Jose Pacheco
FTMBA '24
Hometown: Olanchito
Home State: Yoro
Home Country: Honduras
Undergraduate Institution: National Autonomous University of Honduras
Undergraduate Degree and Major (and minor, if applicable): Doctor of Medicine
Pre-MBA Industry: Healthcare
Pre-MBA Company: Honduras Social Security Institute
Pre-MBA Title: Physician
Desired industry post-MBA: Investment Banking
Desired job function post-MBA: Associate
Degree Concentrations:
- Finance
Student Organization Membership:
- Private Equity & Venture Capital Association
- The Adam Smith Society
- Finance Association
- Latin Business Student Association
- Men as Allies
What has been the most surprising part of your Rice MBA experience?
People at Rice Jones believe in your success and work for it, irrespective of your background or the ideas you want to develop. If you are looking for the best, you will find it here!
What has been your favorite thing about your MBA experience so far?
Attending Finance and Strategy courses – those days really pumped me up! Running around Rice Village and losing myself in the beautiful view is priceless!
What do you love most about Houston?
The scenery, architecture, history, food, and kindness of its people!
What is one piece of advice you would share with a prospective student – one sentence?
Check out the Career Development Office and come to campus to have a sense of the faculty and the quality of classmates you will have. You won't look further, you'll stay at Rice Jones!