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Cox School of Business - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 32°50′47″N 96°47′10″W / 32.8464°N 96.7861°W

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32°50′47″N 96°47′10″W / 32.8464°N 96.7861°W / 32.8464; -96.7861

Edwin L. Cox School of Business

Motto	Veritas Liberabit Vos
Motto in English	The truth shall set you free
Type	Private business school
Established	1920
Parent institution	Southern Methodist University
Dean	Matthew Myers^[1]
Location	Dallas , Texas , U.S.
Campus	Urban
Website	www.smu.edu/cox

The Edwin L. Cox School of Business is an American business school that is part of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas. The SMU Cox School of Business is headquartered in four buildings on SMU's 210-acre main campus five miles north of downtown Dallas and has a second campus in Plano, Texas.

Its current Dean is Matthew Myers.^[1] Additionally, it offers many business education programs including full-time MBA, its largest program, BBA, MBA Professional (Part-Time), Executive MBA, Master of Science in Management, Master of Science in Business Analytics and non-degree Executive Education.^[2] It is home to the Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship, Business Leadership Center (BLC), Maguire Energy Institute, and American Airlines Global Leadership Program (AAGLP) as well as an Associate Board Executive Mentoring Program. It has an international alumni network with chapters in more than twenty countries.^[3]

It has consistently ranked among the top business schools worldwide for MBA, PMBA, EMBA and BBA in a wide range of categories.^[4] The Cox School is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).^[5]

Business School International Rankings
U.S. MBA Ranking
Bloomberg (2024)^[6]	27

Notable SMU Cox alumni

Gabriel Barbier-Mueller – Founder and CEO, Harwood International
Betsy Boze (MBA) – CEO and Dean, Kent State University Stark Campus
Deborah Coonts – American novelist and lawyer
Robert H. Dedman, Jr. – President and CEO, ClubCorp
Robert H. Dedman, Sr. – Founder and CEO, ClubCorp
David B. Dillon – President and chairman, The Kroger Co.
Bob Dudley, BP executive in charge of Deepwater Horizon oil spill
J. Lindsay Embrey – chairman and CEO, First Continental Enterprises Inc., and Embrey Enterprises Inc.
Gerald J. Ford – Dallas-based billionaire
Aart J. de Geus – Co-founder, chairman and CEO, Synopsys
Art Greenhaw – Founder and producer, Art Greenhaw Records, Grammy Award-Winning record label
Donald Holmquest – CEO, California RHIO
Thomas W. Horton (MBA 1985)^[7] – Chairman of AMR and American Airlines
Clark Hunt – chairman of the board of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs and a founding investor-owner in Major League Soccer
Clark Hunt – chairman of the board and a founding investor-owner in Major League Soccer
Lamar Hunt – Founder of the American Football League and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs
Helen LaKelly Hunt – Founder of The Sister Fund
Ray Lee Hunt – chairman and CEO, Hunt Oil Company
Harold MacDowell – CEO, TDIndustries
John H. Matthews
Blake Mycoskie – founder of TOMS Shoes
Robert Mosbacher, Jr. – Houston businessman, President, Mosbacher Energy Company, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Erle A. Nye – chairman and CEO, TXU
William J. O'Neil – Founder of the business newspaper Investors Business Daily
Eckhard Pfeiffer (MBA) – former CEO of Compaq
Edward B. Rust Jr. (MBA) – chairman of the board and chief executive officer of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Mark Shepherd – chairman and CEO, Texas Instruments
Jeffrey Skilling – Former chairman and CEO of Enron.
John Tyson (businessman) – chairman, Tyson Foods and grandson of John W. Tyson, Founder of Tyson Foods

References

^ ^a ^b "Matthew Myers Announced as New Dean of SMU Cox". MetroMBA. April 12, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
^ Adam Fusfeld. "Cox School of Business". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on February 10, 2010.
^ "About Us – Southern Methodist University | Business Plan Competition (SMUBPC)". smubpc.org/about-us.html. Southern Methodist University. Archived from the original on February 13, 2011. Retrieved May 13, 2011.
^ "SMU Cox MBAs gain ground in rankings". Dallas Business Journal. Retrieved November 12, 2010.
^ "Schools Accredited in Business – ordered by name". aacsb.net. Archived from the original on July 27, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
^ "Best B-Schools". Bloomberg Businessweek.
^ "Distinguished Alumni @ SMU Cox". Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2011.

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