McCombs School of Business
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Former names
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• School of Business Administration (1922-1945) • College of Business Administration (1945-2000) |
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| Type | Public Business school |
| Established | 1922 |
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Parent institution
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University of Texas at Austin |
| Endowment | $272.9 million (2015) |
| Dean | Jay C. Hartzell |
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Academic staff
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192 |
| Students | 12,626 |
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Austin, Texas, U.S. 30°17′03″N 97°44′17″W / 30.284240°N 97.738066°WCoordinates: 30°17′03″N 97°44′17″W / 30.284240°N 97.738066°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Burnt Orange |
| Website | www |
The McCombs School of Business, also referred to as the McCombs School or simply McCombs, is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the main campus in Downtown Austin, McCombs offers classes outside Central Texas in Dallas, Houston and internationally in Mexico City. The McCombs School of Business offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs for their average 12,000 students each year, adding to its 93,523 member alumni base from a variety of business fields. In addition to traditional classroom degree programs, McCombs is home to 14 collaborative research centers, the international business plan competition: Venture Labs Investment Competition (formerly known as "MOOT Corp"), and executive education programs.
McCombs is also the oldest public business school in Texas.
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) was founded in 1883, and the university's School of Business Administration was established a few decades later in 1922. The school quickly grew, establishing a Master in Professional Accounting program in 1948 and offering its first executive education programs in 1955.
Effects of the 1990s technology boom and dot-com bubble were palpable in Austin, leaving the nickname "Silicon Hills" on the city. One McCombs School program that has capitalized on this is the Venture Labs Investment Competition, is the oldest operating inter-business school new-venture competition in the world. Begun in 1984, it has been dubbed the "Super Bowl of world business plan competitions." Also opportunistic was the creation of the school's first Management Information Systems degree in 1990. The MBA Investment Fund, LLC was also founded in 1994, becoming the first legally constituted investment fund run by Master of Business Administration (MBA) students and proving quite successful, with a 17.5 percent annual return to date. Additionally, in 1995 the college became the first to require students have an e-mail address.
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