 On October 19, 1998, Abilene Christian University named him the chief financial officer after five years of employment.Schubert received his bachelor's degree in accounting from Abilene Christian University in 1991, master's degree in business administration from Duke University in 2006, and Ed.D from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.His doctoral dissertation was entitled ""Assessing the correlation between longitudinal changes in U.S. News & World Report Collegiate Rankings and the broader institutional experience from 1999 to 2007"".