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McCombs School of Business – The University of Texas at Austin

McCombs School of Business

The McCombs School of Business is located near the center of the University of Texas at Austin’s campus. McCombs offers a full-time MBA program in addition to part-time and Executive MBA options. Key features of the McCombs MBA program include a flexible curriculum with a broad range of concentrations, as well as a highly collaborative student culture. McCombs also has a history of placing a comparatively high percentage of graduates into post-MBA careers in the technology industry.

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Current State

05/15/2013

Round 4 applicants received final admissions decisions on May 10th, 2013.

Basic Stats

MEAN GMAT692
MEAN GPA3.43
CLASS SIZE263
% FEMALE28%

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Recent News

04/30/2013

Trivia Tuesday: Innovation and Creativity at McCombs

It’s Tuesday again, and that means it’s time for some trivia! As our regular readers know, each Tuesday we take the opportunity to highlight some...

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03/22/2013

UT McCombs Alumni Give $25 Million to Build New Graduate Business School Building

A Dallas billionaire and his family have pledged $25 million to fund a new innovation-minded, 458,000-square-foot building to house graduate programs...

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12/25/2012

Trivia Tuesday: McCombs’s Venture Fellows Program

Welcome back to Trivia Tuesday, where we profile special offerings that help distinguish the top business schools from each other.  Today...

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09/11/2012

Trivia Tuesday: McCombs’s AIM Investment Center

The focus of this week’s column in the Trivia Tuesday series, in which we cover the unique program elements that differentiate the leading MBA...

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09/10/2012

New $155 Million Graduate Center Approved for McCombs School of Business

The McCombs School of Business will have fancy new digs in 2017 if everything goes according to plan, the school announced recently. In late August,...

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Interview Reports

04/09/2013

UT Austin / McCombs Evening MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 4 / Admissions Director / On Campus

I submitted my application and received interview request that evening. The interview dates were 1 week from the application date, and I was given 2...

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03/04/2013

UT Austin / McCombs MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / Second-year student / Skype

I had read some of these reports prior to my Skype interview, so the questions were pretty similar. This was my last interview, and I found that it...

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02/26/2013

UT Austin / McCombs MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 1 / Off-campus / Alumnus

The interview was very simple. Very conversational in nature. Questions asked- apart from the basic questions such as: Why mba? Why now? Why...

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02/01/2013

UT Austin / McCombs MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 3 / Alumnus / Skype

I was invited to interview at McCombs 6 days after I submitted my full-time MBA application on Jan 23, 2013. I was not able to visit Austin because...

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01/29/2013

UT Austin / McCombs MBA Admissions Interview Questions: Round 2 / Adcom / Off-campus

Received a request for interview about one week after submitting the R2 application on the day it was due. Email said an adcom was going to be in my...

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