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Take the first step toward jump-starting your future career in business by applying to one of our specialized masters programs..
Chicago Booth’s specialized masters programs serve as a great next step for current seniors in undergrad or recent graduates who are looking to pursue a career in business.
Booth’s Master in Management (MiM) is a 10-month program for recent college graduates who did not earn a bachelor of business administration degree. As a MiM student, you’ll have the opportunity to build upon the critical thinking skills you gathered in college while gaining foundational business expertise needed to thrive in the business world.
Booth’s Master in Finance (MiF) is a 15-month program that targets recent college graduates with a quantitative background. As a MiF student, you have the opportunity to build upon your quant skills in order to secure roles in asset management, investment banking, or fintech.
Both programs offer a pathway to kick off your career in business with confidence. If you are interested in taking the next step toward positioning yourself for successful progression in the business world, we invite you to look at the information listed below as you begin preparing your application:
As part of the application process for both programs, you are required to submit your essays, two letters of recommendation, transcript(s), and standardized test score(s). We also require you to have graduated from or be on track to graduate with an undergraduate degree. We encourage you to check out our full list of application requirements for MiM and MiF as you start crafting your application.
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The alumna, a former high school teacher who launched a mega-beverage company, hopes her gift will bolster other woman entrepreneurs..
2:01 PM on Aug 8, 2024 CDT
A teacher-turned-CEO built a mega-beverage company one brightly colored cocktail-to-go at time.
Now Merrilee Kick wants to thank the school that helped her bring the vision for the popular BuzzBallz to life through her capstone project by donating $30 million to Texas Woman’s University.
Prior to becoming a beverage tycoon, Kick was a high school teacher in Plano when she pursued her master’s at TWU.
“I was broke all the time and I was trying to find a way to make money,” she said. “I built this business from nothing to where it is today. And I wanted to be able to enable other people to do that.”
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The record-making gift will fund an institute at the university focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, an endowed chair in entrepreneurship, an entrepreneur-in-residence program and a brand new building for the school’s college of business, the first in TWU history.
University officials say the donation will help the university’s fairly young business school grow its identity.
Kick’s thesis as an MBA student became the basis for the business plan behind the Carrollton-based BuzzBallz/Southern Champion company, which was the only woman-owned distillery, winery and brewery business in the U.S. when it launched in 2009. Now the often circular BuzzBallz drinks — ranging from ‘ritas to chillers— are frequently found at convenience stores nationwide.
Her gift was announced Thursday during a meeting of Texas Woman’s board of regents, which is expected to approve a new name for the college of business — the Merrilee Alexander Kick College of Business and Entrepreneurship — on Friday.
Kick’s donation is the largest single gift given to TWU, doubling the previous highest gift of $15 million from the Dallas-based Doswell Foundation.
Rama Yelkur, TWU’s dean of the College of Business, said she is elated by Kick’s donation and how it will enhance the student experience as well as help shape the future of the business school.
TWU’s business was established just seven years ago. The naming of the business school and a physical building will add to the school’s visibility and increase branding potential, Yelkur said.
“We had our accreditation visit in 2022, and we passed with flying colors,” she said. “But one of the things they told us in the report is that the college of business does not have an identity, visibility, student engagement spaces or the ability to engage with real businesses.”
The new building will include contemporary spaces, finance labs, analytics labs and virtual reality labs where students will have requisite resources for a cutting-edge business education, Yelkur said.
“They’ll be ready for Wall Street or to be an entrepreneur or for any industry,” she said.
Officials want the entrepreneur-in-residence program to elevate students’ business education by allowing for direct mentorship and consultation from an expert with invaluable hands-on experience.
“There will be somebody that is an actual entrepreneur who can do ‘Shark Tank’ types of things and pitches and review [students’] work,” Kick said. “Somebody with real-life experience, not just book experience.”
That will allow students to incubate, innovate and produce businesses, officials said.
Texas Woman’s Chancellor Carine Feyten said Kick’s donation allows the school to shine a light on the innovation and business women bring to a globally competitive economy.
“I am doubly pleased that this extraordinary gift comes from Merrilee, a shining example of our pioneering spirit and an alumna who has risen to the level of entrepreneurial titan,” Feyten said in a press release.
Yelkur said Kick embodies TWU’s official tagline: Boldly Go.
“Being resilient and tenacious, she became successful in a completely male dominated industry … with grace and determination,” Yelkur said. “And that’s the kind of student we want to educate to be successful.”
Kick said having a building as her namesake not only honors her passion for education but also pays tribute to her parents, who were both educators. Their parents were educators, too.
Construction for the building is expected to begin in the spring of 2025.
“Education is really important to me, so to have this in my name is kind of a legacy for me and for my family,” Kick said.
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