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Accounting Department No. 1 Seventh Year Running

August 31, 2016 / / 0 Comments

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Originally published by Matt Turner in McCombs Today:

For the seventh consecutive year, the McCombs School of Business took a clean sweep in accounting, earning the No. 1 spots for its undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D. programs in the Public Accounting Report (PAR) Annual Professors Survey.

This marks the 12th time in 15 years that McCombs took first place across all three of the PAR categories.

“Over the years, McCombs’ consistently high PAR rankings are recognition of our very talented faculty, staff, and students,” says Robert Freeman, chairman of the Accounting Department. “It’s great to work with such dedicated people.”

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New MPA Director Brings Passion for Teaching to Top Accounting Program

July 14, 2016 / / 0 Comments

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Originally published by Jeremy Simon in McCombs Today:

Stephen Smith brings both enthusiasm and experience as the new senior director of the Master in Professional Accounting program at the McCombs School of Business, a role he assumed on June 1.

“I can’t even explain my excitement about the opportunity to be helping to direct the best program — literally — in the world,” Smith says.

As the MPA’s senior director, Smith will lead a program ranked No. 1 by the Public Accounting Report and U.S. News & World Report. Smith lays out a straightforward formula for the program’s success: “We are very fortunate to get the best students, and when you mix that with our tremendous faculty, it works. Students recognize it, faculty recognize it, and employers recognize it. It’s just a winning combination,” Smith says. “I don’t think it’s any more complicated — good ingredients in, great product out.”

Smith has undergraduate and graduate degrees in accounting, industry experience, and has been on the faculty at the McCombs School’s top-ranked Accounting Department since 2007. In that time he’s educated a range of students, including undergraduates, MBAs, Texas Executive MBAs, Executive Education students, and those studying abroad.

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Texas MPA Alumni Recognized for Top CPA Exam Performance

April 14, 2016 / / 0 Comments

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The American Institute of CPAs announced the winners of the 2015 Elijah Watt Sells Award. The award is given to CPA candidates who have obtained a cumulative average score above 95.50 across all four sections of the Uniform CPA Examination, passed all four sections of the Examination on their first attempt and completed testing in 2015. A total of 93,742 individuals sat for the Examination in 2015, with 75 candidates meeting the criteria to receive the Elijah Watt Sells Award. Read more…

Four recipients were from the Texas MPA program:

  • Emily Baker
  • Nathan  Evenson
  • Paloma Gante
  • Yu-Ting Huang

Congratulations!!

UT Graduate Accounting is # 1!

March 31, 2016 / / 0 Comments

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Excerpted from UT News

AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Texas at Austin has more than 40 graduate programs ranked among the top 10 in the nation and three programs ranked No. 1, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 edition of “Best Graduate Schools,” released this morning.

The university has top 10 programs in multiple colleges and schools including business, engineering, education, natural sciences, Earth sciences, public affairs, communications, information, social work, pharmacy, the social sciences, and humanities.

U.S. News & World Report’s graduate rankings, separate from the magazine’s yearly ranking of undergraduate programs, are among the most prestigious ratings in higher education. They are based on surveys of academic leaders and, for select programs, additional quantitative measures including placement test scores, student/faculty ratios, research expenditures and job placement success.

The three programs ranked No. 1 in the nation are accounting in the McCombs School of Business [emphasis added] and petroleum engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering, both updated this year, and Latin American history in the College of Liberal Arts, last updated in 2013. (U.S. News & World Report does not rank every discipline in every year).

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McCombs Faculty Again Fifth Most Productive in World, First Among Public Schools

March 15, 2016 / / 0 Comments

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Originally published by Matt Turner in McCombs Today:

For the third year in a row, the McCombs School of Business faculty is the fifth most powerful in the world in terms of its research prowess.

Ranked among public schools, McCombs is No. 1.

The 2016 release of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) School of Management’s top 100 business school research rankings puts McCombs in elite company:

1. Wharton
2. Harvard
3. MIT
4. NYU
5. McCombs

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Texas MPA Ranked #1!

December 16, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Accounting Degree ReviewThe Accounting Degree Review recently ranked the Texas MPA the No. 1 graduate accounting program of 2016! The review was based on the rankings from U.S. News and World Report, Public Accounting Report and Brigham Young University (BYU) and AACSB accreditation.

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UT Austin Named One of the Healthiest Campuses in U.S.

October 19, 2015 / / 2 Comments

 

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From UT News: Active Minds, a national nonprofit group with 400 campus chapters advocating for young-adult mental health, named UT Austin a winner of the inaugural 2015 Active Minds Health Campus Award.

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Austin: #1 City with Fastest Growing Economy

October 7, 2015 / / 0 Comments

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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

Congratulations, MPA Class of 2015!

September 10, 2015 / / 0 Comments

2015 Commencement

Students from the MPA Class of 2015 are already demonstrating great success! At the time of graduation:

  • 97% accepted offers of employment. 1% opted to continue their education post-MPA.
  • 94% of our international MPA graduates accepted offers of employment. 

Our MPA graduates secured full-time employment in a variety of geographical areas throughout Texas, the Northeast, West, South and Midwest and with a wide variety of employers:

  • 4% consulting
  • 5% industry
  • 5% investment banking and other financial services
  • 86% public accounting

Congratulations!

Accounting Department Continues Ranking Dominance

August 28, 2015 / / 0 Comments

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Originally published by Matt Turner in McCombs Today:

For the sixth consecutive year, the McCombs School of Business took the ranking trifecta in accounting, earning the No. 1 spots for its undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D. programs, according to the Public Accounting Report (PAR) Annual Professors Survey.

This marks the 11th time in 14 years that McCombs took first place across all three of the PAR categories.

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