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Fact Sheet
 The UTSA College of Business is one of the 40 largest business schools in the nation (5,700 students) and has the largest undergraduate business program (5,100 students) in the University of Texas System.
- Nationally ranked and recognized, the college was named the No. 7 graduate business school in the nation for Hispanics by Hispanic Business. BusinessWeek named the college’s Flex MBA program #6 in the Southwest in its ranking of part-time programs. Additional MBA accolades include being named one of the top 10 MBA programs for minority students by the Princeton Review for the past seven years and receiving the Brillante Award for Educational Excellence from the National Society of Hispanic MBAs.
- The College of Business was named one of the top 100 business schools nationwide for business faculty research in the fields of marketing (46th) and finance (88th) according to the 2009-2011 University of Texas at Dallas research rankings.
- Ranking second in the nation according to Hispanic Outlook magazine in the number of undergraduate business degrees awarded to Hispanics, the College of Business student body is diverse with 40% Hispanic, 35% Caucasian, 8% African American, 6% Asian American and 6% International.
- Capitalizing on our comparative advantages, the college has identified five threads of distinction: globalization/cultural pluralism, security, capital markets, transformational leadership/entrepreneurship and health/technology.
- The Office of International Programs offers innovative immersion and short-course programming for students to such locales as Brazil, Canary Islands, Chile, Finland, Morocco and Spain. As part of the Bilingual Business Certificate Program, the college offers 15 hours of business coursework in Spanish. A new MBA International program features a comprehensive, one-year lockstep MBA program with a focus on globalization.
- UTSA is one of 47 universities designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. UTSA has also been designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance education since 2002. This designation was based on the curriculum and programs in the College of Business.
- New programming in entrepreneurship has been developed. This includes the new Center for Global Entrepreneurship, the Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship and an undergraduate degree in entrepreneurship.
- The College of Business is accredited by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and is one of only 70 programs internationally with separate accreditation at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels in accounting. The college is a member of the European Foundation for Management Development, BALAS and CLADEA.
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