Up-to-the-second information is the lifeblood of today's financial markets. Successful investment managers wouldn't think of making critical decisions without checking the latest data from around the world. But on college campuses across the country, students prepare for financial careers using limited or outdated data, obsolete technology, and simulated portfolios. They can mimic the complexity and excitement of Wall Street, but never truly experience it.

UT Austin offers its students the opportunity to actually be part of Wall Street.

The EDS Financial Trading & Technology Center is a state-of-the-art, 3,000-square-foot complex in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

There's nothing else like it.

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