McCombs Active Student Programs: Discovering Potential and Building Futures

Starting college, returning to education, or charting a new course? McCombs offers a range of active student programs designed to help individuals discover their interests, passions, and potential. These programs provide the support and resources needed to achieve academic and career goals, whether it's earning a degree, transferring to a four-year institution, securing an apprenticeship, or accelerating a career with a skills certificate.

Academic Programs and Career Paths

McCombs provides diverse academic programs tailored to various interests and career aspirations. These programs equip students with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in their chosen fields.

Administrative Assistant Professional

These professionals are highly valued for their organizational skills and ability to support managers and coworkers.

Dental Hygiene

This program prepares students for careers as dental hygienists, where they will help patients maintain healthy teeth and gums through regular cleanings and preventative care.

Media & Communication Arts - 3D Animation

Students can delve into the world of 3D animation, a field with endless possibilities beyond movies from Pixar or the Star Wars series.

Reading

Two courses are designed to enhance reading speed, expand vocabulary, and boost comprehension, ensuring academic success.

Physics

This fundamental science program explores the behavior of the universe by studying matter and energy, delving deep into atomic structure.

Student-Led Clubs and Organizations

Student-led clubs and organizations offer opportunities to build networks, expand leadership skills, explore career paths, and make a difference.

The Adam Smith Society

This society brings together business school students and alumni who believe in the power of business, entrepreneurship, and commerce to drive prosperity and freedom. Members engage in rigorous debate and discussion to explore the links among the economy, government, and society.

The Aerospace Management and Innovation Club

This club provides MBA students with a platform to explore careers in the aerospace sector, including commercial space, airlines, and defense. Through guest lectures, workshops, networking events, and industry visits, students gain insights into aerospace trends and connect with industry professionals. The club also offers career guidance and hands-on project opportunities.

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The CleanTech Group

This group supports McCombs MBA students in addressing global energy and environmental challenges. It facilitates educational, networking, and recruiting opportunities in various business functions across the energy and environmental sectors. Activities include speaker visits, career treks, projects with Clean Tech companies, and conversations with other student groups.

The Energy Finance Group

The primary objectives of this group include facilitating interaction between students, faculty, and industry leaders through professional, social, and academic events; promoting the Energy Finance specialization; and supporting industry practicums and independent research.

The Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club

This club provides educational, networking, and professional development opportunities for students interested in acquiring and operating small to mid-sized businesses through models like search funds or self-funded acquisitions.

The Graduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Club

This organization comprises students and alumni from McCombs and budding entrepreneurs in the Austin area. Its goal is to equip members with the leadership skills needed to successfully manage a business or business unit. The club aims to advance the understanding of startups and self-run companies.

The MBA Tech Club

This club offers educational, career, and networking opportunities for students interested in the high-tech sector or business areas strategically impacted by information technology.

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The Graduate Consulting Group

This group assists students interested in consulting careers. Activities such as the Consulting Case Challenge educate members about the industry and prepare them for consulting careers through case interview practice and company data. The GCG also represents Texas MBA issues and needs to consulting firm sponsors and recruiters.

The Graduate Finance Association

This association prepares students for various careers in finance, including corporate finance, investment and commercial banking, and investment management. The GFA sponsors the Finance Challenge, a three-day event where teams of MBAs present solutions to a complex financial case study.

The Graduate Marketing Network (GMN)

The GMN provides members with the tools and resources to connect them to their marketing interests and help them discover new ones.

The Graduate Operations Group

This group promotes and creates awareness of the Supply Chain and Operations Management concentration at McCombs. It assists those who want to balance their MBA with knowledge of project management, supply chain, quality initiatives, and process improvement. The organization helps members gain greater exposure to the operations field through factory tours, speakers, and the annual Tech-Ops Challenge.

The Graduate Real Estate Society

This society works with the Real Estate Finance and Investment Center (REFIC) at The University of Texas at Austin to organize, educate, encourage, and assist students with future careers in real estate. GRES enables students to network with other students interested in real estate and expose them to faculty, alumni, and recruiters in the real estate industry. Each fall semester, GRES sponsors the National Real Estate Challenge.

Graduate Women in Business (GWiB)

GWiB strives to improve the visibility of women at McCombs, offer career development resources, provide opportunities for members to enhance their skills, be an informational resource for prospective students, assist organizations serving women in the community, connect members to articles and news stories related to women’s issues in the workplace, and promote camaraderie among its members and women in the business community.

The MBA Healthcare Association

The mission of this association is to offer unique opportunities to learn, lead, and succeed in preparing for the challenges of today’s highly competitive healthcare industry.

Net Impact

Net Impact is an international network dedicated to exploring, creating, and pioneering ways of using the power of business to create a better world. Net Impact McCombs focuses on issues such as corporate responsibility, employee workplace practices, human rights, environmental sustainability, and community development. The group hosts speaker series, alumni/member gatherings, career support, and networking opportunities.

The Sports, Entertainment and Media Association

The mission of this association is to make McCombs a learning destination for students pursuing careers in the business aspects of sports and entertainment. The goals of the organization are to provide formal and informal learning opportunities in sports and entertainment management, initiate and maintain a strong network of contacts, and provide career opportunities for association members.

The Graduate Business Adventure Team

This team was formed to provide training support, education, and motivation for MBA students and faculty with an interest in multi-sport events and/or adventure racing. GBAT’s activities include regular training events, such as open water swimming, road and mountain bike rides, and a speaker series that includes discussions on nutrition, injury prevention, and open discussions with multi-sport athletes.

The Food and Beverage Innovation Club

This club is for people who love food.

The MBA Golf Association

This association facilitates interaction in the McCombs community through the game of golf. It brings together students, faculty, staff, alumni, recruiters, and business leaders to enhance the overall experience of the Texas Full-Time MBA program through member support and player development, innovative recruiting and networking events, special events, and community outreach.

The MBA Soccer Club

This club is for men and women of all skill levels who enjoy playing soccer. The group meets for friendly soccer scrimmages and places teams in fall and spring intramural tournaments, a local city league, and national MBA invitational tournaments.

The MBA Wellness Collective

This collective provides its members with the tools, time, and space to cultivate a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

The Black Graduate Business Association

Founded in 1985, this association is built on the achievements of its membership. BGBA members represent a variety of academic concentrations and political, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Members’ business interests range from the public to the private sector, entrepreneurship, and national and international markets in various areas of the business world.

The East Asian Business Association

This association is dedicated to establishing and strengthening both the business and cultural relationship between Texas MBAs and China. The organization works to improve the overall environment of Chinese business students and fosters networking opportunities with students from other schools and alumni.

EQUAL MBAs

This is a social and career networking group for MBAs who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning, or just a friend or supporter of the LGBTQ community. EQUAL MBAs works to promote awareness of the LGBTQ community among current and prospective students at McCombs and to keep affiliated alumni connected to the organization.

The International MBA Student Association

This association welcomes all students and offers its members the opportunity to develop professional relationships and friendships with people from all over the world. Its mission is to promote the study of international business. As the focal point of international activity within McCombs, IMBASA prepares future business leaders to compete in a dynamic, global environment by organizing many exciting events. It serves as a bridge between domestic and international students and balances a threefold focus on placement, education, and socialization.

The Jewish MBA Organization

This is primarily a social and networking organization. Its events provide an opportunity to learn about the Austin Jewish community, to meet other Jewish graduate students, network with local Jewish business leaders, and be involved with and aware of current events. JMBA is set up to serve as a social network for all Jewish MBA students and friends. Its design is to allow everyone (orthodox, conservative, reform, and non-practicing Jews) to get together informally for social and religious events.

The Latin American and Hispanic MBA Association (LAHMBA)

The mission of LAHMBA is to enhance the Hispanic American and Latin-American student MBA experience by providing additional tools to develop professional, academic, and social development. The LAHMBA facilitates job search functions, helps build a contact network, promotes McCombs as one of the top business schools in the world, and provides exposure opportunities with recruiters.

The MBA Christian Fellowship

This is a non-denominational group of MBA students whose goal is to grow a sense of spiritual community at McCombs through weekly Bible studies, discussion groups, social events, and guest speakers.

Texas Veterans in Business (TVIB)

TVIB fosters camaraderie among MBA students who previously served, or continue to serve, in any nation’s armed forces. TVIB is comprised of a unique set of MBA students who share an extraordinary set of leadership skills, cultivated and practiced under the most adverse conditions.

The Graduate Business Council (GBC)

The GBC is the student government for all students enrolled in the Texas MBA Program at McCombs. The GBC serves as a liaison between the student body and the MBA Program administration and works to foster a strong sense of community and pride within McCombs.

The McCombs Ambassador Committee (MAC)

MAC is a group of students who are selected to serve as representatives of the MBA admissions team. MAC members are often the first point of contact that prospective students have with McCombs, and they help future MBAs navigate through the application process.

Fellows Groups & Funds

MBA Fellows Programs offer the opportunity to gain in-depth exposure to a specific function or industry through hands-on, specialized experiences with corporations and organizations.

Experiencing the Texas McCombs Community

Experiencing the Texas McCombs community firsthand is one of the best ways to gain valuable insight into your fit with our MBA culture. Join us at an upcoming event to meet admissions, current students, and our world-class faculty.

J.D. Curriculum Customization

There are two main ways you can customize your J.D. curriculum. The first way is by participating in one of seven Concentrations. The second way is less formal. You can focus on a practice area that interests you by combining courses, externships and clinical experiences with co-curricular and extracurricular activities. You can explore different areas of law and career options, network with alumni and students, and develop a specialized skill set.

Southwestern's Panish Civil Justice Program

Southwestern's Panish Civil Justice Program is made possible by a generous gift from one of the country's preeminent trial lawyers, Brian Panish '84. The program's goals include providing top litigation training to students, creating a crossroads for the judicial bench and bar, and strengthening the foundations of the American civil justice system.

Civil Litigation and Advocacy Concentration

The Civil Litigation and Advocacy Concentration advances the Civil Justice Program goals and provides J.D. students with opportunities to explore more deeply this discipline and distinguish themselves.

To be eligible, students must be in good academic standing.

A student who completes the Concentration program with at least six graded units of core and elective courses (in addition to the generally required Evidence course) and graduates with a Concentration grade point average of 3.33 or higher will receive the following designation on the student's transcript: "Concentration in Civil Litigation and Advocacy with Honors."

To obtain a J.D. Concentration in Civil Litigation and Advocacy, students must take at least 15 Core and Elective Courses units from the list below.

Core Courses

A. Litigation Skills Courses: Students must take at least two courses and at least four units total from the following courses:

Advanced Legal Writing (2 units)
Appellate Process and Brief Drafting (1 unit)
Art of Persuasion (1 unit)
Capstone: Employment Law (3 units)
Capstone: Mass Tort Litigation (2 units)
Civil Pretrial Practice (3 units)
Courtroom Procedure 101 (1 unit)
Evidence Law and Practice I and II (1 unit from each 3-unit course may be applied)
Jury Selection in Civil Cases (1 unit)
Mock Supreme Court (2 units)
Moot Court Honors Program (maximum of 3 units earned for participation)
Selected Problems in Evidence Lab (1 unit)
Trial Advocacy (2 or 3 units)
Trial Advocacy Honors Program (maximum of 3 units earned for participation)

B. ADR & Negotiation Courses: Students must take at least one course and at least two units total from the following courses:

Alternative Dispute Resolution (2 or 3 units)
International Litigation & Arbitration (2 or 3 units) (Transnational Litigation and Arbitration)
Interviewing, Counseling & Negotiation (3 units)
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (2 units)
Negotiation Honors Program (maximum of 3 units earned for participation)

C. Clinic, Externship, or Practicum Courses: Students must take at least one course and at least two units total from the following courses:

Amicus Project Practicum (2 units)
Appellate Litigation Clinic (3 units)
Externship (approved civil-litigation-related placements only)
Law Firm Externship (3 units)

Elective Courses

To the extent that the required 15 Concentration units are not satisfied by a student's taking additional Core Courses from the courses listed above, students must satisfy the remaining Concentration units by taking Elective Courses from the following list:

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