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DFWMBA : Program Details

Program Details

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The Texas MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth is a two-year graduate business program designed for managers and professionals who want to pursue an MBA while maintaining their careers. Classes are held on Friday evenings and all day Saturday with two one-week Austin Intensive Courses integrated into the curriculum. Students attend classes in the fall, spring and summer semesters.

Objectives

  • Integrate innovative business strategies with applications to current and future work environments
  • Learn to create tactically integrated plans to achieve corporate goals
  • Develop effective managerial skills
  • Understand the economic, social, technical, and political forces driving worldwide change in industries and markets
  • Increase competencies in key functional areas of business
  • Gain command of the business concepts and tools required to design and implement strategic plans and improve net results
  • Develop the ability to analyze, structure, and lead organizations through change

Curriculum *

The Texas MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth curriculum prepares students to lead, build, and manage enterprises that create value for stakeholders and constituencies in a dynamic, global economy. The hallmarks of the MBA at DFW program include a common educational experience that prepares all students for success and a collaborative rather than competitive learning environment. The Texas MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth curriculum consists of 48 credit-hours and includes 21 course topics, 2 one-week-long Austin Intensive Courses and the Capstone Integrative.

First Year

Fall Semester

Austin Intensive #1

Financial Accounting
Statistics and Decision Analysis
Managing People and Leading Organizations
Spring Semester
Financial Management
Marketing Management
International Management Seminar/Global Trip
Summer Semester
Strategic Management
IT Management and Business Process Excellence

Second Year
Fall Semester
Austin Intensive #2
Managerial Economics
Operations Management
Corporate Finance and Financial Markets
Spring Semester
Art and Science of Negotiation
Advanced Marketing Management
Managerial Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis
May - June
Legal Environment of Business
Business Ethics Capstone Integrative

*Curriculum is subject to change

The Basics

Our goal is to give all MBAs the same business fundamentals of business and to endow them with general management competence. Through the core, the faculty seeks to instill these essential business skills and values:

  • A contemporary, real-world managerial perspective
  • Business ethics
  • Teamwork and leadership skills
  • Cross-functional problem solving
  • Effective written and oral communications
  • The ability to manage change, risk, and crises
  • The ability to manage human resources and diversity
  • Personal presentation skills

Additional Program Features:

The Texas MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth curriculum is complemented with several additional features that include a Global Study Tour at the end of the spring semester of the first year, a one-week Austin Intensive Course at the beginning of each fall semester, and the Capstone Integrative beginning in the spring semester of the last year. The program also includes a career development plan to assist students with their professional goals. In addition, students have the opportunity to experience "Washington Campus", which involves a trip to Washington, D.C. to learn about business and public policy process.

Schedule

Program Calendar

The MBA at DFW program will take approximately 22 months to complete. Candidates attend classes on alternating weekends from Friday 4-8:30 and Saturday 8-5:30. Classes are held in Dallas at the Hilton Anatole.

For those students enrolling in the Fall of 2007, class will kick off in Austin in August (week-long Austin Intensive Course).

The curriculum is a lock-step, cohort program in which candidates take courses with the same group throughout the entire program. The program includes a week-long, integrative experience offered at the beginning of the first year and one offered at the beginning of the second year. Candidates will also participate in an international trip and seminar.

Candidates are provided accommodation at the Wyndham Anatole and these costs are included in the program fees.

Location

Classes for the Texas MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth will be held at the Hilton Anatole, 2201 Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75207. The hotel offers exceptional health club and recreational facilities including an indoor swimming pool. Self-parking is convenient and is offered at no extra charge to our students.

Accommodations at the hotel on Friday evenings are included in the program cost. We hope this will provide students with a first-rate campus environment and MBA experience. It is our goal that our student's stay at the hotel will better afford them time to develop professional networks and encourage team-learning experiences.
 

Collaborative Learning

Among MBA programs, Texas is known for its collaborative environment, and collaboration will be integral to the MBA at DFW curriculum.

All students will participate in the cohort system, designed to strengthen and develop teamwork and leadership skills. As a group, or cohort, students will take all of their courses together, and will further be assigned to study teams. These teams, usually of five students, facilitate cross-functional and cooperative problem solving, while bringing together professionals with varied backgrounds. Our students are highly qualified and carefully selected, and our curriculum encourages them to learn as much from each other as from their coursework and professors. Students are encouraged to take full advantage of the time at the hotel and the opportunities afforded to share experiences, support each other, expand their team's capabilities, and develop future professional networks.

Program Cost

The total program cost for the Texas MBA at Dallas/Fort Worth for the class entering in August 2008 is $81,500. Tuition is divided by the five semesters and includes program tuition, fees, required books and materials and residential component when at the Anatole.

Tuition, fees, and charges are subject to change by administrative, legislative, or regental action, and changes become effective on the date enacted. Due to budgetary pressures, there may be future increases.

Financial Aid

How to Apply

To apply, complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). This is a national form available on the web at www.fafsa.ed.gov. You will need to list UT Austin on the FAFSA along with the school title IV code, which is 003658. The priority application date is March 31st, although there are no actual deadlines.

Only domestic and permanent residents are eligible for financial aid through the FAFSA form.

To check the status of the processing of your FAFSA at the Federal Student Aid processing center, call 1-800-4FED AID and select option #1.

Please contact the McCombs School of Business Financial Aid Rep for help with your financial aid questions- Mary Gielstra. mary.gielstra@mccombs.utexas.edu or call (512) 232-6460

Awarding Financial Aid

Within three to four weeks of sending your FAFSA to the federal processor, you will receive your Student Aid Report (SAR). UT Austin will receive the same data electronically, from the Federal Processing Center. When you receive the SAR, review it to make certain the information is correct. If UT’s Office of Student Financial Services (OSFS) needs any additional information from you, a request will be sent. Processing of awards for graduate business students will begin late April, and electronic Financial Aid Notification (e-FAN) award notices will begin going out at this time if you did not need to submit any documentation in order for your application to be processed. If you would like to check the status of your application, you may check online by going to the OSFS website at http://finaid.utexas.edu and clicking on the CA$H link. The CA$H link requires a UT EID number to access the site. You will be issued an EID once you officially apply to the program.

When you receive the e-FAN, you’ll submit it back to UT's OSFS to accept your awards. Approximately one week after submitting the e-FAN, you will receive a Master Promissory Note/loan application. The promissory note/loan application will have instructions to complete the application. Upon completion, send the promissory note/loan application to the participating lender at the address provided in the instructions.
 
What Financial Aid is Available for University of Texas at Austin MBA Programs

Upon receiving your Award Notification through the FAFSA process, you should follow the instructions for the loans for which you qualify. All students who are loan eligible should first apply for the Federal Stafford Loan, subsidized and unsubsidized, prior to applying for additional loan assistance.

The notification will also contain information about the Federal Grad PLUS supplemental loan and alternative loan. The Grad PLUS will be awarded to you on your Financial Aid Notification. However there is alternative loan available if you wanted to choose an alternative loan instead of the Grad PLUS. The Federal Government does not regulate alternative loans, so terms of the loan will vary from lender to lender. You will need to contact the individual lenders to learn more about the specific terms.

Federal Stafford Loan

The Federal Stafford Loan, also known as FFELP (Federal Family Education Loan Program) is a federally subsidized long-term, low-interest variable rate loan with an $18,500 federal annual loan limit. Stafford Loans are either subsidized (need-based) or unsubsidized (non-need based). The primary difference between the two is the interest, which is not charged prior to the repayment commencement or any other authorized deferment periods under the subsidized format, i.e. the federal government subsidizes the interest during this period. Eligibility for the subsidized loans is calculated from the information provided in the initial FAFSA application. The interest rate on the Federal Stafford Loan is 6.8% fixed, and it is a ten-year repayment term. Repayment begins six months after graduation or the last class day, and there is no penalty for early payment. For more detailed information on the Federal Stafford Loan, visit

http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/student_guide/2005-2006/english/types-perkinsandstaffordloans.htm

Federal Grad PLUS

There is Federal Grad PLUS supplemental loan available and this will be awarded to you in the amount of the cost of education minus any other assistance, such as the Federal Stafford Loan. The Grad PLUS isn’t a guaranteed student loan like the Stafford, as there is a credit check for the PLUS loan. The Grad PLUS has an 8.50% fixed interest rate. An in-school deferment will be available as long as the student is enrolled in at least half time. Repayment begins 30-60 days after graduation or the last class day. However it is likely that lenders will offer a forbearance so that repayment will begin six months after you graduate to be in alignment with entry into repayment with the Stafford.

Alternative Loan Source

Alternative loan is also available to choose instead of Grad PLUS. The amount for alternative loan is the cost of education minus any other assistance, such as the Federal Stafford Loan. The Federal Government does not regulate alternative loans. As a result the terms of the loan will vary from lender to lender. When you choose a lender you’ll fill out a loan application/promissory note directly with the lender you select.

Like the Stafford loan, these sources provide for deferment of payments while enrolled and during a post-graduation grace period, typically six months, before repayment begins.

Please note that eligibility for the federal Stafford Loan and/or supplemental loan can be different for students receiving VA education benefits or education benefits from an employer.




 

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