UT’s College of Business Administration (CBA) has been a vital and innovative part of the University for almost a century. The School of Commerce was founded in 1913 and became the College of Business Administration in 1947. Today it consists of approximately 4,200 undergraduate majors, 1,500 undergraduate minors and 500 graduate students. The faculty of approximately 120 offers a full range of undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. programs, some of which typically are not offered in a business school.

UT CBA established an MBA program in 1966, and became in 1988 one of the first in the nation to use an integrative-formatted curriculum. The University’s Center for Executive Education (CEE) began in 1974 and has become world-renowned for its programs in quality improvement, lean manufacturing and supply chain management. In 1994, CEE began offering an innovative new Executive MBA program with a 12-month, High-Compression Learning ℠ curriculum. Three new specialized MBA programs followed: the top-ranked Physician’s EMBA program was the first EMBA program to use Web-based classes, in 1998. The sixteen-month weekend Professional MBA began in 1999 and the Aerospace MBA in 2004.

The College of Business Administration's program in supply chain management and logistics is ranked eighth in the nation (and sixth among public universities) by US News & World Report, ahead of the same program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and its overall undergraduate program is 36th among national public universities. Supply Chain Management Review has ranked the UT program #2 in North America.

Forbes ranked UT's MBA program in the College of Business Administration 9th among public programs. The Financial Times has ranked UT’s Executive MBA 6th in most experienced students, 7th in its international experience and 23rd overall.

In 2008 Women 3.0 ranked UT's Executive MBA and full-time MBA programs in the Top 50 in the U.S. The rankings were based on academic excellence, entrepreneurial focus, commitment to new businesses and ideas and flexibility for working women.

Always moving ahead, the College is now completing its new 174,000 square foot College of Business Administration Classroom Building. This new $40 million complex reflects the level of educational distinction that the College has always delivered and will enable it to move to an even higher level of excellence.