[校友答疑] UT-Austin Mccombs MBA Q&A

relatively robust Texas Economy, an unemployment rate of ~8% vs ~9.6% US national wide. Especially for thoses who are interested in Energy or Hi-tech or entreprenuership, this is the perfect place to go. (for Ibanking, texas also holds a unique position for energy financing, for consulting we got  great relasionship with Deloitte consulting and Mck, Bain, BCG, Booz also hire several students each year. Though both are extremely competitive for international students).
According to Forbs, the top 5 best big city for jobs are amazingly all in Texas...
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/14/best-cities-for-jobs-opinions-columnists-employment.html
The city is amazing. Though as hot as Shanghai in summer(but less humid), winter could be cute. It is not a very big city like my hometown Shanghai, but there are a lot of interesting things here such as

millions of bats go out from the congress bridge at sunset. You could just imagine it...   BBQ in Salt Lick, which is famous in US for the wooden houses in the middle of lawn and forest  The very romantic and beautiful jetty beside Lake Austin 2 streets named 4th streets and 6th streets, in these two streets you can find nothing but pubs...if you like it...( The Bschool organizes 'THink and Drink' every Thursday night, and my finance professor told us that 'you should be very careful with it' coz it was where he met his wife years ago when he was an MBA here after a little bit alcohol, you know...) people are very nice in Austin. Most of them are very friendly. Once i cannot find a place when I was on the street, and some guy just voluntarily helped me to make a phone call and find the way for me. It made me feel warm, as warm as the summer of texas...

The school is also a great one. It enjoys the highest reputation in Texas. The Engineering, Business and law school are all ranked top20 and well-known through out the country.  Besides, what impress me most is:

Sports. UT's football team ranked 2nd among the 120+ college football teams in US. People are crazy about it. We are enjoying the biggest college football stadium in US. The sports facility here is just fantastic. Current and former University of Texas at Austin athletes have won 88 Olympic medals, including 19 in Athens in 2004... School environment. It is not a big campus, but it is a fine one. I could always find those squirrels chasing each other or holding pinecone and eating on the tree. Very cute. And the hispanic architecture style of the whole school is just the one i like most... faculty: I am taking 4 courses for the 1st half of the semester including Finance, Economics, Statistics and Accounting

For Finance, the guy got MBA and JD and played more than 1 billion hedge fund before. He is also directing the 11million MBA investment fund which is being run by 20 selected student fund managers who are interested in it each year.
For Economics, the professor Magee was White House Staff , and Co-Captain of U.S. National Soccer Champions...I guarantee you his class is going to be as funny as you could imagine...
For Statistics we got a math geek who originally taught in Chicago for 20 years. He is more an actor than a teacher which made the class experience more than funny...
For Accounting, we got the dean taught the course in this area and make our accounting ranked No.1 in US for many years in a row... for our 200+ bucks text book, he just made the publisher to waive their copyright for our free copy...very powerful.

谢谢 支持一下

录取的话应该对背景没有特别的要求，我们班上什么人都有，开餐馆的老板，美国国家女排，南极科考队员，什么背景都有的。。。

只是说如果你想做high-tech 或energy的话在选择 offer 的时候可能来我们这里会更好

谢谢Ucfish的细致介绍，我也是这一届的新生，再补充几点吧。

1）从我们这一届开始学校商学院MBA实行Quarterly式教学，就是说一个academic year有4个quarter, 每个semester有2个quarter，这样一来MBA头一年的学习从头到尾都会保持着相当的压力，想偷懒是不太可能的了，呵呵。结果是，一方面，花了这么多学费来读书那是相当值了;） 另一方面，这是UT Austin商学院一直在进行变革中的一个变化。另外，学校的经费在全美公立大学中据说现在是排前三，全美经济不景气的情况下，学校这阵子还到处在搞建设。

小结：这些日子里，一直都感受到学校和商学院一股积极向上的活力。就像学校的football team, 很强大!

2）上一届的中国师姐师兄们非常帮助我们这一届的新生，比如：不到两个月的时间，我们已经搞了三次大的聚会，上一次还把学校重量级的John Doggett教授及太太请过来作客，寓教于乐啦。当然我们也一定会把这个传统沿续下去。

小结：中国同学（包括台湾同学）很好，很团结。

3）这里一大发现就是学校的美女实在太多。来之前就听说UT Austin的女生在美国大学里是被评为A+级的，果然不假。光是商学院，每天进进出出的就有不少亚洲美女。我们这一届MBA大陆不知为什么没有女生，只有两个台湾美眉，但像BBA，MPA似乎大陆来了不少美眉。

小结：很养眼。。。

4）UT Austin的气候非常好，不湿也不干，非常怡人，很适合户外运动。这里几乎天天阳光明媚，偶尔一阵太阳雨，或者骤雨。来学校就今天下雨比较长一些，第一次用umbrella.

小结：等一个雨天

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