Alumni Profile: Dual Degrees
Twins Kory and Kyle Davison, both BBA ’18, shared everything growing up — Now, they share their employer and alma mater.
By Jenna Sharp
Twin brothers Kory and Kyle Davison shared everything growing up — and that didn’t stop when they got older. Both McCombs finance majors and accounting minors, they shared side-by-side paths to success right up to the simultaneous start of their careers in their hometown of Houston at the energy company Phillips 66.
“We didn’t really tell each other that Phillips 66 was our favorite among all the recruiters that came to campus,” Kyle says. “It wasn’t a group decision — we both kind of thought for ourselves — but we each realized separately that Phillips 66 was the best option.”
As boys, Kory and Kyle were inseparable. They fished, camped, and played football, basketball, and baseball together. They were both offered college athletic scholarships to smaller schools for basketball, but decided to turn them down to focus on academics. “Once we got accepted to UT, it was like the education couldn’t be matched,” Kyle says.
As freshmen, they started out as economics majors in the College of Liberal Arts, but it didn’t take long for them to decide that business was a better fit. “We had to work really hard our freshman year to make sure that our GPAs were high enough to transfer into McCombs,” Kyle says. Together they applied for admission into the business school and were accepted.
Majors and minors weren’t all the Davison twins shared on campus. They joined the fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha and participated in the organization’s strolling showcases — modernized routines of traditional African dance. They even performed a hammed-up stroll on stage when they accepted their UT diplomas last spring, a video of which went viral on Twitter.
Because Kyle works in commercial supply and trading and his brother works in accounting, the twins don’t often see each other at work. They try to grab lunch together whenever they can though, and they occasionally pass each other in the halls. “There’s something cool about knowing Kory’s just around the corner,” Kyle says.
This article appeared in the fall 2018 issue of McCombs magazine. Click on the link to see the full issue.
