Cox School of Business


The Edwin L. Cox School of Business is an American business school, part of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The SMU Cox School of Business is headquartered in four buildings on SMU's 210-acre main campus five miles north of downtown Dallas and has a second campus in Plano, Texas.
Led by Dean Matthew Myers, SMU Cox offers a full range of business education programs, including BBA, full-time MBA, MBA Professional, Executive MBA, Master of Science in Management, Master of Science in Business Analytics and non-degree Executive Education. It is home to the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship, Business Leadership Center, Maguire Energy Institute, and American Airlines Global Leadership Program as well as an Associate Board Executive Mentoring Program. It has an international alumni network with chapters in more than twenty countries.
Its largest program is its full-time MBA, which is one of the most selective in the world, and with a powerful alumni base it has consistently ranked among the top business schools worldwide for MBA, PMBA, EMBA and BBA in a wide range of categories. The Cox School is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

History

The Cox School was founded in 1920 as the Department of Commerce at SMU, at the request of the Dallas, Texas business community. In 1921, the Department was renamed the School of Commerce. In 1941, the Board of Trustees established the School of Commerce as a separate entity from the University, thereby creating the School of Business Administration. At the same time, the Trustees also approved the Bachelor of Business Administration degree. The graduate program began in 1949 with the approval of the Master of Business Administration program.
In 1965, the SMU Foundation for Business Administration was created. Once again, the School worked in partnership with leading Dallas businesses, as this group of corporate advisers helped guide the School's direction and strategy. Today, this group is called the Cox Executive Board, and it consists of corporate executives, successful entrepreneurs, and civic leaders from around the world. The college was renamed in 1978 in honor of Dallas businessman Edwin L. Cox.

Academic programs

The Cox School of Business offers a variety of MBA programs including the Full Time MBA, the Professional MBA, and the Executive MBA. In addition to the more traditional MBA programs, there are also a variety of master of science programs including Business Analytics, Management, Entrepreneurship, Accounting and Finance. A specialized Master of Science in Business Analytics will launch in 2014.
At the undergraduate level, SMU Cox offers bachelor's degree through majors in accounting; finance; information systems; management and organizations; marketing; real estate, insurance, and business law; strategy and entrepreneurship; and business and financial reporting. Other majors may also take a business minor. Students entering SMU Fall 2016 and after must meet the following requirements for admission: minimum 3.5 all-college cumulative GPA in the semester the subsets are completed and minimum 39 hours completed. In addition, SMU Executive Education offers the Summer Business Institute, a business "boot camp" for non-business majors. SMU is set to up the minimum GPA requirement to 3.7 beginning in the fall 2018 semester. As of 2019, Incoming first-year students who want to pursue a major in finance, accounting, management, marketing and other areas of business administration in SMU’s Cox School of Business apply for direct admission. Freshmen can no longer get in the SMU school of business after admission with the prior GPA requirement method of acceptance.

Non-Degreed Programs

SMU Cox also offers extensive non-degree Executive Education programs, including custom education solutions and open courses in areas such as finance, accounting, marketing, entrepreneurship, and energy, as well as extensive leadership and executive coaching programs.

Research Centers and Institutes

The Alternative Asset Management Center focuses on investments in alternative assets-including hedge funds, venture capital, private equity, real estate, and oil and gas so that companies can maximize their profits by investing.
The Center for Research in Real Estate and Land Use Economics is led by Professor William Brueggeman and was created to focus on major issues in the real estate industry.
The J.C. Penney Center for Retailing Excellence studies marketing and the effects of retailer behavior.
The KPMG Institute for Corporate Governance led by Professor Wayne Shaw, focuses on the effect that corporate ethics and decision making has on the balance sheet.
The O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom is exploring political economics and the impact of competitive market forces on freedom and prosperity in the global economy.
The SouthWestern Graduate School of Banking Foundation under the leadership of Professor Scott MacDonald, focuses on providing banking education to all levels of bank staff.

Faculty and Research papers

The main SMU campus is located minutes from downtown Dallas, Texas just off the corner of Mockingbird Lane and Central Expressway.
However, SMU Cox maintains other campuses – SMU-in-Taos, SMU-in-Legacy, as well as close ties with other business schools in exchange and study abroad programs. Programs operate in locations such as the UK, China, Cuba, and India.
American Airlines Global Leadership Program: SMU offers the only MBA program that requires and funds international study for all first-year full-time students. In 2007, students visited China, another trip visited China, another to Europe, and the last visited India on their GLP.

Some notable SMU Cox alumni