The University of Texas at Austin has grown from one building, two departments, eight faculty members, and 221 students on a forty-acre tract to a campus of more than three hundred acres, with more than 110 buildings. The current enrollment is almost fifty thousand students. The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the nation's leading research and teaching institutions. The Ph.D. Program strives to prepare doctoral candidates to assume positions in leading graduate schools of business or in research organizations. The program places heavy emphasis on research skills and research quality.
Successful students can expect to be recruited actively by top-ranked business schools.