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dirtysouthpony wrote:Coog, he is in their Masters of Management program. It's a kinda new program , for non business majors. He wanted to come back east for grad school, and this was his best option. They have a bunch ov ivy league kids and kids from UVa and Duke. They have been impressed with my son's ability to network and work a room. He is already a favorite of the Dean of Fuqua. He's got that from SMU. As a parent, i couldn't ask for more.

My old Fortune 50 employer hired from the one year program out of Wake so I presume Duke's students would do even better. One I knew spent three years at "Big Corporate company" in a finance role and is now at Michigan's Ross MBA program. McKinsey internship. Good things come to smart/dedicated SMU football players!

Good info Coog! As a parent, I was very pleased with my boy's education at SMU. He always speaks of the opportunities he had to be a well rounded student at SMU. He got a chance to play big time football (played against, Johnny Manziel, and RGIII), got a paper published in the Undergrauate Journal of Poli Sci, and he tried to start an independent on line newspaper. That last venture failed, but he actually tried to start a new business.

So, he has a lot of memorable stuff to bring to interviews. He wasn't a business major at SMU, but he still learned a lot about how business works.

SMU had a pretty big jump in total R&D from 2013 to 2014

here are the 2014 numbers

http://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2014/html ... ST_19.html

SMU total R&D $32,401,000 for 2014

2013 numbers $22,544,000

http://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2013/html ... ST_17.html

so about a $10 million jump between the two years....these numbers do go up and down to a degree, but that is still a boost and as the second link shows SMU has been on an overall growth path (with some ups and downs) over the last several years, but the $30+ million level is quite a bump from the recent past

Federal funded R&D had some growth as well

http://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/datatables/her ... ST_20.html

2013 14,274,000

http://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2014/html ... ST_21.html

2014 $20,611,000

so again a jump into the $20 million range and a jump above the highest levels of any of the past few years

45% jump is good but wow, the company we are keeping at 32MM is absolutely embarassing.........

Coogs at $141MM and $2MM more than Rice. Wow, Pitt has over $800MM and is one spot ahead of the Aggies. Baylor is down in the $20s.

Wow, you have to spend a ton of money to get a research program going. You have to know what the NSF is looking for and write grants like crazy. It helps a ton to have PhD and graduate programs. SMU has quite a few in the life sciences.

It's official in our household. He's going to M.I.T.

Congrats

That's awesome. We toured there last year while in Boston and it's a tour de force. What really set them apart to me was their international research opportunities at every turn...winter break, summer, etc.

dubs 2.0 for the win. Congrats to you and your family.