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C.T. Bauer College of Business Administration.


History

The C.T. Bauer College of Business Administration has been in operation for more than 60 years at the University of Houston main campus. Located five minutes from downtown Houston, Bauer College is a premier metropolitan research college and the only comprehensive, fully accredited business school in the city of Houston. It offers a full-fledged B.B.A., M.B.A., MS Accountancy, MS Finance, and the city’s only Ph.D. program in business. The College offers concentrations in Accountancy & Taxation, Decision & Information Sciences, Finance, Management, and Marketing & Entrepreneurship. It is home to five centers and five institutes.

The Bauer College is fully accredited by the AACSB International.

Name change

On July 12, 2000, businessman Ted Bauer announced a $40 million donation to the University of Houston College of Business Administration. In recognition of his generosity, the college was renamed the C.T. Bauer College of Business.

Cougar Fund

The Cougar Fund is a private investment fund managed by Bauer College MBA & MS-Finance students. The Fund’s purpose is to give students the opportunity to gain experience in the management of an investment portfolio while providing a diversified investment vehicle for its investors. The Cougar Fund started in February, 2002, as a tool for teaching masters level finance students how to become professional investment fund managers. The initial investment offering of $1.9 million from 19 investors has regularly outperformed its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index. Out of approximately 6,000 university based student run investment funds in the United States, the Bauer College Cougar Fund is one of only three that have private investors rather than relying on university endowment funds. Students of all backgrounds compete for limited manager slots – between 16 and 24 are available each year – and commit to participating for 12 to 16 months. Bauer Finance Professor and Cougar Fund Managing Director Ronald F. Singer explains that, “The Cougar Fund is a student run private investment company, with real investors and real money that delivers a real return to its investors. The value of this experience goes way beyond finance to all industries where knowledge of how to value business operations and analyze investments makes a difference to the corporate bottom line.”

As of 2007, total fund assets are valued at over $9 million.

Rankings

Top 50 among public undergraduate business schools (Business Week 2007)
44th among public undergraduate business schools (US News & World Report 2005)
Top Undergraduate Business Program in Houston
MBA Program is ranked 5th among public universities for producing CEOs of S&P 500 companies
EMBA Program is ranked 17th in the U.S. among public EMBA programs (2004 Financial Times)
EMBA Program is ranked 76th in the World (2006 Financial Times)
Finance faculty is ranked 8th in the country by the Academic Analytics’ Faculty Scholarly Productivity (FSP) Index

Notable Alumni


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