented undergraduates who earned 

the inaugural Forty Acres Scholarships, five were 

entering students in the McCombs Business Honors 

Program: Anne Alexander, Monica Bischoff, Wesley 

Howard, Armiya Humphrey, and Linda Shi. This year 

donors helped the school establish 12 additional 

Forty Acres Scholarships, bringing a total of 24 

funded or pledged four-year scholarships for 

McCombs students. 

BUSINESS HONORS PROGRAM APPLICATIONS 

116% INCREASE IN BHP APPLICATIONS SINCE 2005 


“To me, success means achieving a goal that you set on 

your own. Success is getting to any point that is better 

than the situation you’re in. Success is doing what you 

thought you could not.” Shaharyar Anjum, BBA student 


Funding leaps forward for McCombs mission. This year saw a jump in endowments, 

gifts, and scholarships with over $18.5 million raised, including: 

• Two $1 million planned gifts 

+41% 

• $600,000 from Accenture for Texas Venture Labs 

• $500,000 from the Deloitte Foundation for the 

McCombs Ethics in Action Video Series 

• $300,000 from Halliburton in support of the 

Halliburton Business Foundations Summer Institute 

• $480,000 through six student giving campaigns 

GARY KELLY 

CEO AND CHAIRMAN, SOUTHWEST AIRLINES 

CHAIR, McCOMBS SCHOOL ADVISORY COUNCIL 

“As some people in 

other states lament 

the condition of 

higher education, 

I invite you to 

consider instead… 

Viewpoint, Texas” 


“To me, success means being a 

happy person at the end of the day.” 

Taehoon Kim, BBA student 

Research and 

Teaching Share 

Spotlight 

In a top-tier research university, academic inquiry and superlative teaching 

are complementary traits. The driving factors that propel influential 

research institutions also encourage vigorous inquiry and debate within 

the classroom, producing students better prepared to innovate rather than 

follow precedent. That’s one reason students graduating from top researchproducing 

schools earn more money after graduation. 

AACSB affirms McCombs as business education leader. In April McCombs received continuing 

accreditation in business and accounting by AACSB International, the preeminent global accrediting 

body for business schools. Of 607 schools of business, fewer than 5 percent worldwide have this 

hallmark of excellence. 

McCombs has one of the world’s most productive research faculties. The McCombs faculty is 

the 11th-most productive business school faculty in the world (10th in the nation) according to the 

current Research Rankings produced by the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management. In 

the biennial Bloomberg Businessweek MBA rankings, McCombs ranks 17th for intellectual capital. 

In the annual Financial Times rankings, McCombs ranks 22nd for global faculty research. 

Ph.D. students produce key business 

research. McCombs has held a top-30 rank for 

doctoral productivity in the world for the last four 

years, according to Financial Times. We have 

steadily trended upward over the past five years 

in both global and domestic public rank. 

McCombs generally produces 15 to 20 doctoral 

graduates a year across five departments. More 

than 80 percent of these graduates begin their 

academic careers as tenure-track assistant 

professors, many at some of the finest business 

research institutions in the world. 

WORLDWIDE DOCTORAL RANK 

U.S. PUBLIC DOCTORAL RANK 


“I came to McCombs because it gives me the opportunity 

to study what I want and the resources to go where I 

want.” Thomas Allison, BBA student 


Superb teachers enjoy effective tools. This year Professors Kathy Edwards, Keith 

Brown, and Lisa Koonce accepted Dean Gilligan’s appointment to lead a teaching excellence 

initiative at McCombs. Their team established benchmarks, interviewed 100 McCombs 

faculty members, and made recommendations to improve: 

• Coordination of course timing and content 

• Teaching expertise and assistance for teaching delivery 

• Definition and measurement of teaching effectiveness 

• Incentives and teaching resources 

• Physical facilities 

As the initiative progresses to next steps, our faculty members continue to set the pace for 

teaching excellence across the university. Spotlights on teaching excellence include: 

Regents’ Outstanding 

Teaching Award 

Ethan Burris 

John Daly 

Robert Duvic 

Gail Gemberling 

Prabhudev Konana 

McCombs 

Teaching Awards 

Jim Dyer 

Greg Hallman 

Dorothee Honhon 

Ross Jennings 

Heidi Toprac 

Princeton Review, Best 294 Business Schools, 2012 

Dallas/Fort Worth MBA 

Outstanding Teacher 


Texas Exes 

Teaching Award 

Herb Miller 

American Risk and 

Insurance Association 

(ARIA) Excellence 

in Teaching 

Patrick Brockett 

BBA Faculty Honor Roll 

Gretchen Charrier 


Sanford Leeds 

Luis Martins 

Christopher Meakin 

David Miller 

Frances Pederson 

Robert Prentice 

Jonathan Sims 

Rajashri Srinivasan 

Michael Williamson 

MBA Graduate 

Business Council 

Applause Awards 

Michael Brandl 

Doug Dierking 

Cesare Fracassi 

Britt Freund 

Ty Henderson 

Ross Jennings 

Lisa Koonce 

Sandy Leeds 

Kate Mackie 

Reuben McDaniel 

Jim Nolen 

Bob Parrino 

Tom Shively 

Clemens Sialm 


Leslie Cedar, MBA ’98 

Leslie is CEO and Executive Director, Texas Exes 

“I have a particular interest in performance and achievement that was also cultivated in 

business school. So part of it is being a competitive person, but a lot of it is just an innate 

desire to do the best that I can in whatever situation I’m dealing with. 

“Professionally, it’s about protecting the quality of our institution, and then from the 

Texas Exes perspective, protecting and promoting the relevance of the association for the 

preservation of the university.” 

Leslie Cedar took over the reins of the Texas Exes alumni association July 1. She is the first female executive 

director in its 125-year history, where she sees herself on a mission to rally the Longhorn faithful. 

John, BBA ’66, JD ’69 and 

Suzanne (Susie) Adams, BA ’67 

John is Managing Partner, Overton Holdings 

“We’ve had the opportunity to support many causes, but this one was special because of 

the impact of a Forty Acres Scholarship in attracting the best students from Texas high 

schools. We know that students that go to school in Texas are more likely to stay here and 

become contributing members of society. 

“We are also so pleased to support a professor at UT Austin, thus contributing to the 

academic excellence of this ‘University of the First Class.’” 

Alumnus John Adams and his wife Susie established a Forty Acres Scholarship (which was matched), and they 

established a professorship that will eventually become an endowed chair. Their blended gift attracts top students and 

equally distinguished faculty members. 

Matt Chasen, MBA ’04 

Matt is Founder and CEO, uShip 

“I wrote our business plan in the New Venture Creation class and recruited my co-founders 

from the class. I got more out of my classes by thinking about how I could immediately apply 

the concepts to our business.” 

Matt Chasen will be recognized along with David Murrell, BBA ’01, as a Rising Star 

during the Hall of Fame celebration. Chasen sharpened his entrepreneurial skills 

while completing his MBA — and uShip was a semifinalist in the 2004 Texas Moot 

Corp Competition. He regularly mentors other McCombs entrepreneurs, and hires 

graduates and summer interns. 



Student Body Snapshots 

Need a shot of optimism? Meet the Texas business students who will be leading 

organizations, launching companies, guiding policies, and creating innovations in the coming 

decades. A healthy portion of them are already doing it, so be prepared to be impressed. 

Here are highlights of this year’s incoming class of rising stars. 

TEXAS BBA 

95% freshman 

retention rate 

of students 

38% study abroad 

THE HIGHEST AT THE UNIVERSITY 

OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 

AVERAGE SAT 

TEXAS BHP 

1.9% 

AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS 

RANK OF ENROLLED BHP STUDENTS 

MPA 

114 Traditional 

MPA Students 

3.76 Average 

GPA 

665 Average 

GMAT 

FULL-TIME MBA 

265 Students Average 

AVERAGE GMAT 

3.43 691 

GPA 


“I came to McCombs because I knew the reputation of 

the business school would put me in a position to get a 

great education, meet people with goals similar to mine, 

and allow me to leave the school and get a great job.” 

Akshay Tolia, BBA student 

WORKING PROFESSIONAL AND EXECUTIVE MBA ENTERING CLASS SIZE 

46 65 

76 

75 

91 

EMBA: 65 

TEMBA: 75 

HOUSTON: 91 

DALLAS/FORT WORTH: 76 

MEXICO CITY: 46 

EMBA 

65 Students 3.3 Average 

GPA 

AVERAGE GMAT 

640 

DALLAS/FORT WORTH MBA 


GPA 

AVERAGE GMAT 

660 

TEMBA 


GPA 

HOUSTON MBA 


GPA 

AVERAGE GMAT 

645 

AVERAGE GMAT 

650 

MEXICO CITY EMBA 

49 Students 

UP FROM 35 LAST YEAR THANKS TO 

GENARO GUTIERREZ AND HIS TEAM 

MSTC 

60+ Students TARGETING TWO COHORTS 

FOR CLASS OF 2013 



Michael Koetting (McCombs junior) Sid Upadhyay, and Gaurav Sanghani took top honors at 

StartupCamp3 Comms Edition for making the best pitch at ITEXPO in Miami for Hoot.me. 

Jason Skindell, Tricia Assar, Tiffany Hua, Bijal Mehta, and Will Benter won in a supply 

chain case competition designed and sponsored by Target in November. 

Rahil Jiwan, Jeff Shieh, Andrew Anderson, Muniza Abdul, and Karson Chang made up 

an undergraduate team that took second place against a field of MBA teams at the 2010-11 CFA 

Investment Research Challenge-Texas at Rice University on Feb. 19. 

Within a week of graduating from The University of Texas at Austin, Sam Acho, BBA ’10, won 

the William V. Campbell Trophy, often referred to as the “academic Heisman,” in a New York 

ceremony. 

A team of Texas MBA students including Neeraj Gupta, Jeffrey Bresslour, Jonathan Faloon, 

Alison Rubinson, and Paras Shah won the 2010 GE Experienced Commercial Leadership 

Program (ECLP) Case Competition Nov. 19 at the GE headquarters in Fairfield, Conn. 

The Tower glowed orange to honor the Texas MBA Energy Finance Group’s first place win in the 

sixth annual National Energy Finance Challenge (NEFC), hosted by the McCombs School. The 

winning team members are Jordan Hobfoll, Ian Rainbolt, Nick Matovich, Homer Bhullar, 

and Vivek Ponnada, all in the full-time MBA Class of 2011. 

Texas MBA students Josh Stillman, Chris Wolf, Jacob Steubing, and Kevin White won the 

second annual Ross Energy Club’s Renewable Energy Case Challenge Jan. 27-28, at the University 

of Michigan. 

Brett Newswanger, Michael Manthey, and Marco Restrepo won top prize at the Wake Forest 

University Biotechnology Conference and Case Competition, Feb. 18-19. 

MSTC students Ryan Miller and David Mortellaro were part of a team that won the Life 

Sciences track of the 2011 McGinnis Venture Competition at the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School 

of Business March 10-12. The team also won the New Venture Championship competition hosted 

by the University of Oregon’s Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship April 9. 

MSTC teams Vocal Media and ClearBrook Imaging competed in the Texas Venture Labs 

Investment Competition, placing first and second respectively, going on to compete in the 

Global competition. 

The tower will soon be lit orange for another national victory. McCombs just won the 

National Energy Finance Challenge for the second year in a row. Our team beat MIT, Purdue, 

Columbia and Yale. 


“I came to McCombs because it is an incredibly 

diverse school that pushes students to discover 

their potential through the teachings of amazing 

and dedicated faculty.” Eddy Diaz, BBA student 

Positive Jobs Picture 

It’s been said you can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same 

time. When the jobs picture looked the bleakest, both our students and our 

career services team got very focused and smart. The result is seen in vastly 

improved prospects for our students this year. 

Our career team has reacted swiftly to new recruiting paradigms, as fewer companies schedule oncampus 

visits and more just-in-time hiring opportunities pop up. Two new Polycom conferencing 

systems make it easier for recruiters to enjoy high-definition video face time with students without 

visiting campus. 

32% 

Upswing 

Stacey Rudnick, director of MBA Career Services, and Velma Arney, director of Undergraduate 

Career Services, report: 

MBA HIRING STATS 

• Average salary for the Class of 2011 was $101,559 (the first time over $100,000) 

• 91.7 percent of the Class of 2011 had offers three months after graduation 

• High technology employs a quarter of the class; much on the West Coast, with 13 percent 

of the class taking jobs in that region 

2011 MBA JOBS BY MAJORS 

12% FINANCE: 36% 

22% 

29% 

36% 

MARKETING: 29% 

CONSULTANT: 22% 

GENERAL MANAGEMENT 

OR OPERATIONS: 12% 

Ryan Oliver, GE 

MBA CAREER EVENTS: 

• 28 percent increase in employers at the fall career fair with 63 companies and more than 

200 employers over last year; a 57 percent increase over two years ago· 

• 15 career treks to five cities this fall: Austin, Dallas, Houston, New York, San Francisco 

• Company participation in career events over last year: 

- Dallas +60 percent 

- Houston + 53 percent· 


Kerri Holden, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts 


BBA HIRING STATS: 

• The average preliminary BBA salary is $54,330, a 2 percent increase from last year. Consulting had the 

highest average preliminary salary of $60,884, a 2.7 percent increase from last year. 

• The biggest sector for BBA employment is consulting with high technology a close second. The previous 

year, investment banking was the biggest sector and it is now third; energy is quickly catching up as a 

top recruiting sector. 

BBA CAREER EVENTS: 

• 156 companies and 1,000 BBA students attended the Fall Career Expo. 

• Over 300 companies participated in various Career Week programs, a 30 percent increase from last year. 

• To date, more than 800 rooms are booked for BBA interviews and the number continues to increase. 

• On November 4, over 100 BBA students will participate in treks to Houston, Dallas and Austin. These 

are students involved in the BBA Career Services Programs: McCombs Diversity Council, BBA Women’s 

Council, and Target Your Future. 

MBA+ projects continue to forge student/employer 

opportunities. Interest in MBA+ projects from both companies 

and students remains strong, with nearly 30 additional projects 

offered to student teams this year. The result is 74 MBA+ project 

teams working on a wide variety of consulting projects for 

organizations as diverse as 3M, Adobe, M.D. Anderson, and the 

Houston Rockets. 

McCombs is top of mind among MBA graduates worldwide. 

When the Financial Times asked MBA alumni from schools across 

the world to name three business schools from which they would 

recruit MBA grads if given the opportunity, McCombs was No. 21. 

We have been in the top 25 worldwide for five years running. 

“I came to McCombs because there were top research faculty in every 

area of my department. As I work on my dissertation, I’m looking 

forward to continuing the professional relationships my professors and 

I have formed.” Nick Crain, Ph.D. candidate in finance 


Rankings: A Top-Tier View 

Whether you love them or hate them, business school rankings by national 

publications provide one viewpoint in time (actually, more of a slice of a 

viewpoint) that can be useful in measuring how your school compares to 

other programs. This year, the rankings view will make a Longhorn proud. 

Accounting programs continue reign as first in the country. McCombs made 

another clean sweep across all the major accounting rankings. The Texas accounting 

program took the No. 1 position in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2012 ranking of 

undergraduate programs (for the sixth year in a row) and graduate programs (for the fifth 

year in a row). And we are No. 1 in all four of the Public Accounting Report’s rankings: 

undergraduate, graduate, doctoral teaching, and doctoral research. Placement rates for 

the MPA program are at 93 percent, with more than 100 different employers. 

Undergraduate majors rank second only to Wharton. Not only does McCombs 

consistently fare well in individual undergraduate program rankings, it is also strong 

across the board. McCombs is top 10 in almost all the majors ranked in U.S. News and 

World Report, from accounting, marketing, and MIS, through finance, entrepreneurship, 

and production/operations. In the last three rankings, McCombs was second only to 

Wharton in the number of top-10 ranked majors. 

One of the top MBA programs in 

the country. In U.S. News and World 

Report (2011), McCombs currently 

ranks No. 17 in the nation; among public 

schools, McCombs has consistently 

been ranked in the top five for the past 

seven years. We’ve also been ranked 

in the public school top 10 for the past 

nine years according to Bloomberg 

Businessweek, and both The Economist 

and Financial Times have ranked 

McCombs among the top eight U.S. 

public schools for the last three years. 

GLOBAL RANK ON FINANCIAL TIMES 

“AIMS ACHIEVED” FOR MBAS 


“This will be the year I connect our working professional 

students with more of McCombs through academic, co-curricular 

and networking opportunities. It’s going to be a great year!” 

Trent Thurman, Director, Texas MBA for Working Professionals 


Second MBA among Hispanics in 2011. McCombs has ranked in the top four MBA 

programs in the country for Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine for the last 12 

years; six of those years we ranked first or second. 

We’ve got one of the top working professional graduate business programs. 

For the last two years, U.S. News and World Report has ranked the Texas Evening 

MBA program as the seventh-best program in the nation. 

Executive MBA consistently ranks high. McCombs has held a top-18 rank among 

EMBA programs for the past nine years by U.S. News and World Report; among public 

schools, we have been ranked in the top six for the past seven years. Financial Times 

has ranked McCombs’ EMBA among the top 19 U.S. schools (top seven U.S. public 

schools) for the last nine years. 

2011 

Energy 

Challenge 

Winners 

Vision Statement, The Commission of 125, September 30, 2004

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