Who We Are
The Full-Time MBA experience at the McCombs School of Business allows you to immerse yourself in learning, exploration, and developing meaningful relationships with your classmates. As a Texas McCombs MBA, you are part of an engaged, driven, and collaborative community of students, alumni, staff, and faculty who are inspiring change and making a lasting impact on society. The MBA Student Experience is what you make of it, you build community. We believe the journey is about more than just the present; it’s about what lies ahead and leaving things better than you found them. You have the opportunity to shape your experience by the organizations you join, the events you attend and learning more about these interests with classmates from across the world, with different backgrounds.
What We're Fundraising For
Leave a Legacy: Each class of MBAs since 1996 has given a gift to benefit the students that come after them. Many of the gifts given by previous classes have been enjoyed by your class in these past two years. This year, we will be participating in 40 for Forty to raise funds that will support the MBA Student Experience for classes to come as part of your legacy campaign.
The importance of the 40 for Forty campaign for the Class of 2024 is to participate in whatever way is comfortable for you. Whether you donate $25 or $100 or $20.24/month, the important thing is to support the legacy of your class for those that will follow you, as your predecessors did for you. The idea of the Leave a Legacy campaign, founded by the Texas MBA Class of 1996, is students giving a gift that will benefit those students that come after them. Leaving the place better than they found it…
Your Impact
In 1996, GBC President, Jason Watkins, MBA ‘96, saw a need. Classmates were awkwardly getting dressed for their important interviews in the business school bathrooms. It was chaos. If only there were dedicated interview changing rooms for MBAs to use. Jason had an idea and went to the dean of the business school and said “Give me $200 worth of pizza and I’ll get you $20,000 for the MBA program to build changing room for future MBAs to use.” …and the Leave a Legacy tradition was born. Jason’s class raised $26,000 with 43% participation. Next came suit lockers, then study rooms, then Carpenter…and the rest is history.
From the first gift from the class of 1996, MBA classes have continuously contributed to the ongoing development of the school to benefit the classes that follow.
Because of that first idea in 1996, students have spearheaded projects to help support classmates, such as providing stipends for case competition travel, supporting interns in social impact and entrepreneurship, funding the Women in Business Leadership Symposium, curating Graduate Business Council Community events for the entire MBA student community to name a few. The impact is for the students by the students in an effort to leave the Texas McCombs MBA Program better than when they first arrived on campus.
