Business Insider recently ranked Austin as having the third best economy among the nation’s 40 biggest cities and the second-highest job growth rate.
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New MPA students,
In the not-to-distant future, you will be stepping foot on The University of Texas at Austin campus and spending plenty of time in the McCombs School of Business. The MPA Program Office staff and accounting faculty will be assisting you, step by step, to prepare you for your classes and the busy, yet exciting, employment recruiting season. In the meantime, we recommend that you…
- Learn about UT’s history and traditions.
- Take a virtual tour of The University of Texas at Austin’s campus.
- Follow the instructions on the website for new students.
- Become familiar with student life at UT and in the McCombs School of Business. Over the years, our student bloggers have written about their experiences in our program, their favorite places to study, and the perks to being in Austin and attending a large, prestigious research university. Some examples:
There is More Than One Library on the UT Campus!
MPA Educated Eats is More than Just a Sandwich!
First Impressions of Being a TA
Live Music Capital of the World
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Based on 2017 Bureau of Labor Statistics data, Austin was ranked the 2nd fastest city for job growth.
Why should you attend the MPA program at UT-Austin? Consider this…
1) Top-Ranked Accounting: The McCombs School of Business graduate and undergraduate accounting programs are Ranked #1 with U.S. News and the Public Accounting Report. What contributes to our reputation for excellence?
- Respected faculty
- Innovative curriculum
- Strong placement rates
- Extensive alumni network
- Hard-working, diverse group of students
- High CPA exam pass rates
2) High Quality Campus: The University of Texas at Austin is ranked highly in the nation and the world. Attending a top national university offers distinct advantages, such as access to
- The nation’s tenth largest library
- Exceptional recreational sports and facilities
- Arts and entertainment
- A wide array of UT events and McCombs events, including the MPA Distinguished Speaker Series
3) Great Place to Live: Would you like to live in a city that offers a relatively moderate cost of living and other attractive features? The city of Austin regularly tops many rankings, such as the city most likely to prosper over the next 10 years, one of the top cities for job seekers and fastest growing city. Austin offers great weather and plenty of outdoor activities in a laid-back, friendly environment and consistently receives high accolades for quality of life, innovation, employment opportunities, cost of living…and the list goes on….
4) Longhorn Spirit: The University of Texas at Austin is filled with history and traditions and plenty of exciting athletic events.
Want to learn more about our program from a student’s perspective? Read Live and Learn, our student blog, or contact an MPA student ambassador.
Hook ’em!
U.S. News & World Report recently ranked Austin the #1 best place to live in the U.S. The ranking was based on the city having a good value, desirable place to live, strong job market and high quality of life. Read more…
Want to learn more about Austin’s history? Check out this fun video from the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau.
WalletHub recently ranked Austin as the #1 large city with the fastest growing economy. The study compared 515 cities on 10 key metrics (such as population growth, median household income growth, growth in the number of businesses, and unemployment rate decrease) and identified those with the greatest socioeconomic expansion between 2008 and 2014. Other large cities in Texas that were ranked in the top 20:
#3 – Fort Worth, TX
#5 – Corpus Christi, TX
#10 – Houston, TX
#11 – San Antonio, TX (tied with Seattle, WA)
#14 – El Paso, TX
#20 – Dallas, TX
According to a recent article by the Associated Press [emphasis added in bold]:
“Three of the nation’s five fastest-growing cities — and seven of the top 15 — are located in the Lone Star State, new data from the Census Bureau shows. The Texas cities of San Marcos [located between Austin and San Antonio], Frisco [located just north of Dallas] and Cedar Park [located just north of Austin] were No. 1, 2 and 4 in percentage population growth between 2012 and 2013, each growing by at least 5 percent in that time span.”
and
“By population increase, New York City is still on top, growing by 61,440 people in 2012 to 8.4 million people in 2013. In addition to having the largest numerical increase, New York City is also still the largest city in the United States by population.
Houston increased by 35,202 people to 2.2 million in 2013. Los Angeles grew by 31,525 to 3.8 million.
The rest of the top 10 by numerical increase were: San Antonio, up 25,378 to 1.4 million; Phoenix, up 24,843 to 1.5 million; Austin, Texas, up 20,993 to 885,400; San Diego, up 18,867 to 1.35 million; Charlotte, North Carolina, up 18,420 to 792,862; Seattle, up 17,770 to 652,405; and Dallas, up 15,976 to 1.3 million.”
The Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metropolitan area was ranked the Best Performing Large City in the U.S. by the Milken Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. As stated by the Institute:
The Best-Performing Cities index was designed to measure objectively which U.S. metropolitan areas are promoting economic vitality based on job creation and retention, the quality of new jobs, and other criteria.
Austin, TX:
This year’s Best-Performing City, Austin, is a case study in concocting the proper recipe for economic vitality. A rising technology center, it is creating high-quality jobs that improve the region’s overall wage structure. Economic development officials rightly tout its business-friendly, low-tax, low-regulation climate when recruiting outside the state, particularly when soliciting California firms. They also herald the business startups of local entrepreneurs, the spinouts from the University of Texas, Austin, and the number and quality of UT graduates.
Other Texas Cities:
The Lone Star State, which has both technology and energy assets, claimed three of the Top 10 and seven of the Top 25 large cities.
Would you like to see where your city ranked? Visit www.best-cities.org/.
Originally posted by Dean Thomas Gilligan in McCombs Today.
For the third year in a row, Austin is No. 1 on Forbes’ list of America’s 20 fastest-growing cities in terms of population and economy, thanks in part, say the ranking authors, “to the 51,000-student University of Texas at Austin.”
Diving deeper into that news, one discovers the McCombs School of Business is generating more than its fair share of Austin’s entrepreneurial spark.
Professor John Sibley Butler has been called one of the 20 Austinites you simply must know if you intend to be influential in the region’s business scene. Butler could accurately be termed a force of nature, and his impact on students is legendary across campus. He directs the university’s IC2 Institute, and the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship, which he unabashedly boasts is the best in the U.S.
Butler told me, “In Texas we’ve made entrepreneurs the heroes, and that’s why we’ve created four times as many jobs as any other state. People who do great things are our heroes, and our students get to learn directly from them.”
- The Street, a financial news Web site, included Austin in its list of top 10 cities “poised for greatness” in 2012 based on financial forecasts. Most notable is Austin’s low unemployment rate, low home prices, a blend of state jobs and private-sector employment and support from the University of Texas at Austin.
- Austin was ranked #4 in the Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities 2011 ranking of the 200 largest U.S. metros. The rankings were based on their ability to create and sustain jobs and economic growth. Related article on Forbes.com.
- The Business Journals on Numbers cited Austin, Houston, and McAllen-Edinburg as the only cities in the nation’s top 100 metros to increase the number of small businesses between 2008 and 2009.
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