<p>I was wondering how McCombs overall reputation and prestige is. Recently McCombs has been falling and very recently has kept its ranking, what are the prospects of it increasing? A lot of people say its only a regional thing but a lot of others say its a national thing, which one's true?</p>
<p>I mean, if you walk around in the streets of New York and ask random people which has a better Accounting program: UT or Harvard, you know they’ll say Harvard.</p>
<p>In the business world, there’s is definitely prestige, but many employers still will have priority over Ivy League programs because of the brand name.</p>
<p>Regionally, hell yea Mccombs has prestige. Nationally, I think it still does… to a degree.</p>
<p>But if you get a job regionally, you can get some experience and go to a brand name graduate program and go wherever you want. Or just get lucky when recruiting time rolls around and pick up a job in a big city.</p>
<p>I posted this on my phone so sorry about any mistakes.</p>
<p>PatrickJay, Harvard doesn’t offer undergraduate accounting; but if you meant there are highly regarded business schools in the country other than UT…there are.</p>
<p>Although your use of accounting as an example is curious. The Public Accounting Report, as well as US News, puts UT at #1. In the country. In undergraduate and graduate.</p>
<p>OP, not sure what you mean by McCombs falling recently? Rankings, like the stock market, are volatile, and there are so many external factors that go into play when the various ranking organizations make their lists, you can’t get too excited or alarmed by random variations. McCombs has consistently ranked among the highest in the nation overall, and as discussed above, certain degree programs are at the top of the heap.</p>
<p>Here’s the current McCombs rankings web page. [Our</a> School | McCombs School of Business | The University of Texas at Austin](<a href=“http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/About/Our-School.aspx]Our”>About McCombs | McCombs School of Business)</p>
<p>Any student who earns admission to McCombs has been given a precious opportunity. Those who make the most of it do very well in the job market and in grad school.</p>
<p>I echo the sentiments that TXArtemis posted. From McCombs’ website:
To add: McCombs actually improved its ranking in 2011 to #6 and retained the #6 ranking in the recently released 2012 rankings. That in itself is prestigious.</p>
<p>As TXArtemis touched on, both undergraduate and graduate Accounting are ranked #1 in the nation. So, if one were to ask an informed individual on the streets of New York which accounting program is better, UT or Harvard, UT would be the response.</p>
<p>Any concern regarding McCombs “prestige” is unnecessary.</p>
<p>^^First of all, I picked a random school. Also, I know it’s the best accounting program. Do you really think random people know that? That was my example. I said in the business world it would be different. But still at the end of the day, Ivy leagues have more recruiters than UT. I don’t like it, but it’s the truth.</p>
<p>I didn’t know we were talking about prestige to employers that matter. Then yea, it has a high level prestige. Still, at the end of the day, most graduates get jobs in Texas. Graduates from some the other more prestiged universities (I’m not gonna give an example or else someone will cry about the fact that he school lacks accounting) have higher odds of moving across the country.</p>
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As a student whose aim is employment after graduation, one would think that a school’s prestige amongst employers is one of the most, if not the most, important factor.</p>