Welcome from the Dean

Dear Visitor,

The Bauer College of Business is on a path to greatness fueled by the support of a superb faculty, highly capable staff, passionate alumni, brilliant students and the generosity of business partners and leaders dedicated to the future of our youth and our nation. I have had the good fortune to serve as Bauer College 's Dean during some of the most exciting times in our sixty-year history. Shortly after I assumed my current role, our vision to become a premier metropolitan business school was jump-started by a $40 million gift from the College's namesake, C.T. (Ted) Bauer.

Since 2001, we have pursued a strategic plan designed to achieve our vision. We have added a total of 64 new faculty members to our team, bringing our total faculty count to 152.

We have revamped the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, including the new Global Studies Sequence, the Professional Program in Accountancy, and a new eiLab where students can safely build and tear down complex security systems. In Fall 2005 we launched the new EMBA program for energy professionals in Beijing. We now have 10 research centers and institutes. We are the only comprehensive business school in the Houston area. Our departments have outstanding alumni advisory boards which add excitement and relevance to the departments' programs.

Our efforts have not gone without notice. We recently garnered a top 50 ranking among public undergraduate schools of business from BusinessWeek. BusinessWeek also named our evening MBA program No. 1 in Houston, No. 4 in the region and No. 27 in the nation. Bloomberg Markets, September 2004, ranks our MBA programs 12th in the nation and 5th among public universities in producing CEOs of S&P 500 companies. The 2006 Financial Times' evaluation of the top 75 EMBA programs in the world ranks our EMBA program 19th in the U.S. among publics.

We are also proud of our diversity. According to the U.S. Department of Education, we are by far and away the most diverse business school in the U.S.

Nothing speaks more directly to the quality of a Bauer education than our graduates' track records. They lead some of today's most prominent corporations. Please visit the link for a list of distinguished Bauer alumni. Please browse our site and see the tremendous energy pouring into the community and the world from the Bauer College of Business.

Welcome to Bauer!

Dean Arthur Warga
Judge James A. Elkins Professor
C. T. Bauer College of Business