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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

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.