UT Austin McCombs
What UT Austin McCombs Amounts To
A practicum taught with a working buyer.
At a Glance
- Courses
- 1 named course, below.
- Club
- An ETA club, which the school's student-organizations page describes as educational, networking and professional-development opportunities for students interested in acquiring and operating small to mid-sized businesses through search funds or self-funded acquisitions, with access to industry experts, workshops and alumni mentorship.
- Money
- Nothing published.
- Conference
- A student-led ETA symposium on campus, whose one published edition ran 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 programs that pay a salary to search, and Investors the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the materials for ETA clubs.