The College has five academic departments:
Accountancy and
Taxation, Decision and
Information Sciences,
Marketing and
Entrepreneurship,
Finance, and
Management. The student to teacher ratio is 3 to 1. The College offers full-time
MBA students 21 certificate options with 100+ electives. Certificate areas include: •
Business Analytics,
Business Modeling, and
Supply Chain • Energy • Finance and
Real Estate • Management and Leadership • Marketing and Entrepreneurship
The AIM Center The AIM Center for Investment Management is a business center at Bauer that teaches undergraduate and graduate business students about
corporate finance,
accounting,
information technology,
marketing and other
disciplines. The center features a
laboratory, a
conference room with video conferencing capabilities, a
classroom, and a lobby with news video and ticker. It is a $5 million facility which opened on February 20, 2002. The center was recognized as one of the best designed business school classrooms in the United States by American School and University magazine. The AIM Center houses the C. T. Bauer College of Business Cougar Investment Fund, L.L.C. The
Cougar Fund is a private investment company run by graduate students, which manages real investors and real money. It began with an initial investment of $1.9 million and has regularly outperformed its
benchmark on the S&P 500 Index. It currently manages over $9 million in assets. The Cougar Fund is rated third student stock analysis team in the world and number one (2008) in the United States.
Global Energy Management Institute GEMI offers undergraduate and graduate level programs in the
energy sector. It opened in the fall of 2002. It offers certificate degrees in energy risk management, energy international project finance and
energy accounting. It is a very specialized program that focuses specifically on the
energy industry, one of Houston's main industries. The program has earned praise from
Business Week.
The Program for Excellence in Selling Launched in 2004, the Sales Excellence Institute is built on three pillars: research, executive education and degree programs. Part of the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, SEI offers undergraduate and Masters of Business Administration certificates, a
post-graduate program in sales and marketing it also offers executive education in global corporations. Its undergraduate certificate program "The Program for Excellence in Selling" has been in existence since 1996 and offers over 180 hours of live sales training. The program has over 1,100
alumni. PES’ research provides current sales techniques, sales management, entire sales forces and also includes methods and theories by corporate executives. SEI Executive Director Michael Ahearne has served as
editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management.
The Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship The Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship (WCE) is an academic center at the Bauer College dedicated to undergraduate and graduate education in entrepreneurship. Each year, the program admits about 30–40 students who receive mentoring, experiential projects, and specialized coursework in new venture creation and entrepreneurial leadership. Since 2007, the WCE has been ranked among the top 10 undergraduate entrepreneurship programs in the United States by
The Princeton Review and
Entrepreneur magazine. It has been named the No. 1 program in the nation nine times overall, including six consecutive years from 2019 to 2024. In addition to the Bachelor of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship, the center offers certificate programs in corporate, social, and technology entrepreneurship. Students participate in applied learning experiences such as consulting projects, business plan competitions, and community partnerships. ==Rankings and awards==