UT Panam Students Get Information about Graduate School

In early November, several UT Pan American students heard first hand about the graduate programs in advertising at UT Austin. Gary Wilcox, Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Advertising and Maria Rivera, Lecturer in the Texas Creative program spoke to classes as well as visited with students individually about the Graduate Program. This is the third year the trip was funded by a Graduate Recruiting Grant from the Graduate School at UT Austin. Dr. Kimberly Selber from UTPA (UT Austin Phd) organized the visit with students who are currently studying advertising, marketing, and graphic arts.

Rivera and Wilcox spoke to two classes about the Graduate Advertising Program in addition to having dinner with several applicants to the program for Fall 2010. Wilcox noted, "This is the sixth year I have visited with students at UT Pan American. I am consistently impressed with their academic quality and motivation to attend graduate school. This is in large part due to Dr. Kimberly Selber who encourages the students to consider graduate school." Last year three of the UT Pan American students who were admitted to the MA program received the prestigious South Texas Fellowship funded by the Graduate School.

In a typical year over 200 master's students and around 35 doctoral students are enrolled. In Fall 2009, over 100 new students enrolled in the program from 17 states and 10 countries. The UT graduate program in advertising has been consistently ranked by both heads of ad programs as well as ad agency's as either number one or two. If you look at how UT compares to other schools when ranked in a variety of different ways, the advertising program at The University of Texas at Austin is consistently at or near the top of each list. And if you factor in the breadth of other quality programs at this first tier research university, along with the low cost, a graduate education in the UT Department of Advertising is clearly a terrific value.