Texas MPA Program Rankings

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Accounting Rankings

Rank	Publication	Date
#1 (Undergraduate Accounting)	U.S. News & World Report	09/12
#1 (Graduate Accounting)	U.S. News & World Report	03/13
#1 (Undergraduate Program)	Public Accounting Report	11/12
#1 (Graduate Program)	Public Accounting Report	11/12
#1 (Ph.D. Program)	Public Accounting Report	11/12
#10 (Accounting, Global)	Financial Times	01/13

MPA Employment & Salary Statistics

MPA Employment Statistics

	Class of 2012	Class of 2011
Professional accounting services firms (Big 4, Mid-Cap and Regional Firms)	88%	89%
Industry	4%	3%
Investment Banking and other Financial Services	4%	4%
Consulting	4%	2%
Government/Public Sector	0%	2%

MPA Average Salary (Across all industries)

Class of 2012	$54,175
Class of 2011	$52,498

MPA Geographic Distribution of Employment

	Class of 2012	tMPA	iMPA	Class of 2011
Texas	83%	72%	89%	82%
Northeast	7%	8%	6%	12%
Mid-Atlantic	-	-	-	1%
South	3%	6%	2%	-
Midwest	2%	6%	-	-
Southwest (other than Texas)	1%	1%	1%	2%
West	3%	6%	2%	2%
International	1%	1%	1%	1%

At time of graduation in 2011, percentage of MPA students who were

	MPA-All	MPA-International
Employed or received offers	93%	65%
Continuing education or postponing job search	2%	10%
Seeking employment	5%	26%

Companies That Have Recently Recruited Texas MPAs

Poised for success, Texas MPA students are sought after by organizations in a variety of sectors including public accounting, finance, industry, public service, and consulting. Below is a list of organizations that recently recruited MPA students.

Consulting

Abacist Group	McKinsey & Co.
Accenture	Mercer
Alvarez & Marsal	Navigant Consulting
Bain & Company	Pariveda Solutions
Capgemini U.S., LLC	PRGX
Cogent Compensation Partners	Protiviti
Cornerstone Research	Ryan, Inc.
Crowe Horwath, LLP	The Boston Consulting Group
Deloitte Consulting	Towers Watson
FTI Consulting	Veritas Advisory Group, Inc.
Gerson Lehrman Group	VMG Health

Public Accounting

Atchley & Associates, LLP	Malone Bailey, LLP
BDO Seidman	Maxwell Locke & Ritter, LLP
BKD, LLP	Novogradac & Company, LLP
Deloittle & Touche, LLP	PMB Helin Donovan, LLP
Ernst & Young, LLP	PricewaterhouseCoopers
Flieller, Kruger, Skelton & Plyler, LLP	Reznick Group
Grant Thornton, LLP	Rothstein Kass
Hamilton, Pyle & Bowman, LLP	Ubernosky & Majeres, LLP
KPMG

Public Service

Buckner International	Internal Revenue Service
Doctors in Training	NASA Johnson Space Center
Education Pioneers	Texas Department of Banking
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)	The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Finance

Acquest Advisors	J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Amegy Bank	JMP Securities
American Express	Koch Supply and Trading
Austin Ventures	Lazard
Bank of America Merrill Lynch	Macquarie Holdings (U.S.A.), Inc.
Bank of Texas	Madison Williams and Company
Barclays	McColl Partners, LLC
Bares Capital Managment	MHT Partners
BB&T	Miller Buckfire & Co.
BBVA Compass	Morgan Keegan
BMO Capital  Markets	Morgan Stanley
Brandes Investment Partners, LP	Nomura Securities International, Inc.
Buffington Capital Holdings, LLC	Piper Jaffray & Co.
Capital One	PNC Business Credit
Centerview Partners, LLC	Propel Financial Services
Citi	Prudential Financial
Comerica Bank	Raymond James & Associates
CPMG, Inc.	RBC Capital Markets
Credit Suisse	Regions Financial Corporation
Deutsche Bank	Resource Land Holdings
Dimensional Fund Advisors, Inc.	Robert W. Baird & Co.
Duff & Phelps, LLC	Scotia Waterous (U.S.A), Inc.
Evercore Partners	Simmons & Company International
Factset Research Systems, Inc.	Skellig Capital Management, LLC
Financial Technology Partners	Southwest Securities
Freddie Mac	Standard Charter Bank
Fulcrum Capital	Stifel Nicolaus Investment Banking
Goldman Sachs	Summit Partners
Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending	The BVA Group, LLC
Greenhill & Co., LLC	The Royal Bank of  Scotland
Houlihan Lokey	Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co.
Howard Frazier Barker Ellion, Inc.	UBS
Imperial Capital, LLC	Wells Fargo
Invesco Aim

Industry

3M	Huntsman Corporation
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)	IBM
American Airlines	Intel Corporation
Amphora, Inc.	JB Hunt Transport
Anadarko Petroleum	JCPenney
Apache Corporation	Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
AppFolio	Macy's
Archon Group	Marathon Oil Company
AT&T, Inc.	Mariott International
BHP Billiton	Maxim Integrated Products
BP Corporation	McAffee, Inc.
Cameron	McMaster-Carr Supply Co.
Cardinal Health Corporation	MicrosoftCorporation
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	National Instruments
Chevron Corporation	National Oilwell Varco
CIM Group, Inc.	Nestle U.S.A.
CITGO Petroleum Corporation	Noble Energy
Clear Channel Communications	PepsiCo
ConocoPhillips	Plains Exploration & Production Company
Continental Airlines	Procter & Gamble Company
Dell	R.W. Beck
Delta Air Lines, Inc.	Raytheon
Direct Energy	Sabre Holdings
El Paso Corporation	Schneider Electric
Energy Future Holdings (TXU)	Shell Oil Company
Epic  Systems Corporation	Southwestern Energy
ExxonMobil Corporation	Spectra Energy
FedEx	Stage Stores, Inc.
General Electric	Strayer University
General Motors	Texas Instruments
Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation	Textron, Inc.
Halliburton Company	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard	Walt Disney Company
Home Depot	Whiteside Energy
Hunt Administrative Services, LLC

CPA Exam Success

The Texas MPA curriculum lays a solid educational foundation for the Uniform Certified Public Accounting examination. Candidates from UT Austin typically have pass rates much higher than the statewide and national averages on any given part of the exam. In fact, several of our students have received the prestigious American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Sells Award for earning the highest cumulative scores on the four sections of the exam on their first attempt.

MPA Student Profile

 

Traditional MPa Approach - MPA Student profile

	Class of 2013	Class of 2012	Class of 2011
Enrollment	102	113	106
Average GPA	3.76	3.76	3.78
Average GMAT	660	664	676
Female	51%	50%	45%
Male	49%	50%	55%
Percent not Texas residents	62%	69%	55%
Underrepresented Minorities*	14%	6%	13%
Average Age	24	24	25
Average work experience (months)	13	13	12
*African-American, Hispanic and Native American

Traditional MPA Approach - Undergraduate major

	Class of 2013	Class of 2012	Class of 2011
Accounting	52%	45%	48%
Other business major	13%	21%	22%
Economics	17%	21%	14%
Other Liberal Arts	13%	6%	6%
Engineering/Science/Math	3%	5%	3%
Other	2%	2%	7%

Integrated mpa Approach - MPA Student profile

	Class of 2015	Class of 2014	Class of 2013
Enrollment	207	238	239
Average GPA	3.69	3.68	3.68
Average SAT	1304	1304	1289
Female	46%	50%	54%
Male	54%	50%	46%
Underrepresented Minorities*	13%	8%	9%
*African-American, Hispanic and Native American