Earn Your Ph.D. in Business at McCombs
Start your career in intellectual leadership at the McCombs School of Business. The primary goal of the Ph.D. program is to prepare students for exceptional academic careers in business schools. Highly competitive, the Ph.D. programs receive hundreds of applications but admit only around five percent of applicants each year from U.S. schools and top international institutions.
Admissions decisions are based solely on academic merit and do not depend on whether or not the applicant requests financial aid. Moreover, the McCombs School of Business offers financial support to all admitted students except those who have arranged funding from other sources.
Dynamic Faculty
Learn from, and work side-by-side, with some of the world’s leading minds in your discipline. The school is rated among the most productive and influential research faculties in the nation, consistently ranking in the top ten in the nation in terms of research contributions, based on surveys of publications in top-tier academic business journals conducted by the University of Texas at Dallas, and ninth on the Social Science Research Network’s list of most downloaded working papers from American business schools (October 2007).
First-Class Research Resources
You and your research will benefit from McCombs’ outstanding facilities and technology, including state-of-the-art research centers, behavioral laboratory, computing resources, libraries and teaching resources. In addition, you’ll find a research calendar complete with visiting academics, industry speakers and presentations by highly regarded professors worldwide.
Top Placements
World-renowned faculty, unparalleled resources, specialized training and substantive financial support combine to produce productive and thoughtful faculty who are highly sought in the academic market. Recent McCombs School Ph.D. graduates have accepted positions at Duke University, George Washington University, Harvard University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, McGill University and Northwestern University, to name a few.
Collegial Community
Pursue your business doctorate in Austin, Texas, at one of the nation's leading research and teaching institutions. Austin is a growing and vibrant "City of Ideas" that still retains its laid-back and welcoming roots. Whether enjoying the landscape of heavily wooded rolling hills and beautiful lakes or the thriving music and arts scenes, you will see why Austin has well-deserved reputation for being a great place for people to work, learn and grow.
The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business offers rigorous Ph.D. programs in:
(Contact the departments' graduate coordinators for admissions and more detailed information about individual departments.)
