About McCombs

 
Reasons to get a Texas MBA 

The McCombs Business School has established its reputation through an array of nationally and internationally acclaimed initiatives. Business Week cites our curriculum as one of the top five for innovation. The finance department, building off the strengths of the EDS Financial Trading Center, the MBA Investment Fund, and several great years of faculty recruiting, is quickly becoming one of the best in the country. 

The school boasts leading programs in many areas, but technology, entrepreneurship, and globalization represent three areas of special strength. The McCombs Business School has academic strength across all major subject areas. Its curriculum seeks to expand horizons while deepening a knowledge of fundamental business practices. Students benefit from:

• A first-year cohort system which emphasizes teamwork, diversity, and emerging technologies
   
• Dynamic core courses that span the breadth of business
   
• A wide range of electives from both the Business School  and other graduate programs across the university
   
• Nine centers of excellence bringing together students, faculty, and corporate partners for ground-breaking multidisciplinary research 
   
• State-of-the-art facilities at one of the world's most completely networked (technologically and socially) business schools
   
• Nine areas of concentrated study, from traditional fields to pioneering new learning tracks
   
• An accounting department and MPA (Masters in Professional Accounting) consistently rated #1 or #2 in the nation
   
• UT Austin, the nation's largest university, which places phenomenal resources at the disposal of MBAs.