College of Business Administration's recent accomplishments:

• Over $243,000 was given to 175 undergraduate and 8 graduate students for scholarships by the College for the 06-07 academic year, a record high amount for COBA.  The COBA scholarship committee is currently reviewing scholarship applications for the 07-08 year.  The college received an anonymous scholarship gift of $1,000,000 early in 2007, which will be used to endow a new scholarship fund for COBA, adding substantially to the awards we will be able to provide next year.
  
  
• We are starting a new master’s degree in information systems in the Fall 2007 semester.  In addition to our well-established master’s degrees in business (MBA) and economics, we began a master’s of accountancy five years ago and a master’s of finance in fall 2006.
  
  
• A group of University of Nevada, Reno students is one of eight final teams that will compete in the American Marketing Association’s 29th Annual International Collegiate Conference this spring.  Over 47 universities in the U.S. and Canada entered this competition, and each developed an Integrated Marketing Plan designed to revitalize the tourism industry for the city of New Orleans. We are very proud of our finalist team in this competition.
  
• The college hosted its first China Banking Executive Leadership Program in October, in which eighteen delegates from seven Chinese commercial banks participated.  They spent a week on campus, hearing lectures from COBA faculty, bankers from U.S. banks, and officials from the regulator community, and the following week took field trips to U.S. banks and financial institutions, including one of the Federal Reserve banks.  We look forward to putting on another financial class for foreign executives this coming summer.
  
  
• We began the fall semester with a wonderful 50th anniversary party.  Many former students, faculty and four former COBA deans (including Dean Robert Weems, who began our college in 1956) attended the celebration.  We were also able to say farewell to our former dean, Mike Reed. 
  
  
  
• Our college grew this fall as seven new tenure-track faculty began their Nevada careers, the highest number in our history.  We welcome their creativity and enthusiasm.  Take a look at their brief biographies on the faculty directory page, and be sure to welcome them to COBA!
  
  • Accounting and Information Systems
    • S.E.C. Purvis
    • Jeffrey Wong
    
    • Sonja Pippin
  • Managerial Sciences
  • Bret Simmons
  • Gregory Stone
  • Jianfei Sun
  • Economics
  • Mehmet Tosun
    
    
• A renovated student lounge is scheduled to reopen in April 2007.  This lounge has not been renewed since the business building opened, but has been completely remodeled through the generosity of the COBA Alumni Association, the E.L. Cord Foundation, the ASUN, and the estates of Victoria McIver and Roxie Archie.
  
  
• Check out our 2007 Newsletter to see what else we're doing.

50 Years Then vs. Now:

When founding Dean Robert Weems opened COBA in Morrill Hall in 1956:

• There were only 1,804 students on the UNR campus—COBA currently serves 1,800 undergraduate students in our college alone.
• COBA had no graduate programs—now the college offers six graduate degrees , & the MBA is UNR’s largest graduate program.
• Tuition was free—resident undergrad tuition is currently $109.25 per credit & resident graduate tuition is $153.75 per credit.