UT Austin McCombs
What It Amounts To
A practicum taught with a working acquirer, plus a club and a student-run symposium.
At a Glance
- Courses
- 1 named course, below.
- Club
- An ETA club listed among the school's MBA student organisations.
- Money
- Nothing published.
- Conference
- A student-led ETA symposium, held on campus in February 2026.
The Classes
- Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition and Search Fund PracticumTaught by Mellie Price, who directs the school's graduate entrepreneurship institute, with Jacob Hall, a managing partner at an acquisition firm.
Who teaches and leads it
- Mellie Price, executive director of the Brumley Institute for Graduate Entrepreneurship
- Jacob Hall, managing partner at Kando Capital, who teaches the practicum with her
What Else It Runs
- The Brumley Institute for Graduate Entrepreneurship, which the practicum sits inside.
Open to readers outside the school
- A published account of how the course, the club and the symposium were built, open to anyone.
Where to Look
Other Schools
Stanford GSBHarvard Business SchoolChicago BoothCase Western WeatherheadUVA DardenKelloggRice BusinessWhartonDartmouth TuckMIT SloanIndiana KelleyWashU OlinDuke FuquaGeorgetown McDonoughColumbia Business SchoolNYU SternYale SOM
The Intern & Job Board carries the programmes that pay a salary to search, and Investor Match the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the club kit.