| University of North Texas College of Business | |
| Established: | 1946 |
| Parent: | University of North Texas |
| Type: | Public Business school |
| Dean: | Marilyn Wiley |
| Faculty: | 109 (full-time) 74 (tenured) |
| Undergrad: | 5,200 |
| Postgrad: | 674 85 (post baccalaureate) |
| City: | Denton |
| State: | Texas |
| Coor: | 33.2088°N -97.1477°W |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Colors: | Green, White and Black |
The University of North Texas College of Business is a constituent college of the University of North Texas in Denton. It is organized into five academic departments — (i) Accounting, (ii) Finance, Insurance, Real Estate & Law (FIREL), (iii) Information Technology & Decision Sciences, (iv) Management, and (v) Marketing & Logistics. The College also has six interdisciplinary centers — (a) the Center for NAFTA Studies, (b) the Information Systems Research Center, (c) the Institute of Petroleum Accounting, (d) the Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship (e) the Professional Leadership Program, and (f) the Center for Logistics Education & Research. The college awards Bachelors, Masters, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.[1]
The college is host to three research centers, one applied academics center, and one institute:
North Texas offers 12 MBA, 7 Master of Science, and 3 joint MBA/MS programs.
The college was founded in 1946 as the School of Business Administration. O. J. Curry served as dean from its inception to 1969. The name change, from School of Business Administration to College of Business Administration was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board October 1971.
| College of Business Enrollment, Fall 2015 | ||||||
| Undergrad | Post Baccalaureate | MBA MS | Doctorate | Total | ||
| Finance, Real Estate, Insurance & Law | 459 | 9 | 30 | 3 | 501 | |
| Marketing & Logistics | 511 | 4 | 515 | |||
| Management | 292 | 2 | 1 | 295 | ||
| Business Computer Information Sciences | 193 | 3 | 33 | 229 | ||
| Accounting | 424 | 18 | 161 | 1 | 604 | |
| General Business | 49 | 2 | 51 | |||
| Business Administration | 290 | 290 | ||||
| Undetermined | 1,168 | 46 | 70 | 1,284 | ||
| Business Integrated Studies | 33 | 33 | ||||
| Pre-Business | 2,071 | 1 | 2,072 | |||
| Total | 5,200 | 85 | 514 | 75 | 5,874 | |
| Curry 1946–1969 | Othel Jackson Curry (1904–1994), who before coming to North Texas had been a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School of Finance, was named in 1945 as director of the newly formed School of Business. Business education at North Texas began in 1942. Curry had earned a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1941. |
| Hutton 1969–1971 | Clifford Edwin Hutton (1928–2004) had formerly served on the faculty at the University of Tulsa. Hutton resigned September 1, 1971, to accept a position as Vice President Student Affairs at the University of Tulsa. He had earned a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1961. |
| King 1971–1973 | Barry Goodwin King (born 1935) stepped-in as acting dean while North Texas conducted a search. He is a scholar in accounting, with particular expertise in internal auditing and control. He had been the director of graduate business studies for North Texas. He holds a PhD in accounting from Ohio State University. |
| Berkeley 1973–1983 | Marvin Harold Berkeley (1922–2009) was a business management practitioner with applied and research expertise in organizational performance. After stepping down as dean, he continued to teach at the college. He founded UNT's Chief Executives Round Table and served as its director from 1983 to 1993. Berkeley had earned a PhD in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1952. |
| Hazelton 1999–2004 | Jared Earl Hazelton while serving as dean, created four outreach centers, including the Murphy Enterprise Center, the Center for Logistics Education and Research, the Center for Financial Services, and the NAFTA Studies Center. The College during his tenure also raised $12 million. His academic expertise was in finance markets and public policy. Hazelton earned a PhD in economics from Rice University in 1965. |
| Cooper 2005–2007 | Kathleen Bell Cooper (born 1945), had served as Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2001 to 2004. She was appointed dean of the college in October 2005, a position she held until August 2007. She has significant academic and applied expertise in the energy sector, particularly in tax policy and international trade. She had served as the Chief Economist of ExxonMobil Corporation. In 2006, while serving as dean of the college, she was appointed to the Board of Directors of Williams Companies, where she currently is chairman of audit committee and member of the finance committee. She earned a PhD in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She had attended UNT as a freshman during the 1963–1964 school year. | |
| Graves 2008–2015 | Oliver Finley Graves joined the UNT faculty in 2002 and served as chair of the college's Accounting Department from that time until January 2007 when he was appointed Senior Associate Dean. Among his professional and multinational academic positions, he served as chair of the Department of German and Russian while on the faculty at the University of Alabama, where he also earned a PhD in accounting. He is Fulbright Scholar to the University of Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany. | |
| Wiley 2015–current | Marilyn Wiley served as Senior Associate Dean of the College of Business at UNT from 2009 to 2015. |
| Last 6 years | Last 12 Years | Last 20 Years | |||
| Tax All Categories | 9 | 22 | 38 | ||
| Tax Archival | 8 | 16 | 24 | ||
| Tax Experimental | 10 | 25 | 39 | ||
The College of Business is accredited in business and accounting by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. In 1961, its undergraduate business program received AACSB accreditation.[2] In the spring of 1964, the Master of Business program received AACSB accreditation.[3] At that time, about seventy-five MBA programs in the country and one other in the state — The University of Texas at Austin — was accredited by the AACSB.
Also at that time (1964), the College of Business was second in the state and the southwest, next to the University of Texas at Austin, and 11th in the nation, with the University of Southern California, in number of bachelor's degrees conferred.
The College of Business began its first PhD program years ago — in the fall of 1965.
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