University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is one of the world’s largest and oldest business schools. Founded in 1898, it offers full-time and part-time MBA programmes in addition to a Ph.D. programme, open enrolment executive education and custom corporate education. The school has campuses in London, Chicago and Singapore. Current enrolment includes 1,100 full-time MBA students, 1,900 part-time MBA students of whom 90 are studying in London, and 110 Ph.D. students. The GSB’s guiding principle has been based on what we refer to as the Chicago approach -- our emphasis on the basic disciplines that underlie all of business.
We believe it is critical for business leaders to have a firm grasp of the fundamental concepts and frameworks of disciplines such as: statistics, economics, psychology and sociology. Without a solid grounding in these fundamentals, a business leader is forced to rely on intuition and opinion rather than sound judgment supported by facts and analysis. The Chicago Approach further builds on the disciplines and provides students an opportunity to apply these concepts to the areas of finance, marketing, operations, management, strategy, etc. Our goal has always been to provide our students with a set of concepts or frameworks that they can use to analyze a variety of situations. By using these frameworks, they develop a disciplined approach to logically think through a business problem or issue, even if it deals with an unfamiliar area. What students learn in our program are skills and tools that they can apply in many situations, no matter how the business environment changes.
Six current or former faculty members have won the Nobel Prize in economics. Included among the school’s many successful alumni are: Brady Dougan Chief Executive of Credit Suisse Americas and Chief Executive of Investment Banking for Credit Suisse; Bart Becht, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser plc, Kateryna Chumchenko Yuschenko, First Lady of Ukraine, Frederick Seegers, Chief Executive of Global Retail and Commercial Banking at Barclays, UK, Paul Deneve, Managing Director Lanvin, France, Mathias Hlubek, CFO, Deutsche Boerse, AG, Germany.
Ranking
Business Week: 1; Financial Times: 5; US World: 5; Wall Street Journal 9; Forbes 7; The Economist 1
Accreditation
AACSB
