Neeley School Special Awards

Accounting. For students in accounting, the Accounting Excellence Award of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and the TCU Department of Accounting Award for Distinguished Service are granted each spring to outstanding graduating seniors. The Robin Elisa Boyer Memorial Scholarship and the Robert Schumacher Scholarship are awarded annually to seniors entering the Master of Accounting (Mac) Program. Outstanding junior accounting majors may be granted a Petroleum Accountants Society Award, a Deloitte & Touche Award or the Institute of Management Accountants Award.

Entrepreneurial Management. The Department of Entrepreneurial Management presents three awards annually to outstanding entrepreneurial management majors: the Senior Scholar Award based on GPA and leadership contributions; the Outstanding Management Student Award for Leadership and Service sponsored by Texas Industries, Inc.; and the Barbara J. Snell Award for Outstanding Leadership sponsored by the North American Mortgage Company.

Information Sytems and Supply Chain Management. The Department of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management presents awards to the senior scholars in business information systems and supply and value chain management. In addition, the Business Information Systems (BIS) Program grants additional awards to outstanding BIS majors. These awards include the Accenture Business Information Systems Professors' Award; Mary Kay, Inc. Technology Award; The InSource Group's Outstanding Student Award; and the Society for Information Management Scholarship Award.

In the area of supply and value chain management, additional awards are presented to outstanding students. These awards include the Supply and Value Chain Professors' Award, Supply and Value Chain Center Outstanding Student Award, CSCMP Annual Conference Scholarship Award, and Fort Worth Institute for Supply Management Scholarship Award.

Marketing. The Department of Marketing grants eight awards annually to outstanding students: Marketing Senior Scholar Award (highest GPA), Outstanding Marketing Student Award (best overall marketing student), the Hoechst Marion Roussel Sales Management Award, the Earl Dyess Award, the International Marketing Scholar Award, the DSS Research Marketing Research Award (to a student with a strong interest in marketing research), the Marketing Application Project (for student contribution and leadership in the annual class promotional event) and the Department of Marketing Excellence Award (student contribution to the field of marketing). Additionally, the TCU chapter of the American Marketing Association sponsors an award for students who demonstrate marketing leadership skills.

Finance. The Department of Finance recognizes the senior who best exemplifies the ideal of an outstanding finance major with the Achievement Award of the Wall Street Journal. The Fort Worth Mortgage Bankers Association Award is given to a senior pursuing a career in real estate. The department also awards the Professor's Award for Excellence in Finance. Additionally, a student is selected from among those participating in the Educational Investment Fund during the past academic year for the Outstanding Educational Investment Fund Student Award.

Awards given by student groups include the Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key.





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