Mays Business School

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Mays Business School
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Dean	Dr. Ricky W. Griffin (interim)
Students	4,964[1]
•  Undergrad	4,088
•  Master's	804
•  Ph.D.	72
Faculty	95[2]
Website
http://mays.tamu.edu/

Mays Business School is the business school at Texas A&M University. The school educates over 4,800 students in undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs and consistently ranks among the top public business schools.

The Mays Business School was one of the first five schools in the United States to offer a trading center, the Reliant Energy Securities & Commodities Trading Center, which provides students with hands-on training to the tools used by commodities and currency traders.^[3] Students also use the center to manage the Tanner Fund, a $250,000 portfolio created using donated funds.^[4] The School also houses the nation's largest publicly funded real estate research organization, the Real Estate Center,^[5] and the Center for Retailing Studies, which was the first retailing center partnered with a business school.^[6]

Although the Mays Business School does not directly fund any research, faculty and staff are encouraged to pursue individual, privately-funded research. The School has been recognized by several entities for the quality of the faculty scholarship.

Contents 1 History 2 Academics 2.1 Departments 2.2 Degrees offered 2.3 Centers 2.4 Rankings[9] 2.4.1 Undergraduate program 2.4.2 MBA program 2.4.3 EMBA program 2.4.4 Accounting 2.4.5 Ph.D Program 2.4.6 Management 2.4.7 Information & Operations Management 2.4.8 Marketing 2.4.9 Supply Chain Management 2.4.10 Faculty Scholarship 3 References 4 See also

[edit] History

Business education was first offered at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in conjunction with mechanical and agricultural programs. From 1876 through 1920 students at Texas A&M could select from a small number of business courses including single and double-entry bookkeeping and creamery management. In the 1920s the Department of Economics and the Agricultural Administration programs began offering further business courses, and by the end of the decade the college had established departments for accounting and statistics, farm and ranch management, marketing, and finance.^[7]

Shortly after the conclusion of World War II, Thomas W. Leland became the first department head of the newly created Department of Business and Accounting, under the umbrella of the School of Arts and Sciences. After Leland's retirement in 1961, the School of Business Administration formed. By 1965 the new head of the department, Jon E. Pearson, had spearheaded the formation of several departments within the School of Business, including accounting, business analysis and research, finance, marketing, and management. The MBA program debuted in 1966, and two years later, when Texas A&M received University status, the School of Business became the College of Business Administration.^[7]

The College was accredited by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1972, and began awarding Ph.D.s the same year. Over the next several decades the College continued to grow, establishing various centers, including the Center for International Business Studies and the Center for Human Resources Management, and implementing new bachelor's degrees.^[7]

The College of Business moved into the newly-built Wehner Building on the western edge of Texas A&M University's campus in 1995. The following year the College was endowed by Lowry Mays, founder of Clear Channel Communications, and was renamed in his honor.^[7] Expansion continued quickly, and in 2003 an additional wing was added to the Wehner Building, housing the new 66,000 square foot Jerry and Kay Cox Graduate Business Center.^[8]

[edit] Academics

[edit] Departments

• Accounting
• Finance
• Information & Operations Management
• Management
• Marketing

[edit] Degrees offered

• Agribusiness (B.B.A., Master of Agribusiness)
• Accounting (B.B.A., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Finance (B.B.A., M.S., Ph.D.)
• Human Resources Management (M.S.)
• Information Systems
  • Supply Chain Management (B.B.A., Ph.D.)
  • Management Information Systems (MIS) (B.B.A., M.S.)
• Management (B.B.A., Ph.D.)
• Marketing (B.B.A., M.S., Ph.D.)

• MBA
• Executive MBA
• Master of Real Estate

• Undergraduate Business Minor

• Certificates
  • Certificate in Latin American Business Studies
  • Certificate in International Business
  • Certificate in European Union Business
  • Certificate in Business (for masters' students who are non-business majors)

[edit] Centers

• Executive Development
• Human Resource Management
• Information Systems
• International Business
• New Ventures & Entrepreneurship
• Real Estate
• Retailing Studies
• Reliant Trading Center

[edit] Rankings^[9]

[edit] Undergraduate program

• 10th public (31st overall), BusinessWeek (2008)^[10]
• Tied 19th public (tied 33rd overall), U.S. News & World Report (2008)

[edit] MBA program

• 2nd U.S. public (12th in world), Best Value for Money, Financial Times (2006)[1]
• 4th U.S. public (10th U.S., 37th in world), Exposure to International Issues, Financial Times (2006)[2]
• 7th U.S. public (15th U.S., 32nd in world), Women Faculty, Financial Times (2006)[3]
• 9th public (24th overall), Forbes (2005)[4]
• 9th fastest return on investment, Business Week (2002)[5]
• Tied 14th public (tied 29th overall),^[11] U.S. News & World Report (2008)
• 26th U.S. public (85th in world), Financial Times (2006)[6]
• 28th regional, Wall Street Journal (2005)
• 8th best-administered program, The Princeton Review (2007)[7]
• 8th best campus facilities, The Princeton Review (2007)[8]
• 10th in student competitiveness, The Princeton Review (2007) [9]
• Tied 1st U.S. public (tied 3rd in world), MBA Placement, Financial Times (2006) [10]
• 14th public,^[12] U.S. News and World Report (2008)

[edit] EMBA program

• 2nd U.S. public (8th U.S., 16th in world), Work Experience, Financial Times (2005)
• 5th U.S. public (17th U.S., 38th in world), Salary Increase, Financial Times (2005)
• 6th U.S. public (10th U.S., 12th in world), Career Progress, Financial Times (2005)
• 13th public U.S. program (63rd in the world, 37th in the U.S.), Financial Times (2005)

[edit] Accounting

• 6th undergraduate program, Public Accounting Report’s 25th Annual Professors Survey (2006)
• 6th graduate program, Public Accounting Report’s 25th Annual Professors Survey (2006)
• 6th CPA pass rate for first time candidates, National Association of State Boards of Public Accountancy (2006)
• Tied 16th public undergraduate program (24th overall), U.S. News & World Report (2006)
• 11th public graduate program (30th overall), U.S. News & World Report (2006)

[edit] Ph.D Program

• 9th U.S. public (26th world, 14th in the U.S.), Financial Times EMBA rankings (2005)

[edit] Management

• Tied 11th public undergraduate program (13th overall) by U.S. News & World Report (2006)
• 3rd for number of research citations, University Science Indicators (2004)
• 10th in faculty research productivity, Academy of Management Journal (2000)

[edit] Information & Operations Management

• 19th in research productivity by INFORMS (1990-2002)

[edit] Marketing

• 25th for faculty research impact, American Marketing Association (2003)

[edit] Supply Chain Management

• 9th in faculty research productivity, Academy of Management Journal (2000)

[edit] Faculty Scholarship

• 8th U.S. public (26th in the world, 21st in the U.S.), Financial Times EMBA rankings (2005)
• 12th U.S. public, faculty research downloads (28th U.S., 37th overall), Social Science Research Network (2006)
• 14th public (26th overall), Academy of Management Journal (2001)

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of United States business school rankings
• List of business schools in the United States

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