What steps has UT-Austin taken to diversify its candidate pool?
We market the program worldwide. The three strongest contributors that candidates use to make a decision to attend Texas are word of mouth from our alumni our international marketing through our Web materials, and our mailings. We also have joint degree relationships with 27 different schools around the world now. And it’s just not a one-way flow from the international students coming here. We have a number of candidates who are admitted to the program because they’ve specified a particular interest in a global setting that happens to be in a geographic region where we have a presence. Q: Five percent of UT Austin’s first year students are minorities. Where does the MBA program want to see that number in another five years, and how will the school arrive at that target? A: We’d like to see it as high as it can go. There are two things UT-Austin is doing. First, we have a director of recruitment and diversity affairs, George Johnson, who is also the dean of the program. A [huge] amount
