McCombs School of Business - People - Alumni

Alumni

See also: List of University of Texas at Austin alumni

Graduates from McCombs receive competitive salaries and are solicited by some of the best companies in the world. In addition, a huge advantage that McCombs graduates have is the fact that Texas has so many companies based in the state, as well as large regional offices of those based elsewhere. Given these companies look to hire MBAs regionally (for example, Oil & Gas Investment Banking Divisions), their first choice is naturally to recruit from the McCombs School of Business which, in turn, insulates McCombs graduates from the job market that other graduates are facing in markets where there is more concentration of top business schools (for example, New York).” Furthermore, despite the recent economic downturn, McCombs has continued to maintain a very high job placement for it's graduates due to the booming Texas job market. Top recruiters at McCombs historically include PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, KPMG, JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, Dell, Citigroup, Boston Consulting Group, Microsoft, Chevron, and BP.

Alumni of the business school include Southwest Airlines CEO Gary C. Kelly '74, Heinz CEO William R. Johnson '74, former Texas Rangers owner Thomas O. Hicks '68, and ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva '68 & '69. The school's namesake, Red McCombs, also attended the business school, going on to co-found Clear Channel Communications and co-own the San Antonio Spurs, the Denver Nuggets, and the Minnesota Vikings. Donald Evans '73, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, earned his MBA at McCombs.