Acton School of Business
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The Acton School of Business is a one-year MBA in Entrepreneurship program in Austin, Texas, taught exclusively by successful, practicing entrepreneurs. At Acton, students tackle real-world problems through over 300 business cases and even sell products door-to-door. Whether you want to start your own business, buy a company or work your way to the top, Acton delivers the tools, skills and judgment you need to run a real business.
With ten professors and twenty-one students, Acton has the lowest student-faculty ratio of any MBA program in the country. Acton's roster of entrepreneur-teachers include Steven Tomlinson, Jeff Sandefer and Jack Long.
Since the program's inception in 2003, the Princeton Review has ranked Acton's students as the "Most Competitive" MBAs in America and rated its teachers among the top three business faculties in the country. BusinessWeek says, "Acton's one-year stint radically intensifies the learning experience." Forbes says, "Acton is a radically different MBA program... different from the ground up."
Acton is the only MBA program in the country that offers every student a $35,000 Acton Fellowship to cover the full cost of tuition, fees, and materials. Acton Fellowships are gifts from the business leaders of today to the entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Each fellowship is named in honor of a leader who personifies Acton's highest principles. These donors include home building magnate David Weekley, oil entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens and Charles Koch, leader of one of the largest private companies in North America.
Austin, Texas has been called the "City of Ideas," and it is at its most vibrant downtown - a center for culture as well as for business. Classes are currently taught at Acton's temporary classrooms just south of downtown on Barton Springs Blvd. The new Acton campus (currently under construction) is minutes from downtown on the shores of Lady Bird Lake. Acton's campus will have custom-designed facilities for teachers and students, including a state-of-the-art case classroom that will hold up to 50 students. The campus is expected to be complete in January 2008.
