The Area of Management, Rawls College of Business, offers classes designed to develop students' communication, entrepreneurial, team building, leadership, strategic and interpersonal skills. Through cutting edge research, we generate new knowledge about effective management practices in organizations that prepares our students to compete in the global economy. Our commitment to excellence has earned us a reputation for exceptional teaching in our undergraduate, MBA and PhD programs.

At the Rawls College of Business, management students learn the principles in planning, organizing, leading, and controlling business organizations. Courses are designed to enhance students' knowledge and skills pertaining to entrepreneurship, managerial communications, human resource management, leadership, international management, strategic management, negotiation, change and innovative processes, and executive skills. Students develop distinctive competencies that enable them to effectively manage, lead and compete in the global marketplace while modeling high standards of ethical conduct and social responsibility.

We are proud of our energetic, committed and innovative faculty members who are recognized for their commitment to teaching excellence. Our faculty has received many teaching honors and awards from the college, university and professional organizations. Area faculty members have published in top management journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Strategic Management Journal.

We have worked hard to develop a strong culture of academic and research excellence in the Area of Management at Texas Tech and invite you to share in our vision.