Over the last four years, the trend is flat for UT, strongly improving for Rice, flattish for TCU after getting adding in 2012 and slighlty declining for SMU. Cox was #79 in 2011 and #86 in 2014 after #93 in 2013.
Opportunity areas relative to other TX schools:
1. Employment within three months of graduation
2. Recruiter diversity
3. Career service center (personal development and educ. experience)
4. Student quality and diversity
5. % salary improvement vs. pre-MBA position
Good areas:
1. Faculty
2. Networking potential
3. Alumni network
Therefore, it seems that the recent career center tumult is a big part of the decline. Earlier this fall, I heard the new director (Asian-American?) and her staff and they seemed upbeat and well equipped for future success. However, it will be a journey. Well, I just looked it up and apparently Kim Austin (the exec director of Cox MBA's career services) has been there since 2010 out of BYU-Hawaii. More confusion. Dean Niemi, rather than creating a bunch of new programs, how about putting some serious $$ into career services? Seems like SMU is grabbing the Cox cash and maybe using it to fund athletics.
