Finance PhD, University of Houston

Anyone knows anything about this program? The faculty seems OK but there is no placement data. I'd appreciate any info.

你被这所录取了么？我被他锯了……

faculty是挺不错的，但是毕业后找工作情况不是太理想，我听说的两个中国的houston finance phd一个毕业后去了阿拉斯加的一个大学，干了几年才回到中部一个大学，另一个在德州一个很烂的学校教书……

well, this is a top 70 school and used to be top50 business school. I don't know if it is good enough for most people

in terms of placement, they are doing pretty good. of course, job searching is all about what you have. some people have great communication skill but graduated from a bad school, but their job placement will be easier than people who cannot speak english in a top program.

Julia,

Yeah, I got in, though it is the only school (and my backup) that got me in. It appears that this year's competition is fierce. I wish I could get in a top 30, sigh...

FunnyTiger,

You said "they are doing pretty good". Are you talking about the finance PhD graduates or MBAs? I can't find the ranking of Houston's MBA since Houston does not have a full-time MBA program. Based on research productivity, the Houston finance dept. ranks somewhere between 45 and low 70. But its PhD placement does not look too good. Of course, I do realize that a graduate's placement heavily depends on his/her credentials.

houston is not bad with regard to its reseach productivity. see below,

Rankings of Departments of Finance by Refereed Publications in Top Four Journals in Finance
1991 – 2000 2001
1991-2001
School Name JF** JFE JFQA RFS Total JF JFE JFQA RFS Total
1 New York University - NY 54 27 12 24 117 6 5 2 3 133
2 Chicago, U. of 42 32 9 18 101 4 2 0 4 111
3 Pennsylvania, U. of - Philadelphia 54 25 3 5 87 6 4 0 6 103
4 California, U. of - Los Angeles (UCLA) 40 15 9 11 75 7 3 0 4 89
5 Michigan, U. of - Ann Arbor 29 14 7 23 73 3 1 0 2 79
6 Harvard University - Boston 36 25 2 2 65 3 3 0 0 71
7 Ohio State University - Columbus 24 23 9 11 67 2 0 0 1 70
8 Northwestern University 29 7 5 17 58 5 1 0 2 66
9 Columbia University - NY 20 13 5 16 54 4 3 0 3 64
10 Duke University 30 8 8 9 55 3 2 0 1 61
11 Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. (MIT) 20 16 3 8 47 4 1 1 0 53
12 Cornell University 24 6 9 11 50 1 0 0 1 52
13 Rochester, U. of 18 26 0 2 46 1 3 0 1 51
14 Arizona State University 14 19 6 4 43 1 1 1 2 48
15 Stanford University 20 10 0 12 42 2 1 0 0 45
16 Illinois, U. of - Urbana/Champaign 16 9 8 5 38 4 0 0 1 43
Southern California, U. of (USC) 18 11 3 11 43 0 0 0 0 43
18 Boston College 16 13 4 4 37 1 0 2 1 41
19 Texas, U. of - Austin 13 8 8 3 32 5 0 1 0 38
20 London Business School 15 7 1 8 31 1 0 0 5 37
21 British Columbia, U. of 16 2 6 11 35 0 0 1 0 36
Purdue University 10 13 7 3 33 1 1 1 0 36
23 Carnige Mellon University 14 2 0 13 29 4 1 0 1 35
Hong Kong U. of Science & Tech. (HKUST) 16 4 3 6 29 2 3 0 1 35
25 North Carolina, U. of - Chapel Hill 14 9 0 6 29 1 3 0 1 34
California, U. of - Berkeley 15 3 1 9 28 1 1 1 0 31
Washington, U. of - Seattle 10 6 5 8 29 2 0 0 0 31
Yale University 16 6 2 5 29 1 0 1 0 31
Vanderbilt University - Nashville 9 9 3 5 26 1 1 1 0 29
Florida, U. of - Gainesville 16 6 1 5 28 0 0 0 0 28
Pennsylvania State University 15 7 1 4 27 1 0 0 0 28
Indiana, U. of - Bloomington 9 3 9 5 26 0 1 0 0 27
Iowa, University of 10 8 4 3 25 1 0 0 1 27
Tel Aviv University 12 2 4 9 27 0 0 0 0 27
Wisconsin, U. of - Madison 8 1 6 10 25 0 0 0 2 27
Washington, U. of - St. Louis 10 2 0 12 24 2 0 0 0 26
Georgia, U. of - Athens 8 6 5 3 22 0 2 0 0 24
Utah, University of 4 7 5 6 22 1 0 1 0 24
Minnesota, U. of - Minneapolis 11 3 3 5 22 0 1 0 0 23
Notre Dame, University of 6 6 4 3 19 1 2 1 0 23
Southern Methodist University 8 6 6 1 21 1 0 0 0 22
Louisiana State University 5 9 5 1 20 0 0 0 0 20
Rutgers University - Camden, NJ 5 2 9 3 19 0 0 0 0 19
California, U. of - Irvine 10 2 1 3 16 1 1 0 0 18
Emory University 3 0 5 2 10 4 2 2 0 18
Georgetown University 7 3 5 1 16 0 1 0 1 18
Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State U. 7 6 3 2 18 0 0 0 0 18
Houston, U. of - Houston 10 1 2 2 15 0 0 2 0 17
California, U. of - Davis 9 3 1 1 14 1 0 0 1 16
Arizona, University of 7 2 4 1 14 0 1 0 0 15
California, U. of - Riverside 6 2 5 1 14 0 0 0 1 15
Michigan State University 1 2 4 7 14 1 0 0 0 15
Missouri, U. of - Columbia 2 6 6 0 14 0 1 0 0 15

mei9, are you sure that we are talking about the same U of Houston?

The one I know they have full-time MBA program, once they were ranked top30 program. recently they dropped but arguably one of the top50 MBA program.

Their MBA placement is very similar to Rice, affected by energy companies... up and down.