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Austin Ranked #1: America’s Best-Performing City

January 29, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Austin skyline

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/.

McCombs Maintains Bragging Rights To Top-Notched Profs And Campus

November 13, 2013 / / 0 Comments

 

Originally posted by Matt Turner in McCombs Today

Students at the McCombs School of Business continue to have some of the best teachers and campus life in the nation, according to the latest survey results from the Princeton Review.

For the second year in a row, McCombs placed among the top 10 in two categories—best professors and best campus environment—out of the 11 attribute rankings tracked by the Princeton Review and published in the annual guidebook, “The Best 295 Business Schools, 2014 Edition.”

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Accounting Department Again No. 1 In Rankings Trifecta

September 25, 2013 / / 0 Comments

Originally posted by Matt Turner in McCombs Today.

The McCombs School of Business continues to lead the nation among academic institutions of accounting.

For the ninth time in 12 years, McCombs ranks number one across all three of the 2013 rankings of the Public Accounting Report (PAR) Annual Professors Survey: undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D.

Additionally, this is the fourth year in a row for McCombs to take first place on all three bases.

Undergraduate Ranking: 1

For 22 years in a row, McCombs has placed first or second in this ranking. Second place goes to our only undergrad rival, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, followed by Brigham Young University in third.

Master’s Ranking: 1

McCombs has lead the nation at the master’s level in 19 out of the past 20 surveys. BYU and Illinois take second and third place, respectively.

Doctoral Ranking: 1

McCombs has landed among the top four doctoral programs since 1994, and has now taken the number-one spot 10 times in the last 12 years. Currently we rank above Stanford (2), the University of Chicago (3), Michigan (4), and Illinois (5).

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100 Years And Still Counting: McCombs’ No. 1 Legacy

May 8, 2013 / / 0 Comments

In the latest Notesworthy blog post, Dean Gilligan commends the Texas MPA and The University of Texas Accounting Department for their dominating spirit of achievement.

Accounting Professor Lisa Koonce Selected in the Top 10

April 5, 2013 / / 0 Comments

Originally posted by Katy McDowall in the Alcade. Photo by Matt Wright-Steel.

There are some teachers you just don’t forget. Nominated by alumni, these professors are among the best and most inspiring on the Forty Acres. Meet this year’s Texas 10.

Lisa Koonce

Professor, Accounting

Growing up in a small town in Southern Illinois, Lisa Koonce never thought she would attend college, let alone become a professor. She assumed she would be a secretary.

“It’s surprising to me still, at this point in my life, that I’m actually a university professor,” Koonce says. “People from my town didn’t do that sort of thing.”

Today, Koonce is the Deloitte and Touche Chair in Accounting at UT, where she has taught for 22 years and she’s earned a number of awards, including The University of Texas System Regents’ Teaching Award.

Teaching mostly seniors on their way to becoming certified public accountants, Koonce’s goal is to show her students that there’s more to accounting than just right or wrong answers.

“It’s not just black and white,” Koonce says. “There are a lot of financial situations that require judgment. I hope they realize that’s what they’re going to spend most of their professional lives doing.”

Koonce’s classroom also doubles as her research lab. While researching how accountants measure assets and liabilities at fair value, she often uses her students as test subjects.

“A lot of the projects I work on are related to ideas that students bring up in class,” she says. “If I really listen to them, I understand how they’re messing up their reasoning process.”

Ultimately, the research ideas Koonce gets from her students come full circle, helping her to teach more effectively.

“I view it as a pretty big privilege to work here,” she says, “and I feel very responsible for how they turn out.”

 

Meet our other Texas 10 professors here.

Texas MPA is #1…Again!

March 28, 2013 / / 0 Comments

The Texas MPA was ranked first in the nation for the seventh year in a row in the U.S. News and World Report’s survey of Best Graduate Schools!

Read the Department of Accounting news to learn about recent faculty accomplishments, highlighting the hard work that makes ours the top graduate accounting program in the country.

McCombs Is Lighting The Fire For America’s Hottest City

January 31, 2013 / / 0 Comments

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.”

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New CPA Review Course in McCombs School of Business

January 17, 2013 / / 0 Comments

 

The Center for Professional Education at The University of Texas at Austin is offering a new CPA exam review course starting this January 2013 in the McCombs School of Business.

CPA candidates from The University of Texas at Austin typically have pass rates much higher than the statewide average on any given part of the exam.

The review course is designed to provide a convenient option for students enrolled in our Master in Professional Accounting program to prepare for the CPA exam.

Three McCombs Accounting Professors Win Awards

December 7, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Originally posted by Jeremy Simon in McCombs Today.

The accounting department will need to make some additional room in its trophy case after a trio of professors recently won awards.

Over the past several weeks, three McCombs accounting professors were each recognized for their outstanding achievements. Professor Michael Clement received the Honored Guest Award from the PhD Project, an organization that recruits minority professionals from business into doctoral programs. Professor James Deitrick, meanwhile, received the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants’ (TSCPA) 2012 Outstanding Accounting Educator Award. Additionally, Assistant Professor Brian White was awarded with the Outstanding Manuscript Award at the Accounting Behavior and Organizations (ABO) conference for his paper on performance-based incentives.

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McCombs Accounting #1 in PAR Rankings

December 5, 2012 / / 0 Comments

The University of Texas at Austin‘s undergraduate, master’s and doctoral accounting programs are ranked #1 in the Public Accounting Report’s 31st Annual Professors Survey.

Hook’ Em!

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