Bauer College of Business

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Melcher Hall, home of the Bauer College of Business
Melcher Hall, home of the Bauer College of Business

The Bauer College of Business is an academic college at the University of Houston and is fully accredited by the AACSB International. It offers B.B.A., M.B.A., MS Accountancy, MS Finance, and the city’s only Ph.D. program in business administration. The College has five academic departments: Accountancy and Taxation, Decision and Information Sciences, Finance, Management, and Marketing and Entrepreneurship. The Bauer College is home to five centers and institutes.

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On July 12, 2000, businessman Ted Bauer announced a $40 million donation to the University of Houston's College of Business Administration. In recognition of his generosity, the college was renamed the C. T. Bauer College of Business.

The evening MBA program is ranked 27th nationally and 4th regionally (BusinessWeek 2007)
Ranked in the top 50 among public undergraduate business schools (BusinessWeek 2007)
Ranked 82nd among all undergraduate business schools (BusinessWeek 2008)
Ranked 2nd among the top undergraduate entrepreneurship programs (Princeton Review & Entrepreneur Magazine 2007)
Ranked 40th among public undergraduate business schools (US News & World Report 2008)
Top Undergraduate Business Program in Houston
Top Undergraduate Sales Program in the U.S. (largest enrollment and most extensive curriculum)
MBA Program is ranked 5th among public universities for producing CEOs of S&P 500 companies
EMBA Program is ranked 17th in the U.S. among public EMBA programs (2004 Financial Times)
EMBA Program is ranked 76th in the World (2006 Financial Times)
Finance faculty is ranked 8th in the country by the Academic Analytics’ Faculty Scholarly Productivity (FSP) Index

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