Prospective BBA Students

The McCombs BBA Advantage & Exclusives

Design your future. Build a solid foundation in business. Cultivate a network of professional contacts and friends. Develop beyond your desired career destination. Identify your blueprint to create success. The McCombs BBA Advantage & Exclusives provides dedicated teams and recognized innovative programs. What starts here, connects you to the world.

The BBA Exclusives: Dedicated Teams

BBA Career Advising Team

McCombs offers you an enhanced Career Services Team exclusive to undergraduate business students! A team of six Career Advisors offer dedicated services for every major, the Business Honors program and for students interested in Pre-Law. This team empowers business students to reach their full potential! With strong industry involvement, prestigious and innovative programs, you can develop a network literally around the world. Attending a four-year business school offers you a real advantage.

Recruitment Services Team

Our Recruitment Services Team includes five industry specialists who manage over 15,000 interviews on campus with approximately 1,400 interviews for internship positions and assist employers with building and executing a strong recruiting strategy. Our state of the art multi-million dollar Ford Career Interview Center has 43 private interviewing suites, with nearby changing rooms and suit lockers so that students can dress for on-campus recruiting. Resume Books are created every semester for recruiters to search out new talent. Employers are beginning to create internships for underclassmen. Our students get noticed and are making an impression!

The BBA Exclusives: Programs & Opportunities

BA 101: Career Planning Strategies

Gain the knowledge to take ownership of your career! Taught by your Career Advisors, transfer students attend the fall semester and all freshmen in the spring semester. This course teaches students how to write resumes and professional correspondence while developing teamwork skills and confidence. Guest lecturers include professors who decipher the different majors and career paths. Upperclassman in the role of Peer Career Mentors share their internship experiences, their career-preparation journeys and offer suggestions about how to develop the skills employers seek.

TYF: Target Your Future

Motivated to dive-in to meeting employers and the internship/job-search process? Through customized small group seminars you will hear exactly what recruiters are looking for!

BBA Women’s Council

Network with prominent women and discuss current issues in the business world. You can shape your future, obtain a professional mentor, along with raising your visibility with added confidence!

Career Prep Week

Recruiters across industries share the real deal. Hear their personal experiences and valuable insight into specific industries. Get in their industry pipeline of future talent!

Networking Reception & Etiquette Dinner

Balancing conversation with food isn’t as easy as you think. Learn how to balance your drink and shake hands along with business dinner dining at this popular event.

Corporate Mock Interviews

You want to develop your interviewing skills and recruiters want to find talent. Students have been known to walk away with an invitation for a follow-up REAL interview!

Recruiting Our Students

Bring your suit! You have the opportunity to network with recruiters beginning your first semester. With over 80,000 McCombs alum, they often return to mentor current students through over 30 undergraduate student organizations. Also alums return and recruit our students! Both Fall and Spring Career Expo offer 180+ companies which represent every industry imaginable.