The success of Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School continues to pay dividends. In fall 2012, Mays will open a new location in Houston and will welcome the first cohort of students to its Professional MBA program.

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Not only will we all have to work longer, but the speed at which the nature of our jobs change is increasing. As career consultants like to impress on us, many of the industries graduates are moving into today did not exist 20 years ago – hedge funds, areas of biotech and healthcare and, of course, anything that involves the internet.

Like business leaders, politicians often face the scrutiny that comes with scandal. Just last week, President Barack Obama had to answer questions about implications that members of the Secret Service and U.S. military consorted with prostitutes in Columbia on the eve of his arrival there.

On May 29, 2008, I received a crisp, white envelope in the mail. Little did I know, that envelope, would change the course of my life in more ways than I could’ve possibly expected. That envelope contained my acceptance into the 10th Executive MBA class at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.

Self-funded executive MBA students want career services comparable to those offered full-time MBAs. EMBA programs seek a middle ground

Mary Lea McAnally, a Mays accounting professor since 2002, is eager to take on the position of associate dean for graduate programs. She already has been working on transitioning to her new leadership role with predecessor David Blackwell, who has accepted the deanship at the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics.

In new rankings released by Financial Times, the Executive MBA Program from Mays Business School at Texas A&M University is now among the top 10 programs offered by public universities in the U.S.

On October 6, 2011, guests gathered together at CITYCENTRE in Houston to celebrate the launch of Mays Business School's new Professional MBA Program and the relocation of the Executive MBA Program starting in fall of 2012.

The Mays Business School is scheduled to open a Professional MBA program in the fall of 2012. The Professional MBA program will be located in Houston in a private facility at CITYCENTRE. This location will also be the home to the highly rated Texas A&M Executive MBA program.

Mays Business School at Texas A&M University is planning to launch a new MBA program for professionals in fall 2012, say officials at Mays, while continuing to offer their highly-ranked Executive MBA program.

Mays Business School at Texas A&M University and the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) have entered into a five-year agreement to provide mutually beneficial services to both entities. As part of the agreement, TEEX will provide two Disaster City® Challenge events for Mays’ Full-Time and Executive MBA programs annually, and Mays will sponsor one enrollment per year in the Executive MBA program annually for a TEEX employee who is admitted to the program.