The Mays Business School at Texas A&M University focuses students on a business environment that is full of constant change. The school believes that successful business professionals are ones that can address global business opportunities, work with government regulators, and interact with customers, employees, and suppliers, all the while using evolving technologies to their advantage. Students enrolled in the full-time M.B.A. program can complete the degree in 16 months but have the freedom to extend their experience to customize their path. Students must complete a semester-long capstone consulting project that examines a problem in an external company and comes up with a solution. The school’s MBA Venture Challenge puts students in front of judges for two-minute elevator pitches on their business plans, plus a 15-minute follow-up, with $6,000 in prize money on the line.