Meet our Dean - Dr. Arthur Warga
The University of Houston C. T. Bauer College of Business is on a path to greatness fueled by a superb faculty, talented 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 60-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 in 2001.
Our top priority since receiving Ted's extraordinary gift was to implement a strategic plan to achieve our vision. To that end, we have added a total of 64 new faculty members to our team, bringing our total faculty count to 152. Our finance and marketing departments were rated No. 8 and No. 9, respectively, in the U.S. by Academic Analytics in an article appearing in the Chronicle of Higher Education. From our Accountancy & Taxation, Decision and Information Sciences, Finance, Management, to Marketing & Entrepreneurship, our departments boast faculty experts who are highly sought by leading business and industry publications, online and broadcast media. Our departments have outstanding alumni advisory boards which add excitement and relevance to the departments' programs and give us strong connections into leading companies.
Innovative Curriculum with Global Reach, Touching Asia’s Largest Economies
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. Our Global Energy Executive MBA (GEMBA) program in Beijing truly reflects Bauer's international reach. Since 2006, more than 300 students representing two of China's largest energy companies graduated from Bauer College. These students hold mid to senior level positions, are responsible for more than a million employees and are China's energy leaders. In Chennai, India, we have forged a partnership designed to solidify our role in energy education. Chennai is home to auto maker Hyundai’s largest manufacturing plant. We are the only comprehensive business school in the Houston area.
Continuing Program and Student Success
Our efforts have not gone without notice. Bauer is consistently ranked by significant media surveys among the top five percent of public universities in the nation. BusinessWeek also named our evening MBA program No. 1 in Houston, No. 4 in the region and No. 27 in the nation. Bloomberg Markets previously ranked our MBA programs 12th in the nation and 5th among public universities in producing CEOs of S&P 500 companies. A Financial Times' evaluation of the top 75 EMBA programs in the world ranked our EMBA program 19th in the U.S. among publics. And, we are a top 15 MBA program in General Management (The Princeton Review). In 2008, The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine ranked our entrepreneurship program the #1 undergraduate program in the nation. And the program has been among the top two undergraduate entrepreneurship programs in the nation since 2007.
Our students continue to excel in at every level. A four-member team from Bauer's Cougar Fund has bragging rights as the best CFA student stock analysis team in the country and third in the world, according to the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute, outperforming other business school powerhouses, including MIT and Carnegie Mellon University. A large number of Bauer undergraduate and graduate students are being hired by the Big Four accounting firms, and Bauer continues to be at least as significant a resource for these companies as any other university in the nation. There is no shortage of success stories when it comes to Bauer students and the leadership they exhibit.
Competitive Edge and Global Perspective, Diversity Flourishes at Bauer
We are also proud of our diversity. According to the U.S. Department of Education, we are foremost in the nation for producing minority BBA’s in business, management, marketing and related support services. In the same categories, we are Texas’ top producer of African American and Asian BBA’s and second nationally for Hispanic BBA’s. With nearly 80 different languages spoken by our students, it is safe to say we define diversity. Having this global perspective is another factor why Bauer students are highly recruited by more than 2,000 companies.
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
Dean, C. T. Bauer College of Business
Judge James A. Elkins Professor of Banking and Finance