full-time MBA Program
Show what you’re made of. TCU’s stand-and-deliver programs will put you to the test. You’ll face real-world business situations, make tough data-driven decisions and produce results that make employers take notice. You’ll graduate from the full-time MBA program knowing you are tested, confident and ready to meet the ever-changing demands of a complex world. Achieve results that matter. Team with expert consultants from Accenture and Hitachi to transform businesses — and your resume. Neeley and Associates student consultants saved Calloway’s Nursery greenhouse chain $300,000 by rethinking its operations and planned an international expansion for Half Price Books. That bottom-line experience makes you stand out in interviews.
ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES Hit the Road. Travel to Guatemala to help a local co-op expand the market for its handicrafts. Head to the Dominican Republic
Student CONSULTING PROJECTS with impact
to match emerging entrepreneurs with micro-loans. Or dash off to China, Chile or Italy to witness global business practices up close.
Alcon: building sustainable eye care in
Get the inside scoop. Take the power lunch to the next
emerging markets
level in C-Level Confidential. During small dinners with CEOs,
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics: assessing industrial supply chain best practices
SafeHaven: building an endowment to fight family violence
you’ll learn the challenges execs face, see how they make decisions — and leave an impression that adds a powerful name to your professional network. PUT YOURSELF TO THE TEST. Tackle problems plucked from Sony’s executive boardrooms — and test yourself against some of
Texas Instruments: gauging semiconductor
the other smartest MBA students in the country — during the Sony
growth opportunities for lithium batteries
case competition hosted at TCU. Or manage $1.5 million in the
PepsiCo: optimizing sales in Walmart’s new
Educational Investment Fund, America’s second oldest student-run portfolio, where 6 percent of the profits go to charity.
“clean store” concept
Beryl: creating a business plan for customer service consulting in health care
PULL it all together. TCU’s week-long integrative project challenges you to make strategic business decisions — using all you've learned in your first semester — in front of top recruiters who are scouting for interns.
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WE STAND BEHIND YOU. TCU OFFERS AN EXCELLENT ROI COMBINED WITH UNPARALLELED SUPPORT
Best
ROI
Ranked among the nation’s best MBA programs for return on investment Forbes
2X
+
Average salary increase, pre-MBA to post-MBA
15,000
+
Neeley School alumni to connect with around the globe
FOR YOUR LONG-TERM CAREER.
$23,890
+
Average annual scholarship for full-time MBA students in 2009
Forbes
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Tim Bludau, MBA ’11, and Emily Howard, MBA ’11, supported by career coach Keri Young, associate dean and marketing professor Bill Cron and
admissions counselor Hoai Nguyen.
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TESTED
Daniel Graham, MBA ’10, had just turned in his big team assignment. Then came a late-night e-mail from the professor: right approach, wrong assignment.
NETWORKED
rally the
troops
HIRED
“I thought, ‘I’m really with a good group. They’re
His stick-to-it approach helped
His teammates showed up
going to do whatever it takes to get things done.’”
him win the Texas Business
to work through the night.
The last-ditch effort yielded a decent grade.
Hall of Fame scholarship.
A Raytheon rep attending a national MBA
The TCU coach, familiar with
career conference hadn’t yet found his ideal
every student’s career goals,
candidate, so he sought out a TCU career coach.
said, “You’re describing Nick!”
LAUNCHED
FOCUSED
He sent a panicked e-mail.
When Lisa Hipp, MBA ’11, participated in a career seminar before classes began, she got the message.
Ryan Johnson, MBA ’09, spent a day at the General Services Administration as part of a TCU career-development program. It was just a visit.
Phone call
Quick tips
was a chance to really impress the Sony execs.
on it
Theater
Drama background + TCU MBA = a hit. A
the rescue
Sony product manager in San Diego.
week after graduation, she started work as a
Weekly meetings with her TCU career coach paid off: she
“My goal was to get interviews. I might
snared an internship interview in her fourth week of school
not be great at finance or statistics yet,
and lined up three interviews at a national career conference.
but this is something I can do.”
He left an
impression
Four months later, the agency
“The contacts I made back during that visit set up
offered him two jobs. He chose
this career opportunity. I really couldn’t have done it
one in portfolio management.
without Neeley Graduate Career Services.”
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Leadership program in Washington, D.C.
major to
the Sony case competition at TCU. The final presentation
step
was hired into Raytheon’s Business Development
straighten tie
Katie O’Brien, MBA ’08, tested her marketing savvy during
Better
TCU connections work: Nick Troutz, MBA ’09,
Read ABOUT Stand-and-Deliver programs :: MBA.tcu.edu/stand
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Make a name for yourself. Prepare for teamwork and healthy competition in a setting where you know everyone — students, professors and administrators — by name. And they know you. Get real. Your classes won’t be full of backstabbers, big talkers and cubicle hermits. Instead you’ll connect with team players, big thinkers and fun people who push you toward your peak performance. Our faculty members will recognize your competitive advantages because, in typical classes of 20, you’re an essential part of the conversation. When they get calls seeking a recommendation for a great job, you could be at the top of their list.
know People Go team! You’ll spend your first year working in a five-member team. The start might be bumpy, as styles and personalities jell, but after a few weeks your team becomes an academic lifeline — and a lifetime support group. You’ll learn more stress-reducing ways to manage time and people than you ever thought possible. And when your team comes together and gets the right answer, it’s a blast.
“The small classes
Have fun. We’re talking Tex-Mex feasts at Joe T’s. Backyard
increase your performance:
barbecues. Tailgates at Horned Frogs football games. The TCU
you can’t just blend in.
encounters with all kinds of interesting people.
community is Texas-friendly and diverse enough to encourage
You have to bring your A game every day.” Tyler Lewis, MBA ’11
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Ayesha Narula
David Hatchett
for a construction company in
in the Coast Guard, including
central Mexico.
Miami.
Future life: Budgeting and
Future life: Corporate finance.
Cool fact: Balances family life —
procurement job in Washington, D.C.
Cool fact: Piloted a patrol ship in Alaska.
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Former career: Oversaw financials
Former career: Ship commander conducting drug extraditions in
TYLER LEWIS
On learning: “My goal is simple:
Former career: Worked for a mega-bank in Irving.
Future life: Marketing job in
MELISSA MIRO
Cool fact: Has watched The Notebook, The Matrix and It’s a
8 to 5 class regimen (with some late-
Wonderful Life a zillion times.
On TCU students: “The
On the START workshop: “It
competitive spirit is strong in
covers everything you need to know
everybody. But the aggression
Former career: Worked with nonprofit International Visit
brand management.
with three kids — by sticking to an night study after the kids go to bed).
NgYHia Randle
Joseph Murray
Former career: Commercial real
chemist with a multinational eye care company.
Future life: Supply chain
Future life: Corporate financial officer.
estate in Salt Lake City and Phoenix.
Former career: Corporate
Cool fact: Celebrates the birthdays of her dogs.
management.
On changing careers: “I went
Leadership Program in San Diego.
Cool fact: Speaks Japanese.
Future life: Business management
On TCU connections: “You’ve
Thailand. That break really solidified
got Dallas, Fort Worth, the whole
that I didn’t want to work the rest
metroplex. It’s got one of the
of my life as a chemist. I wasn’t
strongest economies in the country.
learning new things and wasn’t
for a nonprofit.
on a three-week tour of India and
Cool fact: Studied abroad in Chile.
On career prep: “I like that my
And I really like the TCU network:
inspired. Now I’m hoping to broaden
career coach is going to know my
you feel like Neeley is a small
the fields I can go into. As I switch careers, the TCU MBA will open more doors for me.”
I want to be able to read The Wall
before classes begin. It’s not like at
is taken out of it. We’re all here
name and face and not have to flip
enough place for all the connections
Street Journal and understand it
a giant school, where you just show
because we want more than we
through some notebook to figure
you need.”
from cover to cover. I want to read
up with 50,000 people and have to
had before. We’re not here to knock
out who I am. And once when I
every word and chart and graphic
learn about getting a parking permit
someone else down. We want to
got a late-night e-mail from Career
and really comprehend it all. That’s
by either getting a ticket or getting
be competitive against people
Services, I wanted to write back: Go
a lot harder than it sounds.”
your car towed.”
outside TCU.”
to bed, it’s after midnight!”
Learn more about TCU people :: MBA.TCU.edu/People
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Launch your future. So what’s your plan? Living and working in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex can make it happen. GO WHERE THE ACTION IS. If Silicon Valley sprouted from a California garage, could the next major business transformation stem from Fort Worth and Dallas? Don’t be surprised. The metroplex is home to more than 10,000 corporations. And based on its strong economy and home affordability, DFW is ranked as America’s #2 best “fresh start” city by Relocation.com. It’s a cornerstone of a powerful Texas economy that created 30 percent of all U.S. private sector jobs in 2007, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
Learn here, Go Anywhere Fort Worth ranks as the #9 best place to live and launch a business, according to CNN Money.com. And nearby Alliance, one
Tcu grads on the move
of the world’s biggest inland ports, combines railways, road travel,
Johnson & Johnson, Moscow
industrial airport. If a consumer product makes it to you anywhere
corporate distribution centers and the world’s first 100-percent
PepsiCo, Purchase, NY
in North America, there’s a good chance it traveled through Texas.
Raytheon, Washington, D.C.
DON’T FENCE YOURSELF IN. What’s there to do in America’s
Société Générale, Houston Campbell Arnott’s, Sydney Kellogg’s, Battle Creek Nestle Purina, St. Louis Sony, San Diego Goldman Sachs, New York City
17th-largest city? You’ll enjoy world-class museums, the historic Stockyards, a dazzling deco downtown and restaurants ranging from historic steakhouses to legendary cantinas. You can catch pro teams in football, baseball, hockey and basketball — and play golf year-round. After two years of studying and working in DFW — and enjoying the quality of life here — you’ll be positioned to go anywhere. Recent grads have landed fantastic jobs in locations ranging from Wall Street to Mexico City, from Los Angeles to Berlin.
Capital Management Partners, Berlin
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THINK fast.
In Neeley Connections, you’ll work with execs from top companies to face
ripped-from-the-headlines, real-time business challenges. You might help Frito-Lay assess competitive threats posed by a merger just two days earlier or troubleshoot a commercial lending scenario for Credit Suisse or resolve a new sales issue for IBM. You have a few minutes to mull the case over with your team before presenting your problem-solving strategies to the dozen or so Fortune 500 leaders on hand. And you learn how they think.
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Work that TCU business card (you’ve earned it). Some schools say a job search begins on day one. At TCU, your career coaching starts before classes begin — and continues after you graduate. Our career experts help you master the job-search tools that will connect you to a lifetime of great careers. Get DOWN TO BUSINESS. Because internship interviews often begin in the first month of your MBA program, TCU’s career staff focuses on sharpening your goals and transforming your resume long before you attend a day of class. Then during START week orientation, you’ll begin one-on-one advising with your personal career coach. You’ll also make your first connections with potential employers. Dozens of execs from a full range of industries are on hand for roundtable discussions of business issues and hiring trends.
Your New Career Starts Now
100%
of our MBAs land internships
35 1:1 250 business
cards to hand out
COMPANIES see you in
action before personal career coach classes start and you
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GET A JUMP ON A GREAT CAREER. You won’t do it alone. Whether it’s dissecting your resume or drilling you with tough interview questions, your career coach will know who you are, what you want in life and how you can reach your personal goals. For Reema Singh, ’10 (above), TCU’s coaching helped her get interviews with a parade of consumer-goods companies — and land job offers with Kellogg’s and PepsiCo. Pull Ahead of THE COMPETITION. TCU will help you build your network. Apply for a travel grant to attend major national MBA career conferences (and TCU coaches will join you on the trip). Travel to Houston, Chicago, New York and elsewhere to meet with potential employers. And get the inside scoop on key companies — before you interview with them — during on-campus info sessions.
See more ways to launch your career :: MBA.tcu.edu/CareerPrep
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Challenge yourself Stand and deliver — and succeed. With so many chances to stand and deliver, you won’t spend your MBA years on the sidelines. Although a TCU MBA is academically tough, it’s achievable. People who have unconventional backgrounds, young families, military service obligations or daily commutes thrive here. You can, too. LEARN FROM THE PROS. TCU faculty members are at home
CONCENTRATIONS Business consulting Entrepreneurship Finance: corporate finance or investments
in the classroom and experienced in the business world. You’ll
General management
study under professors who have worked for Kellogg’s, Kimberly-
Marketing: product and brand management or
Clark, General Mills, American Express, FedEx, Merck, Dell, Bausch & Lomb, 3M Worldwide, Bayer, MGM/Mirage and other top companies.
managing customer relationships
Value and supply chain management
They’re notable in the academic world as co-editors of the Journal of Management, officers on the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ board of directors and leaders of the Asia Academy of Management. USE YOUR CONNECTIONS. The personal links you make now can become a springboard later in life. You’ll work closely with faculty members who really know the business world. Given their strong
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Whether you want to change your career focus or advance on your
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The Neeley School is fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the premier accrediting agency for degree programs in business.
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