It is really important for us to ensure they have kind of that core business foundation, the core classes. You do all your core classes, the majority of that first semester, together in cohorts. The second highlight that I want to share with the listeners are the people. We have amazing individuals pursuing their dreams here at Texas McCombs and amazing faculty members that are going to be supporting you along the way.
So the people are number two. And the last aspect is place. We are really fortunate to be part of one of the primary research institutions in the US at the University of Texas at Austin.
So that flexible, deep curriculum, people, and place, are what really makes the Texas McCombs full-time MBA program unique. I will start that with everything that we do at UT Austin, the health and safety of our students, faculty, staff members are top of mind.
And with that as a lens and a goal, we are really happy that we were able to do in-person delivery of all of our programs for the fall. We not only delivered classes in person, our student organizations were able to meet in person, and we even had some admission events on campus during late November.
It was great to see prospective students coming into our new building and really experiencing the program firsthand. For those experiences to be delivered in a safe manner where everybody felt really comfortable and they were able to be delivered successfully.
These were really a big hit with staff and students alike, and just generally the ability of our students to virtually connect with our staff and faculty via Microsoft Teams. It is a situation that is ever changing, ever evolving.
What I urge all your listeners to do is to reach out to us. We are here to help you and engage with you and make sure that you can submit that successful application, so engage with us.
For sure. I think as we come back to in-person events, we want to keep the successful virtual opportunities that were available and well received by prospective students and really think about where the value-add is of that in person touch point. Before we used to go on the road quite often, all over the world, early on in the admission season, then to interview candidates and then to do admitted student events.
So when is it the right time to go to India or go to Europe or go to Africa and connect with those students? I will say that our admissions teams have been working so hard. Sign me up for every single one of those trips when we can travel again. For our programs here at UT, we had a few students travel to national conferences like National Black MBA, for example, for Hispanic as well, the ones that were delivered in-person.
And most recently, our part-time MBA program just last week went on their global trips. There were seven trips and we took students abroad, so those opportunities are starting to open up. We were the first ones to take students back abroad in that manner, and the current plans for our full-time MBA program in particular is to deliver five global study tours over spring break, which is what we normally do and reignite the exchange programs in the other way around, so not only welcome our exchange students from partner universities, but right now the plan is to send close to 25 students abroad for the spring.
Even though those part-time MBA global trips, we had to cancel one of the trips at the last minute. There were eight trips and we had to cancel one. We keep a really close eye on what the situation is like, and we prepare students for all scenarios. We want to deliver the best academic experience to our students, and we believe that global exposure is a key part of the MBA education, so we want to make our best attempt to deliver those experiences.
We look forward to starting to travel again, maybe a little bit more starting in the spring, as well. Oftentimes prospective students think about McCombs being a very regional school, but we do have a global brand in Texas McCombs and the Texas Longhorns in Austin. We actually place more students outside of our home state than our comparable programs in New York and California. We are really lucky to be in Austin, which is a place where people like to be and also we place a lot of students in Dallas and Houston.
We do place a good amount of students outside of the state of Texas, so we love our Texas residents that go to UT, but we welcome individuals from outside of Texas and all over the world. We place quite a few folks in New York, primarily in the banking sector, some consulting. We also place pretty strongly in the Bay Area, primarily in the technology sector. As of late, we have been placing a lot of folks in Seattle, Denver, and Chicago to a lesser extent, so a variety of different places.
I think one of the things that has happened, though, in the past five years is that the number of our students that want to stay in Austin has increased dramatically. Oftentimes people associate Texas with oil and gas, and I would say to your listeners that we are, if not the best, one of the best places in the country to pursue your studies in energy, but we go beyond the traditional oil and gas field. We have a CleanTech concentration that mirrors our energy, finance concentration that really focuses on solar and wind in that clean technology space is something that I would like all your listeners to be aware of.
We have a lot of opportunities in the startup space. Entrepreneurship is an area where you can get a great education and solid foundation because we have amazing professors in the space where they are on the board of startup companies and have started their own businesses so you know, practitioners as well as researchers.
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Unlike the full-time program, this degree offers only required coursework, without the choice of any electives. This credit course takes place on the weekends, giving students even more flexibility to pursue their degrees while continuing regular employment. During the summers, students participate in six-day-long Global Immersion trips to complement their Global Practicum course.
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