STUDENT COMMENTS
Without having been in the McCombs School of Business I would not be as prepared as I am today for the job I am going to have when I graduate. I would not have even had the chance to interview with Deloitte without our amazing career services center. I am so grateful for the experiences and oppotunities that this program and the University of Texas has given me.
Professors are arrogant. Friendly in class but rude during their office hours.
The Honors Program at UT's business school is absolutely the best. It's been a great experience. UT at large is outstanding, socially and academically.
Recruiting is mainly for Texas, and difficult to find opportunities outside of the state. Career office rarely helps with these issues.
The McCombs School of Business is accentuated by its many great qualities and especially by the great staff of advisers and professors who make the UT experience so great. I remember Dean Allert coming to recruit at my high school my senior year. Five years later, when I needed his guidance and support, there he was ready to lend a hand. The McCombs School of Business has blown my mind with the amount of support they provide undergraduates.
I consider this business program one of the best in the nation. In addition to world-class faculty, there have been outstanding leadership opportunities available through on campus organizations, which I have utilized to the fullest. I feel that I am graduating with fantastic degree and a leg up on the rest of the competition.
The recruiting system at Texas is amazing. Virtually all major banking firms come to campus interested in hiring for positions nationwide. I personally took an internship in Southern California.
Generally, the career advising department is extremely helpful. However, for students in UT's PPA program, they are not very accomodating in helping to pursue careers outside of accounting. This is frustrating, because it is the top-ranked accounting program in the nation and I have been told several times that non-accounting firms find these students very desirable as employees. But the career center does not help facilitate interviews on a reasonable schedule.
The accounting program is rigorious and intense, but very well done. The finance program was pretty useless to me. The business law program is of high quality. International business and marketing seem to be solid.
I feel the McCombs program is often overlooked due to our large size. I'm part of the Business Honors Program, and can say strongly that our program breeds the best. I interviewed against students from UPenn and Harvard at top investment banks, including Goldman and Citigroup, and felt I was just as qualified, if not more.
My undergraduate business experience was exceptional. I am graduating in May and have secured an offer at a Fortune 500 company a year prior. I feel that the undergraduate programs office has done a great job in so far as providing opportunities for students and nurturing the vast business skills that are needed in today's business world. The vast number of speakers that come to speak on campus are also a great way to gain insight of the real world. Study abroad is also greatly advocated at the business school. Having studied abroad in Mexico for two semesters and consequently landing an internship in Mexico from an American company I myself am an advocate of these efforts.
The school has demonstrated the importance of communication skills, but constant group projects and team presentations can become overwhelming and redundant. Overall, I am very satisfied with my business education and proud to see a Texas school compete effectively with the Northeast schools.
The resources (technology, research, recruiting, career help, etc.) that the business school provides are excellent, and one of the best aspects of the program.
McCombs is a great school, but it could be a lot better. Overall, the school is not as high caliber as say, Michigan or UPenn, but the Business Honors Program (BHP) is on par with those schools. Grade inflation and a lack of direction in the Finance curriculum continue to be problems.
My experience at McCombs/UT has been invaluable, and I have no regrets at all. I've developed skills to excel in the workplace (looking at my success at internships), been intellectually stimulated, engaged with thoughtful students and professors, and got multiple job offers doing what I wanted. Outside of the classroom, UT has also been a great place to meet new people, give back to the community, mature, and watch great sports!
The undergraduate business program at the University of Texas at Austin is outstanding. From Day One, teachers and advisers help build our skills to prepare us for the future.
Some of my management professors and operations management professors were PhD candidates and I felt for the reputation and cost of the school that all of the teachers should have been full professors, not PhD candidates.
Although I was concerned about coming to such a large school, I quickly found groups to get involved with and soon developed great leadership experience within these organizations. It was through these organizations and connections that I had made within them that I helped secure interviews but it was the skills I had learned in class that helped me land my jobs.
Only problem with recruiting is Texans are known to not want to leave Texas, so not many out-of-state companies make the effort to recruit here. Some of us actually do want to leave!
I feel that the McCombs school is an amazing value for money. I am very pleased with my education here at UT.
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