Naveen Jindal School of Management – University of Texas at Dallas

History

The founders of Texas Instruments established the University of Texas at Dallas in 1969. UT Dallas has grown from an enrollment of 45 graduate students in 1970 to more than 29,000 undergraduate and graduate students today. The Jindal School of Management is the largest of UT Dallas’s eight schools.

The School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas was opened in 1975. The school was later renamed the Naveen Jindal School of Management after alumnus Naveen Jindal in 2011.
Jindal earned his MBA from UT Dallas in 1992. Jindal was named a 2010 UT Dallas Distinguished Alumnus, and gave the largest alumni gift ever given the university to that time. In addition to founding and serving as the chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) in Haryana, India,he also serves as chairman of Jindal Steel and Power Limited, a multibillion-dollar family conglomerate.
Jindal also is the founder of the Flag Foundation of India and served two five-year terms in the Lok Sabha, Parliament’s lower house.

The Naveen Jindal School of Management is accredited by AACSB.

Locations

The Naveen Jindal School of Management is located on the main campus of the University of Texas at Dallas. UT Dallas is located in Richardson, Texas, just 20 minutes away from downtown Dallas.

Facilities

The Jindal School of Management offers students 12 centers and institutions in addition to the school itself:

• Center and Laboratory for Behavioral Operations and Economics
• Center for Professional Sales
• Center for Healthcare Leadership and Management
• Center for Global Business
• Center for Finance Strategy Innovation
• Center for Information Technology and Management
• Center for Intelligent Supply Networks
• Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation
• Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance
• Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Center for Internal Auditing Excellence
• International Accounting Development: Oil and Gas
• International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis
• The Leadership Center
• Morris Hite Center for Marketing
• Institute for Real Estate

Students at the Jindal School also have access to the Career Management Center. The CMC offers a variety of resources to help MBA students to develop a plan for their future careers.

The Career Management Center’s coaches work with students to create and develop resumes, improve interviewing skills and to develop a strategic plan for obtaining employment.

The Eugene McDermott Library is partnered with the Jindal School to provide students with important research resources. The library also gives Jindal students access to The Management Satellite/Data Lab, a virtual library, which allows students to receive research assistance from a librarian, as well as access to the Library’s electronic resources.

Faculty

The faculty at Jindal is made up of 335 educators. Twenty-seven of the faculty members have been appointed to endowed posts. The Jindal School ranks high in the research productivity of its faculty, with the The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings putting it at number five both in North America and globally.

Student Body

The most recent enrollment at the Jindal School of Management was 9,069 total students, with 4,639 graduate students. The average GMAT score of all admitted students is 600. The average GPA of admitted students is 3.3.

MBA Degree Offerings

The UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management offers a full-time MBA, Professional MBA, Executive MBA, Global Leadership Executive MBA, and an Online Professional MBA programs.

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