Academics
Busy West Texas professionals seeking an MBA program with 鈥渁ffordable tuition, friendly professors, and a broad curriculum鈥 may find a home at the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech. Rawls鈥 MBA program offers evening courses to part-time and full-time students. In addition, Executive-style MBA programs offer the option of a convenient block scheduling system that students like (鈥淲e meet twice a year for six days straight, eight hours a day鈥) or a one-weekend-a-month calendar. Rawls has custom designed a number of combined degrees and Executive-style MBA programs to fit the needs of professionals of all stripes. A combined MD/MBA 鈥渋s a unique opportunity providing the experience and preparation for a future in healthcare administration or private practice.鈥 Dual business degrees are also available in architecture, foreign languages, law, personal financial planning, pharmacy, and environmental toxicology.
Students praise the Rawls MBA for 鈥渢he flexibility it offers to working professionals鈥 and for a 鈥渂enefit/cost ratio much greater than similar programs鈥 in the area. They are especially effusive about the administration, which 鈥渢akes care of everything for the students. They register us for classes, feed us, and provide us with all of the materials and resources needed for our classes.鈥 As one student puts it, 鈥淭he administration is a joy to work with. If you have any questions about courses, registration, etc. they respond quickly to emails and have an open-door policy.鈥 Likewise, students are 鈥渆specially impressed by the willingness of the professors to accommodate students with full-time jobs and families. As a group, they have been very helpful in making sure that my workload is effective in the curriculum and works with my schedule.鈥
Tech, one student observes, is 鈥渘ot so large and accomplished that everyone has a sense of entitlement and arrogance, yet it鈥檚 not small and struggling to keep its head above water.鈥 It is large enough to offer a broad selection of offerings, including STEM MBA, MBA for Working Professionals, and Dual MBA Programs. Instructors in these programs 鈥渁re beyond knowledgeable in their fields and are also easy to access for questions about course work or the job market in their particular field. I have never met anyone within the program that was not willing to help the students succeed,鈥 one student writes.