AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. News & World Report has ranked The University of Texas at Austin No. 30 in the world in its first-ever Global University Rankings, marking the fourth time this year a prestigious international group has placed UT Austin among the best international universities.
Originally published by Matt Turner in McCombs Today:
The McCombs School of Business once again made the top-10 list for best professors in the Princeton Review’s business school rankings, which are published in its annual guidebook, “The Best 296 Business Schools, 2015 Edition.”
McCombs landed at No. 6 for best professors, based on student responses regarding how well their professors perform as teachers and how accessible they are outside the classroom.
The University of Texas at Austin has been ranked No. 28 in the 2014-15 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and No. 6 among U.S. public universities.
Excerpted from MPA Weekly and McCombs Today
McCombs School of Business faculty shined at this year‘s American Accounting Association’s (AAA) annual meeting, held in Atlanta, Ga. Professors Bill Kinney, Lisa Koonce, John Robinson, and Lillian Mills were all honored for their achievements in accounting education and research.
Originally published by Zach Lozano in McCombs Today:
Accounting lecturer, Terri Holbrook, and her husband, Ed, are providing funds for a new scholarship awarded to third, fourth, and fifth-year Masters of Professional Accounting students.
In its inaugural year, the eponymously named Terri Holbrook Scholarship in Accounting has been awarded to 15 MPA students. Scholarship recipients will receive one check per semester. Each award ranges in size from $5,000 to $10,000. With the establishment of this scholarship, Holbrook says she hopes to alleviate the cost for students attending McCombs.
Originally posted by Jeremy Simon in McCombs Today
With his recent reappointment to the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), Michael Granof will continue to help ensure that the financial health of the federal government is communicated clearly and truthfully to U.S. citizens.
On July 11, FASAB Chairman Tom Allen announced that McCombs School of Business Accounting Professor Granof had been reappointed to the board for a second five-year term running from July 1, 2014, to June 30, 2019. Granof, who is the Ernst & Young Distinguished Centennial Professor of Accounting as well as a University Distinguished Teaching Professor, also serves as a member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB).
Originally posted by Matt Turner in McCombs Today
Continuing to lead the nation among academic institutions of accounting, for the 10th time in 13 years the McCombs School of Business ranks No. 1 across all three of the 2014 the Public Accounting Report (PAR) Annual Professors Survey rankings: undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D.
This is the fifth year in a row McCombs took first place on all three bases. The PAR even notes in its August edition that The University of Texas at Austin “has practically formed a habit” in the three-way sweep.
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.”
Students from the MPA Class of 2014 are already demonstrating great success! Of the May/August 2014 graduates who were actively seeking full-time employment:
Our MPA graduates secured full-time employment in a variety of geographical areas throughout Texas, the Northeast, West, and Midwest and with a wide variety of employers:
Congratulations!
Originally posted by Madison Hamilton in McCombs Today.
Although The University of Texas at Austin is no longer in the NCAA Tournament, the school has won the title in accounting research.
Each year, Brigham Young University reformulates the March Madness bracket by ranking the teams based on their accounting departments’ productivity. Texas, which also won in 2010 and 2012, has prevailed again after defeating Ohio State in the accounting finals.
“This research ranking measures productivity in total, but what distinguishes UT is that our research has both depth and breadth across topics and methods, and contributes to both theory and application,” says Lillian Mills, Chair of the University’s Accounting Department. “In basketball language, we aren’t a team with a single outside shooter – we have such a deep roster that any one of my colleagues could be the star on another team.”
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