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The School of Management (SOM) began offering courses in 1973. In the school's first year, 26 students enrolled in classes taught by four full-time faculty members. SOM has grown to be the UTD school with the largest enrollment, 4,535 students at last count. Of SOM's total enrollment, 48 percent are graduate students with 52 percent studying at the undergraduate level. More than half of SOM's students are from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

The Last 5 Years

The following list highlights The School of Management's most significant achievements in the last five years:

  • Size of the faculty more than doubled
  • Enrollment increased over fifty percent, with Ph.D. enrollments doubling
  • Citations of faculty research ranking UTD's management faculty fourteenth among management school faculties, nationwide
  • Academic programs and new processes revised to ensure continued innovation
  • Career Management Center established at the school
  • Undergraduate majors added in Information Systems and Finance
  • New master's degree concentrations added in E-Commerce, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Supply-Chain Management
  • New master's degree in Information Technology Management added
  • Internet-based Global MBA Online added
  • Medical management program added for practicing physicians and senior health care administrators in alliance with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • New executive education master's program added in Project Management
  • Student advising office expanded
  • Award-winning alumni magazine, MANAGEMENT, begun - now with a circulation of eighteen thousand
  • Enrollments doubled in a revised executive MBA program
  • New building construction completed August 2003
  • OR/MS Today reports the school is ranked 6th in worldwide research productivity for Management Science and Information Systems
  • AACSB accreditation granted

 

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